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Uh, yeah? That's been his plan all along. His third year is only 50% guaranteed, so it will be a nice little retirement present from the Spurs, or a trade sweetener next summer for some other team.
Chris Tomasson
Antonio McDyess reiterated the other day he plays to retire after this season Here's what he said about it last April: http://bit.ly/9lZHbh
Uh, yeah? That's been his plan all along. His third year is only 50% guaranteed, so it will be a nice little retirement present from the Spurs, or a trade sweetener next summer for some other team.
Uh, I know. But it's news nonetheless - Dyess actually saying it's his intention and not a good possibility.
He's basically announcing he's retiring from the playoffs... he retired from the regular season last year...
He's basically announcing he's retiring from the playoffs... he retired from the regular season last year...
It's a 'Bama thing.
It would be cool to send him off with a LOB.
I thought he announced this late or after last season? No news here.
McDyess could have had a ring if he chose Miami before 06 instead of the Pistons.
And then the question becomes, what will the Spurs do for a 5th big?
A ring would be the perfect retirement present.
ryan richards
I totally forgot about him. However, there's no guarantee that he'll be NBA-ready by next year. Sure would've been nice to have another back-to-the-basket player, at the ready.ryan richards
A little more on it.
Antonio McDyess says this his last season
Matt Moore
A colleague was relating to me the locker room scene after the Piston’s 2009 dismissal by the Cavs in the first round. In a locker room of apathetic, disaffected malcontents, Antonio McDyess was devastated. His best chance at a championship down the drain. “Dyess” could barely speak to reporters, but said he wasn’t sure if he’d be coming back. Turns out, he did come back. He returned to the NBA with the Spurs for another championship run, another run that fell short as the previous ones had.
Now, at age 36, and with the Spurs vying for one last desperate shot at the ring, McDyess says this is it for him. Dyess, from the San Antonio Express-News:
“I didn’t know what to expect when they signed me (in 2009), and I’m glad to be back,” McDyess said, “but I think this is it. I’m the oldest player (on the Spurs) now, and I feel like it. I’m not trying to see any more years. I’m pretty sure this is it.”
Notice the joke in there about being the oldest player on the Spurs, a team always considered to be pretty old to begin with. McDyess has helped teams win year in and year out, but has wound up only being a year too late (Phoenix, Detroit, San Antonio). Careers are rarely just. Still, it would be nice to see McDyess get to go out with a ring on top. He’s been around long enough.
That's why I keep saying that we need to draft a big man that we can mold and possibly hand the franchise to one day. On a team like the Spurs, he would have a chance to be a difference maker without the pressure of carrying the team.
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