One more year: No retirement in McDyess’ plans

[arles]

One more year: No retirement in McDyess’ plans

CHICAGO — Antonio McDyess, the 36-year-old Spurs forward who as recently as last month had been leaning toward retirement at the end of the season, said Thursday he plans to return for a 15th season.

“My mind is pretty much made up,” McDyess said. “I feel like I’ll be able to lace ‘em up and go again.”

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[Mel_13]

Great news for everyone in San Antonio except Tiago Splitter.

[Blackjack]

Seeing this thread ...

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[NRHector]

Great news for everyone in San Antonio except Tiago Splitter.

this is a great news for everybody even for Tiago, having a year under his belt I'm pretty sure Tiago can be very helpful next year and give more rest to Dyess and Tim

[awktalk]

Great news for everyone in San Antonio except Tiago Splitter.

"Splitter Minutes" thread!

[Muser]

Great news.

[SpursNextRomanEmpire]

Awesome

[benefactor]

Great news for everyone in San Antonio except Tiago Splitter.
I think Splitter will be fine. Dice will likely play even less than he does this year next season.

[Mugen]

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Awesome news. Even for a Tiago fan, i love it.

Dice will be in full Horry mode next year when we dust him off right before playoffs to defend our title.

After another Bonner chokejob in the year's upcoming playoffs, i have no doubt that Tiago will be seeing a huge increase in minutes next season.

[greyforest]

this was pretty much decided a couple months ago

[xellos88330]

Well, hopefully the Spurs can win a ring this year and defend it next year. :P

[alchemist]

good news, hopefully the Spurs can win a ring for Dice this year.

[K-State Spur]

Great news for everyone in San Antonio except Tiago Splitter.

Still would be plenty of PT available (at least in the regular season). I'll bet Pop would love to cut Dyess to around 10 mpg (and sit every 2nd half of b2bs) next year and get Duncan down even further.

Also, while I'm optimistic about the health staying strong for the rest of this season (knock on wood) - when you have a 2012 front line that consists of (will be) 37year old McDyess, (will be) 36 year old Tim Duncan, Blair with no ACLs, and Bonner (who has missed 10+ games in 4 of the last 5 years) - assuming no injuries would be folly.

[tdunk21]

way to go dice....

[DesignatedT]

Great news for everybody... Lets win a ring for dice!

[Sisk]

This is great. I was hoping for this but didn't think it would happen.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

:tu and F' Tiago

[xmas1997]

Great, we'll just use him against Nowitski, the Lakers, and Celtics!

I'm quite sure he'll be a great mentor for Tiago as Tiago takes up more of the reins next year.

[Bruno]

Great news. Dice rules.

Spurs will have all their players from this year back next year. Next summer should be a very quiet one.

[SenorSpur]

Damn great news!

I'm sure that the Spurs will prepare themselves by targeting a true, young center (not a power forward) for the long term. A young big that can take on some of the responsibilities Duncan currently has now. Get him into the development league which would put him on track to transition in the year after Dice retires. I don't know if that's Cousin or someone else.

[ohmwrecker]

His play and the play of the whole team this season has got to be convincing enough for him to make this decision. I've always liked McDyess, I remember him as a young player on the Nuggets and reading an article where he said David Robinson was his favorite player. He has been a favorite of mine ever since.

[SenorSpur]

Pop has certainly done an outstanding job in managing the minutes of the old man.

Pop has certainly seen the benefits of having above average production, in limited minutes, from the old man, is a heckuva lot better than average-to-below average production, in expanded minutes.

[hater]

Till the wheels fall off motherfucker!!!

[wontstartdumbthreads]

His play and the play of the whole team this season has got to be convincing enough for him to make this decision. I've always liked McDyess, I remember him as a young player on the Nuggets and reading an article where he said David Robinson was his favorite player. He has been a favorite of mine ever since.

Had he not had the injury problems, what player does everyone think would be closest to what he could have potentially been?

I'm having a hard time with it. I think he could have been better than Karl Malone.

[Budkin]

Sweet!

[Kamnik]

Awsome! besides Manu my favourite Spur!

