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If you forget Pekovic, the best FA left is Antawn Jamison. Unless Bonner expiring contract is used in a trade, he doesn't make a lot of sense for Spurs, but who knows, when you see them being linked with PGs.
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If you forget Pekovic, the best FA left is Antawn Jamison. Unless Bonner expiring contract is used in a trade, he doesn't make a lot of sense for Spurs, but who knows, when you see them being linked with PGs.
Ugh, pass
Yep, it quite shows how empty the FA market is at that stage of the summer.
yeah, that's why I'm thinking the Spurs will wait until the winter... plus I expect a bunch of teams to outright tank and look to get expiring deals with the solid draft that's coming up... there's opportunity there to swap Bonner + DeColo/Mills for a piece...
http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap...ract-Extension
Larry Sanders close to an extension worth $10 mil+ PER SEASON!!!
Insanity. Some team just aren't supposed to win I guess.
Beasley Possibly on his way out? Thoughts?
https://twitter.com/BrettNBA/status/365068860015128577Rumor: Suns likely to waive Michael Beasley after countless run-ins with the law. Working on this now.
Spurs won't touch the guy with a 10 foot pole.
Milwaukee. Sanders is exactly the type of guy that you let play out his contract. He has a lot of potential on the defensive end, but he hasn't done enough to be worth eight figures a year. If he blows up and earns an Ibaka deal, you just smile and pay up.
the Ibaka deal set the bar for $ per block and it's only logical that the Sanders camp tries to cash in big time on this argument.
Bucks seem to be stupid enough to go that route.
good for whatever team will be able to get John Henson in 2016, when the small market Bucks will find out that they put their few eggs in the wrong basket and can't re sign him.
(and Henson will be the much better and more efficient player down the raod)
He was arguably the MIP so not sure how much more he could have done...
Besides he seems really comitted to Milwaukee and in their situation it's awesome to have a talented young player thinking he wants to be a Bucks for life.
looking at those players, who in fact and not just arguably won the MIP in the last years, most were handed a fat contract based on this improvement and I would estimate that 2/3 of them never lived up to this promise.
(Granger, Hedo, Ellis, Arenas, Diaw, Simmons, Jalen Rose....for whatever reason only Aaron Brooks wasn't able to turn his MIP award into a somehow decent contract).
anyway. Sanders will get a 40 million contract, he will still produce some nice block numbers in the 25 minutes till he fouls out and one more time a team will find out, that spectacularly blocking some shots doesn't automatically turn into wins.
He's also one of the most promising defensive anchor and had a good case for DPOY as well...
Everyone would take him on their team for that price tag let's be real...
Defensive Rating
1. Tim Duncan-SAS 95.0 2. Roy Hibbert-IND 96.9 3. Paul George-IND 97.1 4. Tony Allen-MEM 98.4 5. Marc Gasol-MEM 98.5 6. Larry Sanders-MIL 98.5 7. Joakim Noah-CHI 98.6 8. David West-IND 98.6 9. Kevin Garnett-BOS 98.9 10. Lamar Odom-LAC 99.0 11. Emeka Okafor-WAS 99.4 12. Kawhi Leonard-SAS 99.4 13. Zach Randolph-MEM 99.5 14. Reggie Evans-BRK 99.6 15. Tiago Splitter-SAS 100.0 16. Dwight Howard-LAL 100.1 17. Mike Conley-MEM 100.2 18. Kevin Durant-OKC 100.5 19. Carlos Boozer-CHI 100.5 20. Josh Smith-ATL 100.6
Averages a double double and 3 blocks to go with it, top 5 MIP and DPOY and only 24 years old but somehow paying him 1M more than Splitter is ridiculous.....................
I agree with Baam here
Even though I agree that defense is more than shot-blocking, I don't see how it's ridiculous to pay a 24 y/o Center 10m/year when he just had a 10/10/3 season, especially considering that Milwaukee is a small market team that doesn't attract anyone.
If the Bucks don't pay that, there will be 10 teams waiting in the line to give him that type of contract.
I mean, Spilitter has absolutely nothing special, he is 4 years older, had a 10/6/1 season and he still got a 9m/year contract. And again, if SA doesn't pay it, Portland would be waiting in the line to pay.
Nothing to be laughing about here tbh
you are NOT a defensive anchor of a team as long as the team can't trust the anchor chain. Sanders still fouls that much, b/c he still hasn't learned some of the basics in defense. (PO he averaged 4.5 fouls per game)
he isn't the second coming of prime Big Ben, as long as he doesn't learn how to stay out of foul trouble.
and yes, Splitter is a much better overall player than Sanders.
I just don't understand the rationale of carrying 7 guards and only 1 small forward, maybe I don't know enough about basketball or something, but it just does not seem logical or advantageous, in fact, it sounds pretty stupid, just asking for trouble IMHO, this seems like one of the strangest off seasons that I can remember.
I just hope there is some sanity behind all this madness.
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Hearing that Nick Calathes' deal with Memphis is a two-year pact at just under $2 million
Don't see the need with Bonner on the roster.
I heard Stephen Jackson is meeting with the Heat... Waiting to find a source
Edit: found tweet
Last edited by bklynspursfan; 08-09-2013 at 03:24 PM.
Mike Miller replacement perhaps?
It would be a weird signing if Spurs gave him the 15th roster spot. Their roster would have 7 guards, 7 bigmen and 1 SF...
He needs to be spotted eating lunch with a local real estate agent, or crack ho, to be seriously considered for the 15th spot.
Phew! Close call. There's more than one team interested. Spurs have no chance
Last edited by Hoops Czar; 08-09-2013 at 07:36 PM.
I knew we should have signed him two years ago.
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