2013 General Free Agent Signings/News and Trades

[Holden_Caulfield]

bring back hedo! he can be a pg and a sf lol but i think hes done.

[ace3g]

Warren Shaw retweeted

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Shams Charania @ShamsCharania
The Atlanta Hawks have claimed Gustavo Ayon off waivers, league source tells RealGM. He was released by the Bucks on Thursday.

[barakz21]

how about the patriots in football? they haven't won since 2007. are they failures too?

being in the conversation as a favorite is a good thing. Nobody is a lock. the spurs do it a different way than others, but guess what, it has been successful for 15 years. why are we questioning it now? is it because they made moves you don't agree with? so now they are wrong and idiots?

This. And yes, I am a Pats fan as well. lol

[CGD]

Warren Shaw retweeted

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Shams Charania @ShamsCharania
The Atlanta Hawks have claimed Gustavo Ayon off waivers, league source tells RealGM. He was released by the Bucks on Thursday.

Good for Ayon. I really liked the guy for the Spurs, but I Figured it would be tough for him to clear waivers AND for him to accept a Spurs minimum offer. He is good value for Bud and the hawks.

[Hoops Czar]

I keep telling myself R.C.'s got a plan. And if he does, he hides it well.

[Baam]

I keep telling myself R.C.'s got a plan. And if he does, he hides it well.

Yeah losing faith as well...

Blair in a eventual sign and trade is the Spurs last hope at this point .

[elemento]

Ayon is a decent backup Center. It's crazy how his body has changed since he arrived in the NBA.

I think he has a future in the NBA as a backup Center, Pachulia-style.

[Spursfanfromafar]

Shams Charania @ShamsCharania
The Atlanta Hawks have claimed Gustavo Ayon off waivers, league source tells RealGM. He was released by the Bucks on Thursday.

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/95...-atlanta-hawks

It is a great pickup for the size starved Hawks. Ferry & Budenholzer are rounding out a pretty decent squad in Teague, Williams, Korver, Millsap, Horford with Schroeder, Stevenson, Cunningham, Ayon, Brand, Antic on the bench. This group should restore the Hawks' traditional position of 5-6 in the East and assure them atleast a first round exit while preserving cap space for next season.

[Kindergarten Cop]

[rick1991]

Warren Shaw retweeted

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Shams Charania @ShamsCharania
The Atlanta Hawks have claimed Gustavo Ayon off waivers, league source tells RealGM. He was released by the Bucks on Thursday.

I bet this hurts their chances of landing Oden

[Jwash_1986]

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/95...-atlanta-hawks

It is a great pickup for the size starved Hawks. Ferry & Budenholzer are rounding out a pretty decent squad in Teague, Williams, Korver, Millsap, Horford with Schroeder, Stevenson, Cunningham, Ayon, Brand, Antic on the bench. This group should restore the Hawks' traditional position of 5-6 in the East and assure them atleast a first round exit while preserving cap space for next season.

Is Ivan Johnson still over there?

[milkyway21]

So close. Tracy McGrady finally got to the Finals this season as a bench-riding non-factor for the Western Conference Champion Spurs. He was 28 seconds from a championship ring. But alas, the Heat prevailed, and now McGrady continues to ponder his future.

Over the weekend at an event in China, McGrady told reporters he may consider a return to the Chinese Basketball Association, where he spent most of last season.

I think it is possible for him to return to CBA.

Thank you TMac.

[ace3g]

Marc Stein @ESPNSteinLine
RT @ChrisVernonShow: Mo Williams is flying in to meet with Grizzlies' front office tonight

[Kindergarten Cop]

Marc Stein @ESPNSteinLine
RT @ChrisVernonShow: Mo Williams is flying in to meet with Grizzlies' front office tonight

This will be interesting to see how close the Grizz will get to the luxury tax threshold in their attempt to bring Mo Williams aboard. I believe they have the full MLE (~$5.15M) at their disposal and are ~$4M under the threshold with only 12 guys under contract. I think that the Heat are the main compe ion (barring a S/T) considering that they have the mini MLE (~$3.2M) available - but it will cost Miami over $10M if they choose to use the exception.

