He can still be amnestied next July. Didn't have to be used right away.
tbh, I can't wait to hear the ing when RJ is walking like a zombie out there while Leonard watches from the bench. Then you'll hear the usual apologists: "Leonard didn't play because he must be sucking during practice"... or "Rookie wall!"... or "It wouldn't be fair to the team"...
And that's another reason why RJ has to walk... if he's there, he'll play, and he's higher than the rooks in the veteran pecking order...
Probably won't happen; the Spurs will try like to salary dump his worthless ass, with guys like Splitter, Anderson, and first round picks as likely sweeteners.
So that means the Spurs can't make any decent moves until next July...
Didn't they already try to package him with Tony, a top tier dude on the right side of 30, and still no takers? I don't think it will be that easy to dump that salary. And the closer we get to the new luxury tax rules, the harder it's going to be, IMO.
They'll use amnesty on him next summer when we actually have a chance at landing a decent fa.
Tony is also in the middle of a huge contract himself, so that's an enormous amount of salary to be taking in. If Anderson blows up half as much as the Spurs seem to be expecting him to, I can see him gone in the salary dump.
It's not happening. Let it go already. Accept it and hope for the best. Try to enjoy Timmy while you still can.
It's official
Spurs notebook: No amnesty for Jefferson
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 7:49 pm
By Jeff McDonald
[email protected]
HOUSTON – Meet the new starting small forward, same as the old starting small forward.
After a week of flirting with other small forwards, the Spurs will open the preseason tonight at the Toyota Center with Richard Jefferson still on the roster and the remaining three years and $30.5 million on his contract still on the team payroll.
Friday’s NBA deadline for executing amnesty on a player – waiving him in order to clean his contract off the books for salary-cap purposes – came and went without Jefferson being jettisoned.
The Spurs had been strongly considering releasing the 31-year-old Jefferson, but backed away when they couldn’t seem to attract a suitable replacement. Though amnesty is off the table for the 2011-12 season, the team could still use the one-time provision for next season beginning in July.
In two seasons with the Spurs, Jefferson averaged 11.6 points. He shot 44 percent from 3-point range last season, a career-high and fifth-best in the league.
“He had a of a year for us,” coach Gregg Popovich said. “I think he’ll just move forward from there.”
http://blog.mysanantonio.com/spursna...for-jefferson/
well reap what u sow spurs
100%
This is the most likely way it's going to go down, based entirely on past history and not just hope:
1. RJ soaks up a ton of minutes in the regular season, has some good early statistical games where people love his empty points and ignore the rest of the ways he doesn't help the team win.
2. Due to that, Kawhi and Old Man James Anderson sit on the bench, in and out of the rotation. Their development is delayed. Pop declares that playing youth after a short camp in a truncated season 'wouldn't be fair to the team'.
3. RJ starts to settle into RJ-mode as his poor defense, soft play, and no-hustle sprays itself all over the rest of the team.
4. RJ isn't in during many closing minutes, as Pop goes with Parker-sub A (Neal this year, Hill the last two)-& Manu at the smalls.
5. The playoffs approaching, Pop declares, "These playoffs aren't for them (the youth).'
6. The playoffs start, RJ starts the playoffs with one or two decent empty stat games. Then his overall garbage play is so poor that Pop can no longer ignore reality.
7. Pop turns to guys like Leonard and Anderson after the Spurs get down in the series.
8. Leonard and Anderson play well, but not as well as they could have had they been playing heavy minutes all year.
9. Being so far in the hole, and without Leonard and Anderson being as good as they should have been, the Spurs crumble and are humiliated and eliminated.
10. When asked about who starts the 11-12 season, he responds, "Maybe it's Richard Jefferson!"
we all can hope that it doesn't work out that way, but past behavior for the Spurs is the best indicator of future behavior
11 pts. 3.8 boards...not near worth the money we gave him, but he wasn't horrible. Just choked come playoff time.
But that's the problem. If Anderson is any good, you want to keep him.
Sounds right on the money...except they will be lucky to make the playoffs.
Exactly. But maybe Holt won't want to keep him the same way he didn't want to keep Scola.
Jefferson just choked playoff time? Who gives a about the rest of the time?
I see what you did there...
Regular season Pop is so disgusting... whatever happened with the old Pop?
What's worse is we didn't even bring in a big to help Duncan. Same team. Same results.
lol "I think he'll just move forward"
What a load of . I can't believe he even said that. The ONLY reason RJ is still on the roster is that the Spurs couldn't get another SF to come to SA. The amnesty news leaked right about the same time Caron Butler visited the Spurs. They had is ass in the catapult ready to hit the lever...now they think he's going to get better? How ing stupid do you think we are Pop?
He had a of a year my ass. Whatcha Smokin Pop
i just love how everytime the spurs failure v memphis is mentioned pop or the spurs retort 61 wins es
Pop if full of . IF RJ had a uva year, then he wouldn't have been chasing Caron Butler and every other available SF on the market.
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