Thought this was interesting. It was part of the Peja Stojakovic/Alexis Ajinca deal:
Dallas Signs Stojakovic After Ajinca Deal
Jan 25, 2011 5:50 AM EST
The Mavericks were allowed to sign Peja Stojakovic on Monday night after the NBA approved their trade of Alexis Ajinca to the Raptors.
Stojakovic had been released by Toronto on Thursday.
Dallas sends Ajinca to Toronto and will pay the remainder of his $1.5 million salary for the season and return a future second-round pick that the Raptors had sent the Mavericks last June, as well as cash considerations.
In return, Dallas receives the rights to 2007 second-round pick Georgios Printezis and a trade exception equal to Ajinca's $1.5 million salary.
Read more: http://basketball.realgm.com/src_wir...#ixzz1C5NxU5Un
The Spurs drafted Printezis the same year they acquired Tiago Splitter and the basketball player formerly known as Marcus Williams in the draft. He went 58th to them and was actually present at the Garden (I remember watching him walk down to the stage and get his jersey as the 58th pick...unheard of). A 6'8 SF out of Greece, everyone thought he was a hidden gem. But suddenly and abruptly, they traded him for a future draft pick from Toronto. That pick would go on to become the 45th pick in the 2008 draft which netted Goran Dragic...who was in turn traded for another future pick: the 37th pick in the 2009 NBA draft which became DeJuan Blair. So on this day when Giorgios Printezis still isn't in the league and has now become the property of the Dallas Mavericks we have to say, thank you Toronto, Phoenix and Georgios Printezis for DeJuan Blair.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgios_Printezis
Gotta love the Spurs FO. They turned a Greek player who will never play in the NBA into DeJuan Blair.
What?? How is known now?
Printezis > Splitter
Ouch!!!!
mavs are stackin up players ignored by spurs.....
hahaha
poor guy.
couldve had Marc Gasol, but instead we picked that scrub from Arizona...
Now watch this guy completely murder us in the Western Conference Finals.
Countdown till the word "Greek" gets mentioned (disparagingly) in this thread . . .
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Still Marcus Williams. That was just my way of saying he sucked.Sorry for any confusion.
Ouch.
Didn't he also traveled?
I think it has reached meme status by now. It's just understood.
don't tell can't be faded
That's what the ref called.
Oh.Still Marcus Williams. That was just my way of saying he sucked.
What's that purple tape someone's wearing on their left calf/ankle @ 1:09? Anyone?
countdown to ManuForever come to defend his country-fellow men, Printezis.
Well the Mavs players got even friggin harder to spell right at least with Roddy, Dirk, Peja, Ian and this guy on board. They have got to lead the NBA in hard to spell names right now!
ROFL, was watching the guy and did not notice the ref calling the travel until you mentioned it and watched purposely the ref. Thanks
I love Greece and the Country of Macedonia (which the Greeks dispute the name) and having visited both and would go back in a heartbeat:
1) some of the most beautiful women anywhere in both places (when young anyway)
2) other scenery is just as specatular
3) food is fabulous with great variety and the wine and beers were wonderful
4) they play a of a brand of basketball
5) founder of the democrat ideal and all the wonderful classic stuff, philosophy etc.
Moreover the Spurs may yet still go after again a Greek center one day:
http://www.scoresreport.com/2009/06/...er-bouroussis/
What is not to like about Greece?
Women?
Variety of food??
Wines???
Beers????
Democracy??????
Are you ue this WAS Greece???
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