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parker and melo need to speak up
Really, a D'Antoni team playing next to no D? Say it ain't so!
Yes, NYK is well on it's way to being Phoenix Suns East.
parker and melo need to speak up
Amare just reeks stupidity...ugh.
parker signing an extension in october will be all he needs to say.
Its the 4th of July weekend. They're probably too busy getting krunk
parker is in croatia with sean elliott claudia zapata amaury nolasco jennifer morisson
I think the whole TP thing has spun out of control on this board.
The new CBA will fundamentally alter many of the assumptions most crazy, over-reacting posters have been making about TP.
1. The only evidence of TP might leave is him making posturing statements about a new challenge after TD retires with a new team, made in the same breath as him saying he loves SA and wants to stay.
these are the same statments that Manu made just before he signed his recent deal.
2. TP has NEVER said he will not sign with SA. He said they are not offering him a contract right now.
3. This makes sense for the Spurs, since the new CBA will (almost certainly) be MUCH lower for players in TP range (they are saying around mid-level will be the max!).
4. The result: NO ONE will be able to give TP a better contract than the spurs, and his contract should be very affordable.
5. Spurs will have the following guys to keep TP interested:
blair
splitter
manu (still productive as a passer and shooter, prob. not much slashing)
anderson?
Hill
championship contender? Probably not, but not a bad team either. But the question will be, what team will be able to give him a better shot AND will have the caproom to take him? I don't see it.
Over the cap teams will probably be given much lower mid-level exceptions and LLE, so that will be proportional to the max.
I just don't see a reason, with the information we have of what will likely happen with the cba, with teams with likley cap room, and the state of the spurs in the near future, to assume TP would leave.
stalk much?
There's no practical way to save cap space for a year. There is a minimum salary figure that they must meet, and I can just about guarantee you that no one wants to sign a one year contract this summer, not with the lockout (and the new CBA) around the corner next year.
Why would Parker scare off anyone who wants to pay him or overpay him? That would be stupid on his part. He can't commit to the Knicks anyway right now - he is not a free agent. A team trading for him gets his Bird Rights (assuming that stays in effect next year). Why would Parker want to depress his value to the Spurs if they want to trade him?
Besides, what is so great about playing for the freaking Knicks anyway? The expectations on that team are not based in reality. It's a bad basketball team with a very shaky near term outlook. It looks like basketball to me. It's only a good place for players who think about the number of zeros on the salary and not a win loss record.
This coming from the guy who said he was sure he was going to get invited by Lebron, Bosh and Wade to decide what they were going to do for free agency. Guess what, he got no invite. Amare talks out of his A$$.
New York Knicks expected to target Spurs point guard Tony Parker to pair with Amar'e Stoudemire
BY Frank Isola
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER
Saturday, July 3rd 2010, 4:00 AM
Franklin/AP
Since Tony Parker (c.) is under contract with San Antonio, the Knicks would have to work out a trade to obtain the Spurs point guard and pair him with Amar'e Stoudemire.
That's Amar'e!
When it dawns on Amar'e Stoudemire that he'll no longer be running the pick-and-roll with Steve Nash, he might not want to join the Knicks. That's why it's Donnie Walsh's job to find Stoudemire a running mate and the player expected to be targeted is Tony Parker.
As the Daily News reported in April, the Spurs' point guard is hoping to be traded to the Knicks and has long wanted to play with Stoudemire. A person close to both players said Stoudemire and Parker hatched a plan to join forces in either Miami or New York.
"It's perfect for Tony because he wants to be in New York and he wants to play with Amar'e," said the source.
Since Parker is under contract with San Antonio, the Knicks would have to work out a trade, which would likely require the club taking back a big contract. A sign-and-trade with David Lee is a possibility, but not likely. The Knicks have also talked to New Orleans about Chris Paul but they don't have the resources to get him.
In order for the Spurs to be crazy enough to let Parker walk, it would take more than 2 teams to get the deal done.
I buy this. While not to Stoudemire's extent, Parker has always wanted more attention and acclaim than he's received. He's never going to get that with the Spurs. Even if he picks up next season where he left off at the end of the 08-09 season, he's still going to be third in popularity to Duncan and Ginobili. With the Knicks, he'd receive tons more attention and be probably equally as popular as Stoudemire. Stoudemire always wanted to be loved and mentioned among the best players in the world more than he wanted to win. Parker, with three championships already under his belt, might be at the point where he values those two things equally.
He's made it clear he's probably leaving after the season. Whether it was because he feels he's never received enough respect (I'd imagine the coming off the bench, not having the ball in his hands when he had looked like the previous season he had become the clear cut first option and the Spurs not wanting to talk extension when he did were the final straws) because he believes next season is the big three's last shot at a championship or a combination of both, he went from saying San Antonio is his home base, first choice and he doesn't want to go nowhere to Pop told him he won't be traded this season, maybe after next season a change/new challenge will be good, in a matter of a few weeks.
Link?
Why do Spurs fans make up this sort of thing? It's like they project what TP should feel rather than anything he has ever said, done or indicated.
Ridiculous.
this season when they asked him a question about geroge hill, you could see it in his face he was like george hill and started talking about himself.
Admittedly, I should have prefaced it by saying "I think".
I think it's pretty obvious and this is coming from a Parker fan. I'm not one of these people who wants him traded or run out of town or takes shots at him, etc.
Thanks, Ms. Cleo.
Do you get this pissy when people voice their opinions about other players?
no problem eric b....
The point is that you don't know what he was thinking or feeling. None of us know if this is bad journalism or if it comes from a reliable source. There is no way of telling what is going to happen until it happens.
this is from http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/ba...oks_blind.html :
"He's on the Knicks' short list," one NBA executive said Sunday.
You know what list Parker is currently on? The wish-upon-a-star list.
Maybe Eva Longoria's better half will come to New York next summer, after his contract runs out.
But as for Parker being in the Knicks' starting lineup this coming season, Stoudemire might be disappointed to learn that it's quite unlikely. If he's surprised by that, well, he needs to take a look at the bare cupboard he's going to agree to join for around $96 million.
"The Spurs are going to want a ton," said the executive. "For one thing, they'll want a young franchise-type of player in return."
If the Nets, say, were to offer a package that included Derrick Favors, the third pick in the draft who is seen as a young Stoudemire, then the Spurs would strongly consider it. Favors and Tim Duncan would make a nice pairing, right?
im all for derrick favors coming here but what would the nets get? david lee?
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