Ferry coming back

[Shifty]

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ys-ferryspurs082510

[silverblackfan]

Nice. Ferry is a good asset to have in the FO.

[slick'81]

sweet welcome home danny boy lindsey could use the help lol

[ace3g]

just about to post this, good news to hear

[Russ]

Great news!

Now let's get PJ.

[timtonymanu]

awesome news!

[Dex]

Nice to see a Spurs family member coming back instead of leaving, for a change.

[ace3g]

awesome news!

you should have Ferry's pic to your 2010 offseason addition sig

[DynastySpurs210]

Awesome! Now this news is better then SEX! :D

[chazley]

Awesome! Now this news is better then SEX! :D

bad experience?

[slick'81]

Awesome! Now this news is better then SEX! :D


awesome news but no :lol

[ginobilized]

great news!
thanks for the up to the minute info.

[Blackjack]

Might as well go out and nab Brown and Egan while they're at it. Why the hell not? :downspin:

[jaffies]

Great news!

Now let's get PJ.

:tu

[Blackjack]

He was hired as an assistant with Toronto back in June (PJ, that is).

[Spurs Brazil]

great news

[Bender]

He was hired as an assistant with Toronto back in June (PJ, that is).
since he went from head coach back down to assistant, too bad he didn't come back here...

[Bito Corleone]

Great news!

Now let's get PJ.

I really wish this would happen.

[SpursWoman]

At last!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3233/3129702972_9260cd5bbc.jpg



Of course, now I'm all married n'shit. :depressed :lol





Old joke ... n/m. :fro

[LoneStarState'sPride]

Fantastic news. Welcome back, Danny!

[duhoh]

nice one.

[Fabbs]

What did Ferry do at Cleveland that was so great?

Acquiring Antawn Jamison seems like a big bust in retro, and they are stuck with his salary for years. It's not Dick Jefferonsesque but it's in the outer vicinity. Of course maybe they didn't give up much.

[E-RockWill]

This is a good thing.

[Big P]

Good move!

[edgar]

http://www.dukeblueplanet.com/admin/manage_blog/htmledit/upload/pages/images/74383192.jpg.

What Yall Miss Me?!

Im Back Bitches!

[Sense]

Nice!!! It's looking like a decent offseason so far

[Solid D]

This is a great get by the Spurs. He is experienced, he knows the Spurs culture, he's a basketball lifer. Now there is the elephant in the room question that must be addressed...

if Ferry had been with the Spurs three years ago, would Louis Scola be a Spur? :smokin

[silverblackfan]

This is a great get by the Spurs. He is experienced, he knows the Spurs culture, he's a basketball lifer. Now there is the elephant in the room question that must be addressed...

if Ferry had been with the Spurs three years ago, would Louis Scola be a Spur? :smokin

Damn. Scola thread. Didn't see that coming...

[Solid D]

:lol back-door slider.

[SenorSpur]

Good news. Happy to have him back.

[SenorSpur]

This is a great get by the Spurs. He is experienced, he knows the Spurs culture, he's a basketball lifer. Now there is the elephant in the room question that must be addressed...

if Ferry had been with the Spurs three years ago, would Louis Scola be a Spur? :smokin

Help me out on this. I don't get the Ferry/Scola connection. Or are you meaning that Ferry likely wouldn't have been so quick to do Houston a "solid" with the Scola trade, as did Lindsey?

[DrSteffo]

Goood news. Smart, classy guy.

[ElNono]

Hope he can help the team.

[MaNu4Tres]

We are definitely the favorites now.

[Dex]

We are definitely the favorites now.

Obviously.

Other teams will never see it coming when Ferry comes out of retirement for the playoffs and walks through that door to be Pop's dream stretch four.

[hsxvvd]

Stretch 4... can we trade Bonner now?

[temujin]

Best news of the summer since jefferson announced that he had opted out.

[kobyz]

always good to add quality guy to the front office!!

[tdunk21]

nice.......

[SpurSpurSpurs]

Yay! Another (edited from: great) good shooter coming off-the-bench for us this coming season. Err... I think I got confused with the date. :wakeup

[blkroadrunners]

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[Mel_13]

Report: Danny Ferry Returning to Spurs, Will Oversee D-League's Toros

By Scott Schroeder

Dell Demps spent three season as general manager of the Austin Toros before being hired last month to the same position with the New Orleans Hornets, becoming the first person to use the D-League as a stepping stone to the top of an NBA front office.

Danny Ferry may be hoping he's the next.

