Could Rasho come back?

[Manufan909]

So anymore news on the buyout, or did Holl unintentionally give us Spurs fans false hope?

[PDXSpursFan]

Someone on the Pacers forum posted a good argument on why a buyout is very unlikely. The issue is that the Pacers are in the middle of arbitration for denying Tinsley's buyout.

[pad300]

I like Rasho very much, however I doubt that he will get offer like this. If Zeke would still be knicks GM, than maybe....

Don't know. Non-cancerous veteran 7 foot center, good team mate, does what his coach wants him too. Acceptably productive...He'll be 33 next year, and such a contract would take him to 35. No injury history, and big men deteriorate slower. We are paying Oberto and Bonner both 10M$/3Years, and KT 8M$/2years... Rasho might get more than 10M$/3yrs...

[ata]

My bad. I've misunderstood as 10Mil/year for 3 years.
10Mil/3years is reasonible

[EricB]

Someone on the Pacers forum posted a good argument on why a buyout is very unlikely. The issue is that the Pacers are in the middle of arbitration for denying Tinsley's buyout.

Because Tinsley is a pile of trash.

[MarHill]

Where the heck does that come from? The spurs have roughly 2 million in room below the lux tax line. They have part of the MLE (~2 million) and the LLE (~2 million) available, and of course, you can sign anybody for the vet min, no matter your tax/cap position.
Unless offered much more money, Rasho would be an idiot to take a contract that extends beyond this season after being bought out. While he is not getting another big contract (eg his current ~ 8 million/year), he could get something like 10 Million/3 years in the offseason if he is an FA. No one will give him anything close to that at this point in the season.
If Rasho is bought out, he'll be looking at a 1 year pro-rated contract, most likely for the vet minimum. He'll chose between whatever offers he gets on the basis of fit into the team and championship odds...Which should make SA pretty attractive. There was never any bad blood that I was aware of between Rasho and Popovich; the only reason he was traded was because of his oversized contract.

Okay, I stand corrected!

I just thought that Rasho would want a guarantee past the rest of the season if he re-signed here. Also, I was looking at from the Spurs standpoint of trading a guy and then bringing him back.

I never thought there was any bad blood between Rasho and Pop. I understood that he was traded for financial reasons.

I can see your point he could probably get more money after the season.

Excuse me!!!

[Blake]

if the Spurs sign Rasho, then they absolutely have to sign Nazr too.

The slew of ensuing Rasho vs Nazr threads would make my life much more complete.

[coyotes_geek]

if the Spurs sign Rasho, then they absolutely have to sign Nazr too.

The slew of ensuing Rasho vs Nazr threads would make my life much more complete.

Nazr can dunk and is therefore better.

[Ice009]

I knew the day would come.

It has a lot to do with that he was being paid. I did not like him at all with his salary before, but at a lower salary I have no problem with resigning Rasho.

I'd say Rasho has developed his game and gotten better away from the Spurs. I haven't watched him play much at all really, but I'm just going by stats and stuff I read about the leadership role he seemed to take on at Toronto. What do you think? Has he gotten better? More confident?

[phxspurfan]

i went on looked on youtube for a rasho mix to remind myself how he played and look what i found:



who made this mix?

It looks like the same four highlights over and over again.

[Manufan909]

THe dif opponents kind of give it away. And he's a 7' Eastern Euro C, how many dunks is he supposed to have in his arsenal?

[phxspurfan]

I don't know why he'd want to come back. Pop basically benched him against the Mavs in the PO then traded him for Bonner. Why would he want to rejoin the Spurs again?

[mystargtr34]

You know your not exciting when your highlight reel consists of tap outs for offensive rebounds and open 18 footers.

[underdawg]

You know your not exciting when your highlight reel consists of tap outs for offensive rebounds and open 18 footers.

I don't know if this has already been said 100 times, but I'll say it for the 101st - why would we want this slow, plodding, unathletic, mentally weak player back on our squad again? Yeah he's 7', but I can't remember how many times he was out rebounded by smaller players (sound familiar?) By the way, I think he's a nice guy but we need help not old buddies.

[K-State Spur]

I don't know if this has already been said 100 times, but I'll say it for the 101st - why would we want this slow, plodding, unathletic, mentally weak player back on our squad again? Yeah he's 7', but I can't remember how many times he was out rebounded by smaller players (sound familiar?) By the way, I think he's a nice guy but we need help not old buddies.

he was better than you remember him. he played good post defense (both on ball and help) was a bigger offensive threat than Oberto.

the issue with Rasho wasn't that he wasn't any good whatsoever - the problem was that he was overpaid and a terrible match-up against our two biggest compe ors (Mavs and Suns) at the time. However, the Lakers/Jazz/Hornets/Celtics all sport bigger line-ups where some added size would help.

all that said, I'm not sure that Rasho would be able to eat into any of KT or Bonner's minutes (maybe Fab's). But he's a better option than Pops.

[mystargtr34]

Since Foster came back from injury. Rasho's minutes...

Feb 22 - 5.04 Mins
Feb 23 - 6.10 Mins

[Manufan909]

Hope that means the coach/GM decides he's not worth it.