And Porker said he wants to play till 40 awhile back. We’ll see. He can want to all he wants, but that doesn’t mean he’ll get offers to.
People would be singing a far different tune if Pau was terrible early in the season and turned it on late, but the end result is the same.
As one of only 2 big men worth a damn on the team, the Spurs need to hold on to him. A straight salary dump doesn't help much. Of course, trading him and signing or trading for other bigs is a good idea but might not be possible.
And Porker said he wants to play till 40 awhile back. We’ll see. He can want to all he wants, but that doesn’t mean he’ll get offers to.
Agreed. He’s still a good piece, just not for the price.
Gasol needs to be the third center off the bench... He isn't fir for today's NBA... he should be a 3rd string situational big
Patty was horrible to start the season and turned it on late. So perception has a lot of recency bias. Neither was consistently good and Pa u is overpaid for bench big that is bad at rebounding...
As a backup like West, Gasol is right. The Spurs still need a quality big to go next to LMA.
Even if he says 3-4 more years, spurs may not hire beyond his contract. He can want him, but its not a given that they'll keep him around beyond the 2 years left on his contract.
And bright spot, only 2 years left on Pau's contract and 3 years on Pattys, if I'm not mistaken ...
The Spurs are likely stuck with Gasol for two more years.
The only good thing is that the season after next, his contract is just partially guaranteed.
That's about as bright as a whale's butthole.
No one should ever want to retire in the Spurs system. Play 10 minutes a night at half speed and get $16M? How do I sign up?
The FO will have to grow some balls and tell TP and Gasol that they’re done. They’ll never quit on their own. What a horrible personnel investment those two have been this past season.
Last summer we were ing about $50 mil to patty and $48 to Pau ....
I actually do, too. The guy could have made the decision to come play for the Spurs rather than the Bulls back when it would have made a difference.
And yet he gets the fat *loyalty* contract while Dedman, Simms, others are shown the door.
It's got to be a huge minority, certainly super low BBIQ poster who thinks the man behind the Gasol joke is anything other then forced retirement status. ><
He's all about the money.
In the Summer of 2014, they could only offer the MLE, so naturally he chose the Bulls who gave him the cash.
Then, when the Spurs had cash to spend in 2016, he conveniently chose the Spurs after they struck out on Kevin Durant.
Who knows what kind of discount he gives the Spurs had they landed Chris Paul. My guess is he would've left.
Parker was understandable considering his history with the team and the fact that he was playing really well before he went down in last year's playoffs. He deserved the chance to recover from his injury and try to make a comeback...it just didn't pan out.
As for Gasol, it was a stupid contract then and it's an even stupider contract now. It was nice and all of him to opt out and give the Spurs a chance to chase some free agents, but that didn't net a goddamn thing and "rewarding" him for it is going to be a hindrance going into this offseason.
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