Draymond Green and Josh Hart gotta fight. No choice.

It’s just crazy how fucking stupid people are about this. Brunson didn’t give up anywhere remotely close to \(100 million. Once he opts out and signs a max, it will be closer to maybe like \)20 million. Less than Wemby just gave up by not having the All-NBA escalators in his Spurs contract, which nobody seems to take any issue with (nor should they, because it’s not their business).

So shocking that Draymond Green felt that he had to give a completely uninformed take on something.

“He shouldn’t have done what eventually got them to a championship, because after all it worked out for us that we just so happened to all be drafted together to an organization willing to pay out”😂

draymond will never understand how being universally loved, especially in NYC, will lead to more lucrative opportunities

EDIT: my bad, I should have just said draymond will never know what it’s like to be loved

Idiot it wasn’t 100M. Wasn’t it like \(10M or some shit. Just because contract is shorter by one year doesn't mean you lose \)50M

Brunson is eligible for a larger max one year sooner, he can make more money over the entirety of his career than he would have otherwise

Also players talking about the money their fellow union members are making will never not be ridiculous

Draymond is gonna fuck around and lose that future Inside the NBA job at this point

Draymond ain’t worth $27 million/yr

We need to normalize workers ABSOLUTELY watching each other’s pockets.

Eddie Murphy brought more joy being a talking jackass in one film than Draymond has in his entire life.

That clip is from 2 years ago, posted from a random aggregator account. These aggregators have been clipping old videos all offseason. I wish more people would recognize this.

Draymond just seems mad he’s the one that had to take less in Golden State meanwhile Brunson took less in New York so Josh Hart and others could get paid.

Steph Klay and KD weren’t making that in the apron era

Why so many low IQs in the NBA fuck sake

we’ve gotta normalize people not paying attention to whatever draymond’s dumbass says.

Wasn’t he gonna give gsw a discount if they got lebron???

I wait for Draymond’s well-adjusted reply.

My father taught me to never count someone’s bread.

Josh Hart is right. And it’s not like Brunson and his family gonna go hungry with that contract.

The fact the NBA shoves Draymond down out throats like hes some lovable goofball. He has consistantly terrible takes, his play on the court speaks for itself, and his podcast is a stain on the NBA at times. Dude needs to mind his own business.

I hate this idea that you can’t be pocket watching professional athletes, how much they make is public and people like to play the cap game…this is something that they shouldn’t really complain about in any form lol

Draymond and verbal diarrhea, name a more classic combo.

Winning is the goal of sports, not getting rich, this shows our culture problem.

Dray still mad about opting out of his contract but Lebron aint come

Amen

Draymon talking about the Knicks being able to afford to pay like the Warriors aren’t in the top 5 value franchises in the NBA

This $100 mill narrative gotta stop.

Brunson’s “discont” is hardly even a real discount, lol.

Draymond needs to learn how to mind his own business, it’s been tired as fuck for a long time at this point.

Common Josh W

Jalen Brunson didn’t take a discount… I can see how fans probably wouldn’t understand this but for a NBA to not understand is a bit wild to me…

Lebron’s Sixers contract is what taking a discount looks like.

Does Draymond forget he shares the court with a player worth five first round draft picks?

Draymond is just the annoying ass dude in your crew that won’t STFU.

#“Draymond Green on that sucka shit” - Udonis Haslem

I just want to give you props for putting the background clips/screenshots in links at the top of the post

People have to realize that this take is coming from the same guy thinking they didn’t make enough just cause they paid taxes lmao. Green a basketball savant esp on defense, but very stupid everywhere else. He’s lucky he’s really good at basketball

had to look this up, saw a tweet from the goat woj, he only saved them about 37m and brunson can sign a max next year 4 years 323m…insane.

Draymond need to shut up sometimes

Brunson didn’t really take a pay cut.

He opted to secure a big payday a year early instead of waiting for an even bigger one a year down the line. That’s not quite the same thing. As he pointed out at time, you are always one injury away from never getting the big payday.

I don’t get why people ignore the fact that it’s a salary cap system, the money doesn’t just disappear, it goes into the pockets of the other players on your team, or allows you to keep/sign players you wouldn’t normally get to play with

I honestly just think Draymond’s logic is dumb. The top guy taking a pay cut is going to be the more beneficial to the team than a role player taking a pay cut.

Brunson taking a 20% discount is going to free more cap space than Josh Hart taking a 20% discount.

Even with the Warriors example, it was Steph (the main guy) being underpaid with his 2nd contract that let them build their dynasty. Draymond taking a pay cut didn’t matter nearly as much.

