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Because of a thing called the salary cap.
Spurs have offered him as much money as they are allowed to offer. New York can offer more because they are further under the cap.
they're kinda ed now though, bertans could have been a useful trade piece in that kind of deal
Because of a thing called the salary cap.
Spurs have offered him as much money as they are allowed to offer. New York can offer more because they are further under the cap.
No gentlemen's agreement between teams now? If a verbal agreement is made public and just the fine tuning needs to happen before the actual signature then it's BS to try and steal a player. The Knicks are a bottom barrel team for a reason. It's hard to fault a guy for wanting 50% more money but that money won't go as far in NY with the cost of living and taxes. Whatev
What's a little more stupid is the second year offered was a player option, right?
So Morris is picking $15 million for one year on a ty team with a logjam of power forwards.
Instead of $10 million for one year in a state with no income tax. That's fairly marginal -- he's still making more with the Knicks. But with the Spurs he also essentially gets a $10 million dollar insurance policy in case he gets hurt -- he can opt in and recuperate. This is besides the better team, more visibility, greater chance of showing teams league-wide that he's a compe ive player and good team guy, along with a probable starting position.
He's picked a team going nowhere, with ty teammates (have you seen R.J. Barrett play?), with too many players at his position, plus has shown himself to not be good for his word and have an agency that is underhanded and two faced. All for five million dollars?
He looks like he has soup instead of a brain. In purely basketball terms this looks really stupid.
move by the Knicks and move by Morris if he accepts it. Teams should have protection from public,
verbal agreements.
...these are the kind of problems a guy like Morris can take with him...and the reason my first reaction to his name as a target was negative. I hoped he changed his way considering he had a decent year in Boston, aka a similar, well runned, organization like our...but look at what happend to them when they decided to go the "supposed star" route instead of developing their own talent that just took them to the ecf...
These so called "talented guys" like Irving and Morris are humoral and not reliable...and, imho, there goes down their supposed value not only as men (their word means less than nothing) but also as players ('cause their behavior on the court will follow their state of mind)...and teams unaware of this are bound to a negative future.
However, the situation can't go on like this...some agency and agents, expecially when it happens they can operate in a big market city, are going to have too much power and are gonna to interfere negatively with the business and the nba power himself thanks, mainly, to the fact that they are gonna use their power using the media to lean on their narrative...any small market team with a grain of salt in their heads are going to complain...the nba is run by nba teams, not by two/three teams in the bigger markets and their players (aka player's agents). Lets all remember that the last lock-out was precisely for solving these kind of problems and restore balance between the powers of big and small markets...as of now the big markets (ny-LA-Chicago) control less than 1/6 of nba franchises...
WHAT THE ! I come home from work and have to read this ery. The Morris Bros have a rep for being headcases but COME ON! Tweedle Dee didn't even put on the jersey yet before starting this kind of BS. So they gave away Bertans for nothing? It's the Spurs fault for finalizing deals before making sure that clown signed. Not surprised by what the Knicks did. You expect that kind of stuff from a dumpster fire of an organization for just about all of the 2000's. I bet the league doesn't give a crap. I guess no rules were broken. I'm tired of this off season, lets start preseason already.
Any chance he still ends up signing with the Spurs?
If it were a done deal with the Knicks, it would be reported as a done deal with the Knicks. So I assume that means that it's still in play.Any chance he still ends up signing with the Spurs?
when you factor in the jock tax, he's still making more money to live in the greatest city in the world instead of hot, sticky, boring, little-Mexico. A no-brainer. And this isn't football, chance of debilitating injury from basketball is low. Morris did what anyone would do. Neither team is winning the championship next year, face the music. Manhattan has tens of thousands of gorgeous women walking around everyday worth banging. SA... nope, sadly.
When taking into consideration that the Texas taxes, playing against more Texas teams, also playoffs winning income, wfuivh btw the spurs divide the winnings equally compared to other teams that give more coin the higher minute players, I wouldn't be surprised the figures would be close. This is ignoring marketing etc.
Hopefully they can find someone else. Seem like a strange thing, especially as Mr. Body was saying he has a player option next year. for another $10 million for insurance. I mean $5 million is a lot of money though and his agent and him are probably looking at the pros and cons.
RC last I checked is still working on it. Not looking good though.
After taxes, difference wouldn't be 5 millions, it would be little more than 1 million. I wonder if Morris contemplated this little fact. Is 1 more million per year (and less guaranteed money overall) really worth pulling this unethical move to go play for a train wreck of an organization? Just keep your word, take the 10 millions with less taxes, get the cushion of an extra year, in case you need it, and play for a compe ive team for a year. If it doesn't work out you will still have the following season.
You dont say
This guy never seemed like a fit on the Spurs anyway...too much of a
Not surprised in any of this tbh
Not sure what the cap situation is, but dumping Belli and onviously moving Bertans should have freed up another 2 million no?
Id try 12+13= 25 million for two years with the 2nd year as a player option
only thing moving bertans did was that we acquired carroll without eating into the MLE. we still have the full MLE to offer. even if we move marco we're still above the cap, and so still limited to the MLE
Cant the Spurs offer a third year ? Make it 3 years $30M with the third being the player option. He’s turning 30 this year so that would take him to 33.
This may be a leverage tactic from Paul at Klutch to get that third year.
Rich paul pulled this , cause he knows Spurs still have to do business with him due to murray.
its doubtful morris wants it. he wants to be a FA next year where market will be better for him
The one behind all this is the one who owns Klutch.
never mind...
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