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    I was never that high on AK47. No doubt he would've helped but not a game changer. I think Stephen Jackson at 35 is still much better than AK47. I'm hoping that maybe there's a way that SJAX comes back for the league minimum. He won't get any other offers after being waived. Teams are staying away from him.

    Probably a long shot but you never know.

    Another cheap option is James Anderson...he'll probably get waived by the Rockets.

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    Kirilenko just had an 18 PER season with a ty Wolves team, he's still a very good player, tbh..

    Stephen Jackson is one of the worst players in the league right now, and I'd be surprised if a team signs him, tbh..

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    WTF? The Spurs were five seconds from being the best team in the league in 2013. Nobody got tremendously better this offseason. Houston will have to incorporate Coward in to their offense and team. His signing is already causing waves with Asik who wants to be traded.

    Lakers may have improved a little by shedding themselves of a talentless, overrated malcontent but they added no personnel to subs ute for Kobe's expected recovery time or Flight's position.

    Oklahoma City lost Harden AND Martin. They've done nothing to make up for those losses.

    Memphis lost their head coach and part of their iden y.

    The Clippers may have improved but I'm not concerned about them either. As long as they have Griffen as their go-to player, we're fine.

    Dallas is a joke.

    Golden State just got worse. How do you let solid role players just leave ? Jack, Landry, Biedrins. No way am I counting RJ as a loss.

    Who am I missing ? We should be the favorites in the West again. As far as I know, we lost only Blair at this point. Gary Neal hasn't been offered a contract and we could still match it. Blair is the only guy who is most likely not returning.

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    Guess the only improvements will come from :

    - Pop realizing Kawhi is the third banana and actually running plays for him

    - Baynes cracking the rotation and boosting our ty rebounding a little
    Splitter/Diaw/Bonner/Baynes.. always have and always will.

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    Yea looks like the spurs are fine rolling out green as backup small forward. I mean it worked out ok in the finals but still it would have been nice to have a true back up sf that can play small ball 4.

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    WTF? The Spurs were five seconds from being the best team in the league in 2013. Nobody got tremendously better this offseason. Houston will have to incorporate Coward in to their offense and team. His signing is already causing waves with Asik who wants to be traded.

    Lakers may have improved a little by shedding themselves of a talentless, overrated malcontent but they added no personnel to subs ute for Kobe's expected recovery time or Flight's position.

    Oklahoma City lost Harden AND Martin. They've done nothing to make up for those losses.

    Memphis lost their head coach and part of their iden y.

    The Clippers may have improved but I'm not concerned about them either. As long as they have Griffen as their go-to player, we're fine.

    Dallas is a joke.

    Golden State just got worse. How do you let solid role players just leave ? Jack, Landry, Biedrins. No way am I counting RJ as a loss.

    Who am I missing ? We should be the favorites in the West again. As far as I know, we lost only Blair at this point. Gary Neal hasn't been offered a contract and we could still match it. Blair is the only guy who is most likely not returning.
    Sure, but the Spurs could have been a level above the rest of the conference, rather than being the best team on the same level, tbh..

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    Article says nothing, though, the tweet speculating about 2y/4m deal is interesting if on point. Still wouldn't rule out a sign and trade involving Neal and De Colo for an underrated SF backup. Nando is an interesting prospect but I can see him ing a lot this coming year with Belli in tow.

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    Sure, but the Spurs could have been a level above the rest of the conference, rather than being the best team on the same level, tbh..
    I actually think the team got slightly better tbh. Belli + Pende > Blair + Neal + marginal corporate knowledge

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    Love all the pull it out of their ass assumptions here.

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    I actually think the team got slightly better tbh. Belli + Pende > Blair + Neal + marginal corporate knowledge
    Those possible improvements are insignificant on a old team. Even a slight player decline erases those improvements.

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    It could be that the Spurs were unwilling to give a long term deal to a 32 years old player.After the Jefferson fiasco,they're probably not ready to give a long term deal to a player,that hasn't been proven in Spurs system.

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    It could be that the Spurs were unwilling to give a long term deal to a 32 years old player.After the Jefferson fiasco,they're probably not ready to give a long term deal to a player,that hasn't been proven in Spurs system.
    Excellent point.

    So many want to assume that the Spurs had a plan to create and use cap space. We'll never know it that was ever the case. Even if they did have AK47 as a possible target, that plan could have died on initial contact with AK's agent if he told the Spurs that a 2 year deal wouldn't be considered. The Spurs had to go beyond 2015 with Splitter, as they will with Kawhi, but they very well may have drawn the line right there.

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    his article was really stupid nothing but speculation it came out before latest specualtion figure


    I would not even count that figure he is an idiot

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    This article just seemed a speculation but McDonald tweeting today that Pendergraph got $4M put Spurs basically out of the equation for Kirilenko.

    It could still theoretically be possible with some crazy and complicated S&T scenarios but it's just in theory. In practical, Spurs won't get Kirilenko.
    I guess the question will be, how serious were the Spurs in getting AK47? Hopefully Wojnarowski will give us some insight with one of his columns.

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    How does one read that article and say OUT? Comprehension is a lost art.

    NO longer considered viable doesn't mean OUT OF THE RUNNING. It just means that based on what appears, it would seem that Spurs can't entice AK47 with what perceived little money they have left to offer.

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    Guess the only improvements will come from :

    - Pop realizing Kawhi is the third banana and actually running plays for him

    - Baynes cracking the rotation and boosting our ty rebounding a little
    It's a given that he'll be running plays for Leonard. Specifically, I'd imagine he'll be utilized as a pick-and-roll ball handler some, which makes the Belinelli signing especially perplexing, because then they don't necessarily need another wing to serve as a secondary ball handler/Ginobili insurance. Instead, they should have signed an actual backup SF, such as Delfino, who can actually handle somewhat as well. And if they still weren't satisfied on that front, then they should have brought in a proper backup PG.

    Baynes not only won't be cracking the rotation, but won't even be cracking the active roster, so long as the other five bigs are healthy and they're not giving Duncan the game off.

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    We won't know until it's already happened, so speculating is worthless anyway. Spurs weren't rumored to be interested in Pendergraph until right before they signed him, same with Belinelli. Whatever is going on, that got McDonald doesn't know and neither does anyone else probably. But if Adrian Wojarnowski said the Spurs were eyeing him, they probably were/are. And since we still won't know the full details of their deals for a few more days, it's all up in the air. Who knows.

    I really hope the Spurs are not going to begin the season with the roster they have now though, they need a backup SF. Green/Diaw/Manu/Beli splitting time ain't going to cut it.

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    Well, if Bonner contract is still mostly non-guaranteed, the following scenario would work in theory:

    Spurs trade Bonner and De Colo for Kirilenko
    Minny trade Kirilenko for Kevin Martin and Bonner
    OKC trade Martin for a TE
    Utah trade TE for De Colo

    Add pick, rights to foreign player and cash to balance the trade. Spurs could have Kirilenko with a 8.2M salary in that scenario.

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    we back in it.

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    What makes you think the Spurs are involved in this?

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    Couldn't it just be a deal between OKC and Minny?

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    Lol

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    OKC is getting AK47 tbh

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    Probably.

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    OKC is getting AK47 tbh
    That would really suck!

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