Emanuel Ginobili and Maurice (Mo) Williams come to mind, and i feel like there are a decent number of others.
First of all, my wife calls him Patty Melt. Thought that was what she heard from Bill on TV broadcast.
As for Nando and Cory at the Toros, I watch the game on here and think that this was an attempt to see if De Colo could if called on handle a SF without size. At 6-5, he is a huge PG, tall SG and short SF. The Toros played a lot of 3 guard rotations. Both De Colo and Joseph saw alot of court time with Dentmon and Kelly. I think Pop just wanted game time for both and get a look at whether De Colo could play limited time at SF. This makes me wonder if Green may have more than tightness in his legs.
Emanuel Ginobili and Maurice (Mo) Williams come to mind, and i feel like there are a decent number of others.
Completely forgot about Manu! Why do they call him Manu anyway?
It's the middle part of his name Emanuel. Not sure who came up with it. He was called that well before he came to the NBA. The Spurs players were calling him Gino when he first came here .
Dang...I know he isn't happy about that. I wish I could find the article again, but I remember him stating that he wouldn't want to go to the D-league because he came here only to play in the NBA and not the D-league.
Hopefully he looks at this as a chance to improve and doesn't pull a Steve Blake and start fighting team mates.
Manu is the standard diminutive for any Em(m)anuel(le) in latin languages (French, Italian, Spanish...).
No one forced him to go to Austin for a game.
Umm isn't Danny Green originally Daniel? I'm 99% sure he is.
...............right
Yes, right.
NBA players have to agree to be assigned.
Not rookies.
Yes, rookies.
• Players with three years of service or less can be assigned to the D-League. (It was two years' experience in the previous CBA.)
• A player can be assigned to the D-League an unlimited number of times after a limit of three in the previous CBA.
• Players continue to receive their NBA salary while assigned to the D-League. This was also the case under the previous CBA, but ESPN The Magazine's Ric Bucher reported recently that the league was pushing for players to be paid at D-League salary rates while under assignment.
• Players with more than three years' experience can be assigned to the D-League -- for example, for injury rehabilitation -- but only when the player and the union request the assignment. Under the previous CBA, players with more than two years' experience could not be assigned to the D-League no matter what.
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/73...ning-agreement
The wording of the actual CBA shows you are correct, though I have read of teams' giving players the choice. That was before the current agreement though.
If Nando is going to be a about it, might as well trade him.
Last edited by ChumpDumper; 12-03-2012 at 04:14 AM.
EDIT: Yeah, the other guy(/you) helped me out, so forget it.
Slow your roll. You proved nothing with your outdated article. I proved your argument for you by reading the CBA.
Again. If he's a about it, get rid of him. He's not that good.
Quite true. A lot of the Spurs players are more known by their nicknames than their actual names.
Is De Colo still with the Toros? According to Bruno's source, he was only going to be assigned for 1 day.
It doesn't matter if it is outdated....that's just saying that wasn't too pleased with going.
Also yeah, that's why I was saying I hope he wasn't going to about it.
"He's not that good".....meh
How could an article written before Nando was in the NBA prove that Nando was upset about being assigned?
He's not.Also yeah, that's why I was saying I hope he wasn't going to about it.
"He's not that good".....meh
And anyway, I remember his saying he wasn't here to play in the D-League (could be wrong). Not quite the same as saying he was going to be a about being assigned.
It would show that ORIGINALLY he wasn't too happy with going(if he was upset about it). I'm NOT talking about how he feels about it now(Because I'm not sure if there is an interview out on that yet), I'm talking about how it seemed like he felt about it back when he was being interviewed about it.
"He's not." When i said "meh" I saying I don't give a .
"I remember his saying he wasn't here to play in the D-League (could be wrong). Not quite the same as saying he was going to be a about being assigned."
I didn't say he wasn't going to originally, until you describe it as that, if you look at what I originally said, I was just hoping that he wouldn't be upset and see this as a lane for improvement.
Although I did say "I know he isn't happy about that." But that's just how I talk at times, of course it's not a fact. Then I made a joke about him turning into Steve Blake and fighting his own teammates, but again it was a joke.
Where and when did he say that? His Twitter account is Patty_Mills, so if he really dislikes this nickname the first thing to do would be not to use it himself...
Actually most players are called by their nickname:
Timothy Duncan -> Tim
William Anthony Parker -> Tony
Emmanuel Ginobili-> Manu
Matthew Bonner -> Matt
etc.
Apparently De Colo's back in San Antonio. Can anyone confirm this?
He did say it though. It was in an interview, and he also said that at home, he's called "Pat".
Perhaps Pop liked what he saw in Anderson which prompted him to make this move. Makes sense since Anderson is familiar with the system and can fit right in without making too many mistakes.
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