Twitter: DeJuan Blair's Reaction to DNP-CD in Season Opener

[TDMVPDPOY]

seems like everyone in his draft class is gettin paid besides him, contract year and he wants to show....

when was the last time he had a 20/20 game

[silverblk mystix]

If anyone cares about truth. here it is;

Any coach that would play Bonner over Blair is an idiot.
Any coach that would play Neal at backup point over mills is an idiot.
Any coach that would cut Curry and keep Bonner is an idiot.
Any coach that would have Bonner on the roster for one full season-let alone 7 seasons is an idiot.


Pop needs to go and step back to a front office job and hire a young coach with fire and common sense.

But no one really wants truth-they just want to keep seeing Bonner things up and seeing Pop mismanage any and all bigs year in and year out.

[FkLA]

WTF does Blair bring to the table? Hes not even a good offensive rebounder anymore, the red rocket provides more to the team by just by sitting on his ass out on the three point line tbh. Defensively hes not only undersized and unathletic just like Bonner, but hes also dumb as a rock. Its actually very debatable whether hes a better basketball player than Bonner imo.

[TDMVPDPOY]

sad fck doesnt dare to say it to pops face...thats the difference between him and bonner...

[DapDaGenius]

I wonder if Nando and Cory are upset about their DNP-CDs?

[Russo21]

He'll be gone by the deadline. Unfortunately, Bonner won't.

[MaNu4Tres]

Wonder if Blair thinks he's deserving of Taj Gibsons' extension because he out performed him in the Rookie challenge 2 years ago.

[MaNu4Tres]

Spurs should have traded him to the Bobcats or another lottery team for a 2nd rounder and kept Curry, tbh..

The guy thinks he's better than he is. Sure he can fill the stat sheet at times, but he is the worst player on the team when it comes to the intangibles that don't show up on the stat sheet.

[sanman53]

Not sure what to make out of that. Referring to Pop as "dude" probably won't help him win any minutes. He's not outwardly whining but it's not too far beneath the surface.

Hopefully this doesn't boil over into something more. Blair, especially when you consider his contract, is damn good bigman depth.

If it 'just hit him' that the 'dude' wants more, he should confront Pop about this, not run to social media. Sit down with Pop, find out how to improve and work your butt off and try to improve on those things.

[elemento]

SA should have traded Blair to GS when they had the chance. I think SA was pushing to get that 1st round pick back but GS was high on Festus and did not want to give up a 1st on Blair. Pretty sure they offered that 2nd round pick (35th pick if I am not wrong). They should have taken it. There was so much talent in the 2nd round in the past draft.

Dejuan Blair wants PT to get a big paycheck. He doesn't give a if it's in SA or anywhere else. He just saw his BFF getting a 40m paycheck and he wants big money as well. Blair will be lucky if he gets 3m/year tbh.

[weebo]

Too bad for Blair because it looks like he worked hard to get in shape in the offseason, contract year or not. However, it just hit me! Blair (and Bonner)is not an NBA player a team with championship aspirations needs. He would be better served playing on a team like Cleveland or Milwaukee where he could get minutes, play hard, and be a fan favorite.

[Chinook]

The sad thing is that some of Blair's value came from the fact that his contract was non-guaranteed. They could've traded him to someone like Houston who had to cut someone and who may not have wanted to eat that contract. (For example, the Spurs could've traded him for Jajuan Johnson, or something like that.) But Blair's deal is now guaranteed (I believe, although that may happen at a specific time today), so a team will have to want him as a player or trade asset instead of just a piece to make the numbers work.

[BG_Spurs_Fan]

The sad thing is that some of Blair's value came from the fact that his contract was non-guaranteed. They could've traded him to someone like Houston who had to cut someone and who may not have wanted to eat that contract. (For example, the Spurs could've traded him for Jajuan Johnson, or something like that.) But Blair's deal is now guaranteed (I believe, although that may happen at a specific time today), so a team will have to want him as a player or trade asset instead of just a piece to make the numbers work.