[ohmwrecker]

Had he not had the injury problems, what player does everyone think would be closest to what he could have potentially been?

I'm having a hard time with it. I think he could have been better than Karl Malone.

Imagine Amare Stoudemire with a defensive game.

[hater]

Kg?

[wontstartdumbthreads]

Imagine Amare Stoudemire with a defensive game.

Sooudemire was actually on my mind but I was having a hard time putting Dice in the same sentence with him. But I agree, a smarter, better defending version of Stoudemire.

[Danny.Zhu]

Great news.

I actually care less about next season. This news means Dyess is feeling good physically recently and there's still something left in the tank for the playoff this season.

[Spurs Brazil]

Great news

[honestfool84]

:tu awesome, awesome, awesome news.

[Cessation]

"Splitter Minutes"!!! thread!!

[crc21209]

Great news. :tu...Now hope there isnt a lockout next season....

[jb4g]

Great news. :tu...Now hope there isnt a lockout next season....

Ill take another 50 game season with our entire 10-11 man rotation returning next year, win back to back trophies and send TD off in style :king

[Libri]

IIRC, he was somewhat hesitant of leaving Detroit and wanted to retire with the Pistons. I think he's now comfortable and likes the Spurs team and organization. Maybe he realized that playing for the Spurs was better than what he expected.

[xmas1997]

Ill take another 50 game season with our entire 10-11 man rotation returning next year, win back to back trophies and send TD off in style :king

My thoughts too except for sending TD into retirement.
I think he would stay until the wheels came off.

[Muser]

Lockout or not, TD will re-up for another 2 years IMO.

[DesignatedT]

Lockout or not, TD will re-up for another 2 years IMO.

That's what I think. He will play another couple years for sure and maybe a player option for a 3rd. We'll see what kind of pay cut he takes when negotiating a new contract though.

[xmas1997]

Wonder if Dyess has any influence on Rip?

[Em-City]

if he DID retire...... who could we replace him with?

he's taking up a decent chunk of the salary cap.


having said that.. i love Dice!! glad he'll be back in '12

[duncan228]

Spurs' Antonio McDyess knows road dining secrets (http://espn.go.com/espn/page2/index?id=6133171)
by Robert Karpeles

San Antonio Spurs forward Antonio McDyess has played for six teams in over 16 seasons in the NBA.

McDyess, 36, said he knows all about the rigors of travel -- eating late and trying to find good spots to hit up some grub.

As of Wednesday, the Spurs were on a nine-game Rodeo road trip. McDyess said that landing late at night into a city and finding food isn't always so easy. "It's always tough," said McDyess. "You don't know when to go to sleep, when not. Some hotels have room service, some don't. Especially for the young guys. It's tougher for them as opposed to us old guys who have a little more experience with this."

• Click here to read the entire post from sportsandfood.com (http://sportsandfood.com/2011/02/16/antonio-mcdyess-wisdom-from-the-road/)

http://espn.go.com/espn/page2/index?id=6133171

[dbestpro]

Dice will play if there is a season next year. Owners are gonna want to trim salaries, share revenue, adopt a hard cap and get a franchise tag. They will hold out for all of this as the way the league is now about 75% of th teams have no hope of being consistantly competitive.

[Spursfanfromafar]

Very good news. Just by being around, McDyess will have a lot to offer to the Spurs' next generation. What a role model.

Hopefully the Spurs win a ring this season :)

[ChuckD]

Still would be plenty of PT available (at least in the regular season). I'll bet Pop would love to cut Dyess to around 10 mpg (and sit every 2nd half of b2bs) next year and get Duncan down even further.

At that playing rate, he isn't worth bringing back at $6M. You can get some vet big to twirl a towel a LOT cheaper than that.

[024]

he's going to be trade bait in the offseason..

[HighLowLobForBig-50]

and1 baby nice

[ChuckD]

he's going to be trade bait in the offseason..

Oh, I think since he wants to come back, and if there is no catastrophic cap or tax connotation for his contract under the new CBA, and they plan to use him the same 18-20 minutes, they'll bring him back.