{"id":849674,"date":"2026-06-07T01:16:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T01:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/849674\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T01:16:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T01:16:42","slug":"jalen-brunson-camp-laughed-at-mavericks-after-four-year-55-million-extension-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/849674\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalen Brunson camp &#8216;laughed&#8217; at Mavericks after four-year, $55 million extension offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NBA Base: The <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/6044\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jalen Brunson;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Jalen Brunson&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jalen Brunson<\/a> camp reportedly &#8220;laughed&#8221; at the Mavericks when <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/dallas\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Dallas;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Dallas&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas<\/a> tried to offer him a 4-year, $55M extension near the 2022 trade deadline, per @TheSteinLine <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheNBABase\/status\/2063359085341499810?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:&quot;The Brunson camp basically laughed at them and said, &#039;Uh, we&#039;ll take our chances in free agency now, you guys had your chance.&#039; ... The Mavs still had the option at that point of picking up the phone and saying, &#039;Jalen, we completely screwed this up, we are deeply sorry, we&#039;ve disrespected you, we want to make this right, we&#039;re going to offer you 150 over five.&#039; They even could have gone to 175 over five... They had the wherewithal to give Jalen Brunson a blow-away offer and they didn&#039;t do it.&quot;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;&amp;quot&quot;}\" class=\"link \">&#8220;The Brunson camp basically laughed at them and said, &#8216;Uh, we&#8217;ll take our chances in free agency now, you guys had your chance.&#8217; &#8230; The Mavs still had the option at that point of picking up the phone and saying, &#8216;Jalen, we completely screwed this up, we are deeply sorry, we&#8217;ve disrespected you, we want to make this right, we&#8217;re going to offer you 150 over five.&#8217; They even could have gone to 175 over five&#8230; They had the wherewithal to give Jalen Brunson a blow-away offer and they didn&#8217;t do it.&#8221;<\/a> \u200b&#8221;If they re-signed him, they either could have kept him with <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/6014\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Luka;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Luka&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luka<\/a> or their phone would have been ringing off the hook with trade offers and they would have had so much better optionality&#8230; 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 <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/new-york\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Knicks;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Knicks&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Knicks<\/a> are on television.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheNBABase\/status\/2063359085341499810?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:x.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;x.com&quot;}\" class=\"link \">x.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NBA Base: The Jalen Brunson camp reportedly &#8220;laughed&#8221; at the Mavericks when Dallas tried to offer him a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":849675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[1596,24114,8606,52368,1260,62,11019,347219,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-849674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-dallas","tag-jalen-brunson","tag-knicks","tag-luka","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-the-mavericks","tag-the-mavs","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116706186777890523","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}