trading our PG

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I'm not convinced that Tony will leave and you are. Obviously, there is a fundamental difference of opinion that is informing our at ude about the subject. I don't buy into the whole "Tony Parker is a selfish player who is bound for Hollywood at the first opportunity" bull that seems so prevalent here. I think the Spurs foster a basketball culture that makes their players want to stick around. I think the big factor will be how long Tim can play and be effective.

I'm not sure how you take my realistic prediction that some other team is going to be able to pay more money for Parker than the Spurs are willing to pay and turn it into some strange "bound for Hollywood" groupthink. If the Spurs can't talk Parker into an extension, they need to trade him. It's that simple.

[ohmwrecker]

I'm not sure how you take my realistic prediction that some other team is going to be able to pay more money for Parker than the Spurs are willing to pay and turn it into some strange "bound for Hollywood" groupthink. If the Spurs can't talk Parker into an extension, they need to trade him. It's that simple.

When and where did this "prediction" take place? It certainly didn't happen during the course of our short debate. I'm sure you're right, Nostradamus. Tony Parker will receive a Ginobili-esque contract extension under the wire this year and he will take it.
Your assumption that, given the choice, TP would automatically leave the Spurs makes it easy to jump to the conclusion that there may be some crazier ideas harbored in your psyche.

Unless . . . Tony?

[m33p0]

where's the option for "none of the above"?

trade either one and we'd be a point-guard short unless we trade for a point guard.

[Mike D]

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When and where did this "prediction" take place? It certainly didn't happen during the course of our short debate. I'm sure you're right, Nostradamus. Tony Parker will receive a Ginobili-esque contract extension under the wire this year and he will take it.
Your assumption that, given the choice, TP would automatically leave the Spurs makes it easy to jump to the conclusion that there may be some crazier ideas harbored in your psyche.

Unless . . . Tony?

Wow, your reading comprehension is loaded with fail. If someone offers Parker more money than the Spurs do, there's not really much choice there. I'm still not sure how you don't see that getting value for Parker is preferable to losing him, and if you do understand that, I'm not sure why you continue with the confrontational posts.

[m33p0]

[Biggems]

I want to keep Parker, Hill, and Temple.

However, if we were able to get a healthy Mikhail Torrance, I would have no issues with shopping Hill. He has great value right now and could potentially land us a future 1st rounder.

What I wouldn't mind at all is keeping our 3 PGs and still adding Torrance.

[galvatron3000]

Lakers won 5 championships with Fisher as their starting pg, we can trade Parker or Hill and win if we bring in the right pieces to compliment what's here and the coaching staff doesn't boggle the season with bad coaching. Fisher isn't close to be a star but he hits shots, plays hard and does what he's supposed too. The offense they run helps a lot too. We can change somethings around SPurs town but defense has to be the coat rack we hang our hats on no matter who is here and Duncan needs help on that frontline. If we can take Hill and bring Paul George, I'd do it too (off subject a bit)

[Biggems]

Wow, your reading comprehension is loaded with fail. If someone offers Parker more money than the Spurs do, there's not really much choice there. I'm still not sure how you don't see that getting value for Parker is preferable to losing him, and if you do understand that, I'm not sure why you continue with the confrontational posts.

Your avatar is freakin awesome....though do you really need LAS on the logo? I mean our regular jerseys dont say The Spurs....still that logo looks sweet.

If the Spurs would market that to the hispanic community, it would sell like hot cakes. Im not hispanic and I would buy a cap that said San Antonio Espuelas on it.

GO SPURS GO

[ohmwrecker]

Wow, your reading comprehension is loaded with fail. If someone offers Parker more money than the Spurs do, there's not really much choice there. I'm still not sure how you don't see that getting value for Parker is preferable to losing him, and if you do understand that, I'm not sure why you continue with the confrontational posts.

Well, in the scenario I proposed, the Spurs offer Tony a contract extension this year (like they did for Manu at the end of last season) and he accepts because he wants to stay here. End of story. No offer from another team.

The issue seems to be that we have diametrically opposed beliefs about the process by which Tony Parker makes his decisions. Neither one of us is right or wrong, just expressing an opinion. It's a silly argument.

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Well, in the scenario I proposed, the Spurs offer Tony a contract extension this year (like they did for Manu at the end of last season) and he accepts because he wants to stay here. End of story. No offer from another team.

I'm right with ya on that. If the Spurs want to keep him, that's how they're going to need to do it.

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Your avatar is freakin awesome....though do you really need LAS on the logo? I mean our regular jerseys dont say The Spurs....still that logo looks sweet.

If the Spurs would market that to the hispanic community, it would sell like hot cakes. Im not hispanic and I would buy a cap that said San Antonio Espuelas on it.

GO SPURS GO

Thank you. I spent a lot of time on it, but only over a couple of days. The reason I put that in there is that, unless I'm mistaken, Spanish pretty much requires that they be Las Espuelas de San Antonio in order for it to be clear. Also, the U is not in the center like it is in "Spurs" so I had to try to counterbalance it a bit. Seemed the most elegant way to do it.

I made it after a conversation on Spurstalk about how dumb "los spurs" is and how lame it is that the best the NBA can come up with to market to Spanish speaking fans is "ene be a" which is re ed. The NBA and the Spurs are welcome to market my logo to whomever they'd like as soon as they pay me for my design.

[BronxCowboy]

I read on some random blog that WOAI was reporting yesterday that Parker was traded to the Clippers, but don't see anything here. Anyone hear this? Did they report that in error then retract it or something?