Jalen Brunson when asked if leaving $113M on the table was worth it to win a championship: “100 percent worth it.”
Him taking that paycut is the ultimate reason why we won. Not many other guys would be that unselfish. Build the statue and put the jersey in the rafters immediately
Build the statue and plant the trees
Rename the street outside MSG while we’re at it.
Imagine if he said the opposite. No - I actually am regretting this decision right now and wish I had taken the money instead
It would be mind blown … 🤣🤣🤣 … but somehow on First Take, SAS would make a comment like, “you know what, that brother is right. Point the camera toward me when I say this. Jalen, looking back you should have taken your full bag bc after almost outscoring your entire squad in a Finals close out and bringing this city its first title in over 50 years, you are all we need my man. Melo couldn’t do it. The great Pat Ewing couldn’t. But you my man, did do it!
I’d pay $113m to make SAS disappear forever.
I thought you meant the spurs at first, and I was a little taken aback. Like, its fun to have teams you cheer against but what did they do to warrant so much ate.
In fairness to Pat… man his teams were ass. Dude never played with another HoF, barely other multi time allstars. Melo had all the talent but did not play winning ball, his era was just fun. Didn’t properly have talent around him either but he had better people than the carry jobs Ewing had to do. All that said hella congratulations to the knicks, been a long journey back to the top for them.
Brunson Aspiration Avenue
Jalen Square Garden
Madison Square Brunson
JB11 Aspire
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Nowitzki has and back then contracts where much lower.
Dirk was getting paid under the table though (Brunson probably is too)
That is something to Aspire to
They hired Brunson’s dad for this exact reason
Brunson will get paid with free meals in NYC forever, which will probably add up to $100 million just in one year (joking).
But actually the amount he will make the rest of his life in ad deals has gone up significantly. I’m not sure that will make up the $100 million he left on the table but the amount is definitely in the millions.
Actors get a million on the low end for huge commercials that you see on TV/in between prime time games. His rate after this win will easily shoot to 10 million. That’s probably what John Cena got for those Chime ads
International athletes like Ronaldo and Messi are making like \(20-\)30M per year in endorsement deals. Brunson isn’t going to be pulling in $10M per ad. That would make him by far the top grossing athlete in the world. That feels…. Ambitious.
Ronaldo makes 30 million a year just from Nike lmao.
Your numbers are way off.
Messi makes 24 million just from Adidas yearly. He makes 50 million from MLS and Apple endorsements haha. Dude even gets paid a cut of subscription revenue as a part of this deal.
Idk where you got your numbers, but they are hilariously low.
LeBron at the end of his career and won’t even do it. This is special
LeBron did it for years. He wasn’t the highest paid player on his team until the second time with the Cavs.
Isn’t that mainly a function of that the team literally couldn’t give him more money? IIRC he’s always been a stickler about getting as close to the maximum amount possible on every contract (which is not unreasonable for a player of his stature, team building implications aside).
The heatles all took discounts iirc
Yeah, UD isn’t a lifelong Heat player if they didnt take some type of discount.
It doesn’t matter if someone would offer him the max somewhere else. It’s effectively the same. He also took less when JOINING the heat, not even extending. He’s taking a pay cut to be on that team to win championships, not because dwade was his bestie and he wanted to see him every day.
I’d say it’s even bigger of a deal because he was basically the best player in the world - not a regular max contract guy and he took less while joining a new team.
LeBron and Wade did this and they called it cheating. Brunson does it and he’s a hero lol you can’t win if you’re a Heat.
Because people want to hate on LeBron and will do any mental gymnastics to get there.
He took a paycut to form the Miami super team
LeBron took a bigger paycut to go to Miami than Brunson has.
LeBron did it once, when he went to Miami. It was the only way to make it work
First time watching NBA!? He’s literally hardly been the highest paid
Posted this elsewhere but Brunson effectively gave up $37m. People are misrepresenting it as much more because the supermax he could have signed had he waited an extra year had an extra year attached to it and they don’t understand that he got a player option for his current deal. I also think people don’t understand Brunson signed a max deal, the larger deal was a supermax he could have been eligible for had he waited an extra year to sign his extension.
