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Originally Posted by MFFL
I understand about the Haliburton offer - Haliburton is a special player. I understand why we didn't extend during the offseason - JB had a bad series against the Clippers and our GM was brand new.
But the midseason extension is a joke. We would have had to make him the same offer as DFS (by league rules). There is no way that JB would have accepted that offer so I understand why the team didn't make him an insulting offer like that.
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I got a different impression from Brunson's dad in the article. Sounds like they may have been open to signing the extension mid-season and not insulted at all?
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"I told him once the season is started, that's it," Rick Brunson says. "I told the Mavericks, 'Once the season is started, there's no contract talk,' and I went back against my word. In January, I thought he did enough where he deserved [the extension]. I said, 'Hey, take the money, man.' He wants security. He wants to live here. And they declined.