Spurs may be looking to trade Splitter

[DJR210]

Trade Splitter's soft as Charmin ass to Golden State so he can be closer to the gay capitol.

[cd021]

Aldridge / Diaw / Duncan is not as bad as well. Since Duncan can easily do the Center position. Might make us even quicker.

Duncan can do the center position because he's been a center for almost a decade

[Mal]

Pay ing tax for Duncan...

[Texas_Ranger]

Sign and trade with the Heat for Dragic. The Dragon does it to play for the Spurs, the Heat do it to get something for nothing. Is this even possible, tbh?

Trading Parker for Dragic would actualy not be a bad idea. I know the Spurs would never do it tho.

[Raven]

Trading Parker for Dragic would actualy not be a bad idea. I know the Spurs would never do it tho.

i'd say the heat would never do it

[Cklbmk]

Duncan/Aldridge/Splitter is a much better big rotation than Duncan/Aldridge/Diaw. Unless the Spurs have an awesome plan for a backup center, there's no way I'd rather have Boris.

Without Manu playmaking? I'm not sure. We kind of need Diaws passing

[Mal]

i'd say the heat would never do it

I dont know. Heat will be irrelevant for years to come. If Spurs throw talent and picks they could bite. If Dragic is gone, they could make the deal.

[Chinook]

Without Manu playmaking? I'm not sure. We kind of need Diaws passing

The drop-off on defense will be gigantic if they swap out Splitter for Aldridge.

[Cowboys_Wear_Spurs]

There's a lot wrong with your view on this:

One, it's either Bird rights or cap space (in this case). The Spurs aren't going to be able to re-sign most of their free agents if they go for Aldridge. Also, there's no penalty for going over the cap. Finally, the Spurs don't have Bird rights on Beli or Ayres (but who cares?)

They have the early bird rights for Beli. They can sign him up to a 4.5 mil a year contract (175% of his previous salary of 2.87 mil last year). That would be a fair price for him if the Spurs wanted to retain him.

[jag]

A world where Bobo plays for someone other than the Spurs is one I don't want to live in, tbh..

[Cowboys_Wear_Spurs]

Thanks. But why is Kawhi 7.5 instead of the QO?

He would have to sign the QO offer, which I hardly doubt he would. Extending the QO just makes Kawhi a RFA, nothing more. This just gives the Spurs the right to match and sign Kawhi to any other contract offer he might sign.

[Cowboys_Wear_Spurs]

Yo Splits, I think the projected cap is around 89-91 mil a year in 2016, not over 100 mil. Even then, the Spurs would be under cap if they signed LA this offseason.

[Cowboys_Wear_Spurs]

Let's face it. Splitter in his prime couldn't stay healthy, he's going to keep playing for Brazil every summer, never shows up in the post season, and he's on the wrong side of 30. Ditch him.

Sorry to say it, but I agree with this. Splitter, even according to Def Eff rating, is one of the best Defenders in the league. He is right behind Kawhi, who was #1 in the league.

But he is always injured and isn't totally reliable. He is now turning 30. At this point, I would swap Splitter for LA. Just look what a scoring PF can do that is in a working system, still beat a Rockets team w/o their starting PG.

LA is not a horrible defender like say Amare. He is a decent to good defender, and his offensive prowess would make up for the difference.

[baseline bum]

If Splitter wasn't so fragile this would be a harder decision. I fully expect them to shop both he and Parker, although Parker might not get any interest whatsoever at his price.

If Splitter wasn't so fragile this would be an easy decision: tell Aldridge to off because the Spurs frontcourt would be stacked like .

[Cklbmk]

The drop-off on defense will be gigantic if they swap out Splitter for Aldridge.

I mean P&R might hurt us. But that might be fixable with a new system. Aldridge clearly wants to win. I imagine that means he'll take advice. I'd roll the dice with Aldridge/Timmy

[Chinook]

They have the early bird rights for Beli. They can sign him up to a 4.5 mil a year contract (175% of his previous salary of 2.87 mil last year). That would be a fair price for him if the Spurs wanted to retain him.

They can sign him up to the MLE, since it's bigger than 175 percent of his previous salary. In any event, he will probably find a be able to find more on the open market.

[Chinook]

I mean P&R might hurt us. But that might be fixable with a new system. Aldridge clearly wants to win. I imagine that means he'll take advice. I'd roll the dice with Aldridge/Timmy

Yeah, it won't.

[PingPong]

LaMarcus can improve his defense working with the Spurs staff. Otherwise I can't see the Spurs nothing better than Portland with him.

[unleashbaynes]

My takeaway from this thread is that we're gonna have posters slobbering about Matt ing Barnes(aka a complete scrub bag who had a nice series because of all our attention going to Paul/Griffin who never missed) all goddamn summer.

[mkurts]

To summarise .... more ter is better than Aldridge ?

The porcelain doll defense appearing maybe once a series is the future ?

Hmmmm ........ interesting.

[testies]

He's having injury problem so lets him off of here and forget his contrbutions!

that is so classless, i doubt spurs would do that.. specially because tiago is a dude everyone likes

[Mal]

Why ? Diaw/Duncan/Aldridge/Splitter can work in every combination.

[Cklbmk]

He's having injury problem so lets him off of here and forget his contrbutions!

that is so classless, i doubt spurs would do that.. specially because tiago is a dude everyone likes

If its him or Aldridge, he's gots to go

[Cklbmk]

Why ? Diaw/Duncan/Aldridge/Splitter can work in every combination.

Then Aldridge has to take 15m a year or we have to shed Parker or let Green go.

Pretty big hole to fill anyway you slice it

[loveforthegame]

Spurs traded one of Pops (and fans) favorites for an unproven Leonard. Do you really think they wouldn't trade Splitter if they're high enough on someone like Aldridge?