So yes, other players have done this. Dirk signed a 3 year \(25m deal to stay in Dallas at the end of his career when he had offers for 4 years \)92m from two other teams. Tim Duncan took a $10m pay cut to help the Spurs in the twilight of his career. Those are similar financial sacrifices in terms of the money given up on an annual basis and I’d argue even larger sacrifices given those guys made relatively much less.
curry? KD also took a pay cut to be a warrior
KD took pay cut so Warriors could re-sign Iguodala
This whole him taking a \(113M pay cut is a gross misrepresentation of the situation. He signed for the max he could at that point in time. He would have had to wait another year to sign a 5 year deal. Realistically he is saving the Knicks \)10M a year right now. But he also was a guy who had 2 good years and hadn’t made a ton so it was good security. Not like he said I’ll take less than what you can offer me today. Now he’ll get \(80-\)90M a year earlier than the 5 year extension and come out largely even.
Correct. He signed a year early. The “left it on the table” part is more about the gamble / risk of injury or not living up to the max a couple years later.
He didn’t take a pay cut. He did take a huge risk.
I think it’s the opposite. He took the safest option by securing his maximum possible bag ASAP, which objectively is the financially smart thing to do. How many times have we seen guys try to get cute with their contract situation and fumble the lifetime bag?
If you look at how the contract math works out, if he signs his next possible max extension as soon as it’s available, the final cumulative earnings wind up being similar to what he could have gotten by waiting a year and signing a larger max anyway. So basically the decision was between:
option 1: secure the max bag ASAP, give the team more leeway for building around him in the short term, and make up the money on the back end with his next extension, assuming he can stay healthy
option 2: wait a year to get an even bigger max bag but risk losing it in catastrophic injury, and hurt the Knicks’ ability to build around him in the short term
Option 2 is maybe what you pick if you’re singularly focused on maximizing money at the expense of everything else, even though you’re already easily set for life. That’s what a greedy psychopath CEO type would have done for sure. But I think most reasonable human beings would choose option 1, and Brunson is a reasonable human being.
edit: As other comments in this thread explain, on this deal Brunson can sign his next extension by age 31 whereas if he waited a year for the supermax, his next extension would have been at age 33. So it’s actually probable that the path he chose not only can make up the money on the back end with his next contract, but can actually get him the highest possible total career earnings, assuming he can stay healthy until 31. So it’s just a really smart balance of mitigating short term financial risk while also elevating the ceiling on potential long term earnings, all while giving him the best team / roster situation in the meantime. It’s a win-win-win move.
I think he took the safe option of getting money now instead of waiting another year and potentially fumbling the bag if he got injured or massively declined
He didn’t take a pay cut. He left saw what happened to Isaiah Thomas and smartly realized he needed to lock in max guaranteed money rather than gamble on waiting a year where an injury could fuck him. So he took the max with an opt out in 2028. When he signs that next max the total payout over those total 5 years is basically exactly the same had he waited and then signed the 5 year extension. He didn’t leave shit on the table and it had nothing to do with helping the Knicks. It was a no brainer.
As good as Brunson was, there was still a risk that a guy his size and age might have just had one great season and backing that up with a disappointing season could have left the Knicks saying “we ain’t paying you max”. Thomas spent a year leading the Celtics to the ECF and a 2nd team all-nba selection saying “back up the brinks truck” but then he got hurt and ended up never getting paid.
Carmelo would never
I’ve never understood why more players don’t do this when salaries are at these levels, and team chemistry and fan loyalty can be fickle.
An extra $100m will not affect Brunson’s life at all, nor the lives of his extended family.
Becoming one of the most legendary players in the history of NY sports during a historic championship run will affect his life a whole lot.
(And in the end, he’ll probably make more than that $100m in extra endorsement deals anyways.)
Not gonna lie… I feel like an extra 100m is enough to affect his life and his extended family
He’s made \(120m in career earnings and will make at least \)242m total before any new contract kicks in. If he never got another contract, it would be \(342m vs \)242m. Yes, players should always prioritize money but his lifestyle doesn’t really change. What does he need an extra $100m for? Does he need more real estate, more yachts, more sports cars?