For the 50th time, Brunson did not take a discount.

Had he waited an extra year to sign, he would have been eligible to sign for more money. He instead chose to sign early for the maximum amount he was able to, instead of waiting a year and potentially signing a larger overall contract.

He could have gotten injured, or had a terrible year, or New York could decide to change course and not offer him the larger extension. He wasn’t offered two contracts at the same time. As an undersized guard, he made what was probably the smart decision at the time to take a large extension now instead of taking a chance at being able to sign a bigger contract the next year.

Yes, he’s an incredible player, fun to watch, a champion, and a great guy. This story is extremely misrepresented.

Can’t wait for the nba player podcast era to end, man.

i don’t think people understand: Brunson did NOT take a discount.

He took the max or near max he could get.

Only thing is that IF he waited 1 more year, it would have become a 5yr/\(253 million contract instead of a 4yr/\)157.

 

What people don’t seem to understand is that:

• He got paid 1 year earlier instead of “betting on himself” with his first (well, 2nd) big paycheck.
  
• He is going to opt out after 3 years and sign an even BIGGER contract at age 31. A much better age to get a mega contract than at age 33, where a lot of players start to get worse.
  
• If he had waited for the 5yr/$253 million deal, he becomes a free agent at age 33, where teams might not give out a mega contract because of age. NBA players (usually) start declining after age 32.
  

 

End of the day, he preferred to cash in 1 year early and to become a Free agent at 31 and get a mega max. \(157 + \)323 = $480 million.

 

Other option was to wait an extra year, get \(252 million but he'd be free agent at age 33...which means he MIGHT be on the decline and not get a huge contract again. \)300 million or less vs $480 million in the route he took

This is an old video. Draymond goes on to say that he would have done the same thing Brunson did

We need to normalize draymonds opinion being ignored

Man fuck Draymond Green. Bitch ass is lucky hes still allowed to play given all the dirty shit hes pulled throughout the years.

Most people’s legacy is built on personal cost, financial or otherwise.

Green was literally going to take a discount to get LeBron on his team a week ago haha

Preach

They’re both right

Players should be paid what they are worth
BUT
if a player wants to take a pay cut/discount for the team, they can do that as well

“I can take less but he can’t”

dray should sucker punch him for taking a pay cut and then sucker punch hart for what he said too.

He’s got to assert his dominance, he aint no bitch

Green and Hart need to sit down and figure this out responsibly

I believe the exact number he gave up was $37M. A huge chunk to be sure but he pocketed money and didn’t risk injury. He has said he expects the full max next year. He has earned it.

Says the guy that the NBA is “never been set up for us to be wealthy after we’re done playing”

I can’t wait for this man-child to be out of the league.

Isn’t that what he’s doing lol

This is like players not being mad at Kawhi for taking the under table deal. If Brunson is taking a discount and winning a championship then teams will want other players to do that and now they’re making less money. Just the same way players weren’t mad at Kawhi for cheating because they also want that under the table deal. The greed of the NBA is insatiable.

Listen, I hate Draymond Green

I mean Draymond is technically right here.

Dolan can 100% pay Jalen his worth.

Mini Draymond and Draymond fighting lol

Everyone in the comments talking about how he didn’t actually sacrifice that much because he can make more with his next contract is correct, but that’s not the whole story.

Besides grabbing a life changing amount of money a year earlier, Brunson took a gamble on his HAPPINESS. He wanted to play in a good basketball situation, with his friends, and compete for a championship for the chance to be all time legend in the biggest market in the U.S. And guess what… it paid off! The man is already incredibly fucking rich and can buy just about everything he wants. One thing more money CAN’T buy is achieving the pinnacle of your profession and being a legend forever. God forbid someone makes a decision for their happiness that isn’t 100% centered around money.

Lastly, I don’t have the data to back this up, but I promise you Brunson’s endorsement money just multiplied many times over as a result of him winning a chip, which only happened because he took a pay cut, which then allowed the Knicks to acquire other good players.

So even though he prioritized happiness over money, he probably still wound up making roughly the same amount when you take into account his increase in endorsements. Plus he got everything else he wanted.

NBA players sometimes needs to do less podcasts. Or us fans need to stop taking NBA players and their opinions too seriously

Podcast vs Podcast incoming

Brunson never took a discount, give it a rest

Wasn’t this idiot about to take a pay cut for LeBron anyway?

gawd. i want draymond green to retire. but then he’ll get even worse on TV and podcast

We have to start saying no Draymond on tv now