[ace3g]

Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA
Free agent forward Ryan Gomes has reached agreement on a one-year deal with Oklahoma City, league sources tell Y! Sports.

[Chinook]

Another one bites the dust.

That's okay. I didn't really want him anyway. I would not be surprised if the Spurs are waiting until the market dies down enough to give a couple of players a non-guaranteed contract. They probably don't want to commit to any player this off-season with Thomas still potentially in the fold.

[Hoops Czar]

Lol, just sit there R.C.

[ace3g]

Should do an over/under how long it takes after Oden makes his decision for Woj to report on both Blair and the Spurs back up SF.

[Budkin]

Really wanna know what's going on with Blair. He's tweeting a bunch of random crap about his Panther or something.

[ace3g]

Really wanna know what's going on with Blair. He's tweeting a bunch of random crap about his Panther or something.

[Budkin]

^

[yavozerb]

Lol, just sit there R.C.

, at calling out RC who year in and year out is considered one of the best GM's in the NBA..Dumb getting dumber around here

[rastaspur]

Hilarious.

[cd021]

But NO championships. Do you really think anyone is going to remember or care 10 years from now?



The defense will improve? That's an interesting concept. Belinelli's defense was worse than Neal's and Pendergragh likely won't see much playing time. Other than that, the team is the same and a year older.

How do you know the Spurs will be healthier and how the can you say their deeper? They filled two vacancies from two departures. The rest of the team is exactly the same. They don't even have a backup for Leonard.

CoJo still has a lot of question marks and he doesn't look ready to be a steady backup. If the Spurs thought he was the answer, they wouldn't be looking into Mo Williams.

Our defense jumped from 11th to 4th after us making the WCF. Leonard and Green are quickly become some of the leagues better wing defenders (their post season performances speak to that) Spliter came off the bench for the 1st 6 weeks of the season.After that he former an elite defense core with Parker, Green, Leonard and Duncan.

That lineup should even better next season given they should play much more together. As I said before Kawhi missed 25+ games Duncan and Parker (both historically healthy players both missed 12 games). Duncan by the way missed his first games due to injury in more than 2 seasons. He has been extremely durable and that will hopefully continue. Pendergraph could crack the rotation at center and at the very least will be useful during the Duncan rest games, giving us a bigger and better defender.

People keep throwing out age like its a dirty word. Duncan has been the best defender 2 seasons running (defensive rating) and virtually every advanced stat you could think of showed Duncan was the true DVOP this season. Garnett is still one of the best defenders in the game at young age of 37 and keep in mind he has played 3 more seasons than Duncan.

Beli can't possibly be worse than Neal. Maybe a wash ,but Beli is 3 inches taller and longer. Its better than having an undersized 2 guard, who helps off every player he guards no matter who it is.

Joseph has yet to see consistent playing time and is a very good defender. If he gets 15-17 mpg over the course of an 82 game season, there is no reason to believe that he won't a good backup. He has shown great improvement since being drafted 2 seasons.


The 3rd season is generally where a player sinks or swims in the NBA. He'll get his chance and with Manu, Beli, Diaw & Leonard [Probably playing more with the second unit] he will have plenty of options and shouldn't be overwhelmed with 3 other play makers/ ball handlers.

The Spurs have been interested in

Danny Granger
Marcin Gortat
Luis Scola
Mo Williams
Mike Miller
Kenyon Martin
Andrei Kirilenko

among others its not an indictment on Joseph at all.

I think we are deeper than last season. True we don't have a backup SF but we didn't have two SFs for the half of the last season

I believe every player save for brings something to the table that can help us someway this season.


Many playoff teams can't say that.

[cd021]

This will be interesting to see how close the Grizz will get to the luxury tax threshold in their attempt to bring Mo Williams aboard. I believe they have the full MLE (~$5.15M) at their disposal and are ~$4M under the threshold with only 12 guys under contract. I think that the Heat are the main compe ion (barring a S/T) considering that they have the mini MLE (~$3.2M) available - but it will cost Miami over $10M if they choose to use the exception.

Good info