Manu's flirting with Madrid / Barcelona

[tmtcsc]

ok nostradamus


I give 50% chance Manu not staying in the Spurs. They simply dont have the $

I disagree. They CANT afford not to sign him. Tim doesn't put people's butts in seats. Manu does.

[ChumpDumper]

The Spurs will probably be pretty close to having the kind of money Manu will want. That's why they didn't execute any fantasy trades this season.

[DesignatedT]

the spurs will be able to offer more money to manu than any other contender will be able to.. of course international teams are a different story but manu will not be going overseas and he isnt going to go play for a team like the wizards. the spurs still remain the front runners by a long shot.

[kaji157]

the spurs will be able to offer more money to manu than any other contender will be able to.. of course international teams are a different story but manu will not be going overseas and he isnt going to go play for a team like the wizards. the spurs still remain the front runners by a long shot.

Spurs doesn´t have to worry about Euro teams, Manu is a Compe or and will never leave the best compe ion for money.
What they should worry about is a team offering 4 Years at the full MLE, that would total u$s 27.168.414, making the Spurs a number hard to match on a shorter term contract. (Frontloaded MLE deal will look like, 10-11 7.791.674, 11-12 7.083.340, 12-13 6.439.400, 12-13 5.854.000)
Even a team like OKC will have about 12 millions on cap space being able to offer Manu a good 3 year deal without going into luxury tax. (say 3 years at 26 millions) and even sweeten the deal with a 4th year partially guaranteed or something like that.

[Josepatches_]

Out of what ? Never heard that.
Real is buying soccer players for 60 kk $ and out of money ?
Barcelona with possible winning Champions League and Euroleague this year, is also without money ?

If Manu wants to go there, they will have money. Book it.

Out of money for basketball.Basketball is not football. Basketball players never will win same money here than football players. Maybe in Greece or Russia.

But in Spain best of the best basketball players win around Є2-1.5 millions per year.

But I'm sure if Manu can't play for a contender then he could play in Europe.He's not going to play for The Nets or the Wolves

[DesignatedT]

i agree the 4th year is where it gets interesting.. I dont know if a team like OKC is willing to throw that kind of money at anyone right now actually... they are going to have there hands full soon when all those players come off that rookie scale... (durant,green,westbrook,harden,ibaka) i doubt they are willing to gaurantee manu a contract like that.

and so do you think if the spurs offer 4 years at the MLE and manu accepts that? thats a big pay-cut.

[FeZZy]

Ginobili and Rubio that would be BOSS just saying

[LOL@MavsFan]

Manu isn't going anywhere

[tp2021]

ok nostradamus


I give 50% chance Manu not staying in the Spurs. They simply dont have the $

So its 50-50 if he stays or goes...thanks Nostradumbass.

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[easy7]

Si Manu se va me voy yo, pues el equipo ya no tendra corazon.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

"Mostrame el dinero!!!!!"

This made me elle oh elle

[elbamba]

If manu doesn't sign with the Spurs I could see him going to OKC. They need a vet with credibility but they will not want to s out a max deal to an over-the-hill allstar.

[Spursfan092120]

Dumb thread...Manu says he wants to play in the NBA..are you telling me that if the Spurs don't resign him (which would be ing stupid) that NO TEAM in the NBA will want him? That's just ignorant. After he led the team to wins over Cleveland and Boston, then got hurt, and all of a sudden we lose to NJ, you don't think his value just skyrocketed? Manu wants to be in the NBA, and he will be, until he's done with basketball..

[Chieflion]

Thanks to Google Chrome, they prompted me for a translation, I said, yeah.

[WalterBenitez]

I prefer Manu leaving NBA to see him playing in another team, ok, you wanna kill me? Manu in HOU, DAL, LAL uniform.

[Spursfanfromafar]

Watching the Spurs without Manu will be quite lame. No offense to Timmy (my favorite player) or Parker. But Manu is the X factor. Manu is easily the third best SG in the league right now. And he is still among the most most compe ive and an absolute winner. His injury woes are behind him and there is nothing to hold the Spurs from resigning him except for Holt's bank balance. The Spurs' signing of Jefferson has put them in some kind of jeopardy with little money left for resigning Manu.

