Presti is the best draft picker bar none. Unfortunately for the Spurs, OKC has had for so many years the inside track by drafting earlier. OKC has 21 and 29 this year.
It is not like they can draft everyone they worked out, when George Hill was drafted the target players were either Batum or Ibaka. The Spurs hoped to get one of them and then get Hill on the 2nd round.
Presti is the best draft picker bar none. Unfortunately for the Spurs, OKC has had for so many years the inside track by drafting earlier. OKC has 21 and 29 this year.
im sure that will turn around in 2 years time for us, but damn these guys with inside spurs knowledge(Presti, Pritchard, Ferry) getting some international prospects i would've loved on our team and maybe biting us in the ass a bit.
Reading that the Knicks are shopping Iman Shumpert for a first round pick, even a late one. I'd be all over that for San Antonio.
Not sure our #30 would be enough to do it.
http://fullyclips.com/2014/06/23/rep...st-round-pick/
.......Several months later, the Clippers have what the Knicks are looking for and talks could strike back up with the NBA Draft only four days away. Compared to other teams in the mid-teens and late twenties that could use Shumpert’s services, the Clippers don’t have as valuable an asset. The Oklahoma City Thunder have the 21st overall pick, Utah the 23rd, Charlotte at 24th, and Phoenix the 27th. If those franchises feel the urge to provide the Knicks with the mentioned picks, the Clippers have no chance at Shumpert unless they include an asset, mainly Bullock, and if last years sentiments remain, the deal would be off because of such.
They were never getting Hill in the second round, as late as our pick usually is. Hill became exactly what their plan was: a fallback position in the first if Batum was gone.
I wouldnt do it.
Not a great use of our pick. Iman has played rotation minutes every year, isn't that great a shooter, and his career PER is 10.5, well below the 15.0 of an average NBA player.
A pure case of NY hype.
Here are the projections of whom the Spurs will pick, based on the latest mocks:
NBA.com: Jarnell Stokes
ESPN: Cleanthony Early
Yahoo! Sports: Walter Tavares
Sports Illustrated: Walter Tavares
CBS Sports: Jarnell Stokes
USA Today: Vasilje Micic
DraftExpress: Mitch McGary
NBADraft.net: Bogdan Bogdanovic
Needless to say, all of the above names can now officially be ruled out for whom R.C. will actually take on draft night.
Suns offering pick #27 for future first round pick.
http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap...h-Overall-Pick
Hmmm... could be very valuable for the Spurs... will beat OKC to the punch.
Is there reason to believe that OKC and SA have targeted the same player?
People here are suggesting that OKC has given Jokic a promise at #29, while we gave Ingliis a promise at #30.
entirely possible saric falls down in our lap now.
Whenever this happens, the Spurs are never involved. I imagine, Portland or Houston will be in. LOL. I would love to add another latish type pick.
Apparently has signed a new 3-year deal. Would be awesome if he slipped to the Spurs, but unlikely. Wonder what the buyouts are.
I'm liking Walter Tavares. Not a sexy pick, but a big with that size and mobility is super-rare this late in the draft, but he may still be there. He hasn't played much basketball, yet he has a good instinct for the game (that can't generally be taught). Guys that size often break down, but at #30 he's not a bad pick at all.
That's really bizarre. A player stays in the NBA draft and then just before it signs a fairly long deal, one that would kill a lot of interest and drop him way down the draft order and into a lower rookie scale payout.
I don't get that move either. Stupid, imo.
If he really signed a 3 year deal expecting to honor all 3 years, then he wouldn't be bound by rookie scale when he comes over. After 3 years of playing overseas, while his rights are still owned by his NBA team, he would be signed like a FA with no restrictions.
he was saying before, that he would only come for the lakers or celtics (bad sign already, what re would choose between two teams that are so different), now he signed a three year deal with efes right before the draft, and it's easy to think that he has no intention of coming in the nba in the short future.
Yeah I saw he's not coming for at least two years.
And
The thing about the Lakers/Celtics only is apparently a rumor. He has said he wants to wait before coming over, so this seems to be him saying he's quite serious about this as a signal to whoever wants to take him. There will be teams with multiple picks who will want to take a flier on him. Thanks on the info about rookie scale after a few years.
On this blog I offer my take on this years draft. Written in the blog is, pick history after championship seasons, team needs, and prospects most likely to be drafted. Long story short I'm convinced that Bogdan Bogdanovic is the guy the Spurs want.
spurshomer.blogspot.com
Just some reading pre-draft...
DX has Exum at 3rd pick...PHI.
Am I the only one that thinks this is totally wrong??
If I had to guess Ill say they pick Noah...maybe Randle.
And after that Orlando shouldnt take Exum...they should go with Smart.
Let the Celtics and the Lakers worry about Embiid and Exum.
I thought it was odd that nobody had Exum as the sixers pick sooner. I think the aussie connection is a no brainer. And i think MCW and Exum could coexist. Throw in Wroten off the bench. With Noel, Davies, Mullens, and Young/Payne/McDermott/Gordon/Randle. That could be a relentless pick and roll/pop game.
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