Boris Diaw has reached agreement on a two-year, $9 million-plus contract

[crc21209]

Maximum Sports ‏@MaxSportsSA

Just got off phone with Diaw's agent. He says 6 other teams showed interested in Diaw, but Boris, for several reasons, didn't want to wait.

Nice. I'm sure Tony being here helped out the cause as well....

[Brazil]

Nice. I'm sure Tony being here helped out the cause as well....

that's for sure

He is certainly one of the good reason why Boris joined the Spurs

[dylankerouac]

No, they are going to be way over the cap. After the rest of the MLE and the BAE are spent, the Spurs will be at about $60 million on the books (the salary cap is ~$58 million). The luxury tax kicks in at about $70 million. The "apron" is at $74 million. Since the Spurs used the regular MLE and not the taxpayer MLE, the apron turns into a hard cap figure.

So to stay under the luxury tax threshold, Duncan's contract will have to be less than $10 million. The absolute max the Spurs can pay Duncan will be about $14 million.

I expect Holt to allow the Spurs to pay some lux tax. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if he lets the Spurs pay all the way up to the apron -- even though that will end up costing him $4 million more in lux tax penalty.

Thanks!

[tuncaboylu]

It's also bargain. Steve Novak gets 4 years 15M and we lock Diaw 9M for 2 years.

Excellent move.

[dunkman]

Good news, the Spurs kept every playoffs rotation player. Mills and hopefully De Colo will solve the backup PG problem for once.

Too bad the second year is players option.

[objective]

Boris coming off a buyout for a pro-rated amount was a steal.

This deal?

Reasonable, good value maybe, but no steal.

I was was more interested in Lorbek as an unknown over Boris the known.

I just don't see who this team is getting better up front without a trade happening. But, Boris is a fine, corpulent player.

Except I wouldn't count on him in the playoffs. He no showed each series clincher, and was generally invisible against the Thunder. Other than eating minutes, he's not a mark in the 'positive difference maker in the postseason' column.

[Knoxxx]

I think Diaw is a bit overrated too. I am hopeful he will get in better shape, and acclimate even more effectively with a full training camp and last season with our team.

I will admit that when he is hitting on all cylinders, the Spurs are a beast to stop. OKC he did not step up though and looked overmatched. Not sure he will ever be "clutch" at all but we can only hope.

[angelbelow]

Again, these are great deals. Especially in this NBA climate where the majority of players are being over-payed.

I personally thought Diaw was going to get the full MLE and that another team was going to overpay Green.

Diaw isn't the athletic 4 or the defensive specialist we all want but there is no doubt that he was the most obvious and realistic way to improve our front line.

[benefactor]

Damn Spur fan is hard to please. You guys want to go back to the days of starting Bonner?

[therealtruth]

Some people seem to be upset about bringing in the same guys. The thing is the team is bringing in the best options available and on very good contracts.

I know everybody wants new players to feel we are going to war with some new guns. The fact is we made a lot of moves over the last year. Two years worth of moves. Kawhi trade, Boris signing, and the S jax trade. If we did the latter two this summer everybody would be pumped.

Despite all that we still have hope of a trade possibly including Blair, Neal, Bonner, or Splitter. We have a little exception we can offer a old(most likely) or a young player.

The team won like 20 games in a row and I don't think they even hit their peak. They swept the first two rounds of the playoffs. They were winning games by averages of 10 ppg. The Spurs will win 60+ next season. Book it. The only thing holding them back will be getting a backup pg, playing better consistent defense, and developing Splitter's post game.

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Love this deal, very glad to have Diaw back, although it seems a strange one from Boris's perspective - at his age I thought he'd be looking for 3 years.

[slick'81]

great all around deal after a full training camp and preseason i look for diaw to shine

[ace3g]

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http://www.nba.com/spurs/news/120712_diaw