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Well, not really.
Parker said all year that re-signing with Spurs was his first option.
lol TP has been ass ever since 2007, the finals MVP got to his head making him think he was better then then really was. I'd much rather have George as the starter & trade Tony for somewhere while he still has value. Manu and George last year when Tony was out were ballin.
Well, not really.
Parker said all year that re-signing with Spurs was his first option.
Damn brutal honesty right there. Do not disagree with anything he said and props for the openness. Other players wouldn't give some candid responses
that. I wouldn't trade TD for another ring. Call me sentimental or ignorant or not a real basketball fan, but there are some things that just deserve happening, such as Timmy retiring as a Spur. I'd rather be lottery-bound with Timmy manning the post old as than winning a championship with Tim in a different uniform. That would be like Chuck E. Cheese deciding to go in another direction by selling porn. It's just not right and I won't stand for it.
Pretty bold statements by Tony Parker.
I think the players knew they had no chance before May (no defense, no le, multiple statements during the season).
Manu's chat in March left me the impression they didn't seriously believe.
At any rate, from now on, it's pretty clear that if they keep Parker, none in the Spurs organization believes in another le.
And rightly so.
Hmm and if we do trade Parker we will get better?
To me it's obvius that some people here don't want to face the ugly truth. Thats fine with me.
That was Manu a year ago...
TP always said signing with the spurs was his priority!
Amazing what can be read in this thread...
George 0,2 assist per game Hill
Thinking George Hill can replace Tony is just plain stupid. Replace a tweener with an even bigger tweener. Stupid.
Besides stating the obvious with the age thing, Tony's speaking in code. Even though he didn't exactly wow anyone in the first round, he's saying "make the team better of trade me the out of here".
I would hope nobody would be dumb enough to think TP would be replaced if he was traded. The only hope would be to hope that whatever piece they did get back in a trade would provide above average play at another position and hope Hill or whoever would simply play average (not spectacular) at the pg position. With all that said TP will be our PG next season..
That's pretty much it. As long as Manu and Duncan are still here he'll play it cool, with subtle hints like this one. But can anyone see Tony sticking with the Spurs past that specially considering the Spurs have no trade assets or money flexibility to do anything and sooner or later a trip to the lottery will be inevitable.
Was listening to Mike and Mike a little bit ago and they brought up this story. Jalen Rose was subbing for Mike Golic and his interpretation was that Tony is basically asking for a trade. Of course it's Jalen Rose who is dumb as a brick, but I just thought it was interesting.
This whole thing is one of yahoo's top stories
George Hill is not a pg. He's a scorer who can dominate games at home...and can't dribble or handle the ball or do anything effective on the road. If we get rid of Parker, we need to find some sort of competent pg to fill that gap.
Make Manu the full time PG, get rid of Walton's girlfriend and get a couple of bigs out of Tony and we may have a chance..... lol not really, we're done, sad but true.
Again Parker's the only Spur making the headlines and its for all the wrong reasons again
He's always been a candid interviewee but you just don't want to hear this stuff from the player that was one of the biggest reasons why the Spurs underachieved in the first round.
You also don't want to read this stuff from a guy that was basically a cancer in the locker room after that Eva/Barry fiasco.
Parker was a huge disappointment from the start of the season and at the end. For an organization that treats eachother more like family members, Parker has a strong case for being detrimental to the team especially when it comes to setting the example.
Imo he should at least be shopped around although we're in an era of score-first combo guards so Parker's not exactly a premium talent even if he is great in the reg season.
" TP: Tim and Manu are older "
lol TP forgetting his sucking in the 1st round
Ship his ass, FAST
Well crap, What's he supposed to say? "Spurs are contenders and will win the ring next year?" Then the story would be : "NBA Star is delusional - needs mental evaluation." I mean he's brutally honest (always been this way), and I can agree with that. I think he's saying this so the front office can also believe that we can't win with this group of guys. Who thought we could win with Bonner and Jefferson? Compared to Bowen and Horry? Seriously? The fans knew we couldn't and apparently so does Tony Parker. So who thought it was a good idea to play guys like these non stop and not develop Tiago, oh yeah it was Pop. How the does he not get blamed more? Don't get me wrong Tony Parker sucked it up as much as anyone. Nobody came to play except for Manu! Okay rant over. This felt good. Thank you.This whole thing is one of yahoo's top stories
Ye if Parker have said something among the lines of "we'll be fine", "we just need one or two pieces" Spur fan will be full of joy and in expectation for another great season to begin.
What he said is the true and there's nothing wrong with that. You don't trade him because of that, you trade him if a good deal can be made because he's the only one in the team with a market value.
Everything else is rubbish.
Cleveland does have a 14.5 mil trade exception from Lebron James that expires on july 11 per sham sports...Just throwing that out there
i actually did. no joke, people think they deserve these amazing stories on here to me they seem to favor speculation over face to face conversations w/real spurs players!! its strange
im not a big fan of t.p because i have met him quite a few times, however i have alot of respect for his game .anyhow i've said this prior to our 07 ring... t.p is the kind of guy that needs alot of variables to working his way in order for us to see him play like the tony of old.
what i mean by that is, he's easily discouraged, and he's definitely the type of person that flees when things get tough. (whether that be the end of the tim duncan era, or a playoff series that is an uphill battle and he's the only option, HES NOT A LEADER IF YOU HAVENT NOTICED.
now i think he can play amazing if he went to..lets say new york where he would have motivation . teams know this and know tony isn't past his prime.
i think we have to pull the trigger, take a chance at trading for young promising talent/lottery picks OR for short term Ring as mentioned earlier in the hawks. but i think we can get away with both getting young size and a ring if we keep Dice but its crucial we keep those veterans to hold this team together. if we get a deal like that for parker we need to BitE-- for the future of this TEAM.., not just tim duncan. although i love the big fella.
what if we get thrown off w/a trade like this : CP3 to SA for TP&J.A? WWYD>?
Spurs general manager R.C. Buford was at the NBA’s pre-draft combine in Chicago on Thursday when he heard that point guard Tony Parker this week said the Spurs, as cons uted, aren’t capable of contending for an NBA championship.
“Who knows what the motivation is to say something like that,” Buford said. “I’m not going to get caught up in comments. All I can say is that we’re going to continue to build our team and try to be as good as we can be in the future.”
Buford understands that Parker’s comments are apt to spawn another round of trade speculation.
“I can’t control that,” he said, “and I’m not going to worry about it. We’re just going to move forward and work to improve the team.”
Read more: http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap...#ixzz1MuVnNeH7
^ well Buford seems to be quite pissed off by TP comments.
Parker is our Sydney Govou... traded every season for ten years
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