Thats how I feel. 250m vs 350m isnt a big difference when youre at that level. Same with 500m vs like 650m.
The hard part is getting an entire team of players, who are capable of winning a title, to buy into this
How?
What’s he making - \(40 million a year? Unless you want a stupid life, his \)150 million contract is enough, if he wants, to make it so everyone in his family is set for life, has a beautiful house, a beautiful summer house, travel the world, and never work again.
Sure, you can MC Hammer any amount of money if you want, buy private jets or an island. But if he has even a vague understanding of how to manage money, he could live off the future endorsements alone and never even touch his NBA salary and still lead an amazing life.
He’s gonna get so much money from other companies in the city anyway. Dude is set for life here as the savior that brought this city a championship
He’s gonna get the Clyde treatment here. 👑
stylin’ and profilin’
maxing and relaxing
SWOOPING AND HOOPING
Dishin and swishin
Slicin and dicin
Humpin’ and dumping’
Lear jet flyin’ and limousine ridin’
He might even get the Jeter treatment at this rate
gift bags intensify
Yea you fucking like that jeets. American psycho stare intensifies.
Even more…. it’s the Knicksssss, in this city?!??!
People keep saying this, but I really don’t think it can be understated how much love that city has for the Yankees.
NYC fandom is split for Yankees and Mets. Don’t get me wrong - Yankees have the numbers, but Mets has a large, die hard fan base that considers themselves true/gritty NYers.
NYC is not split at all on basketball. It’s 100% Knicks.
Closer to 110% Knicks, -10% Nets.
Even tho Brooklyn is arguably more “NYC” than Manhattan is, certainly for the “true/gritty” crowd.
Issue is the Yankees need to split the NY fan base with the Mets. Knicks take the whole pie.
And the yankees are just synonymous with American pop culture in a way that the Knicks aren’t. I mean I remember reading a passage from a Lou Gherig biography in one of my textbooks in elementary school.
He’s a bi-racial angel!
You should have shot A-Rod!
Hes going to get shot in the tunnel by Marky Mark?
Just For Men gonna be on stand by when that first grey hair pops up.
He’s not making close to an extra \(100m from endorsements, but that extra \)100m isn’t going to change the quality of his life a single bit.
Just brought the NYK a title. He’s 100% going to be on endorsements in NY for life. He’s going to make much more than what he lost through those.
hes also making that back on his next deal
Keith Smith did a breakdown and it was actually a ~37m paycut to lock in his extension 1 year ahead of time. not the reported figure.
Brunson is gonna opt out in 2 seasons eligible to sign the 35% cap supermax (the same method Luka and Donovan Mitchell are angling for).
Do you give the 31 year old undersized guard a super max? It’s all rainbows and sunshine right now. But let’s see what happens in 2 years
Lmao he’s the king of New York. He gets whatever he wants now
Yeah, I think people are underestimating what he really is. Brunson will sell out the Garden and get a Kobe contract to play out his final seasons if he wants it. The Knicks traded away an enormous amount of assets (6 FRPs and 2 swaps) to assemble this group, so they were always going to be ass in 4-5 years when they age out, so of course they will pay Brunson.
You’re still talking about Dolan….he ain’t getting a Kobe or MJ contract to finish out his final years…
Dude could sign the contract saying he doesn’t have to play a single game and he will still be God King of NY
he led them to a ring. yes
We gave Steph one. I think my answer changes based on whether they can be the number one on a title team.
The dude literally just scored half of his team’s points in a close out finals game. Sure he ain’t Steph, no one is, but let’s not act like JB isn’t great.
Honestly, the Knicks would be absolute fools to let him wear another team’s jersey again in his career. He’s the savior of the Knicks and he should retire that way.
He is, but injuries can happen and he could well be out of the league at the end of his current contract. It happens unfortunately, look at Isiah Thomas.
