nice. thanks for the update.
Bonner just finished agreeing to a 3 year deal. Will sign on July 11th.
nice. thanks for the update.
GREAT news Sam
Thanks
Link?
Nice.
Greater or less than $8M total?
Thanks Sam. Maybe you aren't at liberty to say, but $$ range?
Ok...now...get Noccioni.
He's asked I not say at this time. I'm sorry, Kori. I'll try to get a link soon.
Should we be happy about a perfect offseason? Seems like we never win when we are happy about the offseason.
The last time I remember being happy about the offseason was 05....
That's awesome! Thanks for sharing.
why? so he can ride the bench for the rest of his career and play 4 minutes a game?
Good move. Be nice to have him around after Horry hangs em up next year. I'm wondering if the re-signing of Oberto and Bonner cut into the 2008 Plan
Bonner is a deceptively key part of the Spurs' future. Outside of Horry, he's the only perimeter big the Spurs have on their team or in Europe. Oberto, Elson, Butler, Splitter and Mahinmi are all nice to have, but there are situations where you have to put four shooters around Duncan.
Bonner improved his rebounding greatly from his first two years in the league and I think he'll shoot better down the road. Shooters always struggle in their first year in San Antonio. And really, I don't know if the 38.3% Bonner shot last year on three-pointers can be considered struggling.
As a future 7th or 8th man in a rotation, Bonner is a nice piece.
Yeah good to see Bonner come back.
People forget how damn good he was playing when he got hurt.
He was a candidate to move into the starting lineup ahead of Oberto and Elson.
Props Matt
if that's true, that means there are zero roster spots available if the Spurs sign Marcus Williams, barring someone being traded (Barry, Butler, Elson, Beno) or flat out cut (Beno, White).
So no Scola . . . Mahinmi . . . or even Nocioni in Scola's place . . . or any free agent with the MLE.
This also puts the finishing touches on killing the 08 plan, along with Oberto and Vaughn's re-ups.
He's probably gonna take all of Horry's minutes in the reg season. Probably rotate with Oberto and Elson.
Yeah cause you couldn't trade a guy for draft picks...So no Scola . . . Mahinmi . . . or even Nocioni in Scola's place . . . or any free agent with the MLE.
This was all expected. That's why some of us have been talking about the need for roster spots since the beginning of last year.
However, the Spurs would find room for Nocioni. Williams and even James White can be released if it comes down to that.
Sure, there is a roster crunch but there are two spots still not set in stone (Williams and White), while it's probably possible to trade away Udrih or Butler in some sort of mini salary dump.
It depends. If the cap number jumps up due to the new TV contract and Bonner and Oberto's contracts are small enough, the Spurs could still have some money to spend. The Vaughn signing isn't of much consequence since the difference between his cap number and the number automatically given to empty roster spots isn't that great.
If the Spurs still have more than the MLE next summer when it's all said and done, the 2008 plan will still be alive.
However, I'm all for Nocioni and the death of the 2008 plan.
If the Spurs were going to trade on of those guys for picks I think it would have happened already.
At most I think Beno gets straight up cut right before training camp with the Spurs doing the old "We cut him early so he can sign on with another team right now early in camp" speech.
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Beno can still be traded for literally nothing I think to Cleveland.
That's okay, I complete understand. We truly appreciate the information. I'm very happy for him.
I think there's a good chance Jackie gets packaged with Beno and/or Barry after the Bonner re-signing.
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