Have the Spurs EVER landed a big name free agent?

well Im not sure whether this is even possible anymore - come on, even Splitter is probably regretting now to have left Europe - you go from being an MVP to a bench warmer at the worst possible time.

Maybe next year...

Yes.... after he was past his prime!

mouse2moose has it down, well almost san antonio not a second tie town. but all the rest is write on,we not a city african amercian what to live in. as long as F.A. got another deal in a city that as more of a black pop. we are shit out of luck. we better draft great

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Originally Posted by bighappy

mouse2moose has it down, well almost san antonio not a second tie town. but all the rest is write on,we not a city african amercian what to live in. as long as F.A. got another deal in a city that as more of a black pop. we are shit out of luck. we better draft great

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Yay...good job :blah

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Originally Posted by mouse2moose_

san antonio has no appeal to african americans.the majority of top NBA players are BLACK. they want to work and live in an environment that is at least somewhat reflective of their heritage. san antonio has no black community and therefore we lack african american culture so no true blacks will ever willingly come to san antonio to play basketball. as a result san antonio spurs basketball will continue to be second tier, just like the city is.

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BRHornet is that you? :lol Seriously, that's just ridiculous. Our franchise player for the entire 1990s was black, we've signed dozens of black players since then.

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Originally Posted by Hoops Czar

You do realize Sean was traded to Detroit and then signed as a free agent with the Spurs in the offseason.... Of course you did.

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Sean was traded back to the Spurs for Bill Curley's rights.

Malik Rose and Stephen Jackson turned out to be very valuable FA signings, but they weren't big name FAs at the time of their signings, by any means.

Sleepy Floyd, Vinnie Johnson and Glenn Robinson were all near the end of their careers...with Robinson basically being resurrected from the scrap heap.

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Originally Posted by ElNono

Duncan... also Finley was fairly coveted when we signed him up. Same could be said about McDyess...

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McDyess and Finley were both over their best days. Duncan was their own player. The spurs have done well in retaining their own free agents, not well in getting other top free agents to sign.

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Originally Posted by Spursfanfromafar

This.

I think barring the Thunder, the Spurs have the most cost-effective, winning team in the league. And credit the Thunder's success to Spurs alumni Sam Presti who is way under-rated as compared to that overrated David Morey.

The Spurs have the best FO in the league. Every idiot and savant who follows the league properly knows that. And their organisation can be arguably termed the best in all professional sports all across the world.

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The spurs front office is vastly overrated. They managed to squander titles in 3 consecutive years with both Robinson and Duncan on the team. They could not support a good enough cast around the lucky draft picks of Robinson and duncan to even win consecutive titles.

they won two titles during the Robinson/Duncna run over the span of 6 years. That is not good.

You give Robinson and Duncan to any franchise in the league and they will win titles. I look at the moves the spurs have made and outside of some excellant draft picks it is hard to find many good moves to acquire players through trades and free agency.

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Originally Posted by rascal

The spurs front office is vastly overrated. They managed to squander titles in 3 consecutive years with both Robinson and Duncan on the team. They could not support a good enough cast around the lucky draft picks of Robinson and duncan to even win consecutive titles.

they won two titles during the Robinson/Duncna run over the span of 6 years. That is not good.

You give Robinson and Duncan to any franchise in the league and they will win titles. I look at the moves the spurs have made and outside of some excellant draft picks it is hard to find many good moves to acquire players through trades and free agency.

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+1

I'll co-sign for you on that one. I think it also speaks volumes that since David Robinson retired, the older Tim Duncan got, the worse the complimentary bigs next to him got.