Oberto offered a contract

Wizards offer deal to ex-Spur Oberto
Express-News

The Washington Wizards have made a contract offer to former Spurs center Fabricio Oberto, traded to the Milwaukee Bucks as part of the package that brought Richard Jefferson to the Spurs in a three-team, pre-draft trade with the Detroit Pistons last month.

Terms of Washington’s offer to Oberto aren’t known. He was released by the Pistons after the deal was completed. Detroit remains obligated to pay $1.9million of Oberto’s partially guaranteed $3.8 million contract.

Oberto was the starting center during the Spurs’ playoff run to the 2007 NBA title. In 274 games with the Spurs, the only NBA team he’s appeared for, Oberto averaged 3.6 points and 3.9 rebounds in 15.3 minutes per game.

- Mike Monroe

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Originally Posted by Darkwaters

We have a lot of unprovens though. Haislip has already busted once in the NBA and Mahinmi can't walk down the street without spraining an ankle. Blair has shaky knees and Duncan and McDyess are old...the potential for them missing a handful of games is quite high for simple minor injuries. So I'm not opposed to a little added depth in the frontcourt.

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I agree that we have a lot of unprovens, but we need to use roster spots for positions that are kinda thin right now. And how can you say that Blair has shaky knees? What has he done to show you shaky knees? He fell to the Spurs because of these supposed "shaky knees", where the hell are they?

Wonder what team he is headed too... Hmmmm

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Originally Posted by nkdlunch

Arenas
Miller
Butler
Jamison
Oberto

what a sick lineup!

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Especially with Arenas wearing street clothes

I think he was talking about going to Houston. Scola who is from Argentina and Barry who was with the Spurs while Orberto was there, im sure he wouldent mind going there. I hope he isnt talking about coming back to San Antonio, we already got younger and don't want to get old again only if we could get Kurt Thomas.

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Originally Posted by loveforthegame

I wouldn't want to play for the Wizards either.

Probably headed to Houston.

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He could get more minutes in Houston.

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Originally Posted by duncan228

Wizards offer deal to ex-Spur Oberto
Express-News

The Washington Wizards have made a contract offer to former Spurs center Fabricio Oberto, traded to the Milwaukee Bucks as part of the package that brought Richard Jefferson to the Spurs in a three-team, pre-draft trade with the Detroit Pistons last month.

Terms of Washington’s offer to Oberto aren’t known. He was released by the Pistons after the deal was completed. Detroit remains obligated to pay $1.9million of Oberto’s partially guaranteed $3.8 million contract.

Oberto was the starting center during the Spurs’ playoff run to the 2007 NBA title. In 274 games with the Spurs, the only NBA team he’s appeared for, Oberto averaged 3.6 points and 3.9 rebounds in 15.3 minutes per game.

- Mike Monroe

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Monroe late again

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Oberto's Agent: "Nothing's Imminent"
Michael Lee
Wizards Insider

I just got off the phone with Fabricio Oberto's agent, Herb Rudoy, who informed me that while he has had "serious conversations" with the Wizards, they have not reached the point where the team has made his client "a formal offer."

Rudoy would not discuss the parameters of the proposed deal, but he made it clear that Oberto has been in contact with at least six teams and is no hurry to make a decision about where he will play next season.

"Nothing's imminent," Rudoy said. "Fabricio is going to take his time making this decision. It's not going to happen in the next few days. He's in no rush. We've been bombarded with opportunities. He wants to think about this."

I asked Rudoy about the possibility of Oberto returning to Europe, where played for seven seasons before joining the Spurs in 2005. Rudoy said, "His plan is to stay in the NBA."

A team source also told me that the team had not made an offer to Oberto. But there is no denying that they have interest in the Argentine. The Wizards are hoping that the presence of Spurs former assistant Mike Wells on Flip Saunders's staff can entice Oberto to come to Washington.

Oberto is coming off a season in which he averaged 2.6 points and 2.6 rebounds. He had been bothered by arrhythmia (atrial fibrillation) the past few seasons and recently underwent a heart procedure that was aimed at correcting his irregular heartbeat. He would occasionally miss games after receiving eletro-shock procedure to get his heart back in time. After the procedure, he told the San Antonio Express-News that there shouldn't be any problems with his comeback. A few weeks later, he wound up being traded to Detroit.

The Wizards are looking for a bargain basement big man who is willing to play spot minutes and possibly go a game or two without playing. According to league sources, they have also reached out to the representatives for Chris Wilcox, Jason Collins, Jamaal Magloire, Sean Marks, Mikki Moore and Brian Skinner. Saunders said yesterday that there is a "realistic" possibility that the team could sign summer league participant Josh Heytvelt. One of their targets, Channing Frye, already signed with Phoenix, and another, Rasho Nesterovic, has been cozying up with the Toronto Raptors. Stay tuned.

I bet he wants to play with any of his fellow countrymen.
He´ll sign with the Spurs, Rockets or Kings if he is offered the chance.

If none of those teams make an offer, then he´ll sign with another team.