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Blackjack
10-09-2010, 12:19 PM
Chris Tomasson (http://twitter.com/#!/christomasson/status/26859258989)

Antonio McDyess reiterated the other day he plays to retire after this season Here's what he said about it last April: http://bit.ly/9lZHbh
ChuckD
10-09-2010, 12:26 PM
Uh, yeah? That's been his plan all along. His third year is only 50% guaranteed, so it will be a nice little retirement present from the Spurs, or a trade sweetener next summer for some other team.
Blackjack
10-09-2010, 12:30 PM
Uh, I know. But it's news nonetheless - Dyess actually saying it's his intention and not a good possibility.
ElNono
10-09-2010, 12:50 PM
He's basically announcing he's retiring from the playoffs... he retired from the regular season last year... :lol
Blackjack
10-09-2010, 01:01 PM
He's basically announcing he's retiring from the playoffs... he retired from the regular season last year... :lol

http://hoopedia.nba.com/images/3/33/Act_robert_horry.jpg

It's a 'Bama thing. :hat
ohmwrecker
10-09-2010, 01:18 PM
It would be cool to send him off with a LOB.
The Btown Spur
10-09-2010, 01:35 PM
http://www.slamonline.com/online/nba/2010/10/antonio-mydyess-this-is-my-last-season/
Pistons < Spurs
10-09-2010, 05:31 PM
:depressed
bigdog
10-09-2010, 06:37 PM
I thought he announced this late or after last season? No news here.
MiamiHeat
10-09-2010, 06:47 PM
McDyess could have had a ring if he chose Miami before 06 instead of the Pistons.
SenorSpur
10-09-2010, 07:05 PM
And then the question becomes, what will the Spurs do for a 5th big?
bdictjames
10-09-2010, 07:09 PM
A ring would be the perfect retirement present.
ivanfromwestwood
10-09-2010, 07:36 PM
And then the question becomes, what will the Spurs do for a 5th big?
ryan richards :toast
SenorSpur
10-09-2010, 07:41 PM
ryan richards :toast

I totally forgot about him. However, there's no guarantee that he'll be NBA-ready by next year. Sure would've been nice to have another back-to-the-basket player, at the ready.
duncan228
10-09-2010, 08:09 PM
A little more on it.


Antonio McDyess says this his last season (http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/10/09/antonio-mcdyess-says-this-his-last-season/)
Matt Moore

A colleague was relating to me the locker room scene after the Piston’s 2009 dismissal by the Cavs in the first round. In a locker room of apathetic, disaffected malcontents, Antonio McDyess was devastated. His best chance at a championship down the drain. “Dyess” could barely speak to reporters, but said he wasn’t sure if he’d be coming back. Turns out, he did come back. He returned to the NBA with the Spurs for another championship run, another run that fell short as the previous ones had.

Now, at age 36, and with the Spurs vying for one last desperate shot at the ring, McDyess says this is it for him. Dyess, from the San Antonio Express-News (http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/spurs/shorter_roster_for_spurs_this_season_104548024.htm l):


“I didn’t know what to expect when they signed me (in 2009), and I’m glad to be back,” McDyess said, “but I think this is it. I’m the oldest player (on the Spurs) now, and I feel like it. I’m not trying to see any more years. I’m pretty sure this is it.”

Notice the joke in there about being the oldest player on the Spurs, a team always considered to be pretty old to begin with. McDyess has helped teams win year in and year out, but has wound up only being a year too late (Phoenix, Detroit, San Antonio). Careers are rarely just. Still, it would be nice to see McDyess get to go out with a ring on top. He’s been around long enough.
Thomas82
10-10-2010, 12:06 AM
I totally forgot about him. However, there's no guarantee that he'll be NBA-ready by next year. Sure would've been nice to have another back-to-the-basket player, at the ready.


That's why I keep saying that we need to draft a big man that we can mold and possibly hand the franchise to one day. On a team like the Spurs, he would have a chance to be a difference maker without the pressure of carrying the team.