Marc Stein: Spurs are #1 on LaMarcus Aldridge's list

[Samr]

David Kahn: Crazy Exec v1.0

Sam Hinkie: Crazy Exec v2.0

Vivek: windows vista

[Uriel]

You won't know until you wake up tomorrow. He's going thru with his Knicks meeting which will presumably be tomorrow morning. If it lasts 2 hours like the rest, the earliest we'd know is around 11am or 12pm tomorrow Los Angeles time, which is 14-15 hours from now.

That's like, 2 / 3 AM in my time zone. ...

[rjv]

Spurs have a player named Tim Duncan, tbh.

Apparently, Gambo got CIA pop to tell him who plays C for the Spurs if LMA is on the roster.

[DPG21920]

The frustration shouldn't be with LMA (although, it's surprising how many teams he's allowing to court him), but with all the damn stupid rumors.

GTFO with Suns stuff. Seriously.

[Ditty]

I think a second meeting would work out in our advantage for Pop to tell Aldridge how much Phoenix sucks and that their owner is terrible.

I'm 100% sure Aldridge makes his decision tomorrow. I'm excited and nervous at the same time

[rjv]

He lost me at "good team".

Yeah, this guy is embellishing with each tweet.

[Shastafarian]

GTFO with Suns stuff. Seriously.

The tree of Woj decreed it.

[Beaverfuzz]

Not sure LMA is going to play for another 12-15 seasons.

[Vic Petro]

Unless that Phoenix radio host is right about him wanting a 2nd meeting with 3 teams...

That's like, 2 / 3 AM in my time zone. ...

Yes this is the earliest we'd possibly know. Good bet it will take longer. Get some sleep.

[DPG21920]

If I had to guess, ATL had a good feel for who they wanted to touch base with in free agency among the first tier free agents. Further, what details are really left? A deal not involving any Hawks contracts would lead to some mix of draft rights and future draft picks. What is left to discuss? Only if the Spurs don't need the cap space because Aldridge or another FA doesn't sign then maybe they take back a contract as opposed to rights and/or picks? That's the only scenario that makes sense, but at the end of the day, even with a salary dump, you aren't trading away the rotting corpse of Brendan Haywood's NBA career. You should receive good value in exchange for Splitter with 2 yrs/$17 mil left, especially with next year's salary cap increase pretty much guaranteeing that every bigman in the league makes $10 mil per.

Agreed - wasn't really worried about the details of the trade. More just thinking out loud if there was any shot that Tiago doesn't get traded in the event LMA says no. I dont see any scenario.

[Kool Bob Love]

Damn this thread is buzzin.

[Beaverfuzz]

Will he have made his decision 12 hours from now? That's pretty much midnight my time. I'm willing to stay up late waiting for his decision, but not until 2 / 3 AM.

No, this I can guarantee.

[DPG21920]

It's just funny that at the rate this is going, the Knicks are going to get LMA considering every visit he walks out of "he's really impressed and was fully engaged asking probing questions".

[Axegrinder]

As I said in the previous page, I get him wanting to take his time, I guess I can't really have an issue with that, but why in the F is he meeting with teams like this? Honestly, he's wasting his own time and their time. What's the point of meeting with the Knicks and/or teams like the Raptors?

Simple..smart ppl dont burn bridges. What if NY looks better in 3yrs and he wants to move? And he already made the commitments to visit so you follow through..simple stuff here. Wont even go into the agent angle/s

[Marcus Bryant]

Splitter flunks physical.
Spurs & Hawks agreed to rescind trade.
Spurs & Hawks never submitted paperwork ('rumors were bogus')

The lack of any detail is rather telling. Has either organization actually acknowledged that there is a deal? I don't see anything on their websites. So far maybe we have a reporter or two who is held out to dry, but if this was a done deal we'd at least know what the Spurs were getting in return.

[dabom]

Gn guys. Going to sleep. Round 2 tomorrow.

[tholdren]

bottle #2 done - LOL this is more re ed than I thought. I joust read the whole 78 pages: HILARIOUS. Gotta love the rumors

[manufan10]

Still no report of "only 3 teams" or "second meeting with said 3 teams tomorrow." Dude is a hack.

[ElNono]

Aldridge not interested in leaving $20+MM guaranteed on the table to waste the rest of his career in Phoenix, as many have done before.

-- Some asshole with wifi (@a$$hole) July 2, 2015

[BillMc]

It's just funny that at the rate this is going, the Knicks are going to get LMA considering every visit he walks out of "he's really impressed and was fully engaged asking probing questions".

Hit the nail on the head. Which team would admit it went bad? They all say the same thing. You could spill coffee all over LaMarcus and you'd spin it as a positive).

[ElNono]

Gambo is just trying to get Sunsfan pumped up... not a bad idea when your owner is Robert Sarver, tbh

[DPG21920]

I don't think so necessarily. The details part are so minor because the major part is Tiago for cap space. I don't think it's a matter of a trade being done or not.

Don't really see anyway this Tiago trade doesn't go through no matter what. ATL just couldn't do that.

[NBAFan]

LMA is staying in Portland. If he wanted to bolt to spurs he could have done today! He is having 2nd thoughts now. May be want to earn that extra 1 year Portland gives him.

[Mugen]

we should bring in Tyson Chandler, who's been a Phoenix Sun for about 6 minutes, to tell you how much he loves the franchise....

[Shastafarian]