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Your best season was probably in 2001 with the Spurs because after that you ended up getting a six-year contract worth $48 million with the Portland Trail Blazers, right?
DA: Yeah, I had a great season, great team, great teammates... The general manager at the time was very disrespectful. The coach, teammates were great, the city and the fans were supergreat... I just didn't like the general manager at all.
The GM you're talking about is RC Buford.
DA: Yeah. I think he learned, after I left, that you can't be rude to people and expect them to stay [laughs].
I think that's the very first time I hear some criticism towards Buford. Seems like he's always making the right decisions.
DA: Yeah he does now. But look what he did. He had to learn. They won a championship during the lockout and I came two years later. David Robinson was retiring, Sean Elliott... they were losing the core and they had to start all over again. They had to get people in there. Again, when you have a core team like we had and a coach like [Gregg] Popovich, they would have won against the Lakers every year if you had me. ()
So Popovich wanted you on the team and it was all Buford's fault that you ended up in Portland.
DA: When I was on my way to Portland he called me. He wanted to know had happened and I said '[Buford] is not going to pay me, he's going to give me a little bit.' I was offered a four-year, $28 million contract, and Portland offered me six years for $48 million. Of course they wanted to say that it was me, but I didn't buy into that.
http://hoopshype.com/interviews/barrigon/whatever-happened-to-derek-anderson
If this were a printed article, I'd wipe my ass with it.
what a joke. Salty Ass Anderson
If Juwan Howard didn't separate Anderson's shoulder, the Spurs would have won...
...maybe one game in that series.
So, Derek Anderson is basically vindicating RC Buford's decisions as a GM? It's not like the loss of DA buried the Spurs; it would be pretty difficult to argue that the Spurs would have been better off with Anderson than they ended up being without him.
It could be argued that Ginobili might have never become a Spur if we would have held on to Derek Anderson. For that reason alone, I say we made a good move.
Nobody was stopping Kobe in 2001. Anderson might have helped a little but no way we win the series.
At best the Spurs win 1 game in that series. We had no PG that year.
I always hated Juwan Howard for that hit, but he did the franchise a huge solid by ripping that got's shoulder off. If Anderson doesn't get injured the Spurs win a game or two in that WCF, the franchise looks like it's in a good place and DA is brought back, and then the team has to let Ginobili walk in 04 or Parker in 05 while getting lit up by every single shooting guard in the league. DA's defense was so horrible; I remember Kobe averaged 38 a game against Anderson that season, and every other shooting guard was dropping at least 20 when the Spurs came to town. DA was a of an athlete and had great handles, but what a low percentage chucker he was too. I'm so glad RC sent him crying off to Portland where he was exposed as a nobody.
I think they could have possibly taken that series 6 with Anderson. Kobe abused Daniels the same, but with Anderson the Spurs would have had a guy who could attack the basket and peel Fox off Ferry or Fisher off Porter so that the Spurs could hit some threes. But with no dribble penetration the Lakers' strategy of shutting everyone else down for 3 quarters while letting Tim get his worked to perfection.
rolf.
I remember Anderson saying he wanted to go to a team that would win a championship(Portland) instead of being on one that just talked about winning(Spurms). in Anderson. Where is he now?
Slangin that coke without the cola I heard
Too bad this er got a free ring with Miami in 06.
I can't blame DA for following the money, but it looks like the Spurs' offer wasn't really insulting considering his career afterwards.
I wish I could find some pics of Anderson modeling his Loyalty Gear leather jackets, but it looks like he paid $24 million to have all traces of them erased from the internet.
Interesting about the dollar figures. I always heard RC offered DA a $42 million contract. I wonder if he did that after DA got the $48 million offer from Portland knowing there was no way Anderson would take $6 million less (I sure wouldn't have), or if this is a case of Anderson being pissed off at an opening bid and not talking about later offers in the interview.
THIS is the truth. Ginobili was easily better than DA.
I had forgotten about those pics until now
Damn I wish I could find the pic I sent into his kids coloring contest. I put him in a dress with team name on the front of the jersey, and then in the text box accompanying the application I wrote about how I was a boy born with no body who could only be third base, and lost the will to fight after he left the Spurs to go to such a got team in Portland.
I think there's a legitimate argument that if you swap Derek Anderson for Stephen Jackson in 2003, the Spurs are a second round out, no matter how great Duncan was that year. Even if DA had been able to stay healthy for two years -- hardly a given -- there's not much reason to believe that he would have played as well in the 2003 First Round and 2003 WCF as Jackson did.
And without those contributions from Jackson, the Spurs likely don't win a le.
6 years at 48 million...Portland GM was probably fired after that.
Yeah and many would say the same about Bonner in 07.
annually 4-28 is 7 mil and 6-42 would have been also. 6-48 is only 1 mil a year more.
Lmao at this got. The day after getting swept out of the playoffs, crying on local tv about getting paid. ing POS never contributed again. Too bad Juwan Howard didn't end his life with the hard foul that sidelined him during the PO's.
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