Shams: Spurs Pull Qualifying Offer on Lonnie Walker, Making Him an Unrestricted Free Agent

[slick'81]

What connections does brown have left in phili

[RC_Drunkford]

[exstatic]

Uh, the draft was a week ago. You went 7 days, extended the QO, then remembered that you drafted two Lonnie replacements?

[slick'81]

Uh, the draft was a week ago. You went 7 days, extended the QO, then remembered that you drafted two Lonnie replacements?

yea that comment made no sense. I mean lonnie doesn't fit the rebuild but wright's timeline is off

[objective]

Welcome to Wrightsville

[jjspur]

I thought trading Murray was moving us in a particular direction, but then they give Walker the QO and then rescind it ? We don't have a direction, we're going in circles !! Tanking, it sucks !!

[Floyd Pacquiao]

Uh, the draft was a week ago. You went 7 days, extended the QO, then remembered that you drafted two Lonnie replacements?

Durant news maybe changed things for some reason?

[chunticakes]

Walker to LA

Incoming 50 point game, tbh.

[BatManu20]

Goddammit . Figures.

[duncan2150]

Happy for him

People who think he"ll not have an offer, he had one quickly.

[FkLA]

[objective]

Seems like Walker had a 1 year lined up and wanted to increase his value for next summer, but an RFA tender could not be one year, so they asked the Spurs for the favor of release

So ... Maybe it wasn't the Spurs being up to something

[offset formation]

Duh. And now I look like ing Nostradamus with my critique of the Spurs 25th selection. Made ZERO sense absent the trade of DJ and essentially cutting Lonnie.

Love every bit of this, assumingPop will acrually play the youngsters.

Brett Brown already coming through strong for us.

[poopbox]

I assume the QO was out there because the spurs probably thought there was more than a 0% chance that Lonnie wanted to play here and they could sign him in case all their plans fell through and his agent probably called them and said remove that there is 0% chance Lonnie is coming back to SA we already got a deal somewhere else.

People getting there hopes up about this and instantly waving Gallo mean the spurs have some move up there sleeve but no its just typical SA incompetence

Brian Wright talking about "the way the draft went" like they didn't purposely target guards to replace Lonnie a week ago

[jbspurs]

Who are they after or what contract are they taking on.

As long as its not Russ I really could care less what bad contract they would absorb.

I will cancel my league pass if Russ end up playing for the Spurs. That will be a sad day..

[widowmaker]

Kevin Durant wasn't on the market then. Something tells me the Spurs are calling about him. They're willing to give up all of those first round picks to get KD for 4 years.

Why would KD come over to play with a bunch of G league players? With no intention of winning a le anytime soon? I thought by the DJ move this team was in full rebuild mode.

[John B]

The ONLY thing remotely in that vein that I think they would even consider would be Ben Simmons. Everyone has been talking about Kyrie, and Durants recent trade request, and no one’s even mentioned Simmons.

I’m down with that if not for Timvp mentioning the FO’s excitement on how Primo is coming along

[John B]

But is there any big signing(s) that could still be expected? I speculated the other day that the Spurs could simply trade DJ for the best haul, trade Poeltl, rent cap space and not sign any big names. But somehow it’s too quiet, it’s deftening. Poeltl is still not moved. Why reject a young position of need player like Okongwu? Are the picks for us or for another team’s demands to release a targeted player? And Wright said, our trades are both for the future and now. That sounds the Spurs will still contend, but will align with our youth in the long-term. It would have to be a young enough caliber player. A trade of Poeltl plus picks for Ayton? Maybe Simmons? One could hear that motor quietly working. Something big is still up.

[Ice009]

I am guessing the Spurs can't somehow get Zach Lavine and KD (money/salary cap wise)?

[KingKev]

I am guessing the Spurs can't somehow get Zach Lavine and KD (money/salary cap wise)?

Depends which mode your NBA2k is set to.

[Ice009]

Depends which mode your NBA2k is set to.

I just meant fitting them in. I didn't mean realistically getting them. Was just curious if they could do it salary cap wise.

[Cardinal]

I just meant fitting them in. I didn't mean realistically getting them. Was just curious if they could do it salary cap wise.

I’ve been wondering the same thing. It’s interesting that Lavine hasn’t signed yet with the Bulls. Not that I’d want them to do it, but I’m curious want it would take to make Lavine and Durant work on the spurs

[KingKev]

I just meant fitting them in. I didn't mean realistically getting them. Was just curious if they could do it salary cap wise.

We have 35-39mm in cap so we can sign Lavine at the max outright which starts at 36.6mm.

JRich, McBooger, Jak is 35mm so add some combo of Zollins, Keldon, Primo, Vassell and you can get the math to work to get near KD’s 44mm.

[KingKev]

^ my highly confidential sources have told me there isn’t a package we could ever put together to make the above happen even with Primo’s impending future HoFer status

[mo7888]

^ my highly confidential sources have told me there isn’t a package we could ever put together to make the above happen even with Primo’s impending future HoFer status

You've got excellent sources...