We need a player like J.R. Smith

[Malice]

Lets face it. Spurs havnt made the greatest decisions the last couple years. What can you do.

[ducks]

Lets face it. Spurs havnt made the greatest decisions the last couple years. What can you do.

spurs did not try to trade for kidd

[Kori Ellis]

The only reason the deal didn't go through is because paper work was late to the league. That's why Barry was told that he was traded and not to get on the plane.. and then told, Oops, my bad, go ahead.

So at that point, the Spurs were willing to take the risk.

[NugzFan]

Alan Iverson and his bowling alley incident. Melo and his thug video. J.R. killing his friend in the SUV accident. All of these guys are "me first", coach challenging idiots. Sometimes stereotypes are dead on. That would make them truths.

If we could have acquired him before he got into that corrosive environment, he might have worked out well.

allen iverson doesnt play for us anymore (cant believe any nba fan wouldnt know that). that melo incident is very old - hes not a 'thug' anymore. jr's incident doesnt make him a thug at all - just a horrible accident.

keep on stereotyping - its entertaining to read. and we are very glad to have jr on our team...even if hes the biggest 'thug' in the nba!

[CubanSucks]

Lets face it. Spurs havnt made the greatest decisions the last couple years. What can you do.

Ummm last time I checked they won the championship 2 years ago.

[lefty]

34pts for him tonight.....

including a stretch of 18pts in 8 minutes!

I'm glad he is too 'thuggish' for some of you, yet the same people probably want sjax back

Sjax has a ring and doesn't choke in the 4th like JR Smith

So much for J.R

[NewJerSpur]

allen iverson doesnt play for us anymore (cant believe any nba fan wouldnt know that). that melo incident is very old - hes not a 'thug' anymore. jr's incident doesnt make him a thug at all - just a horrible accident.

keep on stereotyping - its entertaining to read. and we are very glad to have jr on our team...even if hes the biggest 'thug' in the nba!

J.R. has had other incidents off the court to add to his irresponsibility behind the wheel (not that it makes a difference, but I knew the guy somewhat personally who was killed); look them up. Not to mention he and Melo were involved in the brawl at the Garden not too long ago. Kenyon Martin is leans more towards the category of enforcer, but he does not shy away from being a bully/instigator on the court. Birdman was out of the league a few seasons for doing drugs. They are like the Jailblazers 2.0 to a degree, but they remodeled their image so there's hope for the Thuggets yet....especially with a high character guy like Chauncey Billups on the team.

[ElNono]

Isn't this the guy that won't even talk to Karl? I believe Karl said he and JR didn't talk to each other. I mean, I think Karl is a farce, but he deals daily with knuckleheads like Melo and K-Mart, yet he can't even deal with Smith? Do you know how many milliseconds that guy would last next to Pop?

[Horse]

I'm just saying sometimes you take a chance. rodman was real solid for us. I mean I know in the end he screwed us over. But we got some good from him.

[NewJerSpur]

I'm just saying sometimes you take a chance. rodman was real solid for us. I mean I know in the end he screwed us over. But we got some good from him.

This topic was worn out during the offseason and he's under contract for a few years before it can be realistically revisited. We can win without him, we've done it before.

[jdev82]

his name is ginobili and he is 10 j.r. smiths. he plays better defense, takes smar(er) 3's and drives once in a while. j.r. takes 30 foot threes with 23 secs to go in teh shot clock. j.r.smith is a stupid player. he belongs on the 07 bucks 2with bobby simmons and charlie v

[exstatic]

allen iverson doesnt play for us anymore (cant believe any nba fan wouldnt know that). that melo incident is very old - hes not a 'thug' anymore. jr's incident doesnt make him a thug at all - just a horrible accident.

keep on stereotyping - its entertaining to read. and we are very glad to have jr on our team...even if hes the biggest 'thug' in the nba!

Iverson was part of the environment that shaped JR as an NBA player, up until earlier this year, as a matter of fact. In addition to the video, you have Melo doing stupid things like in game fights, refusing to come out of the game VERY recently, etc.

It was a toxic environment for an already immature player to go into.

[rascal]

The only reason the deal didn't go through is because paper work was late to the league. That's why Barry was told that he was traded and not to get on the plane.. and then told, Oops, my bad, go ahead.

So at that point, the Spurs were willing to take the risk.

Who sent the paperwork in late? If it was the spurs then it seems like they were not so eager to get the deal done or just they worked on it too slowly and thats not good front office work.