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Take it with a grain of salt.
http://www.cbssports.com/nba/eye-on-...e-kevin-durant
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Last edited by BatManu20; 03-17-2016 at 12:44 PM.
Can't have three max contracts. Don't wanna lose Aldridge. Not gonna happen.
It doesn't make much sense. Just between Aldridge, Leonard, Parker, and Green they're at $62.6 million committed. With an $89 million cap Durant's going to be looking at $31 million starting, and the Spurs would already have a payroll $4.6 million too high between those four players to accomodate Durant. And they're not going to tell West to go himself after the huge paycut he took to come here, nor should they. Durant is really only doable if the Spurs salary dump Parker in the offseason, assuming Duncan and Ginobili both retire. It's one thing to salary dump Splitter for an Aldridge who looked like he was out of Portland for sure, but to dump Tony when Durant has always shown a lot of loyalty to OKC?
Not really news, cause everyone will be chasing KD, but figured I'd share.
Here's a new team to put in the Kevin Durant sweepstakes: the San Antonio Spurs. According to The Vertical's Chris Mannix, executives around the league expect the Spurs to at least explore the possibility of acquiring Durant in the summer:
Some thoughts:
The coming e in the salary cap has created a landscape for which nobody prepared. Golden State is considered a realistic option, San Antonio is lurking in the weeds, and it's widely believed Boston will make its way onto Durant's radar in the coming months. Indeed, a Bachelor-like courtship is set to commence.
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Oklahoma City has a considerable carrot: The Thunder own Durant's Bird Rights, giving them the option to exceed the cap. Other teams could sign Durant outright, but they would need to fit Durant's salary without exceeding the cap, potentially inhibiting a team's ability to build a contender around him.
Still, so much remains unknown. The lure of playing with Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson has to be appealing, but would Durant really jump to a possible two-time champion, to a team that will never be his? San Antonio has rebuilt its dynasty, but rival executives believe the Spurs will explore ways of adding Durant to the mix, and the franchise's culture makes it intriguing.
1) San Antonio is one of the few teams that won't have much cap space this summer. If Durant wants something close to a max deal, the Spurs would likely have to waive Boris Diaw's partially guaranteed contract and both Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili would have to retire.
2) Last summer, San Antonio signed the best free agent on the market who changed teams. It was a forward who played his college basketball at Texas. Just saying.
3) Seriously, this sounds crazy, right? Obviously, the Spurs are the gold standard when it comes to NBA franchises, but would Durant really leave the Oklahoma City Thunder to go to a rival like this? It seems far-fetched because San Antonio already has a superstar at small forward, and because it just seems unfair. If Duncan does retire, just imagine a frontcourt of Kawhi Leonard, Durant and LaMarcus Aldridge. This is absolutely terrifying.
4) Mannix writes, "a return to Oklahoma City remains the most logical, most reasoned outcome." This may very well be the case, and it feels a bit weird to be speculating so openly about Durant leaving when he's chasing a le with Russell Westbrook. The safe bet is still that he'll stay on a short-term deal, then go through this whole circus again.
Imagine these two on the same team. (USATSI)
pipe dream, but yeah (as the article states) a front court of Leonard, Aldridge and Durant would be mind blowing.
Welp, lets get this on the road...
Would Durant be a better PG than Porker?
Should Leonard be taking more shots than Durant?
Was Durant worth it?
Can Durant play backup SF?
I think a much more realistic target (and someone I'd love to have if Timmy retires) is Al Horford. Would be a perfect fit alongside LMA.
Quite far fetched from a dollar perspective, but yep that would be a nasty nasty front court.
No ing way dude goes to GSW, not after what he saw with Lebron going to Miami
Not that I'm all for gutting the team to sign Durant, but they could always backload it. Plus, they showed little regard for the luxury tax this Summer, and I gotta think Manu and Tim would be all for returning one last year if they made this happen (on potentially minimum deals).
Because Parker is borderline useless on offense and a liability on defense and botches clutch free throws.
No they can't.
If this happened though
You can't get into the luxury tax when you're signing a new free agent (i.e. from a different team) with a larger contract than the MLE.
The Spurs will never trade or cut Parker tbh. They are loyal to a fault unfortunately and will see his contract fully over the next two years as his production continues to decline.
Don't want that whiny got loser on the Spurs.
Don't really know the system like Chinook tbh, was just a thought.
Let's in do it
Yeah, they can. Just not would just cost a couple of rotation players with not real means of replacing him. Though, I guess it's possible for the Spurs to get enough if they just trade Parker...
If this happened though
Meh. I hate Durant but dude, we'd win like 5 les in 5 years.
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