Jalen Brunson Accepts $113M Cut for Knicks' Flexibility

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00:00So you have got to be kidding me that you just got this across the spew newsroom desk

00:09and you're going to break this story and I am I'm having heart palpitations mafia get

00:14my pills in in what this is straight from the tweet from roads by the way largely unprecedented

00:22financial concession to give roster flexibility to a contender the Knicks and Jalen Brunson

00:29have agreed to a four-year 156.5 million dollar extension that is a hundred and thirteen million

00:36dollars less guaranteed than he's eligible to receive which would have been in one year

00:42so one year from now Scotty he could have got a hundred thirteen more it says here the

00:47repercussions of him choosing it now are massive for the Knicks ability to keep this current

00:52team together and keep making roster moves to close the gap on a championship the deal

00:58will cost Brunson thirty seven point one over the next three years comes with a fourth

01:04year player option that would set up Brunson to recoup the rest of the hundred thirteen

01:09million on a four-year three hundred twenty three million dollar extension in 2028 so

01:15I guess he'll eventually Scotty get it down the road but he ain't getting it now so that's

01:22but look some people say a hundred and we talked about this the other day 150 is a lot

01:27of money but when you're leaving a hundred and thirteen off the table man that's a lot

01:32of money too I'll tell you what I mean I don't know anything about this other than being

01:39nice or whatever he's doing or giving them flexibility what I would have demanded in

01:45that deal is the end of it at the end of the deal I get this money no matter what and I

01:52also want no trade clause I want if I'm giving you all this money what are you giving me it

02:00sounds like they gave him none of that they gave him an option in that fourth year from

02:05what I'm hearing just right out of your mouth this is how I'm seeing it for the first time

02:09I almost fell over so what am I getting out of this other than giving away a hundred and

02:16thirteen million dollars well is he the new GM at a team like does he get power for now

02:24running their finances so they can go get other players so he gave up all that money

02:30so they can go spend money on other players well what the F do I get out of this I want

02:37guarantees no trade and I'm getting the money back at the back end one way or the other

02:42in four years now remember everyone thinks they're a hot commodity and a hot tamale until

02:51they're not like four years from now he may not even be the same player he is today he's

02:57had injuries broken hands everything else what's he gonna be like after banging for

03:02the Knicks for four years at the garden when he has the ball 90% of the time what kind

03:08of a beating is he gonna say he already takes a beating he already gets hammered and he's

03:14a little dude I won't deny he's a badass and he's got some puffy combs on him he's

03:20got like a little belly and he's got like a little muscle I won't deny but do you think

03:26in four years he'll be standing as though he were standing today I think the wear and

03:30tear of four years in the NBA is gonna show poorly on him and then he'll never get that

03:35that he thinks he's gonna get famous last words I'm getting all this money later I don't know

03:41anything about later I know what later is later is you're you're in love with her now but you

03:46won't be in four years okay in four years she'll hate your guts I don't know anything about being

03:52nice and giving money back and like being the the good guy what is that it's way more fun being the

03:59bad guy and taking all the money he's 27 now so you know you figure four years from now be 31

04:08um look you could say this with any guy in the league you got to avoid injuries and you'll and

04:15you'll get another payday I mean you could say that about a nice last word famous last words

04:20indeed I mean I wouldn't have probably waited for the extra hundred and thirteen I got five

04:28left you name me one guy that does this that turns down that much money to help everyone else

04:37get paid I've never in my life honestly I don't understand this move at all like I get it I

04:46understand that the synopsis of it I get why he's doing it fair enough I just think it's a bad

04:52decision the the only guy that really comes to the top of my head in the last 25 years I'm ready

05:00took exactly took significantly less money than he was worse and was never the highest paid quarterback

05:07in the NFL even though he should have been was Brady and they always lauded Brady for always

05:13taking less so that they could spread it out throughout the team and always taking what he's

05:17the only guy I could say to always took less money for the team to be better and then he got

05:23paid on the back end right then he didn't take then when he went to Tampa's when he said I'm

05:27cashing in now I'm not being a little guy anymore he also got seven rings out of it and incorrect

05:35like he has different he's he is set for life that guy will never pay for a meal in his life

05:42then he got a 350 million dollar broadcasting job never called a game never did anything they

05:48just handed him that he left it got a divorce with his supermodel smoke show wife and then in

05:55five minutes was already lining up hotties to be with him that guy's set for life when you have

06:02seven Super Bowl rings and you're Tom Brady you're set for life when you're Jalen Brunson what does

06:08he have in the NBA besides nothing like he is a really great player but believe me you I am sorry

06:14he is no Tom Brady oh I don't disagree with you the level of Tom Brady and Jalen Brunson is not

06:23the same in terms of their impact on the sport I'm just saying who's giving advice to give this

06:31money back like he's worth three he's worth 296 right now they paid Tatum and Brown 300 plus

06:38million dollars and you're telling me that this guy should take a hundred and thirteen million

06:44dollar basically pay cut for who like are you kidding me do you know how much money that Dolan

06:51has he makes more money off of that sphere in Las Vegas then all people in the world may combined

06:58honestly it is like they have $38 tacos in that place I mean he doesn't need your help

07:07that guy just gave the devil a hundred and thirteen million dollars but Dolan you know

07:13what he's one of the shrewdest businessmen in New York and I guarantee he's going out to dinner

07:18tonight let's say they this allows them to add one more guy right now they just added bridges so

07:33if you added one more guy to everything that they already have and they end up somehow and I'm not

07:40saying it's gonna happen but let's say they win a championship add another guy and then it puts

07:44them over the top and they win a title is it worth it then maybe yes it is but not when it never

07:53happens they can't beat right Celtics to save their ass in a series right now with what they

07:59have and who are they gonna have they already got a team completely stacked and loaded the only guy

08:05that I would want right now that I've heard all these rumors that they're interested in if I could

08:11get my hands on Shungun I would do it but that's a whole another kitten caboodle my man Shungun is

08:19worth he's worth a big bag now too they can't give him a big bag I heard that the other day why would

08:25the Rockets want to get rid of him he but I don't understand like he actually became a big-time player

08:32for them this year well they're also the Rockets gonna get with this money to put them over the top

08:45you even heard I gotta go through us you heard Kincaid Philly thinks they can beat the Knicks

08:51ass yeah with Paul George everyone can beat the Knicks when is the last time the Knicks won a

08:57title they haven't sniffed a title since Spike Lee was in his mother's womb it's been a long

09:04time long time indeed we'll finish the baseball the money remember that this is finance 101

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