Sportando: Spurs working hard to part ways with Gasol

[sasaint]

you, Pau. And you Spurs for letting this POS dupe you into giving him that contract.

He played 60 games for us, burned out in the playoffs, and waited a few weeks for his next paycheck. Give that man 50 mill!

The Spurs' reputation as a half-way house for pos NBA vets to pave the way to retirement with easy money will only be enhanced. Stay tuned for further enhancement when LMA and DeMar get to that point.

[spurs1990]

Yeah Pau ed up not coming to us after we rang in 2014. We played some unmotivated ball until the end of the year, but it was already to late and ended up with playing the clippers in the first round. If Pau would of came we would of won the the division le, and played against Dallas in the first round again and would of had home court advantage against Houston or LA in the second.

You can't fault Gasol for signing here in 2016. It was Buford or Popovich that offered him the contract.

All of our frustration should be geared towards those two. They rewarded this guy after being shafted by him just two season before.
None of us really cared about it at the time since it was a 2 year deal and it was going to buttress the roster that had just won 67 games.

It was just a horrible stroke of bad luck in that they asked him to opt out of his 2 year deal to chase Chris Paul, with a wink-wink that he would be taken care of afterwards.

If we could all go back knowing just a couple more facts (specifically being a real option for Paul in 2017), I'm certain Pop/Buford would have passed on this 7 foot waste of a roster space.

On the plus side he's a good culture guy and worldly and generous and all that cool Spurs character stuff.
That's literally the only positive I have to say about him.

[MultiTroll]

Nephew gets Marc Gasol.
We keep Pau.

Way to show him, Pop!

[ceperez]

You can't fault Gasol for signing here in 2016. It was Buford or Popovich that offered him the contract.

All of our frustration should be geared towards those two. They rewarded this guy after being shafted by him just two season before.
None of us really cared about it at the time since it was a 2 year deal and it was going to buttress the roster that had just won 67 games.

It was just a horrible stroke of bad luck in that they asked him to opt out of his 2 year deal to chase Chris Paul, with a wink-wink that he would be taken care of afterwards.

If we could all go back knowing just a couple more facts (specifically being a real option for Paul in 2017), I'm certain Pop/Buford would have passed on this 7 foot waste of a roster space.

On the plus side he's a good culture guy and worldly and generous and all that cool Spurs character stuff.
That's literally the only positive I have to say about him.

What didn't make sense was that Pau was pretty much done when he came from the Bulls. The two years contract I had thought was the longest we would keep him. Just stunned though with the 16m/yr contract he signed after. That never made sense and Spurs are paying for it ever since.

[slick'81]

Horrible fckn contract and as usual couldnt flip that 16 mil for anything

[dbestpro]

Spurs working hard to part with Gasol. The deadline has passed. Pop drinking wine. :"Guess we should look into trading Gasol". RC drinking bourbon. "Whose Gasol?"

[r0drig0lac]

not hard enough #SaD

[slick'81]

Now we get to pay gasol to go away

[boutons_deux]

The Spurs' reputation as a half-way house for pos NBA vets to pave the way to retirement with easy money will only be enhanced. Stay tuned for further enhancement when LMA and DeMar get to that point.

Spurs, NBA's boneyard

McGrady

Kevin Willis

Pau outta-Gas-ol

McDyess

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[slick'81]

Spurs, NBA's boneyard

McGrady

Kevin Willis

Pau outta-Gas-ol

McDyess

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Dale ellis,chuck person ,nique and who could forget moses malone

[itzsoweezee]

I have yet to hear a reasonable argument in favor of that contract. What the was the front office thinking? $16 million? Fine. But for 3 years? Why the would you do that?

[SpurPadre]

Working hard or hardly working?

[spurs1990]

Courtesy of Bball-reference.com, this guy's pay means he isn't just some grizzly vet taking a roster spot.

Look where he ranks in salary on the roster this year and the next - he's arguably the worst contract in the NBA based on salary, seasons under contract, ability, age, and trade value.