If the Spurs offer anything less than $10 million each for three years and a good team offers more (what if the Knicks get Bosh and another sidekick to go along with Manu?), Manu will be tempted to accept such an offer.

I sincerely wish the Spurs manage some kind of sign and trade dump of RJ and focus on getting Manu back plus adding a few good other role players such as JJ Re , Marcus Camby apart from getting Splitter.

[honestfool84]

ok nostradamus


I give 50% chance Manu not staying in the Spurs. They simply dont have the $

50% chance? you're a genius!

there's ONLY two options.

1. he stays with the Spurs,

or 2. he leaves the Spurs.

[Sisk]

50% chance? you're a genius!

there's ONLY two options.

1. he stays with the Spurs,

or 2. he leaves the Spurs.

[TDMVPDPOY]

if manu leaves

then i dont see the FO going to spend big to rebuild around parker...

they probably trade or low ball parker or let his contract run off, same with duncan...

then back under the cap filling up the roster with trash....

[kaji157]

i agree the 4th year is where it gets interesting.. I dont know if a team like OKC is willing to throw that kind of money at anyone right now actually... they are going to have there hands full soon when all those players come off that rookie scale... (durant,green,westbrook,harden,ibaka) i doubt they are willing to gaurantee manu a contract like that.

and so do you think if the spurs offer 4 years at the MLE and manu accepts that? thats a big pay-cut.

That´s exactly the reason why i pointed that they can offer a balanced 4 year contract or a little over 26 millions 3 years contract. Because those 3 players you named will be on rookie contracts until for quite a bit time. For example Durant, will be a RFA in 11-12 season, Westbrook and Green in the 12-13 and the others after the 13-14. So if they sign Manu to that 3 years 26 millions contract, and a partially guaranteed 4th, they can resign all their rookies, and then rethink if they guarantee Manu´s 4th year.
Not to say that Manu would make that team look a lot more mature down the stretch.

Remember that OKC has only 3 millions commited for the 11-12 season, so they will be very able to resign all of them even if they have Manu signed for that year at (say average of what has been said here) 8 millions.

[DesignatedT]

That´s exactly the reason why i pointed that they can offer a balanced 4 year contract or a little over 26 millions 3 years contract. Because those 3 players you named will be on rookie contracts until for quite a bit time. For example Durant, will be a RFA in 11-12 season, Westbrook and Green in the 12-13 and the others after the 13-14. So if they sign Manu to that 3 years 26 millions contract, and a partially guaranteed 4th, they can resign all their rookies, and then rethink if they guarantee Manu´s 4th year.
Not to say that Manu would make that team look a lot more mature down the stretch.

Remember that OKC has only 3 millions commited for the 11-12 season, so they will be very able to resign all of them even if they have Manu signed for that year at (say average of what has been said here) 8 millions.

so what if the spurs offer that to him... you think manu accepts a spurs offer of 4 years at the MLE? thats a pretty significant pay-cut from what he is receiving now.... almost 11/year

[kaji157]

so what if the spurs offer that to him... you think manu accepts a spurs offer of 4 years at the MLE? thats a pretty significant pay-cut from what he is receiving now.... almost 11/year

I think he will if the Spurs put one more million in each year, or if they allow him to decide if he plays with the NT.

Many here think Manu wants to play everytime with the NT, i agree that might be true, but for being a fan of himself from long time, and given his personality, i think what Manu really wants, is to have the right to call that.

My english is not good, so to put it straight up. I don´t think Manu will play the next 3 years with Argentina. That would be 3 straight years of international compe ions. He is not dumb at all.
But i am quite sure he thinks it his descition to make, and not the Spurs.

I don´t know if i am being clear here, but think for yourself? wouldn´t you be quite disgusted if someone take descitions from you that they are not allowed make. I think this is where the Spurs have failed at adressing Manu´s needs of international compe ions, he might want to be the one calling the plays on that matter.

[Jason R]

Yeah the Spurs really put their foot down on keeping Manu out of international compe ions.

Oh wait.

[temujin]

thankfully for google translation, i can demean your racial group as you've demeaned mine

learn english, it's america

we won the war.. get over it

You are losing the peace.

Learn spanish.