Ferry, who resigned as Cleveland Cavaliers GM in June after five years on the job, is expected to be officially announced as a member of the San Antonio Spurs' front office by week's end, reports Mike Monroe of the San Antonio Express-News. Though "formal delineation" of front office duties and titles has yet to be determined, according to the report, Ferry will oversee the Toros, the Spurs' D-League team.

Overseeing the Toros is a more NBA-engaged project than any other job in the D-League, as the Spurs-Toros relationship is often lauded as the blueprint for successfully managing an NBA team's D-League counterpart.

This past season, for instance, the Spurs used their affiliate quite well to acquire and develop talent. San Antonio used the D-League draft to pick up one of the more intriguing players from their Summer League team, Alonzo Gee, adding to an already solid nucleus that included former NBA big man Dwayne Jones, rookie Curtis Jerrells and fellow Summer League player Squeaky Johnson. By the end of the season, Gee and Jerrells were both signed by the Spurs and Jones was called up to play for the Phoenix Suns.

The role of Toros GM entails more than just handling the day-to-day basketball operations in Austin. Demps would frequently travel to D-League cities and scout the rest of league's talent. This paid off on several occasions last season as the Spurs called up Erie's Cedric Jackson and Rio Grande Valley's Garrett Temple when in need of point guard help before Jerrells was deemed ready later in the season.

The Cleveland Cavaliers, however, never really seemed to buy into the D-League being used as a place to develop talent during Ferry's five-year reign. The Cavs rarely assigned players to their D-League affiliate for more than a weekend at a time, even when players like Danny Green and Darnell Jackson weren't being used in the rotation, and only called up six players from the D-League in the same timespan.

Ferry didn't have complete control of call-ups and assignments in Erie, however, according to an interview with Steve Demetriou, an owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers' affiliated Erie BayHawks.

"[Player movement between the Cavaliers and BayHawks] was more of Mike Brown's decision than it was Danny Ferry's decision," Demetriou said. "Danny used to tell me that."

Even so, Ferry is a familiar face in San Antonio's front office, winning a title both as a player (2003) and as a member of the front office (2005) before his career took him to Cleveland.

Ferry's first order of business with the Toros, before the D-League draft in late October, will be to find a head coach to replace Quin Snyder, who recently took a job with the Philadelphia 76ers.

http://nba.fanhouse.com/2010/08/25/report-danny-ferry-returning-to-spurs-will-oversee-d-leagues/

[fantasyfootball]

Ferry looks like Dana White and Denis Lindsey can never get read of his scarlet s. Dennis Lindsey should never be referenced as any type of front office attribute unless he can somehow atone for his gaffe.

[TDMVPDPOY]

too bad he didnt bring lebron with him...

fck that shit

[cantthinkofanything]

This is good news. But the Fairy with the most potential impact for the Spurs this year starts at SF.

[Darkwaters]

Awesome! Now this news is better then SEX! :D

From those of us in Afghanistan who haven't had sex in nearly a year...no it's not. But I respect the sentiment. :king

[JR3]

I also hope PJ comes back. Glad Ferry is here. Where is Mario Elie? bring him back too!

[Blackjack]

spurs

Spurs Name Danny Ferry Vice President of Basketball Operations http://bit.ly/bhY4oo

[scottspurs]

Nice addition

[Bruno]

With Buford, Lindsey and Ferry, Spurs have 3 guys with a GM level in their FO. Let's hope good things will come out of this.

[slick'81]

With Buford, Lindsey and Ferry, Spurs have 3 guys with a GM level in their FO. Let's hope good things will come out of this.

you got that right bringing in a former gm with his experience cant hurt

[spursdotcom]

Blackjack, I can't believe you would post this before me!

Thanks Blackjack

:toast

[Blackjack]

Blackjack, I can't believe you would post this before me!

Thanks Blackjack

:toast


Every once in a while a squirrel just happens to find a nut, or have one thrown at him out of nowhere that gets lodged in his throat -- the latter would probably be true in this case.

[Solid D]

I remember sitting at floor level of the HemiFair Arena for the 1989 Draft Party. The Spurs had the 3rd pick, so the Spurs put video feed on the JumboTron. Coach Larry Brown had expressed his interest in going "BIG", as if that was a surprise, and it was no secret that he coveted Danny Ferry.

