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An one year delay isn't horrible but it isn't good. Duncan isn't getting younger.
Even if Splitter only sign an one year extension, he will do a crap thing and I don't know if I want that kind of player with a Spurs jersey.
What is sad this is very good chance type thing might happen.
An one year delay isn't horrible but it isn't good. Duncan isn't getting younger.
Even if Splitter only sign an one year extension, he will do a crap thing and I don't know if I want that kind of player with a Spurs jersey.
You keep talk crap not me. Scola was give huge shoe contract in China from company Rockets owner is part of. This ONLY reason he agree for salary Rockets gives him. I know this was report in Greece when trade is make with Spanoulis and he signs here. They mentions many time Scola get big shoe contract from China from Rockets owner or else he will have cost more than MLE to sign and Rockets not trade Spanouli unless they know for sure can sign Scola.
terrible news
I like this idea
Link or BS.
How can I find link from so long ago and this be in Greek anyway. What I say is TRUE and Kori can ban me if is not.
It's sad because it's true.
Ha look what great google finds for me
http://bbs.clutchfans.net/printthread.php?t=147508
it even have VIDEO of Scola Chinese shoe commercial from company calls Anta which Rocket owner Alexander is part of!
Go to link and watch Chinese shoe deal commercial of Scola. You is LIAR not me.
If true that is worrisome.
That should be a red flag to everybody that the Spurs might be looking to re-sign Kurt Thomas or sign Dikembe Mutombo or some other over-the-hill big-man to be the Steve Smith to Mahinmi's Stephen Jackson.
You're half way there. Now show me the "Scola was give huge shoe contract" proof..
Maybe if the Spurs were steamrolling through the playoffs, but I think even they have to recognize they've gone about as far as they can with the whole "experience over youth and athleticism" approach.
I guess we'll know for sure soon enough.
I have a lot of doubts in this Marca article. There isn't any Tiago quote.
Last week he was talking about playing with the NT and then follow his dream and play in the NBA. I still think he'll do that
They say in Greece something like $5 million.
http://www.anta.cn/eng/about/milestones.htm
This is official site say also Steve Francis signs with them. I checks Rockets board this also why Francis sign for so cheap and Bonzi also. They also get the shoe deal from Rockets owner Chinese company with shoe makers.
Also they says Chuck Hayes gets 6 figure shoe contract from them so this mean Scola must get very big contract.
Quote:
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_9048098
NBA: Yao's Houston teammates score on Chinese shoe endorsements
Three Rockets enjoy lucrative endorsement deals
for Chinese-brand basketball shoes
By Ross Siler
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 04/25/2008 10:19:32 AM MDT
Thanks to the stress fracture in his left foot, Yao Ming hasn't played a minute for the Houston Rockets in the last two months. That doesn't mean, though, that his footprints aren't all over this first-round playoff series with the Jazz.
Quite literally, in fact, with three of Yao's teammates wearing Chinese brand basketball shoes. Forget Nike, Reebok or Adidas. Shane Battier, Chuck Hayes and Luis Scola have six- and seven-figure endorsement deals with Peak, Li-Ning and Anta, respectively.
"While I would love to believe that it's because of my overwhelming charisma and personality," Battier said, "I think it has something to do with Yao."
It is perhaps the greatest tribute to the globalization of the NBA. While Yao wears an American brand of shoes (Reebok), his teammates have cashed in with Chinese companies simply by wearing the same uniform as Yao.
"Every game," Hayes said, "I get millions of people over there in Asia watching us and supporting me, and people, they see that I'm wearing Li-Ning, so I guess that brings up my fan base even more."
Joking with Scola at Thursday's pregame shootaround, Yao said he wanted a free dinner from his teammates, if not a piece of their contracts. "Are there any shoe company in Argentina interested about me?" Yao asked Scola.
"If Yao wore a Chinese shoe," Battier said, "I don't think there'd be any deals for us over here, so we're happy with Yao and Reebok."
