28 points at halftime! If you want an annual salary of 14 million, you don't give it, and now you have become a supergiant, and the general manager regrets it

Poetry Basketball

2024-05-15 17:33Published in Shaanxi

In fact, every offseason in the league is a big gamble by management. Because over the years, mistakes in management decisions have often led to the slow decline of a team from a very strong team. For example, the Lakers team split the lineup after winning the championship, resulting in the Lakers team has been in a state of accompaniment in recent years. Of course, there are also some teams who refuse to renew their contract when their selected rookie is in good shape, so that the player plays at a higher level after leaving, and even becomes a superstar, and those management will regret it later.

Speaking of which, we have to mention Brunson, who has made a big splash in the playoffs this year. Brunson scored 28 points in the first half of the game against the Pacers today. Brunson was a rookie selected by the Mavericks in his early years, but he has already performed very well with the Mavericks. In the Mavericks' final year, Brunson, in order to show his loyalty, offered the Mavericks a four-year, $55 million contract extension, with an annual salary of less than $14 million. It stands to reason that the Mavericks should have offered this contract right away. But the Mavericks turned down Brunson's request for a contract extension several times.

This is incomprehensible to many. On the one hand, he is a rookie selected by himself, and on the other hand, he has shown a very strong scoring explosion. Nowadays, in the case of salary premium, this contract is very rational. We don't understand why the Mavericks didn't renew Brunson's contract. Then Brunson chose to leave the Mavericks and signed a contract with the Knicks, with an annual salary of only four years and $104 million. That's more than $20 million a year. But now Brunson has played supergiant. He now deserves an annual salary of 50 million.

Brunson averaged 33.9 points per game in this year's playoffs, ranking first in points per game in the playoffs. Brunson is now a completely unstoppable player on the offensive end, and his offense is really solid. Many people think that in fact, when he played for the Mavericks in the past few years, the reason why Brunson's statistics did not particularly explode was because Doncic occupied a lot of his ball. If Doncic assigns a portion of the ball to Brunson, maybe Brunson will perform better than Doncic, at least in this year's playoffs, Doncic's performance is not as good as Brunson's.

Imagine if the Mavericks had been able to keep Brunson and agreed to sign him for four years and $55 million, they would have had a lot of room to sign a lot of players while leaving a super scorer. Maybe the Mavericks will be stronger now. Although Irving is also strong, Irving's salary is obviously more than Brunson's. And Brunson is younger than Irving, which is more conducive to the future development of the team. So now the general manager of the Mavericks team is really repentant.

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