Sources - Dallas Mavericks informed Jalen Brunson intends to sign with New York Knicks

The Dallas Mavericks have been informed that guard Jalen Brunson intends to sign with the New York Knicks in free agency, sources told ESPN.

A meeting with the Mavs scheduled to be held soon after the opening was free agency on Thursday evening was canceled in the afternoon, sources confirmed, as Brunson had made up his mind to commit to the Knicks. New York is expected to offer Brunson a four-year contract in the range of $110 million, sources said.

NBA reporter Marc Stein first reported that the meeting with Dallas had been called off.

Brunson's departure from the Dallas to New York has been widely anticipated for days, as the Knicks made a more lucrative offer to play a larger role for a franchise that has deep family ties, including the recent addition of his father, Rick Brunson, as an assistant coach.

Knicks president Leon Rose, who made a series of trades since draft night to create enough cap space to sign Brunson, is a prominent former player agent whose first client was Rick Brunson. He also represented Jalen Brunson at the beginning of his career. Rick Brunson's recent hiring reunited him with head coach Tom Thibodeau, who he also served as an assistant for with the Chicago Bulls and Minnesota Timberwolves.

Brunson, 25, who is coming off a breakout season in which he averaged 16.3 points and 4.8 assists per game, intends to help revitalize a New York franchise that has not won a playoff series in the last nine seasons. New York's only postseason appearance and winning campaign during that span was in 2020-21, Thibodeau's first season as the Knicks' head coach, when they went 41-31 before losing as the No. 4 seed to the Atlanta Hawks in the first round.

Brunson established himself as Dallas' No. 2 option behind