Reigning Black: Part 2: Executing The Plan

[Mel_13]

Part 1 in this thread: http://spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=159103

Part 2:

Tiago Splitter is officially a Spur.

Matt Bonner will be a Spur for another 4 years (should he see the end of his new contract).

Richard Jefferson?

They're working on it -- all signs point to Jefferson donning the Black and Silver sometime shortly, but as the saying goes: Don't count your chickens until they've picked up their $15.2 million option.

And with that, we look to what we've learned, what we know, and where the Spurs go from here.

What We've Learned

If you were to ask anyone knowledgeable of the NBA or its finance over recent weeks and months about the going rate of a certain first-class Brazilian bigman, chances are they'd tell you most -- if not all -- of the Spurs' Mid-Level exception would be about right. The Spurs were in dire need of Splitter's services -- a player that was getting paid quite well by his Spanish club -- and being three years removed from his 2007 draft class, Splitter was now eligible to eschew the rookie pay-scale and garner the Mid-Level exception from the team which held his rights. It wasn't a forgone conclusion Splitter would receive the whole Mid-Level exception, but the smart money was on him securing the majority of it and probably winding up at a number around $4 million in his first year.
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[wildbill2u]

The Spurs ALWAYS have a plan.

Unlike teams which lurch from bad trade to bad draft to bad trade, the SPurs success has been predicated on the FO making fewer bad decisions on players than other teams.

No team is 100% right on player decisions--and the Spurs have the limitations of being a small market team in a not-so-flashy town--but overall the Spurs are both opportunistic and savvy.

We could just as easily have been a Minnesota, Memphis, Clippers or NY under Isaiah.

[Russ]

Matt Bonner will be a Spur for another 4 years (should he see the end of his new contract).

Boy, that sounds sinister . . .

[Big P]

Boy, that sounds sinister . . .

Hopefully the last 2 years of his contract are team option...I do not understand the need to outbid ourselves in resigning bonner....4 years is a bit much.. ..even 3 years to me is a stretch, but 4 years AND $16 mil?

[Agloco]

The fact that Jefferson opted out and Splitter was re-signed at such a reasonable rate allowed the Spurs to splurge on Bonner.

Wow.....just.......wow.

[DPG21920]

Bruno from real gm?

[Blackjack]

Bruno from real gm?

Says "via."

(Bruno -- via RealGM -- has suggested Bonner's first year might actually be worth $3.05 million which would suggest what we already know: we don't exactly know.)

I saw Bruno post that he got his numbers of Bonner from RealGM, IIRC.

[DPG21920]

Ahhh