Jalen Brunson comments for first time since Mavs exit: ‘Dallas, I will love you forever’

Jalen Brunson can’t signal his $100-plus million contract with the New York Knicks till the NBA’s free company moratorium lifts July 6.

However he gave an official social media goodbye to the Mavericks on Saturday.

On Twitter: “Dallas, I’ll love you eternally!” with white, blue and inexperienced coronary heart emojis.

On Instagram, he wrote deeper because of Mavericks executives, coaches, teammates, help employees and followers — and a dig at Cowboys followers from the New Jersey-raised, Villanova-groomed Eagles loyalist.

“Dallas, thanks for the whole lot!” Brunson mentioned within the caption. “You could have embraced me from the second you drafted me. You believed in me and have been in a position to watch me develop as an individual and a participant. This metropolis will eternally maintain a particular place in my coronary heart.

“Thanks Mark, Nico, Jkidd, and the remainder of the teaching employees for placing me ready to succeed. My teammates, with out you none of this is able to [be] doable. You guys made my life simpler on the courtroom however you all have been higher folks off of it. I couldn’t be extra grateful for the coaching employees, power and conditioning employees, and the remainder of the group with their unconditional love and help.

“Lastly, the followers. You guys have been there each step of the way in which with me. Thanks for making my expertise in Dallas unimaginable. Even when most of you’re Cowboys followers, you guys accepted an Eagles fan with out hesitation (I hope) Thanks for the whole lot. All the time Love.”

Brunson’s departure comes after a month of hypothesis and shifting expectations — from proprietor Mark Cuban moments after the Western Convention finals ended confidently expressing mutual curiosity and top-money precedence to re-sign the 25-year-old level guard to disgruntled resignation when Brunson’s camp canceled a final-pitch assembly with Mavericks management at the beginning of free company.

However Brunson — who grew up idolizing his dad, Rick’s, Knicks life-style and teammates and already modified his profile image to a photograph of him as a toddler in New York gear — regarded ahead in a ultimate Twitter submit Saturday.

“Prepared to start out a brand new chapter New York! Let’s go”

Twitter: @CallieCaplan

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