Player	2018-19 Salary	2019-20 Salary
DeMar DeRozan	$27,739,975	$27,739,975
LaMarcus Aldridge	$22,347,015	$26,000,000
Pau Gasol	$16,800,000	$16,000,000
Patty Mills	$11,571,429	$12,428,571
Rudy Gay	$10,087,200
Davis Bertans	$7,000,000	$7,000,000
Marco Belinelli	$6,153,846	$5,846,154
Bryn Forbes	$3,125,000	$2,875,000
Jakob Poeltl	$2,947,320	$3,754,886
Dante Cunningham	$2,500,000
Lonnie Walker	$2,357,160	$2,760,480
Quincy Pondexter	$2,165,481
Derrick White	$1,667,160	$1,948,080
Dejounte Murray	$1,544,951	$2,321,735
Chimezie Metu	$838,464

[superbigtime]

Dale ellis,chuck person ,nique and who could forget moses malone

Ellis and Chuck weren't washed up. How bout:

Nick van Exel

Steve Smith

Kurt Thomas

[pad300]

I have yet to hear a reasonable argument in favor of that contract. What the was the front office thinking? $16 million? Fine. But for 3 years? Why the would you do that?

You may not like it, but here you go : https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/sho...74#post9693774

[SpursforSix]

Courtesy of Bball-reference.com, this guy's pay means he isn't just some grizzly vet taking a roster spot.

Look where he ranks in salary on the roster this year and the next - he's arguably the worst contract in the NBA based on salary, seasons under contract, ability, age, and trade value.

Player	2018-19 Salary	2019-20 Salary
DeMar DeRozan	$27,739,975	$27,739,975
LaMarcus Aldridge	$22,347,015	$26,000,000
Pau Gasol	$16,800,000	$16,000,000
Patty Mills	$11,571,429	$12,428,571
Rudy Gay	$10,087,200
Davis Bertans	$7,000,000	$7,000,000
Marco Belinelli	$6,153,846	$5,846,154
Bryn Forbes	$3,125,000	$2,875,000
Jakob Poeltl	$2,947,320	$3,754,886
Dante Cunningham	$2,500,000
Lonnie Walker	$2,357,160	$2,760,480
Quincy Pondexter	$2,165,481
Derrick White	$1,667,160	$1,948,080
Dejounte Murray	$1,544,951	$2,321,735
Chimezie Metu	$838,464

Damn. It's like the realization that you just bought some Sennheiser HD 820s.

[Chomag]

Fake News

[Leetonidas]

John Wall is now the worst contract ever followed by Chandler Parsons but Pau is a close 3rd. I was really hoping they'd dump this bum

[itzsoweezee]

You may not like it, but here you go : https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/sho...74#post9693774

Still does not make sense. It goes off the assumption that had he opted out, pau would've gotten a contract worth at least the full MLE value ~$39M. I think that assumption was crazy, and those types of shenanigans were definitely not worth getting cp3's old ass, which they struck out on anyway

[BackHome]

Pop taking a knee for the Spurs gotta love it.

[sasaint]

Still does not make sense. It goes off the assumption that had he opted out, pau would've gotten a contract worth at least the full MLE value ~$39M. I think that assumption was crazy, and those types of shenanigans were definitely not worth getting cp3's old ass, which they struck out on anyway

Yeah, terrible FO work. Bad intel on CP3 and worse idea of what would be a reasonable compensation for Pau's opting out.

[timtonymanu]

16 million for a 40 year old man.

PATFO must have thought everyone ages well like Tim and Manu did to end their careers. Hard for me to root for this team while Gasol (and Pop) is still here.

[jermaine]

16 million for a 40 year old man.

PATFO must have thought everyone ages well like Tim and Manu did to end their careers. Hard for me to root for this team while Gasol (and Pop) is still here.

Dont let Clan the Spurs fan hear you talk like this.

[timtonymanu]

Dont let Clan the Spurs fan hear you talk like this.

Eh they can say whatever but it would be nice to have a head coach that keeps his political opinions to himself and focus on his mediocre team instead.

[pad300]

Still does not make sense. It goes off the assumption that had he opted out, pau would've gotten a contract worth at least the full MLE value ~$39M. I think that assumption was crazy, and those types of shenanigans were definitely not worth getting cp3's old ass, which they struck out on anyway

Your not getting it. The PATFO wanted a shot at CP3. To get that shot, Gasol's contract had to be off the Spurs books. So he had to opt out (of something like $15M). So they made him an (illegal but unprovable) under the table promise : if you opt out, we will give you a contract worth the full MLE (Which is the maximum he could be given, if he opted out, and the Spurs renounced his bird rights so they could sign CP3). He accepted this, opted out. They didn't get CP3, but they were on the hook for the aforementioned full MLE value; now they are paying him the value of the full MLE ~ $39.5M = 16 +16.8 + 6.7 (his partial guarantee).

You can argue that it was silly to pursue CP3 like that, but this is pretty clearly what they did.