Tony Parker has signed a multi-year contract extension.

[Budkin]

Gotta be because Eva is from San Antonio... awesome news though! Props to Tony!

[BacktoBasics]

Gotta be because Eva is from San Antonio... awesome news though! Props to Tony!

She's not from San Antonio

[eric365]

It seems that the FNT was in the talks :
« Je vais pouvoir jouer l'esprit tranquille. [...] Je vais aussi me consacrer entièrement à l'équipe de France et à l'Euro 2011. Je compte bien jouer avec les Bleus pendant de longues années »

=> I will be able to play with free minds. [...] I'm gonna also focus entirely on the FNT and the 2011 Euro. I"m gonna play with the FNT for a lot of years

Feel free to update the translation. I'm not sure I have done a good job

http://www.lequipe.fr/Basket/breves2...aux-spurs.html

[manu the best]

.. great news!!!!

[ogait]

Ok great news.

Glad the speculation and story making this season was about to become like Manu last year is now out of the way.

Full focus on winning games now I would hope.

[Libri]

I think this could convince Tim to resign for another year or two, after his contract expires.

[gameFACE]

Congrats to Tony!!!! That contract is a steal if it's true. Maybe the lockout and some rebuilding were taken into account.

LMAO at all the TP haters and doubters sounding all small town. Any PG other than Tony at this point would cause such trauma it would waste Duncan's twilight years.

[lurker23]

Great news!

Props to the Spurs, and especially to Tony and his agent, for getting this done and not dragging it out.

[ohmwrecker]

No need to be angry over excessive contracts anymore because everything evened out in the end. The Splitter deal balanced out Bonner's contract and Tony's deal balanced out that terrible contract for rj.

That being said I am still a little pissed about that rj deal.

You are free to do what you want, but it's pointless. All the "RJ haters" have been grasping at straws trying to imagine negative ramifications and panic stricken scenarios where RJ's contract was going to lock the Spurs out of making any other beneficial deals and mire the team in bottom dweller territory for years. Now that this argumentative artifice is crumbling, it's just a good idea to let it go. There is nothing to be gained by arguing this point any further.

[spursbird]

Parker is the most underestimating guy in the league.

[Bukefal]

Great news!!!! Made my day

Lol at those people questioning his loyalty to the Spurs all freakin summer long and thinking he was looking to change San Antonio for NY or LA asap because of his wife or hollywood attractions.

[jcrod]

Wow awesome news. I can't believe the deal.

[fred33]

it's not a ridiculous contract for tony
tony will have 29 yezrs in 2011
great youngS pointS guardS in the leagues
possibly a lockout next year
=35% FOR THE NEW PLAYERS CONTRACT
HE PREFERS TO LOSE 5 TO 10 MILLONS$ now befor the news contract bargaining

[Hooks]

Does this impact our ability to sign someone next season, does it give us more cap space? I don't really know anything about the cap or anything like that....

[Barfunk]

This is what I'm talking about.

[TDMVPDPOY]

Does this impact our ability to sign someone next season, does it give us more cap space? I don't really know anything about the cap or anything like that....

we are basically done...no capspace...

extending tp to play backup pg to ghill...watta waste of money

[Chomag]

Just more proof that the Spurs FO are the masters at low balling.

[8FOR!3]

LOL, I was one of those guys hoping we trade Parker, just because I thought we would need a Small Forward and Hill could fill Parker's position just fine, but after hearing 4 years 50 million, I'm almost laughing right now. What a great deal for the Spurs. Awesome day Spurs fans.

[Blackjack]

Pleasantly surprised Tony believes SA is still the best long-term fit for him.

Impending CBA aside, Tony's a winner. All he's ever done since entering the league is win. For him to forgo free-agency is a testament to his belief in the Spurs ability to sustain success even as Tim and Manu decline or leave the stage.

It's not about the reasonable contract to me, it's the belief Tony's displayed by accepting this contract. Chances are he would have been able to get something in the same ballpark post-CBA. This is bigger than the dollar-value to me; Tony just proved to one-and-all he's the epitome of "Spur".

I wonder if they have given up on Sparky Hill being a PG . . .

Looks to me Indy is the 6th Man successor to Manu, almost Jackson to Parker's Bibby moving forward.

[MaNu4Tres]

You are free to do what you want, but it's pointless. All the "RJ haters" have been grasping at straws trying to imagine negative ramifications and panic stricken scenarios where RJ's contract was going to lock the Spurs out of making any other beneficial deals and mire the team in bottom dweller territory for years. Now that this argumentative artifice is crumbling, it's just a good idea to let it go. There is nothing to be gained by arguing this point any further.

Throw it down, one time.

[Mel_13]

Great news for the Spurs, Parker, and the fans.

Kudos to both sides for resolving this so early in the process. It's just fantastic that we can all look forward to Tim, Tony, and Manu all completing their careers in San Antonio.

[ChumpDumper]

Hill could fill Parker's position just fine

What makes anyone think that?

[DPG21920]

No you actually quoted me and was completely wrong. No one loved RJ's contract. Some of us just admired how the front office resigned the best realistic small forward available. And a few of us were aware that his contract (even being slightly overpaid), didn't necessarily hurt the Spurs chances at resigning Parker or hurt their potential rebuilding process in 3 years.

And I'm not crying nor am I a female.

Nice try though

I actually quoted you because you made the dumb ass comment. It makes sense that when the person makes a blanket comment, that he or she is quoted.

I still very well could hurt the rebuilding process and getting TP at a steal had nothing to do with RJ's contact. The Spurs are still LT payers next year.

[Libri]

Spurs must have a very convincing long term plan that TP couldn't pass up.

Now that TP has no distractions, I expect him to play great. Awesome news for my fantasy team.

[TIMMYD!]

Wow, great news. Really unexpected that this would happen so early in the season and at such a great bargain.