Yahoo: News on on a potential Tiago Splitter offersheet

[Leetonidas]

Leonard, Splitter(s & t), Bonner , Diaw for Aldridge Withey(some size back) and Crabbe

Spurs would have to get a couple of free agents to replace Leonard and Bonner.
You take a hit at sf for an upgrade at pf/center.

Leonard will be a better player than LMA, who has already seemed to have plateaued imo

[Leetonidas]

Javale is athletic as , can block shots that seem impossible, can rebound.. he's a goofy ass kid but if he got his together he'd be scary good. Not the same for tiago

Javale McGee is almost literally re ed though. If he had Tiago's brain he'd be a great player, but some of the this dude does on the court really makes you scratch your head

[Leetonidas]

But yeah Tiago is worth 8 million a season, that's the going rate for starting big man and he was almost the starting big man on a championship team.

[PingPong]

Javale McGee is almost literally re ed though. If he had Tiago's brain he'd be a great player, but some of the this dude does on the court really makes you scratch your head

If you want a borderline re big, try Fab Melo. He's cheap.

[BackHome]

I wonder if he is demanding a trade and if that is so can we squeeze the Suns for swapping next years draft picks?

[tesseractive]

Javale McGee is almost literally re ed though. If he had Tiago's brain he'd be a great player, but some of the this dude does on the court really makes you scratch your head

Dunk, Forrest, dunk!

[Twisted_Dawg]

San Antonio Spurs restricted free-agent center Tiago Splitter could command an offer sheet that averages $8.5 million to $9 million annually, league sources told Yahoo! Sports.

The Portland Trail Blazers are expected to be a suitor for Splitter, league sources said. The Utah Jazz and Atlanta Hawks have salary-cap space, a need for a young center and general managers – Dennis Lindsey and Danny Ferry, respectively – who were Spurs front-office executives when Splitter came into the organization.

The Spurs will be in a strong position to match an offer sheet and keep Splitter, because they'll free of Stephen Jackson's $10 million salary and expect to re-sign Manu Ginobili at a lesser salary than the $14.1 million he made this season.
The baseline for a Splitter offer sheet will likely be the three-year, $25 million deal that Houston awarded center Omer Asik in free agency a year ago, sources told Y! Sports.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nba--nb...234954522.html

Conversely, if Ferry and Bud, and Lindsey DON'T make a run at Splitter, we can conclude they think he is a pussy and not worth $9 mill per.

[TheGreatYacht]

Conversely, if Ferry and Bud, and Lindsey DON'T make a run at Splitter, we can conclude they think he is a pussy and not worth $9 mill per.

I hope nobody makes a run at him so that we can keep him for $5M per year which is about what he is worth tbh.

[look_at_g_shred]

Just sign Splitter and Manu already so we can tell how much money we will have to play with.

[TheGoldStandard]

Just sign Splitter and Manu already so we can tell how much money we will have to play with.

Seriously this... Pop and RC should just get on the horn for possible interest, there's probably 3 teams that would make an offer.. Let it be over with so we can see the Spurs pay him 8 or 9 Million

[TheGreatYacht]

Do you guys not know that the Spurs already made a qualifying offer to Tiago Splitter? The offer is on already on the table, just of matter of Tiago signing the offer sheet. The FO and Manu probably have agreed that the Spurs will sign all the FA's necessary and then Manu will take whatever money is left, else Manu wouldn't be on vacation in Argentina. All that is good for the Spurs.

http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2013/6/3...lifying-offers

[MannyIsGod]

Considering that in order for him to be a RFA they have to extend him a qualifying offer, yes we know.

[JMarkJohns]

Sarver lapdog, John Gambadoro, says report is false, ridiculous, and nothing to it.

I'm actually kind of disappointed.

[Agloco]

Asik or Gortat plz......thx.

[BackHome]

The only team I think might throw big money would be Dallas if they loose out to Howard.

[SpurSpurSpurs]

I agree. David West would be the ideal Tiago replacement because he can play defense and also score over Norris Cole and Shane Battier.

Tiago is a superb pick and roll player, but he lacks mid range jumpers. West can do both and abuse the small ball line-ups by posting up. He's a good system player and shouldn't be that hard for him to learn the system. Diaw was able to do it, hopefully he can too.

I'd go David West as first option then Tiago as second, hopefully we don't go beyond that.

[pad300]

I'm hoping that Manu is letting the Spurs do all their signings and that his contract doesn't end up being an obstacle or difference maker on whether we sign a FA or not. Hopefully he pulls a Tim Duncan in that he's willing to sacrifice his salary for the good of the team.

Well, we will find out quickly - the first thing the Spurs have to do to have any cap room at all is either cut Gino loose as a unrestricted FA, or sign him to a new contract. His cap hold is enormous ($19 million IIRC), because his salary was high last year...

[dallasmaverickslose]

Do you guys not know that the Spurs already made a qualifying offer to Tiago Splitter? The offer is on already on the table, just of matter of Tiago signing the offer sheet. The FO and Manu probably have agreed that the Spurs will sign all the FA's necessary and then Manu will take whatever money is left, else Manu wouldn't be on vacation in Argentina. All that is good for the Spurs.

http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2013/6/3...lifying-offers

I have confidence that Manu will take a "whatever money's left deal." He's aware of what's good for the team.

see? We can agree on stuff. I agree with you for the most part in the finals Manu was horrible, and he shouldn't be asking for a lot of $$ this offseason. However, I don't think it's necessary to hate on and hold grudges against him.