Gasol asked to be traded before the trade deadline

[slick'81]

Hilarious how Pop was willing to play him to showcase him and the TOSB couldn’t keep up with the Kings.

Gasoft. Hated him the whole time he was here.

The fact he stiffed the spurs once and was rewarded with an exstension is still horrific

[sasaint]

This offseason will be telling. They got a chance to turn it around. Key is is trade Patty to free up cap space. No way of doing this mid-season with this front office. No excuse to not move a guard in the offseason. DJ coming back and need minutes.

Yes, we need to move a guard, but you are focused on the wrong contract and the wrong player.

[south side spur]

Capspace is worthless for the Spurs. No one worth a crap is signing here when the team is middle of the road (and declining) and a small market.

Maybe it won’t matter this summer but Murray Bertans and Poetl will all be getting extensions next summer.

[mo7888]

The only way is let him go before March 1st is if he gives up his buyout for next season. If he won't do that keep him and either trade him at the draft or waive him over the summer.

[sasaint]

The only way is let him go before March 1st is if he gives up his buyout for next season. If he won't do that keep him and either trade him at the draft or waive him over the summer.

Yep.

[NASpurs]

People here hit it on the nose when they said he was being showcased. Probably worked against his favor though.

[timtonymanu]

People here hit it on the nose when they said he was being showcased. Probably worked against his favor though.

It's hilarious reading the comments of people defending him though. so much culture/good lockerroom guy only for him to demand a trade after losing minutes.

[MultiTroll]

It's hilarious reading the comments of people defending him though. so much culture/good lockerroom guy only for him to demand a trade after losing minutes.

Did anyone here ever think he was *good culture* / *good locker room* guy?

FFS

[SouthTexasRancher]

, nobody in the league wanted the 'OLD' Gasol. They all wanted the young Gasol and he may finally get a ring this year or next.

[UnWantedTheory]

It's hilarious reading the comments of people defending him though. so much culture/good lockerroom guy only for him to demand a trade after losing minutes.

Most here knew, and said, his contract was a mistake, but that doesn't change the logic in why they did it. It was a gamble that was lost and they needed to honor their word. It is what it is.

[timtonymanu]

This genius right here:

Knuckleheads on this board don't really understand corporate knowledge or culture. This team wouldn't be solving its issues with the chemistry it has without guys like Mills and Gasol. Sure, we might have overpaid, but we have these players to glue everyone together.

Corporate knowledge and culture = demands trade.

At least Patty never pulls that .

[Play Boban]

If only we could’ve gotten Gasol when he went to the Bulls instead. He was still good back then tbh.

[BlackAndWhite]

Gasol declined fast. I remember he was never happy with his role unless he got a significant amount of touches. He started pouting when he pop tried to bring him off of the bench tbh.

[BackHome]

Yeah pretty much every one on forum said he was washed up and contract was stupid I have no
idea what RC and Poop we’re thinking? But if I am RC I am still playing Gasoft cause he helps with our tanking for a better draft pick. But I am telling Gasol up front next year he is backup to Poodle and Nikola.

[Capt Bringdown]

LOL, today's NBA.

[TimDunkem]

Lol Today's PATFO

[John B]

That’s mess up. It seems like only the organization has loyalty not the players. I hope Pop just don’t play him and just give all the minutes to Poeltl.

[rj215]

PATFO and Pau are a perfect fit: both clearly delusional. Both still think its 2010 or some $hit. Can't wait for his contract extension and Patty's eventual loyalty contract.

[Degoat]

So can the spurs buy him out before the deadline for him to join a playoff contender? I doubt the spurs do it but it would be nice if maybe they tried out some players on some 10 day contracts or something

[LakerHater]

three years after he snubbed us for Chicago. Now he's requesting a trade...

[monty4329]

Gasol was out for 28 games, due to a stress fracture. Most mortals don't understand that stress fracture is an overuse injury. Nine games into the season, playing 17 minutes per night, and he's got an overuse injury. It doesn't matter if he can occasionally put up double digit points or rebounds. If his body can't stand up to 17 minutes a night, he's washed up.

If he was expiring, someone might have bought the contract and kept him for light-duty insurance. But with that $6.75M hit on next year's cap, the Spurs would have had to throw in some kind of value to move him. That much was true even before he missed 28 games. No chance the Spurs throw in anything of value just to accommodate his dumb ass for a few more months.

I don't know the terms on his guarantee, but maybe Pau figured the Spurs will wait until the last minute before cutting him loose next year, like they did with Jonathan Simmons. If they cut him loose early, he could still sign with another team and make an extra $3M next year. If he thinks he's still got more value than that, he's delusional on top of washed up.

If that's not it, then it sounds like things have completely gone to in SA, and the rats are looking for a way off the ship.

In fairness, the idiot medical staff sent him to practice with a ing broken foot, obviously worsening the situation. Wouldn't you want to try to get out and maybe play a couple years more? Instead of enging up in crutches? before the injury he was playing pretty OK.

[ceperez]

Gasol was out for 28 games, due to a stress fracture. Most mortals don't understand that stress fracture is an overuse injury. Nine games into the season, playing 17 minutes per night, and he's got an overuse injury. It doesn't matter if he can occasionally put up double digit points or rebounds. If his body can't stand up to 17 minutes a night, he's washed up.

If he was expiring, someone might have bought the contract and kept him for light-duty insurance. But with that $6.75M hit on next year's cap, the Spurs would have had to throw in some kind of value to move him. That much was true even before he missed 28 games. No chance the Spurs throw in anything of value just to accommodate his dumb ass for a few more months.

I don't know the terms on his guarantee, but maybe Pau figured the Spurs will wait until the last minute before cutting him loose next year, like they did with Jonathan Simmons. If they cut him loose early, he could still sign with another team and make an extra $3M next year. If he thinks he's still got more value than that, he's delusional on top of washed up.

If that's not it, then it sounds like things have completely gone to in SA, and the rats are looking for a way off the ship.

Makes sense.

On the other hand, this could all be window dressing. It's bad enough that the team was shopping Gasol, but to dress it up that he wanted out make Gasol look better than he actually is.

[skookumchuck]

PATFO and Pau are a perfect fit: both clearly delusional. Both still think its 2010 or some $hit. Can't wait for his contract extension and Patty's eventual loyalty contract.

In all fairness, I also sometimes think it's still 2010. Time flew by like a mother er.

Yes, I'm extremely delusional.

[ZeusWillJudge]

In fairness, the idiot medical staff sent him to practice with a ing broken foot, obviously worsening the situation. Wouldn't you want to try to get out and maybe play a couple years more? Instead of enging up in crutches? before the injury he was playing pretty OK.

You don't know that his foot was broken. "Stress fracture" also includes bruising of the bone. It's an overuse injury, which means it takes place over time. When muscles get too tired (worn out) to absorb the repeated impact, they load gets taken by the bone. If the bone can't take the pounding, it develops tiny fissures and there is pain/swelling. If you keep it up, actual cracks will develop and eventually breaks. It's the same thing that hobbled Manu so many times, just a different place. Plantar fasciitis (Duncan, Derek White) is an overuse injury. Half the damn league will have some form of overuse eventually.

You don't know what the medical staff did or didn't do. You don't know that Pau had a "break" in his foot. And you don't know about the most common injury in the sport you follow. For all of that and more:

You have been judged and found unworthy.

[313]

$16 million for this tosb