E-N: Spurs could offer Duncan a contract starting in the $6-7M range

[baseline bum]

Cousins putting up numbers on a trash team. KAwhi Aldridge and Duncan are top 10. Duncan makes it due to always going clutch when you need him. He usually hides until we need him. Even if you disagree 3 top 15 players in the same roster is sick.

So throw Cousins off and hope Durant is done, and it goes Leonard 8, Aldridge 9, Duncan 10?

[Seventyniner]

Mills, Anderson and Splitter would allow the Spurs to take back about $18.3 Million in full salary. If that's not close enough for LMA, tough cookies. So the Spurs could totally stay above the cap in that scenario.

Could adding Reggie Williams let the Spurs give LMA the full max? (I forget if it was $18.6M or $18.9M)

[dabom]

So throw Cousins off and hope Durant is done, and it goes Leonard 8, Aldridge 9, Duncan 10?

Yeah. You can rank them differently though. Nothing much would change.

[Chinook]

Could adding Reggie Williams let the Spurs give LMA the full max? (I forget if it was $18.6M or $18.9M)

It definitely would, but is it even confirmed that the Spurs got him to agree to that extra year? If so, sub him out for Anderson.

[Chinook]

I don't see Joseph as better, Mills is the one who actually performs in the playoffs, and the Spurs need a competent point guard. Aldridge is a complimentary player, not a cornerstone to gut your team for. He'd be an upgrade over Splitter, but if he was a cornerstone his team would have actually done something in all these years.

Mills isn't a competent point-guard, and nothing he's ever done has suggested that. He's been a competent undersized scorer next to Manu. As Manu gets older, you need someone who can drive and get their own shot. Cory can do that much better than Mills can, and he's a better passer. I don't think it's close.

[Chinook]

The team would be Porker/Green/Leonard/Aldridge/Duncan/Diaw/Anderson/Joseph. That's gutted. You'd have one competent bench player.

Team would be:

PG: Parker, Joseph, LLE player
SG: Green, Manu or Beli, draft pick
SF: Leonard, LJC, draft pick
PF: Aldridge, Diaw, Thomas or second-rounder
C: Duncan, Baynes, MLE player

It's actually a VERY full roster. That's the point of making the trade in the first place.

[look_at_g_shred]

3 top ten players in that starting lineup. Who cares about our bench. Green Kawhi and Aldridge can play more minutes. Green and Kawhi are young.

What? You need depth to make it far in the playoffs.

[dabom]

What? You need depth to make it far in the playoffs.

Great players win championships not role players.

[look_at_g_shred]

Great players win championships not role players.

dude 2014 chip was all about role players contributing all around. Check the tape.

[dabom]

dude 2014 chip was all about role players contributing all around. Check the tape.

90% of the chips are won by great players not a balanced team. Nice example dude. I can show you way more examples.

[cjw]

Yeah, but you don't turn down a trade to keep Mills, especially when it gives you the flexibility to keep Joseph (who I think will be better for the team long term anyway) and use the MLE to bring in talent. If the Blazers wanted Cory in a S&T, that would be one thing. But if it's a choice between Mills and Cory and flexibility, I don't think it's even a question.

That's the big advantage to staying over the cap (and why Spurs have kept all those really cap holds to give them that flexibility). If a S&T needs to happen, they have CoJo as a backup and always an option to keep Believe then too (better than what you find on a min contract).

[monkeypunk]

Great players win championships not role players.

Iggy from GSW says Hi.

[look_at_g_shred]

90% of the chips are won by great players not a balanced team. Nice example dude. I can show you way more examples.

2013 chip was also won by role players... Game 6 I.E Ray Allen Game 7 I.E Shane Battier, Mike Miller

[dabom]

90% of the chips are won by great players not a balanced team. Nice example dude. I can show you way more examples.

[DPG21920]

Got damn can I just hibernate until Thurs afternoon?

[cd021]

2013 chip was also won by role players... Game 6 I.E Ray Allen Game 7 I.E Shane Battier, Mike Miller

Battier playing possum then nailing 6 threes in 7

[Killakobe81]

Gotta be kidding me. Great by Tim if true ... but yall should at least pay him the 20 million that schiester stole from him ...have y'all no shame? I get winning matters more than anything but sometimes you gotta do "the right thing".

[look_at_g_shred]

Battier playing possum then nailing 6 threes in 7

[Dex]

Got damn can I just hibernate until Thurs afternoon?

No kidding. This offseason has been brutal and we haven't even hit draft day yet.

ing Chris Paul.

[look_at_g_shred]

No kidding. This offseason has been brutal and we haven't even hit draft day yet.

ing Chris Paul.

Yep. Actually excited for the next few weeks..

[BillMc]

Got damn can I just hibernate until Thurs afternoon?

Yeah me too.

With the draft tomorrow you'd would have thought we'd have heard some decisions by Tim and Manu, as I would assume that affects the Spurs' mindset going into the draft. I wonder if they've been given answers but its not public yet?

[Seventyniner]

If the Spurs do manage to stay over the cap, either via a sign-and-trade for Aldridge or just keeping the current team together plus an MLE signing, could Holt do Duncan a favor and give him a huge 1-year deal? That would preserve potential cap room for next summer and allow the Spurs to pay Duncan whatever in 2016-2017.

[Dex]

Yeah me too.

With the draft tomorrow you'd would have heard some decisions by Tim and Manu, as I would assume that affects the Spurs' mindset going into the draft. I wonder if they've been given answers but its not public yet?

Are they even allowed to announce a decision before July 1st?

[BillMc]

Are they even allowed to announce a decision before July 1st?

They can't announce a signing, but Manu and Tim could make it publicly known they don't intend to retire.

[DPG21920]

Yeah me too.

With the draft tomorrow you'd would have heard some decisions by Tim and Manu, as I would assume that affects the Spurs' mindset going into the draft. I wonder if they've been given answers but its not public yet?

In my opinion yes. I believe an announcement is imminent in the next day or so. Worst case, by July 1st. But I would imagine Manu/Tim respect the Spurs enough to give them a decision so they can plan for the draft and FA.