Most underrated trade the Spurs ever did...

[rascal]

All these trades were before the current spurs front office running the team now. What are the big trade steals this current fo made.

[gospursgojas]

All these trades were before the current spurs front office running the team now. What are the big trade steals this current fo made.

Prolly the Rose/Nazr trade

[ShoogarBear]

Posters want to talk about the bad all the time. Scola for a 2nd rounder. Jefferson...the bust. Ect.... But lets flip the script...You youngsters may not remember this trade but it actually kept the Spurs a float when times were tough. It was Alvin Robertson and Cadillac for Terry mings. Terry did great for us. It was right when David arrived in his rookie year. If not for mings...it would have been a very bad experience for David. Without a doubt. Put it to you this way...the Spurs won 56 games with Robinson as a rookie and the main reason was because of mings. He averaged over 22 points in Davids rookie year. And a lot of Spurs fans dont acknowledge certain under the radar trades.

It turned out to be a good trade, but it wasn't like it was a steal of any kind. Robertson made one more All-Star game and two more All-Defensive teams while on the Bucks. They traded for need, and mings did a lot for the Spurs, but the Spurs had to give up a lot to get him.

[rascal]

Prolly the Rose/Nazr trade

Thats terrible for over 10 years.

Thats exactly my point the spurs need to get someone in the front office that knows how to improve the team with good trades.

[EricB]

yeah maybe then they'll win a ring!

[Sisk]

Thats terrible for over 10 years.

Thats exactly my point the spurs need to get someone in the front office that knows how to improve the team with good trades.

Yeah, those guys....

Manu - 57th
Tony - 28th
George Hill - 26th

I know you said trade, but

[dbestpro]

Thats terrible for over 10 years.

Thats exactly my point the spurs need to get someone in the front office that knows how to improve the team with good trades.

Sam Presti seems to be missed.

[Solid D]

Posters want to talk about the bad all the time. Scola for a 2nd rounder. Jefferson...the bust. Ect.... But lets flip the script...You youngsters may not remember this trade but it actually kept the Spurs a float when times were tough. It was Alvin Robertson and Cadillac for Terry mings. Terry did great for us. It was right when David arrived in his rookie year. If not for mings...it would have been a very bad experience for David. Without a doubt. Put it to you this way...the Spurs won 56 games with Robinson as a rookie and the main reason was because of mings. He averaged over 22 points in Davids rookie year. And a lot of Spurs fans dont acknowledge certain under the radar trades.

It turned out to be a good trade, but it wasn't like it was a steal of any kind. Robertson made one more All-Star game and two more All-Defensive teams while on the Bucks. They traded for need, and mings did a lot for the Spurs, but the Spurs had to give up a lot to get him.

I'll just add that mings wasn't the "main reason" but he was one of the reasons the Spurs had a 35-win turnaround from the previous season. New pieces in Sean Elliott and Rod Strickland (Mo Cheeks for a while) helped the Spurs a great deal. David Robinson was the biggest change factor, in my opinion, because of Dave's defensive presence. The Spurs went from being ranked 13th defensively with defensive specialist Alvin Robertson in '88-89, to a ranking of 3rd defensively with Robinson and his new teammates. mings was important but I don't see him as the main reason for 56 wins. Meanwhile, Robinson won the Rookie of the month every month and ROY, was 10th in the NBA in scoring, 2nd in NBA rebounding and 3rd in blocks and won the Schick(IBM) Award for best all-around player in the NBA. I'm just sayin...

[Blake]

Thats terrible for over 10 years.

Thats exactly my point the spurs need to get someone in the front office that knows how to improve the team with good trades.

How many trades have the Spurs FO made in the last 10 years?

They haven't needed to make a lot of trades. They've made some decent draft picks and have just needed to sign a few FAs to build around the key players.

[rascal]

How many trades have the Spurs FO made in the last 10 years?

They haven't needed to make a lot of trades. They've made some decent draft picks and have just needed to sign a few FAs to build around the key players.

If they had made at least a good trade or two they would not be watching the lakers win back to back les and back to back to back les in the early 2000s.