And even that Parker extension won't look as bad after this year. PATFO done well
1997 ping pong balls deserve 90% of the credit.
Pop made sure the 97 ping pong balls stayed here
how close was TD to going to Orlando, did anyone ever ask him after the fact? I remember thinking that it was all just talk and TD had no intention of leaving
Your damn right......Best organization in all of sports, tbh.
No that is false, he was going to go to Orlando and D ROB had to fly and meet with him and talk him into staying! He said they had something special and could win a le again etc., remember reading about that and how close Tim was to actually going to Orlando.
Best organization in all of sports, tbh.
most of you here were depressed and thought that LaMarcus was going to the Lakers or the Suns
It was us or the suns. we wouldnt have wanted him anyways if he decided to go phoenix lol
Here is another interesting article:
http://www.nba.com/2015/news/feature...-luke-ridnour/
I think 2000 was the only time Duncan ever talked to other teams wasn't it? Did he ever have a meeting with another club in any of his other FA years?
you were freakin out about the possibility tbh
now, im so happy
we just need a back up center
a third-string pg,
and an additional shooter
and we shall have one of the strongest rosters in the history of the NBA
Nope, after that he was a Spur for life. There was no doubts he would re sign every time after.
Come to think of it, the Spurs organization has had two historic offseasons back to back
Last offseason, it was all about the new breed of coaches/assistant coaches coming in:
both Messina and Becky making history......
This time, its about the players....
I hope the Spurs can combine these two resource acquisitions sets into a historical regular season as well: a wallop!!
Some excerpts:
When Kidd retired as a player, he hired a new agent to represent him for potential coaching jobs: Hal Biagas. He was a former attorney with the National Basketball Players Association who had changed careers in 2009 to represent players and coaches, first working for the powerful Wasserman Sports agency, whose basketball division was headed by the uber-powerful Arn Tellem, and then Schwartz's Excel Sports in 2012. But Schwartz, who also represented players Paul Pierce and Deron Williams in Brooklyn, was still a powerful voice in representing Kidd's interests.
The relationship between Lasry, Kidd and Schwartz -- the latter two close enough to the former to be invited to and attend Lasry's daughter's wedding in 2011 -- led to the out-of-nowhere hire of Kidd as coach of the Nets in 2013. It was a stunning ascension for a former player -- even a great one such as Kidd -- who had retired as a player just nine days before getting the job, a position that most who seek it never reach despite a lifetime's work.
That trio quickly went to work in 2014, after Kidd's roller-coaster first season with the Nets' coach, which began with turmoil and controversy but ultimately was righted, leading Brooklyn to a playoff spot and a dramatic first-round win over Toronto. Kidd showed he had legit coaching chops, going to a small lineup featuring Pierce at power forward, with Shaun Livingston and Williams playing together in the backcourt.
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there's more:
But Kidd and Nets management got sidetracked, and then derailed, over his desire to have more say in personnel matters. And in another stunning move last year, Schwartz asked for and was given permission to speak with the Bucks -- now freshly co-owned by Lasry -- about their coaching job. The only problem was, the job wasn't vacant. Larry Drew, a well-respected coach who'd waited more than a decade to get his first chance as a coach, with Atlanta in 2010, still had the gig.
But relationships trump all in the NBA. Drew was blown out, and Kidd took the job. The details were unsavory to say the least, but the Bucks now had a billionaire's row of owners, a young coach who was going places and one of the game's most powerful agents representing him all in place, leading the direction of where the franchise would go.
Jason Kidd really could be one of the top coaches in the NBA:
Kidd ushers in change
"What J-Kidd kind of instilled when I first came in was a system where we were going to play the right way," said forward Jared Dudley, who played in Milwaukee last season before being dealt to the Wizards last week. "Offensively, you were going to have freedom. But you were going to have to do everything exactly right on defense to have that freedom."
Milwaukee sheds its old role in NBA
Using the preceding 40 or so paragraphs as prologue, the league, and the Bucks, were now in much different places than they were decades ago.
Lasry, Edens and Dinan injected life and purpose into the franchise, rallying local investors and engaging corporate sponsors. They raised $118 million from various investors in 2014, and have tried to sell the notion of the Bucks as a statewide en y rather than one that just serves as entertainment for the Milwaukee area.
They brought in a masseuse who traveled with the team. They hired Suki Hobson, an Australian "strength scientist" who trained Olympic athletes in her own practice and who is considered cutting edge in the performance community in treating ACL injuries. (In May, the Bucks hired her full-time as Senior Strength and Rehabilitation Specialist.) There were nutritionists and there are hopes for a new practice facility.
Falk, who represented a guy I like to call Michael Jeffrey Jordan, doesn't take the meeting if you aren't offering the max. He doesn't negotiate. A lot of people don't like Falk, but you can never, ever, say he doesn't know what the number is, and who will give it to him.
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omg
True parity at last?
Twenty years ago -- a decade ago -- Milwaukee would have had no chance in such a contest for Monroe. But times and relationships have changed. Monroe went to the Bucks knowing that they were an up-and-coming franchise. In an apples-to-apples comparison of everything -- management, style of play, coaching, future -- he thought Milwaukee was better for him than New York City.
"At the end of the day, (Monroe) felt that the special relationship that Jason has with Marc Lasry and Wes Edens, he's going to be there a long time," Falk said. "While he doesn't have the le, he has the same position as Pat Riley... he's going to make all the decisions. And he's going to be there for a long time because of the relationship with the owners. He's going to be there a long time."
that was some article
very informative and intelligently-written, with lots of insights
the point is:
there are also other good management teams around the league
our front office cannot rest on its laurels
the game is changing, compe ion is intense, and the smallest edge among the elite might determine the champions
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