Will we do something in this draft, yes or no?

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Originally Posted by Mel_13

He was worth the 18th pick to Adelman and Kahn. That tells us nothing about what value other teams may assign to players like Blair and Neal.

Think about it this way. The 18th pick is worth more than the 20th pick. Do you think Boston would have traded the 20th pick for Budinger? I don't.

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They also got draft rights to Lior Eliyahu in the deal.

I wouldn't imagine we do. We have nobody really worth trading. Our first order of business is to resign Timmy to a 1 or 2 year deal. As long as Tim is around they will not be trading Tony Parker. Parker was our best player for a majority of the season and is making less than 13 million, a pretty good deal for a player like that in his prime. Our 2 other large contracts are Manu and Jax (14 and 10 mil, respectively), but they are both key contributers and perhaps equally importantly, are both expiring contracts and are thus very valuable to hang onto for this season. Our best move is to do our best to resign Diaw and Green. Neal and Blair are both very (very) cheap and are worth hanging onto. Kawhi is obviously untouchable. Our other contracts of note are Tiago (roughly 4 million, not much at all for a big with some skill, considering Deandre Jordan makes 11 mil), and Bonner (about 3.5 mil). One addition I would imagine we make would be Lorbek coming over which makes Bonner expendable (as Lorbek is a more skilled stretch 4). I doubt anybody would trade for Bonner, though. I'm not sure if its worth amnestying a 3 million dollar contract considering Bonner can eat regular season minutes. The only other issue is bringing in a true backup point guard, and there are rumors Nando de Colo is coming over. Don't expect a splash trade, as we have no first round pick.

Blair and Neal have to go.

If someone they like drops, yes. Otherwise, they'll probably look for teams with a surplus at certain positions after the draft to try to make a deal.

i want to say we will.

after trading hill for leonard (& draft rights), trading jefferson for jackson, and acquiring diaw, we went from getting beat by an 8th seed in the 1st round of the playoffs to being 6 wins away from a title.

we were close and the window isn't opening.

i hope someone would take splitter & blair for a #10 to #14 so we might have a shot at john henson or possibly andre drummond.

at least the wait is almost over.

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Originally Posted by Budkin

Blair and Neal have to go.

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No they don't. Neal needs to not be the backup PG and Blair needs not be the starting C, but they're both cheap and relatively effective role players. If they can upgrade then it's a no-brainer, but neither has to go.

I think Blair and Neal will be traded. It's the last year of their contract and I don't believe the Spurs will be able to retain either for good value. Moving the two of them gives them a possibility to get better players this year but mostly it preventing the value of the assets from just leaving next year.

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Originally Posted by ElNono

Fairly used to the Spurs not doing much of anything, so my expectations going in will be that. That said, they really surprised everyone last year, so there's always hope they can pull some sort of deal. This draft is much different than last season though, and I expect it will be much harder to snag some higher pick.

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If Budinger can return HOU the #18....

The simple fact is they didn't even work out anyone that might be considered a first round draft pick so you can rest assure that our first pick in the draft will be near the end of the draft.

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Originally Posted by dbestpro

The simple fact is they didn't even work out anyone that might be considered a first round draft pick so you can rest assure that our first pick in the draft will be near the end of the draft.

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They didn't work out Leonard last year.