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They'd have to give up a first rounder to get him now.
$%&$%&*$*%
he best not be going to NY...
They'd have to give up a first rounder to get him now.
The Bulls traded Salmons for expiring contracts. The fact that they are bigmen is a coincidence ... so I doubt it affects their plan regarding Ty Thomas.
I hope the Spurs make a trade regardless of where TT goes.
Its official according to Woj! Salmons for Kurt Thomas and Francisco Elso
hate small ball...Thomas come pls
Wojo is awesome.
how about now the Spurs make a trade with the Bucks for Salmons
Thomas > Salmons
Salmons = deal breaker
I still want Thomas, but get them in separate deals now
How Mason for Thomas, straight up
Kurt Thomas
I would never want to deal with the Bucks again anyways..they always find a way to beat us..
Hey we beat them badly twice this year, but they gave us JeffersonSHOOT they won again
Are we going to make a move??? ...
It looks like the Thomas deals will come down to..
-Being included in a 3-way with the Rockets-Bulls-Kings..
-Traded to NY in a deal for Al Harrington..
-Traded to the Spurs in a package..
Those are the 3 rumors for him right now, obviously something else could come out of nowhere or the Spurs might be sending out a smokescreen..
Ach, at this point I'd be disappointed he's not a Spur. But he's wildly athletic so it can't really happen. Bad alchemy.
On the eve of the trade deadline, Donnie Walsh continues working to pin down the final elements of an offer that will land Tracy McGrady and shed the contract of Jared Jeffries.
Simultaneously, Walsh is working to swing a trade with the Bulls for Tyrus Thomas.
Mike D'Antoni may be driving the Knicks' interest in Thomas. The coach is apparently enthralled with the idea of plugging the athletic talents of Thomas into his uptempo system.
Read more: http://realgm.com/src_wiretap_archiv...#ixzz0fr7Z7VI2
Ford and Stein are both reporting that multiple league sources are expressing confidence that McGrady to Knicks will happen and Thomas, James for Harrington.
I don't know what the Spurs have offered, but this should have been a no-brainer: '10 1st round pick, Mason, Bonner, Mahinmi for Thomas, Pargo.
Instead, the Knicks, with NO 1st round pick, appear poised to land him for one (albeit big) expiring contract. Unbelievable.
I'm not the least bit surprised. It looks like, barring something unforeseen, they'll be a minor trade involving Mason for something of lesser value or no trade at all.
Last edited by TD 21; 02-17-2010 at 11:07 PM.
This was Stein's report as of 5pm EST today
http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/features/rumors
Marc Stein
Trade exception could have been used in Mason-to-Miami deal
"The Miami Heat have indeed expressed interest in San Antonio's Roger Mason, but the Miami deal that interested the Spurs most is no longer possible. The Spurs were hoping to tempt Miami into absorbing Mason's $3.8 million expiring contract into a $4.3 million trade exception that would have enabled the teams to complete a deal without San Antonio needing to take back another player. A future second-round pick from the Heat would have completed the transaction. But the Heat, dealing with their own luxury-tax issues like San Antonio and reluctant to add to their payroll, ultimately declined. And the trade exception in question -- created through the departure of Marcus Banks in Miami's Shawn Marion trade with Toronto on Feb. 15, 2009 -- expired Monday at midnight."
This is starting not to look very good for the Spurs. They're drifting to the back of the store, while other teams are checking out at the register.
You say this as if the Spurs were ever in the store in the 1st place.
Are you surprised? It's the same every year. This franchise has been in a steady decline for longer than most either realize or care to admit, they've needed a big man of Thomas' athleticism for the longest time and yet even though he's seemingly available for so little in return, they're still going to lose out? Unbelievable.
We'll probably never know the exact reason(s), but it's typical Spurs. Probably got worried about his at ude, immaturity, his not fitting in with the "culture" and struggling to "pick up the system" and are about to lose out to a team with less to offer, all because the Knicks were clearly more aggressive in their pursuit of him.
Amazing how people assume what happens when the Spurs don't get a guy.
Again, are they supposed to hold a gun to these team's heads?
No, they're supposed to be ing aggressive, like every other team that either feels they need to or clearly needs to get something done.
The Spurs have the best package to offer for Thomas, given the suitors, the supposed asking price and what they're seeking, yet we haven't heard one concrete offer yet from them to the Bulls and why? Because they got gun shy. Thomas should have been theirs.
How else are the Spurs going to find that type of player for as little as it likely would have taken to acquire him? They're not going to. This was their chance and they blew it. Don't pull the "Thomas isn't a savior crap" because I never said he was.
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