Another year...spurs do nothing!

[ChumpDumper]

Facts are facts and that trade was a mistake.

[DrunkTXLabrat]

fair enough.

that's all technical details anyway. my point is rj shoulda been more appropriately dealt with that offseason. a trade shoulda been made. not a contract re-negotiation. that's on the spurs FO with their overconfidence and indecisiveness regarding their acquisitions.

[therealtruth]

All signs point to there being a predetermined deal between RJ and the Spurs where RJ opted out of his final year and signed for multiple years with a much smaller amount in the first year to keep the Spurs able to sign more players without running into tax problems. Some might argue that the Spurs could have just reneged on such a deal and been free and clear of RJ forevah, but such bad faith would have destroyed any goodwill the Spurs have with agents along with the ability to make similar negotiations in the future.

I'm pretty sure any kind of deal like that would be illegal like Joe Smith's Minny deal that cost them draft picks.

[therealtruth]

This.

Damn near 100% of SpursTalk and well over 90% of the NBA talking heads thought that the trade was a great move. It's easy to criticize it now with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, but there are very few people that can bring up a post from June, 2009 that was critical of the trade.

I really didn't like the trade because I didn't think RJ's defense would be good enough.

[ChumpDumper]

I'm pretty sure any kind of deal like that would be illegal like Joe Smith's Minny deal that cost them draft picks.

Prove it.

[DrunkTXLabrat]

come on chump you have to admit that rj opt out thing was sketchy. i think the only reason they didn't get punished is cause stern figured more years and money for rj was punishment enough.

[ChumpDumper]

come on chump you have to admit that rj opt out thing was sketchy. i think the only reason they didn't get punished is cause stern figured more years and money for rj was punishment enough.

Or they simply couldn't prove anything.

[Mel_13]

I really didn't like the trade because I didn't think RJ's defense would be good enough.