Hopefully not, man deserves the bag and theres very few stars as likeable as JB
I mean but brunson is the king of New York
He can get it and we can go 0-82. It’s all good.
Theres no fucking way you dont reward the guy who brought you a chip for the first time in 50+ years.
I’ll give him the entire salary cap for being able to end the drought and bringing us a chip. Jalen Brunson is the savior of Knicks basketball he can have it all
Its not like he relies on athleticism. Guards like him traditionally age well
This cuts both ways, guys who get by with less athleticism sometimes have no room to lose even a small amount and we see small guards end up with short careers for this reason all the time. The long careers of Durant and LeBron are specifically because of how super human they were in their primes. Juries out on if Brunson will be able to keep this up into his 30s.
He led New York to a ring. The Knicks would give Brunson the Statue of Liberty if the could
Everything is gonna be free from now on. That’s gonna add up too
Didn’t even think of that lol. Ain’t no way he’s paying for food at restaurants for quite a while
Unless he’s getting multiple millions in free apartments, it will never add up to 100mil
We’ll be eating Brunson Burgers at Shake Shack in a few months
He’ll easily make that in his lifetime from this lol.
Jayson Tatum and Ant make $20M a year from off court sponsorships. The dude who brought the Knicks a championship as an undersized underdog is clearing that easily.
Yeah, I think people are undervaluing the weight of being a New York sports legend. Like Linsanity was a huge deal because it was in New York, not even sure it gets to that level in LA. Brunson has now put himself in a tier with Jeter and Eli in modern New York sports history and he’ll be in national advertising like those guys are for the rest of his career and well after.
People also love New York merchandise, you travel abroad and you see people wear NYC related shirts or Yankees hats everywhere. Particularly with Basketball starting to establish itself as the second most popular sport in the world, people around the world will be looking to identify with particular NBA teams and that’s where revenue is going to flow for the Knicks.
Brunson could shoot Eli in Times Square RIGHT NOW and walk free.
yep. one time i was at an industry event totally unreleated to basketball. in walks klay thompson. they paid him just to show up and take some pics with clients(us). brunson bein in nyc getting the same treatment with the billion dollar companies around here. (yes ive lived in manhattan midtow)
Right, people don’t understand how much endorsement money stars can make. Guess I can’t blame them, It’s not as publicized as NBA contracts.
100%, a New York FMVP will make a lot of money in endorsements and commercials.
I think you’re underestimating the tri-state market if you think this man isn’t clearing $100m in endorsements due specifically to this.
Pay no mind to my flair; I grew up in northern NJ and became an NBA fan during the early 2000s Kings mini-run (fucking Game 6 refs…)
So yes, you are 1,000,000% correct, there is more wealth in the NY/NJ/CT tri-state area than any other area in America, and maybe even the world. Brunson will make multiple 9-figures in endorsements over the rest of his life.
Median rent in Manhattan is like \(5,000 per month, meanwhile in soulless Phoenix you can rent nice 1 br apartments with parking and a building pool for like \)2,000 and I think I’ve seen them go for even $1,500 per month when searching on Zillow.
People have no idea the unfathomable amount of wealth the greater NYC area has.
Remember dude, they ain’t winning again for another 60 years, Brunson is a hero.
He will make way more than $100M from winning it all in NYC. If he wants a broadcast job, even if a national network doesn’t hire him, MSG will. Even NY sports legends that are really good and front win it all have modestly lucrative retirements. Mike Piazza has a bunch of car dealerships. There’s just so many people in this area that it’s hard not to make money.
His extension will be crazy tho
He could charge like $500k an appearance for nyc corporate speaking gigs. Those firms don’t care about the price, they want the star and there’s gonna be no bigger start in nyc for a while.
Correct. Anyone who thinks otherwise doesn’t understand the corporate world.
He is gonna make a fortune just showing up and taking pictures with rich NYC folk forever.
“Team Building Events and Motivational Speaker”
“Hi everyone, thank you for having me here. Remember it’s always 0-0 until jobs done. Appreciate yall”
round of applause
grabs 500k
Brunson In Five, LLC.
