Spurminator
12-15-2004, 08:34 PM
At the risk of sounding like a nutball conspiracy theorist... here's what I think really went down today.
The Spurs thought they had a deal on Malone. Prematurely, they scheduled a press conference while they finalized the deal. BUT... the deal fell through. They couldn't possibly cancel the press conference, so they had a backup plan: The retirement of Sean Elliott's jersey.
Now, this isn't to take anything away from Sean... I think this would only have been a backup plan if it was planned to eventually happen anyway. But somehow I don't buy that the Spurs called a major press conference for this reason.
Another, even more sinister, possibility is that the Spurs called this press conference KNOWING that a Malone signing would be speculated, and they wanted to "feel out" the reaction from Spursland before making the move.
Am I stretching? maybe. Am I drunk after an incredible after-work Happy Hour? Absolutely.
The Spurs thought they had a deal on Malone. Prematurely, they scheduled a press conference while they finalized the deal. BUT... the deal fell through. They couldn't possibly cancel the press conference, so they had a backup plan: The retirement of Sean Elliott's jersey.
Now, this isn't to take anything away from Sean... I think this would only have been a backup plan if it was planned to eventually happen anyway. But somehow I don't buy that the Spurs called a major press conference for this reason.
Another, even more sinister, possibility is that the Spurs called this press conference KNOWING that a Malone signing would be speculated, and they wanted to "feel out" the reaction from Spursland before making the move.
Am I stretching? maybe. Am I drunk after an incredible after-work Happy Hour? Absolutely.