Any confirmed source saying the Spurs have offered Thomas a contract? Or are the Spurs pursuing someone like Krstic first?
Paying a guy more than his market value is overpaying him if you can avoid it. KT probably knows that the Spurs are going to be hurting if he leaves so he has some leverage there, however I imagine the "I might go somewhere else for less money" ploy that so many players have used with success doesn't fly well in San Antonio. There are a couple of teams out there that seem to genuinely dislike the Spurs; maybe one of them will float a rumor out there about KT just to drive up the price.
I am discussing theory of what might be going on inside the Spurs F.O.. Trying to get others opinions on what might be happening and why the wait. My THEORY is that the Spurs should step up and make an offer within reason. Others say wait and let the market make the first offer. There are pros and cons to each. It is just banter. If you do not like it, go post on the Emeka Okafor thread.
And you're still trashing your own thread.
By the way, that's your KT watch. Consider it your "don't where you live" consolation prize.
I found the KT Watch to be rather dope.
True, but that is where we have to have faith in our F.O.. They can sift through what is real or not and see if Kurt actually has an offer. If he does, they can say : "we are willing to match". I am just arguing from a strictly economic theory point of view, hence the willingness to pay. That in theory is the Spurs market value for a player. There is something to be said for minimizing risks. What one may say is overpaying (by making the first offer of 3.5M for example), one can argue that even though you might have been able to pay him less if you waited, the fact that you eliminated the risks was worth the difference in what you paid, to a certain degree of course.
For shizzle
Ya, life lessons on SpursTalk.
A bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush is the point I am trying to make with my KT theory.
I am fixing to kick some rather gifted oratorical skills and :
I found that timepiece to be semi-phly.
We get it. And after three pages of you trying to rephrase the same theory, you're still wrong.
The Spurs are waiting to let the market set his value. There is no reason for them to make him an offer now because the only two outcomes are:
1. They overpay him
2. They offer him a low offer that pisses him off and he walks on principle
Why risk either when they don't have to?
If LA offers him the MLE for 3 years, the Spurs can add a half a million a year to it and beat it. If LA and Miami go elsewhere, no one else gets in on the bidding, maybe he only costs 2-3 million a year.
No matter how much paranoia you want to post in this stupid thread, there's zero reasons for the Spurs to make an offer now.
Oh how lovely things work out with such a hopeful imagination.
Lolz at the Heat only being able to afford him at 4 million.
How am I wrong? Can you prove that I am wrong with quantifiable evidence or facts? Or is it your OPINION vs. my OPINION?
He is an Unrestricted Free Agent. There are risks in waiting. He does not have to give the Spurs a chance to match. If he gets an offer he likes, that he feels is fair and strikes a relationship with a GM, coach or player, he can just sign and walk away. Is that paranoid? Maybe. Are you still a that can not back up anything you say with facts when you make accusations? Undoubtedly.
What do you think they can offer him? Considering they are trying to clear cap space for 2010?
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As Kori mentioned...if you do not like a thread or its contents, simply pass it by. It is not that hard. But if something is stupid or makes no sense to you, ignore it. Don't bash it or attack it, it just makes you look like a .
Einstein said: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. If you keep thinking threads are dumb or pointless and you keep posting in them, they will never go away. If you do not like a thread, then odds are you were not the target market to begin with.
They're not making space for 2010, they just gave James Jones a 5 year deal.
Miami is over the cap, so how much could they offer KT?
Oh brother. Forget it. We're ed. Kurt is signing with LA for 2 million. It sucks to be a Spurs fan.
They have about 1.5 mil pr year left from the MLE. Not likely enough to get him. It would have to be a sign and trade. SA has expressed intrest in Wright and he would solve our problems at the SF spot, but we would have to add a FA big to consider that.
Um, yeah, thanks. I'll read and post wherever I want, even if certain posters keep posting the same over and over and over and over in the same thread in attempt to prove their point when multiple others have already countered it.
It's comical that you're getting so bent of shape about any of us somehow not buying into your argument, when you're being just as stubborn about refusing to acknowlege anyone else's take.
Insanity indeed.
Apparently enough to sign him, if one listens to you.
I just started ignoring the parts where he says to ignore him.
Love you chump!
I think that's been established.
I also ignore the parts where he says he loves me.
Its called a joke, if you can't laugh at yourself...
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