“You can too, if you start every day with a hearty breakfast from McDonalds! Remember guys, real champs eat at McDonalds!”
People are acting like he’s struggling with his 120 million career earnings and 37 million next year haha
And he WILL get the max in 2029… doesn’t matter how old he is lol
Dolan has words for you
Dolan will get quartered at Times Square if he let Brunson go
Think of all the saved money he gets now too. Dude never has to open his wallet in NYC anymore.
True. Although I can kind of see him ordering a slice of cheese at a pizza spot. The guy behind the counter goes:
“you Jalen Brunson?”
Jalen responds “yeah”.
Guy behind the counter goes “hey congrats. That’ll be $3.50”
My man said even if he didn’t win it its worth it…he is a keeper - hoping he wins a couple of more and I am not a knicks fan
Well, he won the chip, and now it’s time to get paid. Discount promo has expired.
“That was yesterday’s price!”
“Yesterday’s price is not today’s price”
Ballerinas
Doing pirouettes inside of my snow globe.
Price of the Knick goin’ up.
Put the word out, we back up
Wow what a comment
He’s a god in NYC now. He will likely make a lot more money in his lifetime then he would’ve if he asked for a bigger contract
And you cannot buy what Jalen just got. He is the Man in NYC forever now.
Jeter, Eli, Jalen.
These names are immortal in NYC. 50 years from now people will say their names like how we talk about Willis Reed, Clyde Fraizer, Lawrence Taylor, Babe, Yogi, Willie Mays, etc.
And if you gonna be immortal anywhere, NYC is a helluva place to do it
*Winks in Cavs salary sheet*
*Hard blinks in De’aaron Fox contract*
Eyes bleed from Bradley Beal contract
100 years from now people will keep talking about this team and Jalen Brunson. What he gave up in dollars he got in mindshare. He will be remembered for eternity.
Yeah you cant put a price tag on being the King of New York. He’s cemented himself as a legend.
he could frankly stay with the knicks for the rest of his career and still cash out. city clout lasts a lifetime, look at clyde. majority career with knicks and we still love him over here, loyalty still paying off for him
honestly even just the value of the amount of things he’s not going to have to pay for around the city from now on would probably add up to something genuinely ridiculous to the average person, lol
He’s gonna get the treatment that Toronto would have gave Kawhi if he stayed but x10
yeah even financially it’s a better choice. JB+Chip is worth 10x more in sponsorship then jb-chip
especially with where and how he won it
i mean, he bet on himself big time.
He actually didn’t take a “discount”. He signed the max one year early instead of waiting. He still got a max. Only thing is that he secured the bag a year early. Some people seriously need to do that more often instead of waiting.
that said, this also helps him out. By signing early (and leaving $113 behind), it actually puts him in BETTER position to get a new contract at age 31.
IF he waited a year, he would have gotten a much bigger contract BUT would have been a free agent again at age 33.
Scenario 1: $157m + mega contract at age 31
Scenario 2: $269m + whatever contract he could get at age 33
The odds of him getting a mega deal as a small guard at age 33 is very low. \(269 + mid-levels or minimum deals. Less than \)280 overall.
By signing for \(157, he now has the option to get \)157 + \(323 (or if he waits yet another year, \)418 million) for a total of \(480 million (or \)575 million if waiting an extra year).
\(less than \)300 million by taking more would have cost him in the back end.
this was all BETTING ON HIMSELF.
Less than \(300 million is worse than \)480 million
Depends on if he wants a repeat. The current parity exists because championship teams mostly got broken up because of players getting paid after the ring.
I’m a Knicks fan but I don’t see any way they repeat. This was their shot. Get paid.
His contract extension wouldn’t be till the 2028-29 season and this entire Knicks roster can stay together. They’ll have some more chances, they’re clearly a step above everyone in the East currently
Yeah even if Tatum fully recovers and some personnel switches occur in the East calling this their one shot is kind of goofy
Yep, we just had 3 straight years of “Is this the next NBA dynasty?” talk with the Nuggets, Celtics, and Thunder. It’d be really funny if the Knicks were the team to actually repeat in the 2020s, but I don’t think it’s a good prediction to make. Brunson deserves a max contract, and KAT is going to need a new deal soon too. Those contracts will probably drain some of their depth like Robinson.
