There is a four-year-old quote from NBA commissioner Adam Silver that I have been thinking about since this news came out. News about the Knicks and Brunson coming to an agreement became public before teams were officially allowed to speak to free agents. It will try to decipher how much, if any, contact occurred before the Knicks could legally speak to Jalen Brunson or his representatives about a contract, and it will look into who made that contact. The league will look into the Rick Brunson connection. Yahoo! Sports was the first to report the news.īrunson, who spent his first four seasons with the Dallas Mavericks, officially signed a four-year, $104 million contract with New York in July. The NBA is officially investigating the Knicks for their free-agent recruitment of Jalen Brunson, a source confirmed to The Athletic earlier this week.
There is nuance to this investigation on both sides. There are blurred lines between Knicks head coach Tom Thibodeau and Rick Brunson, a longtime Thibs loyalist.īut motives, not just relationships, will come into play as the league gathers evidence.
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