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Ah, I remember that game. All the controversy. I wasn't at that one. Great game though! Everyone was pissed because refs never call fouls that late in a game. Everyone was crying to let them play.
Spurs won that game by 1 point. Carmelo bulldozed into Manu at the buzzer for a driving layup but the call was an offensive foul against Melo (Manu drew the charge)... game over.
Ah, I remember that game. All the controversy. I wasn't at that one. Great game though! Everyone was pissed because refs never call fouls that late in a game. Everyone was crying to let them play.
Good to see you back here Mel.
I see your point. Philly doesn't make a world of sense, but other teams make even less sense. I hadn't looked at the big picture.
An offer like that is definitely not out of the Hinkie playbook, but with him gone anything is possible.
Good to see you back here Mel.
I see your point. Philly doesn't make a world of sense, but other teams make even less sense. I hadn't looked at the big picture.
An offer like that is definitely not out of the Hinkie playbook, but with him gone anything is possible.
Manu also made the previous basket to put us up by 1, some wicked layup...
Here's a ty quality recap of that game:
Over the last 5 seasons, Manu has averaged about 22 minutes per game, and 58 games per season.
Last year, Manu averaged 19.6 minutes per game, and he played 58 games.
So Manu plays about 50% as much as a player who gets 31 minutes, and plays 74 games.
So an $18M contract for Manu would have been the equivalent of $36M for a starter.
Kevin Durant just signed for $27M per year - only 50% more than Manu allegedly got offered.
Durant played 2.3X as many minutes as Manu last year, but scored right at 4X as many points, brought down 4X as many rebounds, and had over 4X as many FTA's.
Manu's numbers still look pretty good, as long as he's playing 20 minutes a night, and 58 games a season. Try and play him 31 minutes a night, like a typical starter, and his production would go to in those later minutes because he'd be worn out. And he wouldn't last more than 40 games.
Manu is a half-time player at this point. It would take two if him to equal the minutes and production of one starter. So an $18M salary for Manu is the equivalent of $36M per year for a good starter - but not a starter of Durant's caliber, because he had WAY more than twice Manu's numbers.
So, no... an $18M salary for Manu is not perfectly reasonable. Even though Manu is still a very capable player in limited minutes, that would have been the single most idiotic contract of this whole crazy off-season. I know it got printed in newspapers, and it's probably true that he got that offer. But if you want to figure out who it was from, the easiest way is probably to try and figure out who has the absolute stupidest FO. That may be another argument in favor of Philly.
76ers force Spurs to pay for Manu Ginobili
https://sports.yahoo.com/video/76ers...222719167.html
Mel still got it
The power of deductive reasoning
Shows how dumb the Philly management is imo. If they end up under the salary floor, which is likely, the money they would have given Manu goes to the rest of the roster. Would they really take money away from the rest of their players just to give it to Manu for one year? That would be a giant you to their players.
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The Tim Duncan of this board.
Didn't stop Blazers from trading for Varejao at the trade deadline. Then waiving and stretching him, having a cap hit all the way to 2021.
Can't imagine the NBA, the other owners and the agents being happy with teams who purposely stay way below the salary floor and it will probably be addressed in the next CBA.
All these professional couch GMs.
McDyess was such a bum for us that season. Not quite DWorst status, but still...
but pop played him religiously
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