What’s stopping owners from paying players on the side
https://www.foxla.com/sports/clippers-kawhi-leonard-salary-cap-circumvention-investigation.amp
Let’s see what the punishment will be
He’s certainly gonna make that back and then some. Good for him
Scenario 1: \(157m + mega contract at age 31 (\)323 million deal) = $480 million Scenario 2: \(269m + whatever contract he could get at age 33. Less than \)300 million.
Scenario 1:
\(157m + mega contract at age 31 (\)323 million deal) = $480 million
Scenario 2:
\(269m + whatever contract he could get at age 33. Less than \)300 million.
If he waits for the \(269 deal, he gets less overall over the course of his career. The \)157 deal made sure he got paid early plus sets him up to be a FA earlier and at an age where teams are comfortable giving a big deal again…which in this case will be around $323 million. More money overall
It always makes me chuckle a little when it gets spun as such a selfless act by Brunson when really it was a no brainer financially lol
Meh we’ve seen guys bet on themselves and then disappear. I wouldn’t call it a no-brainer because nothing is guaranteed
But this wasn’t betting on himself. This was getting paid first and betting on the team.
Usually when you say bet on yourself, you’re talking about not renewing your contract going into the season. And letting your play dictate your bext contract.
Yeah I think this weird situation is making people not understand what’s going on.
This wasn’t a typical contract year leaving money on the table situation. This was him opting for guaranteed money up front as well as setting himself up for more career earnings… vs playing a full season not having signed anything until he could have the ability to sign that larger contract
IMO bird in the hand worth two in the bush was the rationale and nothing more. It just happened to give the Knicks short-term cap flexibility and an opportunity for him to increase his market value before he gets his last big contract.
Why is your calculation that he’ll get no more than $31m guaranteed at 33?
The other deal you proposed covered his earnings until he’s 36 - In scenario 2 you only cover it through his age 33 season.
You need to add 3 more years of salary for it to make sense.
Scenario 3 - 157 million and gets hurt. He makes less money overall
You guys do not realize, he will end up with more salary due to this as well…
if he signs the 5 year this team would not be good enough for them to win a chip… AND he is not then getting the 35% supermax in 2029 at 33
NOW he won a championship NYK is forever indebted, they definitely give him the 35% supermax at 32 in 2028 (though even that probably ages poorly just a year less less poorly)
He gave up short term money (people act like its 100 mil but his deal also ends earlier) for much bigger chance at more long term 35% supermax AND team success, and he is getting just that.
So it’s super deceptive how this is presented . There was never any chance he was taking the player option which does a ton of the lifting on the “discount “ . Years 1-3 of his deal and years 1-3 of a potential 5 he deal he could have signed are basically the same . Maybe 5 mil a season given up. And now he can sign a bigger deal then what he “gave up “ and his total career earnings can be higher . It was a risk in that he could have had a serious injury or declined .
Not really at the end of the day nothing is guaranteed. Brunson could have taken the Isaiah Thomas small guard career path and just fall off a cliff from injuries and he would have never gotten that supermax. Sure, he did it to get more money later, but it was still a big risk
I have a ton of respect for the risk he took , and I’m happy it’s working out . LeBron is the only other guy I think that doesn’t take term when it’s on the table .
Yup, salary alone he makes more taking the bridge contract and earning supermax later. Not even talking about future endorsements or the value of becoming a literal God in New York.
Jalen Brunson bet all his chips on himself, and won.
Didn’t Tom Brady take pay cuts so the Pats could win? It’s a risk to take but if you end up on the winning side it doesn’t matter cause you cement yourself as one of the greats and get money from all the endorsement deals.
He just got paid in bonuses instead of of salary, he got paid the same though
They were “team friendly” deals ones which avoided taking big hits to the cap. He definitely lost some money in 2010s.
Kawhi also took a paycut and the only person who talks about it is Pablo Torre lol.
