Gasol asked to be traded before the trade deadline

[Mugen]

people who thought Pau wouldn't up as soon as he got healthy...

[GreekSpursfan]

Pop won't tank. He will flog this dead horse all the way to the finish line. it is barely conceivable that they make the 8th seed. If they don't get swept in the first round, SA should throw a parade on the river.

I'm talking about next season, this season will end exactly how you say it will.

[GreekSpursfan]

I only posted that trade to illustrate the salary the Spurs could take back for Gasol. And this summer he's a contract that could allow a team to shed $20 million in 2019-20 salary while only paying his $7 million guaranteed. Maybe the Spurs are stupid and can't find a deal for him but it's a more valuable trading piece this summer since his 2018-19 salary will have already been paid.

I agree but all i'm saying is that this team needs to tank anyway so having Gasol doesn't mean much imo. Warriors are still here and a superteam will form in the summer based on all the things we hear about the Fakers and other teams so there is no window of success with the current roster, tank and tank not just for one season is the only way.

[duncan2k5]

Be prepared for LMA to get like this VERY soon... He already started, but he at least had SOME gas in him... Which is why I'm baffled as to why they signed him an extra four years without him playing a significant game after his miserable playoff showing and trade demand

[exstatic]

I agree but all i'm saying is that this team needs to tank anyway so having Gasol doesn't mean much imo. Warriors are still here and a superteam will form in the summer based on all the things we hear about the Fakers and other teams so there is no window of success with the current roster, tank and tank not just for one season is the only way.

I really don't see that superteam forming in LA this summer. NO has been basically ignoring LA's calls, and seems to be ready to take any other offers, meaning Davis won't be available to LA until 2020 when he's a FA. I also don't see GS lasting past this year. KD is almost certain to leave, and it wouldn't shock me if Thompson did, too.

[monty4329]

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.

Dude, wtf you talking about? He was sent to practice after being out couple weeks, he said foot was hurting, back to MRI, foot was indeed broken.
Check your sources (i.e. use two fingers and google). You are a moron, anyway.

[Dancelot]

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

Yes, I'm extremely delusional.

This. All the time. Just last night I couldn’t remember my age and thought I was much younger for a second.

[Dancelot]

Be prepared for LMA to get like this VERY soon... He already started, but he at least had SOME gas in him... Which is why I'm baffled as to why they signed him an extra four years without him playing a significant game after his miserable playoff showing and trade demand

Agreed. I foresee LMA asking for a trade in this off season, especially if we miss the PO.

[ceperez]

Buy him out so he can join the Raptors!!

[ceperez]

Here's why Pau is with the Spurs:

http://www.nba.com/video/2019/02/10/...gasol-symphony

[exstatic]

Be prepared for LMA to get like this VERY soon... He already started, but he at least had SOME gas in him... Which is why I'm baffled as to why they signed him an extra four years without him playing a significant game after his miserable playoff showing and trade demand

You're a moron. His extension was for two years, making him under CONTRACT for four years, two of which he was already signed for.

Oh, and the second year of the extension, 2020-2021 is only guaranteed for $7M if he's cut before 29 June.

[timvp]

I guess that partial guarantee didn't really hold much value in the market.

This is what it came down to. I never bought the narrative that Gasol's contract held much intrinsic value. Some acted as if his contract would be coveted because it could help a team shed salary. In reality, teams didn't value it anywhere near as much as a regular expiring contract. Gasol's contract was viewed as an expiring but with $6M+ in dead money attached to in for the next season. If you were a team looking to salary dump someone, there were much better options that didn't include that dead money attachment.

The Spurs would have had to taken back a horrendous contract or attach an actual asset. I'm glad they didn't do go down either one of those routes.

Now you can let Gasol go if he agrees to give up that dead money. If he doesn't, then let him rot at the end of the bench and go to symphonies or whatever. If things go south, unleash Tank Commander Pau.

[TD 21]

I don't understand the complaints. He's 38, a future HOFer and before his injury, was still easily (and with steady minutes, probably still is) a rotation caliber player. He'd still be that here if not for s bag's antics and the front office making an atrocious trade. He might even still be that here if not for them stumbling into their now preferred 9 man rotation and taking off when he got injured.

Why should he silently collect his money while what remains of his career dwindles away? Even though they awarded him with an absurd contract, they screwed him in this sense.

Now you can let Gasol go if he agrees to give up that dead money. If he doesn't, then let him rot at the end of the bench and go to symphonies or whatever. If things go south, unleash Tank Commander Pau.

Why should he have to pay (giving up his $6.7M guarantee for next season) for their mistakes? If he asks for his release, they shouldn't even have the gall to try to negotiate.