Actually today is the day, on which his deal becomes fully guaranteed, unless waived.

[Chinook]

Actually today is the day, on which his deal becomes fully guaranteed, unless waived.

I know today is the day. But does that mean that the deadline was midnight, or is it 11:59 p.m., or some other time in between? If there is still time, I wouldn't rule out that they just waive him. The Spurs usually will release a player if he makes it clear he doesn't want to be in S.A.

[Chinook]

Either way, working out a trade in time to get him sent to the other team and waived may be too difficult now. It seems like such a scenario for a trade may be out of the equation.

[lefty]

Imagine a world where we would have :

- Scola
- no Bonner

[BG_Spurs_Fan]

I know today is the day. But does that mean that the deadline was midnight, or is it 11:59 p.m., or some other time in between? If there is still time, I wouldn't rule out that they just waive him. The Spurs usually will release a player if he makes it clear he doesn't want to be in S.A.

Must be 11:59pm on Nov 1st. I don't think they'll just waive him unless they have a ready replacement, which IMO is unlikely. I think they'll keep him and try to trade him at some point, besides his small contract should come in handy when working out trades.

[Chinook]

Oh yes, I still think he is a good trade chip. But his at ude may force a trade. His contract is small enough to be absorbed by many trade exceptions, which means he can still be traded for nothing. That may be the most likely way they trade him, especially if they take a flier on someone like Green or Johnson.

[Sense]

Is he jumping ship too early?

I mean maybe Pop wants to use him heavily today, maybe Duncan's not playing today.. it is a back-to-back and Blair has always played well against OKC.

[spurspokesman]

, he would go for 20/20 against us...our defense is weak and hardly anybody hustles like he does...

30/30 seeing this soft ass frontline. Trade him to a division foe and watch it happen lol.

[DapDaGenius]

Is he jumping ship too early?

I mean maybe Pop wants to use him heavily today, maybe Duncan's not playing today.. it is a back-to-back and Blair has always played well against OKC.

Yeah, I don't get why he is complaining over not playing in the opener. I could see if he was barely getting any PT over a good span of games, but him voicing it like this over twitter because of one game, is a good way to get traded. Which if that is what he wants, then he should keep doing it. I wonder who the they'll trade him for, if they are considering trading him.

[SenorSpur]

After being a starter for the better part of the past 2 seasons, I can only imagine what a blow it has been to Blair's ego that he, not only lost his starting job, but racked up another DNP-CD. Whether Blair deserves to get his share of playing time is debatable. However, it's hard for any young player NOT to be concerned with the two things that drives all players - playing time and money. He's in a contract year and he's certainly desparate to demonstrate whether he deserves to be part of the regular rotation - and in turn, flip that into possibly a better contract from some other team.

That said, I don't agree with his Twitter whining, which clearly demonstrates that he's still a young, immature kid. For his sake, I just hope he stays away from Whataburger.

I'll be happy when the Blair soap opera, and the Bonner nightmare, are both over.

[DapDaGenius]

30/30 seeing this soft ass frontline. Trade him to a division foe and watch it happen lol.

Definitely. It always happens that way lol. Tbh Blair needs to go to a team like the Bobcats to really even justify the type of money he thinks he deserves. At least in Charlotte he could possibly get enough PT to not complain.

[Raven]

new orleans is a terrible matchup for him, that's about it.

[dylankerouac]

While I can agree that New Orleans may not be a great match-up for Blair, his tweet makes it sound like he came to this realization all on his own which is a troubling sign. Pop is known as being very straightforward with players and not beating around the bush, for instance he told Jax after the acquisition last year that the Spurs were not talking about an extension. In addition, we usually hear that Pop is clear in defining player roles when they come aboard.

One can only speculate as to why Pop hasn't been clear with Blair regarding this season's expectations of him.