For all the recent news reports about lead contamination in Chinese exports - children's toys, in particular - Battier said his Peaks are as good as any shoe he has worn.
"I toured the factory," Battier said, "and where my shoe was made, it was very well ventilated and well lit and labor practices seemed on the up and up."
The Rockets quietly claim the Chinese shoe contracts give them a potential edge in free agency. The deals are believed to be worth between $300,000 (for a player like Hayes) to $1 million or more for Battier and Steve Francis, who signed with Anta.
An undrafted and undersized forward, Hayes can forever boast that he has his own shoe deal. Li-Ning approached his agent last season and Hayes surprised Yao one day when he showed up to practice wearing the sneakers.
"Yao can vouch for me," Hayes said. "Out of the three shoe companies, mine is the best one. Yao said mine was by far the best one. Over there, I have the best shoe. So I would like to say I'm wearing the Nikes of China."
The three are featured on billboards in the country's biggest cities. Battier said every NBA game broadcast in China goes to break with a Peak commercial starring himself and returns from break with the same commercial a second time.
"I'm much more famous in China than I think I ever was in America, which is kind of cool," Battier said.
Rockets forward Mike Harris, who played in China earlier this season before signing with Houston last month, can attest to how tired he grew of seeing Battier on television.
"The commercial plays over and over," Harris said. "It got kind of repe ive. I got tired of watching it, so I just stopped watching TV. I started watching movies."
While Nikes retail for $100 or more, Chinese sneakers cost about half that, said Wang Meng, who covers the Rockets for an Sports, the country's largest sports newspaper. Li-Ning is the most established brand, but Anta is making inroads.
Approximately 70 Rockets games each season are broadcast in China, Wang added, making them China's adopted national team. He said the endorsement deals were far more cost effective than paying to advertise on government-run television.
Li-Ning has deals with NBA players Shaquille O'Neal and Damon Jones while Rockets owner Leslie Alexander reportedly has a $30 million stake in Anta. The biggest question, though, is whether Yao ever will wear a Chinese brand.
"There are a lot of Chinese shoe companies that really want to sign Yao when he becomes a free agent," Wang said. "There will be a fight, just like three, four years ago Nike and Reebok fight so hard to try to sign Yao."
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Hayes have 6 figure and Battier must have 7 maybe? But like it say Scola have 7 I knows Greece sports paper say it were like $5 million.
Mahinmi said that he hasn't talked about his future role 10 days ago. It comes directly from him.
I'm not sure that it's worrisome. It's quite logical that they haven't talked about that while Spurs are in the middle of a playoff run.
Agree. Pop would not talk about it during the Playoffs.
I hope we can see Tiago and Ian as part of next year rotation
Please don't let this be true, getting younger is now pretty much mandatory for the team, and we need Splitter.
If he goes on with the extension, then all I can say is go to Tiago.
Yeah, until I see a direct quote from Splitter... I'm gonna keep the hope that he's coming over.
Same here.
Latest word from RealGM:
http://www.realgm.com/src_wiretap_ar...stay_in_spain/
Members of the Spurs' organization have been in Spain attempting to convince Tiago Splitter to join their club for the 2008-09 season.
The Spurs selected Splitter in the first round of the 2007 NBA Draft.
Splitter is nearly certain to accept a renewal from Tau Cerámica.
AFAIK, Marca isn't the closest source of info about Tau. It's a newspaper from Madrid and not from Vittoria's area.
The equivalent to what the E-N is to Spurs for Tau, is el correo digital http://www.elcorreodigital.com/alava/deportes/tau/ .
If this newspaper report that Splitter is set to re-sign with Tau, this rumor will have way more credibility.
Well I believe this more than I would if it came from the Greek media.
I'd think Mahinmi wouldn't get any guarantee right through training camp just to keep him working his butt off.
Maybe it's time to draft local talent for a change.
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