Just saw 1,000,000 trees being planted in NYC, swear to god
Harvard alumnus and Pulitzer Prize winner Pablo Torre
I think Gilbert arenas will have something else to say about this.
We all know what kind of money he got from being in nyc.
Talk your shit man. These guys are delusional pretending he traded $120 million for a ring. The league has made it abundantly clear they don’t plan on punishing the Clippers for circumventing the cap for Kawhi. There’s no shot they’re going to investigate Brunson’s contract after this.
Facts, who knows what deals his podcast gets from brands with ties to msg and everything Dolan owns. His father who played knows you don’t leave money behind with deep ties and know how the game works.
Exception to the rule is not the rule. Getting your money is more important in the bigger picture
Gilbert shouldn’t be saying all that due to him being a great talent and horrible at business in sports media
He became my new favorite player this year
He’s a throwback but also a modern and progressive guy. I really like this dude. Glad he got a ring.
Easily one of the most likable players in the league.
On and off the court! He’s just too wholesome. Can’t not root for him.
Look I’m pretty sure Dolan is paying him under the table, Pablo already kind of alluded to it.
Edit: Apparently Pablo didn’t find anything after investigation
There’s 100% some funny business going on lol
How much does his dad get paid 🤔
Interestingly enough his dad earns 100million
A little pricey but he did have a championship nut
/r/brandnewsentence
Anybody with any street/business knowledge knows for a fact he’s being taken care of.
Yep! Much like there are about a dozen Stockton and Malone car dealerships in Utah (former owner of the Jazz made his early money in car dealerships).
lol no he didn’t Pablo literally was like vaguely curious to see and said something to that effect but then later said he found nothing
The \(113m thing is so overplayed. He signed a four year deal in 2024 with a player option for fourth year instead of a five year deal in 2025 with no option. He gave up \)37m in the three years he’ll actually play under that extension and he’ll likely recoup the rest (and then some) when the Knicks give him his next deal.
He still sacrificed but really not to the extent that has been reported and he got some protection against a severe drop off in play / catastrophic injury by signing early.
It’s being so misreported that it has led to the majority of people just saying he took a pay cut instead of what actually happened and then fully misunderstanding what he did (a cool thing but also a decision that is pretty defensible just on the merits of securing money a year early in the event of career any injury or something), and then ominously invoking Pablo torre and aspiration without a shred of evidence of foul play
Looking at you Fox
He probably gives no Fox
I’m super happy for Jalen Brunson but don’t like that this is a talking point. Now you’ll have GMs negotiating with players saying “Jalen Brunson took less, you can’t take less?” Regardless of whether these owners have any intention of competing that’s how they’ll spin this.
Everyone a better teammate than Brunson until it’s time to be a better teammate than Brunson
The point is that Brunson wanted to make the sacrifice. Rose was not clamoring in his ear about it. Especially since NY gave him a very fair and even slightly above market offer in FA in 2022.
This is a rarity, not the start of a trend.
He didn’t actually take a pay cut, he took an early extension, it was still the max the Knicks could give him. I get where you’re coming from but the situation is slightly different from taking a straight pay cut
If a player could guarantee $100M would equal a championship they would make that deal in a heartbeat. Not many would take the risk of it not working out
Yeah, doubt brotha
Doubt.
Cough. Melo. Cough.
NYC Royalty now. Man will not have to pay for a damn thing in that city ever
I love the concept of a player loving his team and city enough to take a pay cut. I really wish we’d see loyalty like this more.
But this is also why the “Brunson can’t win as a 1A” argument is still valid. He’s not an 1A on the payroll, if he was, the Knicks don’t have a championship this year.
I think 8 different winners in the last 8 years is showing how hard it is to when with these massive contracts team have sunk in 1-2 players. Especially in the last 3 years of the new CBA.
That man is the King of New York. He gave up $113 to be cemented as not just a Knicks legend but a NYC legend.
Nothing a little aspiration deal can’t fix. He also got his dad a job too so that’s a little more money on his contract.
he’ll make so much in endorsements as New York’s champion for the rest of his life to more than make up for it.