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Durant is super-young and hasnt shown any signs of breaking down. When he reaches Tony's age and has a year like Tony did last year, I'm sure that answer will be a little less conclusory.
I don't know. Maybe because he has hundreds of thousands of fans he would like to tell and he probably feels guilty to his country for not participating. I really don't understand what the big deal is. Manu has repeated several times already that he planning to play for his national team again also.So why does Parker keep hammering the message home?
Durant is super-young and hasnt shown any signs of breaking down. When he reaches Tony's age and has a year like Tony did last year, I'm sure that answer will be a little less conclusory.
It has nothing to do with contract negotiations and everything to do with his reputation in France. Most his fans are from that country and he feels he let them down and now he is making it known that he will play for them next year....
They are basketball players...its what they do.
Im not ok with Parker "hinting" and NY (if those reports were even true) but I cant hold a ball player wanting to play ball for his country against him
Well, that's certainly an alternate view of reality. The main problem with that view, however, is your inability to articulate any reasonable objective that Parker may have that fits all of these so-called facts.
You're right Tony had a bad year... exactly why he didn't play this summer.......He did exactly what the FO told him to do.
Manu did the same thing with injury prone years and then went on to play with his national team to only make matters worse.. yet I don't see you mentioning anything about him.
IF he does he can flush a new big deal right down the drain in the NBA. He is throwing away his prime by beating his body up like this every summer. NBA teams are not s ing out a big deal for him when he is 28 with the body of a 35 year old..
If he returns to his 2008-09 form, he'll get paid.
Well seeing he is 4 years younger than Manu, I'm sure he is using him as a perfect example and Manu playing for his National Team (and even getting hurt way worse than Tony has) still landed him a max contract this summer at 32 years of age. Tony sees this and knows this.
I disagree.
I think fans get upset when their players play for their home country's team and not so much when they play for USA.
If George Hill was invited to play for Team USA would you have the same problem?
Old news.
He'll only return to that form because he had a year off. No point in paying him if he is going right back to the very thing that caused his level of play to plummett..
so we shouldn't have paid manu?
Perhaps so, but he'll get paid. Whether that turns out to be a bad choice for the FO that signs him is irrelevant to my point. If he returns to form, he'll get paid.
He'll get paid but i don't expect the number to be as high if he is 100% serious about playing next summer. He'll be 29 and want like a 5 or 6 year deal. Would you give him near max money given his trouble staying healthy when he plays in the summer? I sure wouldn't..
I don't know. It's a pretty tough spot depending on the amount he wants. I definitely don't think were better off without him here, I'll say that.
I agree with this and I believe the Spurs do as well. In fact, I think this accounts for Tony's public stance that he is not interested in an extension. I believe the Spurs told him that they're not ready to discuss anything other than a team-friendly extension now and that they're content to wait for the spring as they did with Manu. Rather than answer the same questions over and over again as Manu did last season, Tony has shut off that line of questioning by saying that he's not interested.
solid take.
Weather he plays or not for France should be irrelevant for the Spurs decision to trade him or extend him.
What matter is can the Spurs ever get enough value back from a Tony Parker trade. The answer is NO like it was whenever any similar discussion happened regarding Ginobili being traded. They are just too valuable for the Spurs compared to anything the other teams are willing to give back.
Therefore I'm definitely opposed to any trade involving Parker during this season and it also doesn't make sense given the long terms deals the Spurs made with Jefferson and Bonner. The spurs goal is to put the best possible team around Duncan until his retirement even if they don't come even close to contenders.
Now what we Spurs fans should know is that it will be Tony Parker decision by next year and there's not much that can be done about it.
Will he be willing to play for the Spurs from 2011 on knowing Tim will probably be gone by 2012 and Manu in 2013? I honestly can't hold anything against him if he decides to go play elsewhere because he doesn't want to play the rest of his prime on a rebuilding/irrelevant team.
There is not much more the Spurs can do other than wait.
after the spurs win it all this year all yall parker haters will be on his .
and after a couple of drinks, your mom will be on everyone's s
your mom is gonna be on my ? whats new?
Like it or not but Parker's commitment to play for his NT is at an all time high.
He will play next summer. He even said that he will played if he is without a contract during the Eurobasket. While in the past, he said that 2012 could be the end of his NT career, he is now speaking about playing after the 2012 Olympic games.
it has been a long off season for ST fortunately we have TP, Splitter vs. Scola and Bonner extension threads.
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