McDonald: Stoudamire Will Sign with Spurs Today

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

Pro Basketball: Stoudamire will sign with Spurs today

Web Posted: 02/02/2008 11:49 PM CST

Jeff McDonald
Express-News Staff Writer

When the Spurs return to the practice floor this morning, they will do so with a new face among them.

Veteran point guard Damon Stoudamire is expected work out with his new team for the first time today after formally signing a free-agent contract.

Stoudamire, 34, originally had hoped to sign with the Spurs on Saturday. Those plans changed when the team opted to take the day off after returning from Phoenix.

A 12-year NBA veteran who was the league's Rookie of the Year in 1996 with Toronto, Stoudamire hit the free-agent market last week after seeking and receiving a buyout in Memphis. He is expected to sign a deal believed to be worth the veteran minimum, pro-rated for the remainder of the season.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/stories/MYSA020308.BKN_stoudamire_spurs.en.37db48f.html

[Holt's Cat]

One less day to pay him for.

[Slohoop]

Another Vet in team......

[Supreme_Being]

Good for us.

[Russ]

Stoudamire, 34, originally had hoped to sign with the Spurs on Saturday. Those plans changed when the team opted to take the day off after returning from Phoenix.
I guess this hammers home your place in the universe.

[peskypesky]

Cool. This reinforces our status as the oldest team in the league! Could Sprewell be next?

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

Cool. This reinforces our status as the oldest team in the league! Could Sprewell be next?
We don't have the money to pay him. Afterall, he has a family to feed.

[duncan228]

http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/sixers/20080203_THE_BUZZ_The_banged-up_Spurs_are_able_to_lure_the_solid_Stoudamire_.ht ml

THE BUZZ The banged-up Spurs are able to lure the solid Stoudamire.

At the end of the day, the Spurs, quiet as ever, wound up making a ridiculously good pickup, landing Damon Stoudamire after he was bought out last week by Memphis.
Tony Parker has been limping around all season, and the Spurs faced a few weeks without his and Brent Barry's outside shooting, meaning defenses would suck in on Tim Duncan harder than the fat guy at the beach pulls in his gut when the pretty girls pass.

But while everyone expected Stoudamire to sign with Boston or Phoenix, San Antonio went for the soft sell.

"I always thought about how good it would be to play for them," Stoudamire told the San Antonio Express News. "I played a lot of games against them, and, from afar, I always felt like they were the best."

It's not that surprising, if you know Stoudamire. He's one of the game's real students, and he'll make a good coach someday, if he decides to go in that direction. Like Nick Van Exel - another player whose public persona doesn't gibe at all with his real nature - Stoudamire is a natural fit in San Antonio. . . .

No, Portland didn't like the proposed three-team deal with itself, New Jersey and Dallas, which would have landed Jason Kidd with the Mavericks and Devin Harris with the Nets. But that doesn't mean the Blazers aren't looking for a point guard.

We hear Portland GM Kevin Pritchard isn't especially enamored with any of his choices to run the Blazers' show and wouldn't mind a significant upgrade. But the second-year GM, we hear, also is in no hurry and under no pressure to do anything. That's the patience the Blazers' unlikely season has bought everyone in the Rose City.

[exstatic]

No, Portland didn't like the proposed three-team deal with itself, New Jersey and Dallas, which would have landed Jason Kidd with the Mavericks and Devin Harris with the Nets. But that doesn't mean the Blazers aren't looking for a point guard.

We hear Portland GM Kevin Pritchard isn't especially enamored with any of his choices to run the Blazers' show and wouldn't mind a significant upgrade. But the second-year GM, we hear, also is in no hurry and under no pressure to do anything. That's the patience the Blazers' unlikely season has bought everyone in the Rose City.

So, it's not just a bunch of hater message fans that despise Beno? KP had two chances to bring him on board: he would most certainly have been at the head of the line with the Spurs as a direct trading partner, and he declined. He also could have picked him up after Minny cut him. Decline #2.