Random Thoughts After LaMarcus Aldridge and the Spurs Split

[Ice009]

kawhi really ed some of your heads up

lma wasn't happy years ago, so he went and told pop to his face, like a professional, that he wanted a trade?

then they were able to work things out and he stayed and continued to play at a high level? then this year he gets hurt old and slow, loses his starting role and meaningful place on the team, so he and patfo worked out a mutual agreement to part ways to the benefit of both parties? (in the final year of his contract)

wow what a diva

A very decent perspective you have there, and yeah, Kawhi very well may have clouded my head up (can't speak for others, though). I guess LMA came to to try and win a Championship in his prime and it didn't happen for him. He also didn't bail while still in his prime (I'm not sure if he still wanted to leave a couple of years ago, though, or if the Spurs FO and LMA truly worked it out like you said. That is one thing that is not certain for me as it seems to be for you), so I guess if he wants to leave to try and win that ring, I can't fault him for that. He may deserve that chance/opportunity. I didn't want to wish him the best, but I may just do so after he is either traded or bought out (still hope he's traded and Spurs get something for him).

[K...]

So people don't think the Spurs might have a bad deal in place and be looking for others? The only reason i think it is because some speculate that the Derozan deal was built off prior talks to pair a third all star around kawhi and LMA. The warriors had the spurs deal in place but never considered it because they chose not to. Lots of deals are never leaked because it would poison player relations. And LMA has been on the market long on enough that the spurs have undoubtedly gotten offers.

[jjspur]

Best case scenario: Aldridge is traded and we get a player/pick or just picks or some combination of both.
Worst case scenario : Spurs being the Spurs, they let him walk and if we are lucky we get 1 million shaved off the 9 million or so of his remaining contract. Remember, right now we are paying him a lot of $$$$ to not play. Not a good situation to be in, just ask the Pistons.
Somewhere in between : Aldridge walks, we get enough cash back from him to get someone in the buyout market or 10 day contracts who can help out a bit.
Every day brings us closer to the deadline and a solution to our lingering problem. Hope it works out.

[Brazil]

Welcome back! Agree with this on both counts.

I had wished the Spurs had fallen off sooner and would have probably recovered by now bc I trust their drafting and there have been franchise players going in the lottery in the years they would have sucked hard (after the big 3 retired and Kawhi bolted). I thought that was the perfect time to rebuild. They didn’t and having the big man LMA was a big reason they probably chose to compete and in that he helped them. So if there’s going to be criticism of the decision to keep LMA that should be laid at the feet of the FO. LMA was good for what they wanted to do and IMO he wants to ring chase. He’s old and his days off playing at a high level are likely over, it’s common for guys at this stage to want to move on to teams that are closer to contending. See recently Iguodala and I remember D.West doing the same. People act like they are surprised.

These players want to generally spend their last year or two in a good team. After falling off the playoffs last season I suspect Lamarcus wanted to move on since back then. Demar was in trade rumors last year as well and was not extended so I am simply surprised that it’s become official and that Lamarcus has played his last game as a Spur bc I thought he’d finish out the season but I suspect he has been more than patient because the FO didn’t find a trade they liked. So now he put his foot down and doesn’t want to play until he’s traded or let go. Seems selfish indeed but not if we consider he likely has been trying to get traded since last year (speculation but it was out there).

missing the days...

Dude is assistant to the FNT General Manager.. he is calling himself Happiness Manager in charge of well being of the players.. still drinking a lot of coffee spending time in Bordeaux where I had the chance to see him once in a while before the covid.

[Ice009]

Boris is such a freaking cool guy. Would love to hang out with him.

So you actually know him personally?

[EricB]

"and doesn’t regret the decision he made in 2015."

I would say asking to be traded in 2017 points to regretting his 2015 decision to sign here but that is just the personal opinion of a logical human being on planet earth...

which was quickly squashed. Which a logical person would’ve taken into account on the whole but, that’s just the personal opinion of someone reading something by from the writings of a person going by “poop box”

[poopbox]

which was quickly squashed. Which a logical person would’ve taken into account on the whole but, that’s just the personal opinion of someone reading something by from the writings of a person going by “poop box”

It wasn't squashed, it's just that nobody traded for him. Spurs fans try to live in some alternate reality where LMA and Pop hashed it out and everything was ok. The truth was that LMA wanted out and the spurs tried trading him but gasp, nobody wants a big who has exactly one high level nba talent as an isolation post scorer when teams are moving further away than post scorers.

[EricB]

It wasn't squashed, it's just that nobody traded for him. Spurs fans try to live in some alternate reality where LMA and Pop hashed it out and everything was ok. The truth was that LMA wanted out and the spurs tried trading him but gasp, nobody wants a big who has exactly one high level nba talent as an isolation post scorer when teams are moving further away than post scorers.

that’s not accurate at all of what happened.