[DJR210]

Pau

Hopefully this was a reality check for him, he should be grateful he's even getting a paycheck at this point.. He isn't worth 2 pallets of dog

[BackHome]

Gasol sucks he still thinks he can still play man Manu could come back for a few games and dunk all over his ass. His ego is bigger then KY uncle sit his on the bench and if he wants to be traded fine tear up contract and don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out. Playing him now is screwing with Poodles development get rid of him a and bring over Nikola like they should have last year.

[sasaint]

This is what it came down to. I never bought the narrative that Gasol's contract held much intrinsic value. Some acted as if his contract would be coveted because it could help a team shed salary. In reality, teams didn't value it anywhere near as much as a regular expiring contract. Gasol's contract was viewed as an expiring but with $6M+ in dead money attached to in for the next season. If you were a team looking to salary dump someone, there were much better options that didn't include that dead money attachment.

The Spurs would have had to taken back a horrendous contract or attach an actual asset. I'm glad they didn't do go down either one of those routes.

Now you can let Gasol go if he agrees to give up that dead money. If he doesn't, then let him rot at the end of the bench and go to symphonies or whatever. If things go south, unleash Tank Commander Pau.

On the nose, friend!

[slick'81]

Were stuck with pau,patty and demar until further notice

[baseline bum]

This is what it came down to. I never bought the narrative that Gasol's contract held much intrinsic value. Some acted as if his contract would be coveted because it could help a team shed salary. In reality, teams didn't value it anywhere near as much as a regular expiring contract. Gasol's contract was viewed as an expiring but with $6M+ in dead money attached to in for the next season. If you were a team looking to salary dump someone, there were much better options that didn't include that dead money attachment.

The Spurs would have had to taken back a horrendous contract or attach an actual asset. I'm glad they didn't do go down either one of those routes.

Now you can let Gasol go if he agrees to give up that dead money. If he doesn't, then let him rot at the end of the bench and go to symphonies or whatever. If things go south, unleash Tank Commander Pau.

If we go with Tank Commander Pau the team better play him Don Nelson era Finley minutes next season until his ass breaks down and has to retire so insurance can pick up that deal.

[timvp]

I don't understand the complaints. He's 38, a future HOFer and before his injury, was still easily (and with steady minutes, probably still is) a rotation caliber player. He'd still be that here if not for s bag's antics and the front office making an atrocious trade. He might even still be that here if not for them stumbling into their now preferred 9 man rotation and taking off when he got injured.

Why should he silently collect his money while what remains of his career dwindles away? Even though they awarded him with an absurd contract, they screwed him in this sense.

To begin the season, I thought Gasol looked pretty darn good. He was possibly the best backup center in the league coming out of the gates.

But have you seen him since his return from the stress fracture? Not to be macabre, but if Gasol were a racehorse, he'd be put down. Watching him try to move is painful.

Why should he have to pay (giving up his $6.7M guarantee for next season) for their mistakes? If he asks for his release, they shouldn't even have the gall to try to negotiate.

That's not how that works. If a player wants to be bought out to go to a better situation, the player and the team negotiate to determine how much money the player needs to give up in order for it to make sense for the team.

If Gasol wants to go to a better situation but isn't willing to give up any money to make that happen, you let him sit on the end of the bench because his value is still greater than zero (even if it's for Tank Commander purposes). If he is willing to give up money (preferably the money he's due next season), you help him pack his bags for Utah, Toronto, Memphis or wherever.

[timvp]

If we go with Tank Commander Pau the team better play him Don Nelson era Finley minutes next season until his ass breaks down and has to retire so insurance can pick up that deal.

[Hoops Czar]

People complaining that Pau wants to be traded. Who cares, let him go. Aldridge wanted to be traded and I don't people dogging him. Anyways, It's not his fault. It's PATFO's fault for getting hook, line and sinkered into thinking CP3 was actually interested in joining the Spurs. The Spurs never should have allowed Pau to opt out of the last yrear of his contract in the first place. He wasn't going to touch 16M/year on the open market again.

It's also Pop's fault for thinking he had revolutionized the NBA with his culture schtick and that it wasn't Tim Duncan who was carrying his sorry ass for the better part of two decades. Theree's no culture here, just a bunch of retreads and rejects that nobody else wants/ed.

[Dverde]

Pau denies wanting a trade or leaking the demand?

[slick'81]

Pau denies wanting a trade or leaking the demand?

take it back pau is a great guy

[hater]

spursfans falling for dat fake news

5 pages of comments on a made up story

[Ocotillo]

lol, when you said make him Tank Commander it went over my head for a minute and I was thinking of the old Marcus Bryant No Limit Patton alt.