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Spurs persistence on Pau Gasol keeping them a serious contender, inching closer to the Bulls, league sources tell Yahoo.
SA gives Pau the best chance to win the championship by far.
Hopefully Pau put his priority on winning the le.
Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA
Spurs persistence on Pau Gasol keeping them a serious contender, inching closer to the Bulls, league sources tell Yahoo.
Thibs would run Gasol into the ground. Join the Spurs
The way it works, the agent in the discussion would like the bigger payday so he's going to promote the bigger contract.
But at the end of the day, it's going to be where the player will find happiness. Pau has earned over 100 million in his career, he doesn't need the money. He's got the opportunity here to play with a hall of fame coach and a bunch of hall of fame players. I doubt he'll join the Bulls with not much of an offense to think of. I mean seriously, the Bulls are so inept offensively that Marco Bellinelli had to carry the load the previous year in the playoffs.
Kawhi extension would make it even sweeter.
In Pau Gasol's face-to-face meeting with Scott Brooks, he wondered aloud what it would be like leaving a culturally diverse city like LA for middle America.
Going to San Antonio would place him in a city with a large Spanish-speaking population as well as the most internationally diverse locker room in the NBA.
More like 150mil +. Spurs should give him a 2 year deal with a player option next year. If he succeeds in the Spurs system (which I highly doubt he wouldn't), he can opt out and the Spurs can sign him for a higher salary similar's to Diaw's contract.
http://www.basketball-reference.com/...gasolpa01.html
As long as Pau don't go OKC or join LeBron in Miami or Cleveland, its okay for me
It really comes down to chance at a ring vs money now. He can take the MLE and come to a championship squad that's bringing it's whole team back or cash in and wind up on a decent team that gets eliminated in the second round/ECF. I'd love to have him, but if he doesn't want to walk away from the cash it's understandable. The only thing better than millions of dollars is millions more.
If we sign him using the full MLE and he can opt out next year, what would be the max we could offer then? The full MLE again? We wouldn't have any bird rights.
Well this would make team Spurs even more unstoppable. Its all speculation until official.
a lot of people setting themselves up for heartbreak it seems
The second year player option scenario assumes that Timmy and Manu retire after next season, and Kawhi is not extended this summer, leaving the Spurs with sufficient cap space next summer to meet all their goals while giving Pau a new, more lucrative contract.
Almost seems like the Pop extension was timed perfectly to show Pau that he's not leaving after Timmy retires. Having Pop would help Pau extend his career, make more money in the long term and be a winner. With Pau here and Pop on for 4-5 more seasons, our future would be set. Get it done RC!
Did he really? Strange since he played so many years in Memphis.
Nevertheless, San Antonio is a lot more diverse than either OKC or Memphis.
I always wonder what this really means. What are the Spurs actually doing to demonstrate their persistence? Text messages from Timmy? A bottle of wine from Pop's winery? Singing telegrams?
Once the Spurs have communicated their interest and the salary they're willing to offer, what else is there to do?
They get the Non-Bird Exception, meaning they can only resign him to 120% of his previous salary, which would be a Million dollar raise.
Unless Tim and Manu both roll off next summer...
how much cap space does spurs have with the raise of salary cap? i think spurs offering 8m/y to gasol would be a great deal but i don't see him playing for less then 10m/y
Last edited by ontheraise; 07-10-2014 at 07:56 AM.
Just the MLE. They could possibly get Gasol in a higher deal if they trade Ayres, Daye, S&T Bonner plus a 1st to the Lakers for Gasol in a S&T. But I doubt a trade like this happens.
This trade is going to make Kobe happier than he already is
so gasol won't sign for spurs
Highly, highly doubtful. The Lakers need bodies but Bonner would have to be guaranteed some salary in that scenario and I don't think they do that. It would also require the Lakers striking out on basically all of their free agent targets, leading them to roll their cap space over to next summer, or 2016 when Durant (and maybe LeBron again) is a free agent.
I'ts probably down to Spurs for MLE or somewhere else (Chicago) via S&T.
I like our chances as Gasol seems to be a smart dude.
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