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Over the past two decades, the Spurs have been known to consistently find great value in the draft. That's a given.
However, there's one aspect that doesn't get enough recognition. Pop and RC's guys have an knack for being ahead of the curve, finding cheap talent in the FA market. Whether their from overseas, the D-League, sitting at the end of the roster of another team. They find incredible value on the market that no team considers until its too late.
Here's the list of the unproven players they've plucked from obscurity in the FA market during the Pop/TD era:
1998: Jaren Jackson, Malik Rose
2001: Stephen Jackson
2002: Devin Brown
2005: Fabricio Oberto
2010: Gary Neal
2011: Danny Green
2012: Patty Mills
2013: Aron Baynes
2015: Jonathon Simmons (is he the next one?), Boban Marjanovic (?)
Every one of these players has played a key role to a championship team ( w/ exception to the 2015 additions and Neal but we know that 13' team was a le team too tbh). This speaks volumes.
Their ability to eye talent from every corner of the world, and bring in players from obscurity for the minimum and mold and develop them into significant contributors is a big reason why they've maintained contender status the past 18-19 years -- despite picking at the end of the first round every year.
It's just incredible the way they manage to utilize the few assets they have to find the right pieces year after year.
Pop & RC deserve much more credit than they receive( if it's possible). And Chip and Chad are a big part of that as well, I don't know a team that develops their young players as well as the Spurs do.
We are spoiled and I don't mind it one bit.
PATFO FTW!
Just wish Pop would stop being so loyal to a certain slow, brick-laying PG.
Agree, at the same time, that drought 06-10 really hurt, those were theoretically the best years of the big 3.
Starts from the top but we've been fortunate or blessed. RC I think has a gift for spotting talent but there are lots of people helping him out too.
True but I think once the MVPau deal went through, everyone was ed. That's why it was so bs.
Agree with everything save the Gary Neal championship contribution part. I can't wait to see what these new guys bring!
What Pop, RC, and Peter Holt have built has become transcendant - a different kind of dynasty.
The Spurs are widely recognized as one of the best professional sports organizations in the world. Their former coaches and front office personnel are spread throughout the league. Players around the globe speak of the Spurs with reverence. Even the media has finally come around these past few years. Where the organization is now really can be summed up in the Jacob Riis quote that Pop often references.
Just an outstanding organization. I'm grateful, as a life long fan, I can celebrate MY San Antonio Spurs!“When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”
What is PATFO?
Pop And The Front Office
PATFO = Pop and the Front Office
Matrix = role player with cornrows that wears #2
PATFO is such a stupid abbreviation given that Pop is a part as Spurs' FO as president of Spurs' basketball.
Simmons is the next one Op.
UHH DUH...LOL Thanks!
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