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San Antonio Spurs restricted free-agent center Tiago Splitter could command an offer sheet that averages $8.5 million to $9 million annually, league sources told Yahoo! Sports.
The Portland Trail Blazers are expected to be a suitor for Splitter, league sources said. The Utah Jazz and Atlanta Hawks have salary-cap space, a need for a young center and general managers – Dennis Lindsey and Danny Ferry, respectively – who were Spurs front-office executives when Splitter came into the organization.
The Spurs will be in a strong position to match an offer sheet and keep Splitter, because they'll free of Stephen Jackson's $10 million salary and expect to re-sign Manu Ginobili at a lesser salary than the $14.1 million he made this season.
The baseline for a Splitter offer sheet will likely be the three-year, $25 million deal that Houston awarded center Omer Asik in free agency a year ago, sources told Y! Sports.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nba--nb...234954522.html
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Don't resign. Too much. Spurs should not forget too soon that they got a bit of help along the way in getting to the Finals. Splitter is not worth 9 million against the elite teams. Let him walk.
Pass. $8.5 million per is too much for a guy who kills you against elite teams imo. You know the Spurs are matching any offer though. For better or worse.
3/25 is fair for Splitter.
3/25? Yeesh.
You know the Spurs are gonna match at least 10 million.
Spur fan expecting a good big to sign for the MLE per par.
Too much for a guy that couldn't even find the floor in the Finals. Sorry Tiago. I liked how you ran the pick-and-roll and your solid defense, but see ya man.
Most people were expecting it to be in the $8m range which this would be. I think that's a fair deal for Tiago.
I like Tiago Splitter... But damn.
Boy. Spurs are going to be paying for Splitter a long time. In more ways than one.
I don't know, he is a good defensive big and a nice pick and roll player...Spurs will go for it
Nope, I expect the Spurs to use that money elsewhere and get a big that can potentially punish teams for going small. Millsap is the man for that kind of money.
It was just a bad matchup for him with Miami playing small ball. He was huge for the Spurs against Memphis, GS, and LA.
3 years beats the out of when guys like this used to get 6 year deals.
the problem is that there are not really a lot of quality bigs on the market. David West will probably sign with Indiana, Minnesota will match any offer for Pekovic, Al Jefferson will get more than 12M. We should know that Josh Smith and Dwight won't sign here, so the only guy that we could sign over Splitter is Paul Millsap. I wouldn't give Tiago over 8M a year, but the league bigs really suck this days so I don't know.
Yeah, but we were all hoping he might've at least given us a little discount...
Portland just received Thomas Robinson from Houston. Are they still going to want Splitter ?
$8M was the line for me. I'd reluctantly agree to an $8.5M contract, but no more.
As much criticism as NASF gives Splitter, what goes missing is the fact that we're better with Tiago than without. Against every other team not named the Heat, he's a deadly pick n roll player who also plays sound defense. We won't get better with the PF's and C's available via free agency.
Robinson is a 4, while Splitter is a 5. Rumors going around that Aldridge may be dealt as well. So yes, I would think so.
Let him walk and let Duncan retire. You will be begging for him back when Parker is trying to run the pick and roll with slow footed ass Baynes.
That's exactly what I was thinking.
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