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lol at calling this the Oden sweepstakes. Won't even play twenty games. I have nothing against Oden - he's a nice guy and all, but he's clearly looking for one last paycheck. Someone will be dumb enough to pay him though
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/94...en-sources-say
Oden To Meet With Teams In Vegas
Brian Windhorst discusses meetings planned this week between free-agent center Greg Oden and representatives from the Mavs, Kings and Pelicans.Tags: Greg Oden, Dallas Maverricks, Sacramento Kings, New Orleans Pelicans, San Antonio Spurs,Miami Heat, free agent
Free-agent center Greg Oden will be in Las Vegas this week for face-to-face meetings with officials from the Dallas Mavericks, Sacramento Kings and New Orleans Pelicans, according to sources with knowledge of Oden's plans.
Fitzsimmons and Durrett
Marc Stein joins Ian Fitzsimmons and Tim MacMahon to discuss why the Mavericks didn't want to match Cleveland's offer to Andrew Bynum, what's next for the Mavs and the possibility of Dirk Nowitzki ending his career elsewhere.
The sitdown with Mavericks officials, sources said, is scheduled for later Monday, as Dallas pushes to join the San Antonio Spurs and Miami Heat at the forefront of the race to resurrect the career of 2007's No. 1 overall pick.
Oden, 25, has battled numerous knee injuries and hasn't played in an NBA game since Dec. 5, 2009. He is coming off his third microfracture knee surgery in February 2012.
He was the top overall pick in the 2007 NBA draft out of Ohio State, chosen by the Portland Trail Blazers one spot ahead of Kevin Durant.
ESPN.com reported last week that the Cleveland Cavaliers' signing of Andrew Bynumremoved the Cavs from the list of contenders for his services. San Antonio and Miami are widely regarded as the two favorites, but Dallas continues to pursue Oden with intent while also negotiating with Milwaukee Bucks free-agent big man Samuel Dalembert.
Heat president Pat Riley recently told local reporters that he's had an extended exchange with Oden already.
lol at calling this the Oden sweepstakes. Won't even play twenty games. I have nothing against Oden - he's a nice guy and all, but he's clearly looking for one last paycheck. Someone will be dumb enough to pay him though
I don't quite understand all the hoopla for a player with as terrible knees as this ol' sport. Perhaps they would be better off trying to sign Yao Ming?
I don't see a reason why would the Spurs need him. 6 bigs on the team already. Only if Bonner is getting traded and we know that's not happening.
Oden is low-risk, high-reward. The Spurs would be dumb to pass on the chance (provided he'd sign for the min).
We thought the same thing about Nando and he ended up riding the pine during the playoffs. IMO, this is is low-risk, no reward.
Only financially is he low risk. His health is a horrible risk.
What's Miami's financial situation? Even if they pay Oden the vet minimum, wont that put them in financial straights -- aren't they way over the tax? Seems to me like the main reason Oden hasn't accepted the Spurs offer is because he's praying Miami finds the money for him.
FYI it looks like Sham is in the middle of updating salary info. Miami's salary info has already been updated, why the Spurs hasnt.
Lets see how much he gets, comparing it to what Bynum got.
After Slitter was resigned and spurs getting Pittmen (sp?) I felt they no longer would need to be looking at Oden. However with Baynes Sub-par Summer league play maybe Spurs might want to think about bringing him on for Baynes insurance?
There's no such thing as Baynes insurance. If Oden came here it would be to compete against Baynes for Baynes' job.
lmao at this entire post. First of all his name is Splitter. Secondly, Pittman (not Pittmen) is trash to fill the summer league roster with zero chance of playing for the Spurs, ever. And lastly, Baynes would be Oden insurance, not the other way around. Baynes would clearly go to the D-League and be insurance if (or when) Oden gets hurt.
I would be stunned if the Spurs signed Oden. I can't see him picking SA over Miami if both teams come in with similar offers.
Pittman has no chance of making the spurs roster.
i would rather have Baynes then than take a risk on Oden.
I have been thinking this all along. He is going to have to play cheap for a year or two to prove himself before he ever gets serious money. That being the case, where is he most likely to get the exposure (on a national media scale) and playing time? The answer is clearly Miami over San Antonio.
^This.
There is no way he is going to turn down the Heat.
NBA players are like most women, they say they want to be with nice guys and they always choose the assholes.
Very true, except for one problem. The Spurs best player and coach are very much assholes. My two favorite assholes, that is.
If we had the chance to fill that roster spot with a superstar, the risk of him not panning out would present a significant opportunity cost. On the other hand, if signing him merely means a minimum contract and that we have to choose between shipping Thomas to Europe for a year or cutting Mills or DeColo, I guess I don't feel like it would be a terrible loss if we took a flyer on him and nothing came of it.
The Spurs would lose nobody. De Colo and Baynes could be sent to the D-League. Thomas could as well.
I thought Ilgauskas' career was done for and then he put in a solid decade of work.
Yes, two different situations. Still, Oden is only 25. With the knees of a 35 year old.
Still, if he can play, he brings interior defense and rebounding. It wouldn't be a bad gamble if we're talking about a vet min contract.
If we send a player to the D League on a Spurs contract, that player takes up one of our 15 roster spots -- 14 of which are currently committed. If we instead cut that player and try to get him to go to Austin on a D League contract, he would be free to sign with any team, in the NBA or in Europe.
There were other teams interested in Baynes last year, and I expect he could stick somewhere. After the scoring clinic Thomas has been putting on in summer league, it's pretty likely that there are teams who would be happy to offer him at least a 10-day in the NBA. And even if De Colo didn't have any front office fans in the NBA, he could play just about anywhere in Europe.
So De Colo gets sent down and then signed by someone else. Okay. Of course this would all be a moot point if the Spurs would have let Bonner go like they should have. Talk about garbage.
The Spurs are confirmed over the cap, and at little risk of hitting the luxury tax. If the front office decided that he was their 15th best player and they needed the roster spot, they could cut Bonner, they'd just have to play his salary anyway. And they can still try to ship him out as an expiring contract at the trade deadline if they want to.
Of course, Bonner played useful minutes for us last year, both in the regular season and in the playoffs, and he's nowhere near being our worst player. We'd be crazy to cut him without at least seeing Pendergraph in action and confirming that he can be effective as our 4th big.
I forgot about Pendergraph, but I'm pretty confident that Bonner is not only the Spurs worst player, but a candidate for worst player in the NBA. If Pendergraph is somehow worse, then why on earth would the Spurs have signed him? If Bonner were cut today, he would be signed by a Spurs rival (vet minimum) purely 100% for Spurs corporate knowledge. If it weren't for that, nobody would sign him because he is trash.
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