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No, I didn't buy the Anderson rumor. The Batum stuff was highly credible. Why aren't you giving any thought to the fact that the Spurs were helping to hide his physical report?
Dude.
Word gets out Spurs want Ryan Anderson.
The Nets take Anderson.
Word gets out Spurs want Batum.
Rockets/Blazers take Batum.
Word gets out the Spurs want to get rid of #26.
Spurs don't get rid of #26 and take someone not projected at #26.
All within the last two days before the draft.
Do you think they really wanted Anderson too?
No, I didn't buy the Anderson rumor. The Batum stuff was highly credible. Why aren't you giving any thought to the fact that the Spurs were helping to hide his physical report?
http://www.draftexpress.com/article/...harlotte-2946/
If this is correct, Batum's side was hiding/not distributing the report. Maybe the Spurs asked him to, maybe not. But that's all conjecture, not fact.Some teams openly are wondering whether San Antonio gave Batum a promise and asked him to not distribute his physical around the league, which would make him very likely to slip to 26.
Hi everyone,
all I can say is that Nicolas Batum, on www.lequipe.fr, today, is just saying he was praying not to be taken before the 26 choice...
He and Popovich had some discussions and Pop told him he wanted to put him this year into the rotation...
He is just a bit deceived... he is OK with Portland but he was hoping the spurs.
Xap'
I don't think the Batum stuff was credible at all. I think BATUM was hoping he was going to the Spurs. I think his agent was floating a lot of info to the press. But I don't think Anderson or Batum were Spurs primary targets - the Spurs don't let that information out.
The same thing that happened to Arthur happened to Batum. His agent didn;t release any medical reports to teams. That's it.
DX took the Batum sitiuation and ran with and made up their own story.
The Spurs didn't let the Batum information out! It was figured out by others!
I said that the Spurs wanted Hill at 26 !
What was figured out? There was no code or puzzle. DX show something and ran with it. Plan and simple.
Batum's agent denied GM's and teams not the Spurs. Spurs had the medical records because he worked out for them and then he went to Cleveland and worked out there and gave them the records.
Nothing to solve or break there.
Tell me you're not this dense. Why do the Spurs get the physical results and not other teams?
Figuring out by others is how all information gets out. Since when do the Spurs hold a press conference to leak info?
The Spurs didn't leak any info. They got sniffed out.
Because THEY WORKED HIM OUT.
Cleveland then WORKED HIM OUT and guess what... THEY HAD THE REPORT TOO.
!
Do you know what leak means?
Holy you are ing re ed.
You're claiming the Spurs tried to trick Houston into selecting Batum! That's moronic! Like there was this super secret smokescreen by only having two teams have his physical. That's unbelievable. The only way your scenario makes sense is if they thought Houston was going to select George Hill. Were they?
No one suggested anything you mentally challenged baboon.
Houston didn't even draft for themselves, they drafted for Portland.
How are you making this leap in logic that the Spurs tried to trick Houston? Like somehow they only floated the rumors to Houston, even though it was all over the web?
You can be really dumb sometimes. This is one of those times. All the talking about Batum was being done by his agent, who wanted his player taken by the Spurs.
If the Spurs really wanted Batum, do you think they would have told Batum's agent to be blathering on and on about the Spurs being one of the only ones to have his physical?
Straight from the horse's mouth for the reality inclined (Mr. Body):
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=100018
So the physical cloak and dagger business was the work of Batum and his agent, who failed miserably. Next.In an interview in L'equipe, Batum confessed he had set up a strategy with his agent to be picked by SA. He was really looking forward to be picked by the spurs. He admited that his aim was really to go to SA. He says he was praying after every pick not be the next one, waiting for the 26th.
Go Celticsand the 25th pick Houston drafted Nicholas Batum...
CLUTCH CITY had no intentions of selecting that BUST.
Mr M.I.T. had it all planned out.
Donte Greene was the mission.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
All I know is I found it interesting that Batum wore a black suit and silver tie to the Draft. I'm pretty sure he had his heart set on coming to SA
In his mind, he probobly thought the Spurs were taking him.
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