Pervis Ellison went to the Kings #1 and then when it was announced that Danny Ferry was selected 2nd by the Clipps, the fans in HemisFair showed their vocal displeasure and disappointment. When the Spurs announced their pick of Sean Elliott, there were mixed emotions and some boos rang out (some things never change Spurs fans).

It didn't take long for everyone to warm up to the idea of Sean becoming the Spurs next SF. It messed with Larry Brown's vision of playing Terry Cummings at the 3 and that didn't keep him from experimenting with David Robinson and Caldwell Jones on the floor together with Cummings. Brown made life hard for Elliott and I always wondered if deep down, Larry was just having issues that Sean wasn't the 6'10" scorer he coveted. Sean wasn't Danny Ferry.

("Cool story Bro" posts coming in 3.....2......1.....)

[cantthinkofanything]

I remember sitting at floor level of the HemiFair Arena for the 1989 Draft Party. The Spurs had the 3rd pick, so the Spurs put video feed on the JumboTron. Coach Larry Brown had expressed his interest in going "BIG", as if that was a surprise, and it was no secret that he coveted Danny Ferry.

Pervis Ellison went to the Kings #1 and then when it was announced that Danny Ferry was selected 2nd by the Clipps, the fans in HemisFair showed their vocal displeasure and disappointment. When the Spurs announced their pick of Sean Elliott, there were mixed emotions and some boos rang out (some things never change Spurs fans).

It didn't take long for everyone to warm up to the idea of Sean becoming the Spurs next SF. It messed with Larry Brown's vision of playing Terry Cummings at the 3 and that didn't keep him from experimenting with David Robinson and Caldwell Jones on the floor together with Cummings. Brown made life hard for Elliott and I always wondered if deep down, Larry was just having issues that Sean wasn't the 6'10" scorer he coveted. Sean wasn't Danny Ferry.

("Cool story Bro" posts coming in 3.....2......1.....)

That is a cool story. It's easy to say that without Duncan, we wouldn't have done this or without Parker, Robinson, Ginobli, etc. But would we have won the first ring with Ferry instead of Sean ? Obvioulsy we'll never know but chances are it wouldn't have been in such dramatic fasion. But then that probably would have initiated a completly new chain of events and we end up with Keith Van Horn. WTF with trying to say Sean's last name? Luck_The_Fakers_Luck_The_Fakers_Luck_The_Fakers_Lu ck_The_Fakers_Luck_The_Fakers_Luck_The_Fakers_.

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

Hopefully the experience he brings with him will translate to an immediate impact, namely in the form of a mysterious post season power outage at home games whenever Pop tries to sub in Bonner.

[Bender]

("Cool story Bro" posts coming in 3.....2......1.....)
I always enjoy reading anecdotes from long-time spurs fans.

[Dex]

Luck_The_Fakers_Luck_The_Fakers_Luck_The_Fakers_Lu ck_The_Fakers_Luck_The_Fakers_Luck_The_Fakers_.

Never gets old.

[DesignatedT]

great news

[lefty]

Hopefully the experience he brings with him will translate to an immediate impact, namely in the form of a mysterious post season power outage at home games whenever Pop tries to sub in Bonner.
:lol

[lefty]

Well, Ferry's arrival in SA means one thing: Shaq is coming too

I foresee a great chemistry with RJ

http://www.hoopsmanifesto.com/images/stories/shaq%20and%20danny%20ferry.jpg

[cantthinkofanything]

Well, Ferry's arrival in SA means one thing: Shaq is coming too

I foresee a great chemistry with RJ

http://www.hoopsmanifesto.com/images/stories/shaq%20and%20danny%20ferry.jpg

:lol:lol:lol

Ferry might bend over for Shaq. But no way he takes from RJ.

[cd98]

If Ferry comes, I say we agree that he isn't allowed to trade for Delonte West, Larry Hughes, or Antwan Jamison, or any other trade that resembles these trades.

[tmtcsc]

If you can't beat em, rejoin em !

[Blackjack]

Hopefully the experience he brings with him will translate to an immediate impact, namely in the form of a mysterious post season power outage at home games whenever Pop tries to sub in Bonner.

Tricky, tricky Ferry's.

[ploto]

Meh

[howbouthemspurs]

YES! he was one of my favorite spurs.. so glad to have him back!

[Trill Clinton]

As long as he doesn't try to fill our roster with a bunch of donyell marshalls, jamario moons, boobie gibsons or delont west's...basically mediocre players who play ZERO defense, then welcome back.

[LeCrab]

Im worried about the role danny ferry plays on this team he is a horrible scout i hope he is not here long