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The San Antonio Spurs today announced that they have signed forward JaMychal Green. Per club policy, terms of the contract were not announced.
Green, 6-8/230, was a member of the Spurs 2014 Summer League team in Las Vegas. In six games he averaged 7.8 points and 6.5 rebounds in 16.2 minutes.
The Montgomery, Ala. native last season playing in the French Pro A League for Roanne, averaging 11.8 points and 6.6 rebounds in 22.1 minutes in 25 games while shooting .530 (122-230) from the field.
Green spent the 2012-13 season with the Austin Toros of the NBA Development League, averaging 12.3 points, 8.1 rebounds and 1.4 assists in 40 games.
An undrafted forward out of Alabama, Green averaged 14.0 points, 7.4 rebounds and 1.5 blocks his final season for the Crimson Tide en route to being named All-SEC First Team in 2012.
http://www.nba.com/spurs/news/140806...jamychal_green
The San Antonio Spurs, a true meritocracy.
Yessir. Hopefully he gets Ayers minutes.
He likely won't get anyone's minutes. He likely won't make the team. Odds are it's just a TC contract and he will likely be cut unless he really, really impresses (and the Spurs make roster room somehow).
Another non-guaranteed deal like Bryce Cotton got, maybe?
Edit: Oops, beat me to it.
Austin Toros project tbh
Too bad ayers is guaranteed
Yeah, he'd have to beat two of Ayres, Baynes or Daye. If just one gets cut, I think it's for Cotton.
He really impressed in the summer league. Maybe he'll challenge KA for backup sf duties. Another lowkey no risk high reward signing by the best organization in all of sports.
"Undrafted free agent Bryce Cotton of Providence has agreed with Spurs on a partially guaranteed two-year deal, league sources tell RealGM."
Same deal, probably, like 40-50k guaranteed, nothing more unless they make the team is what Bryce's turned out to be, I think? Chinook or someone can correct?
Wonder what happens with Baynes now... Imo Baynes offers something we really need on the bench (low post defense on huge centers)...
He might challenge KA for backup SF duties on The Toros when Kyle heads down there on occasion.
Baynes still comes back.
Green will probably get cut, unless he just plays out of the gym during training camp or the team finds a way to unload some other deadweight (like buy out the contracts of Daye or, unfortunately less likely, Ayers). If Green doesn't last, he gets a nice reward for playing well in Summer League and a possible path to opportunity elsewhere. If he's worth keeping, the Spurs have the option of doing so on the cheap.
Green is not a SF. Not even in a 'big ball' lineup.
As long as there's no money beyond this season on the guarantee, it's a low cost to pay to lock the guy up for training camp. They're over the cap and way under the tax, so none of those concerns come into play and as they're minimum contracts it doesn't hit the MLE (which will likely go unused ... not that it's a bad thing). The MLE usually balloons guys' worth.
He usuAlly plays PF, but was listed at SF in some Euro stuff, but regarding KA, I was just being sarcastic because he probably won't be playing for The Spurs, to challenge anyone for minutes at any position.
Green is the same thing as Cotton: a player given a small guarantee to come to our camp over some other team's, so we can cut him and have his Toros rights.
Neither is making the team.
No one on a full guarantee is getting cut.
Baynes will ultimately sign.
You need to work on your sarcasm. This fell as flat as that "Sean Marks didn't play in the NBA" shtick in the Becky Hammon thread.
That's interesting about the Toro's having his rights after he is cut. Would you happen to have a link for how some of that works? I'd love to read up on that.
Thanks
I don't know about that. Ayres might, more so due to Mills' injury than his own inep ude/redundancy, which they'd otherwise probably just stomach.
Ginobili and maybe Anderson are fine as emergency options offensively, but neither can defend the position. Green can, but if (really, when) Ginobili and Parker get injured or they're given the odd game off, then what?
A training camp body and then straight to the Toros for him, tbh.
I guess this means LJC and Bertans are staying overseas another two years. smh
Pretty much this
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