{"id":754743,"date":"2026-06-07T09:03:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T09:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/754743\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T09:03:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T09:03:17","slug":"jalen-brunsons-camp-reportedly-laughed-at-mavericks-55-million-extension-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/754743\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalen Brunson\u2019s Camp Reportedly Laughed At Mavericks\u2019 $55 Million Extension Offer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jalen Brunson<\/a> has been playing like the hero of the New York Knicks<\/a> this season. After averaging 26.0 points, 3.3 rebounds, 6.8 assists, 0.8 steals, and 0.1 blocks per game on 46.7% shooting and 36.9% shooting from three in 2025-26, he\u2019s led his team to the NBA Finals, with just two more wins to go before winning the title<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For Brunson, it\u2019s the ultimate validation\u00a0of his career and proof that the\u00a0Dallas Mavericks<\/a> should never\u00a0have traded him to begin with. He played in Dallas alongside Luka Doncic<\/a> for four seasons and even helped take his team to the Finals in 2024. So when the Mavs tried to offer him a \u201cdisrespectful\u201d offer, that\u2019s when they knew it was time to move on.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Brunson camp basically laughed at them and said, \u2018Uh, we\u2019ll take our chances in free agency now, you guys had your chance.\u2019\u00a0 The Mavs still had the option at that point of picking up the phone and saying, \u2018Jalen, we completely screwed this up, we are deeply sorry, we\u2019ve disrespected you, we want to make this right, we\u2019re going to offer you 150 over five.\u2019 They could have even gone to $175 over five,\u201d said Marc Stein<\/a>. \u201cThey had the wherewithal to give Jalen Brunson a blow-away offer, and they didn\u2019t do it.\u201d \u200b<\/p>\n

In an alternate world where the Mavericks kept Brunson, he and Doncic would have continued to grow and develop their games together. They might be in the Finals right now instead of the young San Antonio Spurs<\/a>. At the very least, they\u2019d be in a better position to re-tool the roster with a much better return package.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they re-signed him, they either could have kept him with Luka or their phone would have been ringing off the hook with trade offers and they would have had so much better optionality\u2026 losing Jalen Brunson for nothing when you combine that with how the Luka trade turned out, like I said, where I live there is a lot of pain when the Knicks are on television.\u201d<\/p>\n

Today, there\u2019s no denying that giving up Brunson was a bad move for Dallas<\/a>. While he wasn\u2019t the most glamorous co-star for Luka, he was a reliable scorer who knew how to share the ball. On the Knicks, he\u2019s showing how much value he could have had as a leader, clutch scorer, and secondary playmaker in the backcourt. Unfortunately, we\u2019ll never get to find out for ourselves.<\/p>\n

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While many changes are expected in Dallas this summer, it\u2019s too late to bring Jalen back<\/a>. He\u2019s as committed as it gets to the Knicks, and he\u2019s about to be immortalized as a hero of the franchise. In one single run, he has made the Mavs look like fools for paying him his worth, but he\u2019s not even thinking about that now. With so much at stake, Brunson is focused only on the present and what else he can do to lead his team to a title. Just like the Mavericks regret trading Luka, they regret letting Brunson go, and that decision is what ultimately got GM Nico Harrison fired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jalen Brunson has been playing like the hero of the New York Knicks this season. After averaging 26.0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3793],"tags":[7,686,149,4057,288,368,166,6,191,474],"class_list":["post-754743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas-mavericks","tag-basketball","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dallasmavericks","tag-jalen-brunson","tag-luka-doncic","tag-mavericks","tag-nba","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-san-antonio-spurs"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116708022939267499","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}