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Great
Now he can be re-signed. Big pay cut and the back up..
I have a theory that they signed Mills to that awful contract just to shut everyone up about Parker's contract.
Great
Now he can be re-signed. Big pay cut and the back up..
What does he deserve? He's been here forever made a ton of money, and won rings. Spurs have treated him like a prince.
Yes but with Kawhi out what's the point. Might as well rest everyone and give the young'ns minutes if they're giving up on Kawhi's season.
OTOH if Kawhi was healthy and a frontrunner for MVP this year (like he should have been) there's no way Parker is coming off the bench right now.
Damn gambit your sig is....mesmerising...
Pops has a way with passing the torch, which SJAX did not appreciate, and which Tony gracefully embraced. It’s up to Murray to show up now that it’s clear. With the consistent minutes, who knows. I think that clears any trade speculation for a PG. Murray is it until the end of the season. Then FO can evaluate later on, but Murray would have the rest of the season to prove himself. And I wish him the best.
My gets benched and 'Kawhi is unhappy' rumors come out? Color me ing shocked.
We're ed. Thanks Poop.
What writing is there for Mills? About the only thing you could write him is "hey we're stuck with you, 50."
I think they knew at some point Money would have to be matched to facilitate a trade; less money requires more players/assets
tony handled this with more class than all his ST haters could have ever imagined tbh
only dumb s were doubting... he is saying the same thing for years now... when his time come he will go to the bench without any issues.
Too bad his time didn't come earlier with signing or trading for an actual starting caliber PG.
I’m a Parker haters but Murray is worse.
Yeah Murray is terrible. Dude has no upside. Can't shoot and lacks the sense between the ears. Parker was schooling NBA mother ers at 17 years old. GTFO of here...
This was long overdue. But it shouldn't have happened now and this way. Pop just needed to cut Parker's minutes for now.
I hope for the Spurs and Parker sake that he will play off the bench for the rest of his career. He will bring more on the table there tbh... too old and too much mileage to compete with the starters.
Nevertheless I would not be surprised to seem him back when come the POs tbh... Murray is a great kid and this is the correct bet but if Kawhi finally come back and Spurs suddenly decide to play seriously the POs there is a good chance he will be back in the SL after a couple of games
starting to wonder if any part of moving Murray to the SL is because of Kawhi, assuming rumors of him worrying about the future of the team have any kind of legitimacy at all.
Like, "yo KL, here we are putting in our future PG ahead of schedule for you."
Murray is a future couch warmer. He's no starting point guard.
Everything was going well until Poop benched HOTS. Now Kawhi wants out
http://www.nba.com/article/2018/02/0...-tony-parker#/
”A lot of people don’t understand the relationship I have with Pop, the respect we have for each other,” Parker said. "And so, for me, it’s like, I’ll trust him. Whatever happens. I have a feeling that he’ll take care of me my whole career, and I know he will until I’m finished. When he told me he thought it was best for the team, me coming off the bench and play with Manu, maybe we’ll bring some energy and stuff like that, I believe him. I trust him. And if he thinks we can do something even better with for team, I’m fine with it. I’ve been very blessed to be with the Spurs all those years, and that’s part of our mentality. Me, Manu, Timmy, always sharing for the team.”
“You have to look at the big picture,” Parker said. “For me, as a professional, that’s what you have to do that, anyway. You have to rehab. They pay me a lot of money, and so that’s part of it. I never saw it like that. My relationship with Pop goes deeper than that. He knows how hard I worked to come back, and R.C. (Buford, the Spurs’ general manager), too. So that’s why, for me, I just look at the big picture. I really believe that they will take care of me.”
About Murray, he said:
I think the biggest thing is staying positive, because you’re going to have your ups and downs,” Parker said. “Now, a lot of people are going to have a lot of expectations of him, and you know how hard Pop is. You know how he is. At the point guard position, it’s not easy to play for him …
“I’m just trying to be there for (Murray), you know -- support, whatever questions he has, and using all my knowledge that I have. I think I know the system even better than Pop. I’m just trying to help him as much as I can. It’s not going to be an easy transition, because as we play better teams, and playoffs, you know how hard it is.”
Last edited by SAGirl; 02-05-2018 at 01:47 PM.
Tony getting a 3-year deal this offseason confirmed.
absolutely. I thought the same.
With Tony's candor... it does give insight to the family atmosphere that they have in San Antonio. They may not be good enough right now to dominate (they are missing Kawhi it's obvious they miss him.)... but they are still keeping to their core values.
Start Parker.
This. It explains nearly every move the team makes. The Spurs run their team differently than most, and while many give all the credit to Tim Duncan, I can't do the same. He deserves the lion's share, but I think Tim and Pop together (with RC too ofc) built the core of the system, a long-term strategic way of doing things that Pop has stuck to even after Tim retired. So while many want the Spurs to turn their roster over more and stop re-signing their own guys so often, I don't have a problem with sticking with what has worked and is in fact still working.
It's like a family business that refuses to pay as little and charge as much as they can possibly get away with, instead choosing to focus on keeping key employees happy even if it means overpaying them, and not chasing every penny of profit at any cost.
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