Mark Cuban on Jalen Brunson's Future: 'I Think He Wants to Stay' with Mavericks

If he wants to test the waters, he will attract a lot of attention because of his performance last season.

The governor of the Dallas Mavericks, Mark Cuban, told a reporter that the Mavericks can pay him more than another team, and that he thinks the player wants to stay.

The Mavs could have signed Brunson to a four-year extension worth up to $55.5 million before the start of this season, but they never did, according to an April report by Tim MacMahon.

After the trade deadline, the Mavericks made an offer to Brunson for the same amount of money as the one Finney-Smith received.

Rick told MacMahon that Dallas missed its chance to re-sign his son.

Rick said that he told the Mavericks that there was no contract talk after the season started. I told him to take the money and he wanted security. He wants to live here. He did not turn down their request. All declined first. We just want to finish out the season and go from there.

The Mavericks would have paid more for an extension for Brunson if it had been in January.

According to a poll of scouts and executives, the floor for the new contract will be $20 million per season, with some projecting a deal could go as high as $25 million annually.

Other teams will only be able to offer him a four-year contract if Dallas offers him a five-year deal.

The 2022-23 season marks the first year of Luka Doncic's supermax extension and his salary jumps up to $36.6 million. He only made $10.1 million in his final year of his contract.

The Mavericks are projected to be in the luxury tax with their salary commitments.

During the regular season, he averaged a career-high 16.3 points and 4.8 assists per game. In each of the past two seasons he has shot over 50 percent from the field, and in his career he is a 37.3 percent shooter from three-point range.

The Dallas Mavericks lost to the Golden State Warriors in the Western Conference Finals in five games, but they won a playoff series for the first time since 2011.