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Matt Bonner
True. And Pop's treating of Finley -- the glorification of -- was something I always believed to coincide with that fact; Fin chose Pop and the Spurs when so many had decided to bypass a Spurs' offer or failed to even consider them in the past.
Indeed.
Matt Bonner
Moses Malone and Dominique Wilkins
Vinny Del Negro
You mean ...Rasho Nesterovic
Shaq O'Neal
Wasn't it like 15 years ago? I forgot he was signed as a FA, for some reason I thought he was traded.
TD when he re-signed. That was a pretty big deal. Finley as well, which was stated in the thread already...
ok fine.....name TWO......TWO big free agents that the Lakers have signed in the last 20 years!!!!!!!!11!!1!!!!!
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Duncan was a big deal. The Spurs almost lost him.
Why get an FA when you can trade a busted player and 2 chewed sticks of gum for an all star center?
If I remember right, Shaq was supposed to be a restricted FA, but the CBA that summer got re-done and somehow restricted free agency ceased to exist for that summer only, allowing Shaq to go to LA. Orlando would've definitely matched any offer.
Exactly! And David Robinson. The Spurs have done a good job of retaining their own big name players. It'll be interesting to see a few years down the road how they fare once Duncan is retired and if Popovich is also no longer the coach.
The Spurs have retained the services of their Big 3 through multiple contracts as well as big Dave. Rare for a top-tier team to do that...rare for any team to do that.
Radoslav Nesterovic is Rasho's full name.
Tim Duncan, duh.
If you are talking about a top three coveted free agent in any given off-season, other than their own players, no.
It is rare or at least has been for top players to switch teams a la LeBron since the previous team has a slight money advantage. There are exceptions but this past off-season was more the exception than the rule.
We have had a heart's broken time and time again trying to get free agents from the Clippers other than DA. I would love to see a way for the Spurs to be able to bring in Blake Griffin to be the heir to Tim's role on the team as he was to DRob.
Brent Barry
We signed Horry as a free agent, right?
Did we ever have enough cap space to offer a maximum contract to a free-agent?
I remember only 2003 and refused by Jason Kidd. On the others of last 15 years, we didn't have enough salary to catch a maximum waged free-agent.
Yes. But it was a big free-agent signing because of of what was accomplished here in his time, not initially.
If you would have asked some at the time, they probably would have told you the Spurs were kind souls to give him some shelter. Plenty thought he was done, even after his first year with the team -- that Lakers series didn't endear him to the fans too much.
As has been mentioned, the Big 3 signings are all significant and even somewhat rare to find in this day and age. You just don't see that many players re-upping with their original team time and time again -- even rarer in a market like the Spurs. But I got the feeling the extremely reputable and very serious thread starter was speaking to those that came from outside the organization. And if that's the case, it's Finley, Van Exel and Barry and then you'd probably have to go to the veteran buyouts the Spurs picked up during the season (i.e., Ward, Robinson and Gooden in recent years).
nick van exel?
Nick Van Exel and Finley were thought to be big-time signings for the Spurs at the time. Big names that were viewed as being just what the doctor ordered for the Spurs.
the spurts have never landed a big name FA.
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