Sorry my friend, but I don't share your enthusiasm for Beasley. The simple fact is that he was the second overall pick just two years ago and the team that knows him best would rather have 4-5M in cap space than keep him. That sends up red flags for me.
You're right on this point, but it's obvious that you never have a chance to take a player with that amount of talent if ther's not some risk...what I say is that, in our situation (next year we projected to be over the lux tax), I think it could be the case to take some risk. Also for some additional reason :
1) next year is probably the last year we can have a chance at a le with our actual core and Beasley would be, in any case, an improvement over Bonner;
2) after this year (barring the case we win the championship) we necessary have to start to add some new, young and the more talented as possible pieces...Beasley satisfy all these elements;
3) if all goes well, he's still for two years in his rookie contract;
4) if the guy is such a head case and ther's no way to take out from him a good player in our system is something that Pop and our F.O. have a very good chance to understand in quick time...they are experienced enough to understand if a player will never be a spurs player, so you're right when you say :
"Your point about the option isn't quite right. If the Spurs acquire Beasley, the decision on his 4th year option must be taken by Oct 31, 2010. They would only have training camp and the preseason to decide whether to pick up a 6.2M guarantee for 2011-12.