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Chicago, Miami and San Antonio are expected to be among the teams interested in signing Carter, 34, once he clears waivers and becomes an unrestricted free agent.
Ya, about what I thought. Spurs had a late 1 first rounder that I didn't feel was worth too much and it was something that had been discussed on here by others. I wasn't exactly asking for it, but gauging what Piston fan thought it would take to trade him and if the Spurs were a legit partner. At that point, I said I wouldn't mind, but after seeing the rest of the year, he's done.
Chicago, Miami and San Antonio are expected to be among the teams interested in signing Carter, 34, once he clears waivers and becomes an unrestricted free agent.
Cue gnsf...."Go get him RC!!!!!!"
Pass on Carter.
I'll still take tmac.
For the min i would take Carter, but I am sure he wants more that the min
No. No. No.
I would rather be stuck with Richard Jefferson than have to put up with Vince Carter.
There are a few guys I'd be happy to never see in silver and black. Vince Carter is one of them.
is it wrong to think we would be better off having Carter in our team than in Miami or Chicago?
http://blog.mysanantonio.com/spursna...to-the-knicks/
Well there goes one my wished fors....
Curious given the Spurs obvious need for front court depth- I keep reading about washed up SFs
Said this in another thread, if Spurs want to go this rout why are Spurs seeming to go for the gutless has beens and not someone like Shane Battier?
Most NBA teams call them SFs but on the Spurs they call them Centers and Power forwards.
It's definitely all smokescreens, come on..
it's the Spurs we're talking about. We literally just
went through a trade, where the smokescreen was
Tony Parker being traded.
I'm Hoping it's all a smokescreen- however if RJ is gone the Spurs do not have a SF.
Sure Leonard etc are promising but that's it.
Other than going with 2 SGs
I have a lot of faith in Leonard.
Butler will strongly consider the Spurs, since his first choice is the Bulls, but he is not better than Luol Deng, and he isn't a true SG, so he would not be in the starting line-up, which probably won't work for him.
The Spurs would have to have a lot of dominoes fall just right. They have to find a taker for RJ first (a trade for a PF, preferably). However, trading RJ should make San Antonio a much more desirable location: chance to start on a pretty good team.
I'm sure they can work a trade out with La Clippers. Kaman and someone else, for RJ and Blair. I'm sure a player like Blair intrigues the Clipshow.
Why would the Clippers make that trade, when they figure to have a good chance at signing either Butler or Prince? If you're going to propose a trade, you've got to think of reasons why the other side would want to do it. I can't think of a single reason why the Clippers would want to make that trade. In the extremely highly unlikely event they would, obviously the Spurs would have to do it. But fit-wise, Kaman makes no sense next to Duncan, because he can't guard power forwards.
Butler to the Bulls makes no sense. There's no way at this point in his career that he can get away with playing SG almost exclusively and even if he could, he's not the type of player they need. I think he's meeting with the Spurs out of respect more than anything. But he'll probably end up with the Clippers or Nets, because they can offer significantly more.
You forget that certain players aren't all about the money.. Some players would like to be on a team that can make the playoffs.
All this talk about the Spurs looking for SF's, it doesn't mean they're looking for someone
to back up RJ.
What do you think it means? It isn't to light a fire under RJ's ass.
True. But when players take less, it's usually for one of two reasons. 1) They're from the city, have played for the team for a long time or both. 2) The team is considered a prime contender for the championship.
Butler has no previous ties to the Spurs and they're not considered a prime contender for the championship. The Clippers play in L.A., have a promising roster and can offer significantly more if they so choose.
Howard, on the other hand, I think is far more likely, mainly because I think the Spurs could offer about as much as Howard's likely to get. But also, Howard was pissed off when the Mavs traded him, so this would be an opportunity to exact revenge on the Mavs and do so playing with their biggest rival. He would also be guaranteed to start and play significant minutes, something he's not assured of elsewhere.
So much talk about FAs and in the end, we all know that we're going to keep Jefferson and sign Oberto for the min to be our 5th big.
That would be disasterous..
I would suppose the interest from the Bulls would be because Butler before his injury could get his own shot if he had the ball. The Bulls depend heavily on Rose to get people shots and would be better off to have another player who could get his.
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