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whoa, bye bye Rasho!
Check Webster's for the definition of "tantalizing" (if not "bum").
If they have an entry for Clippers season ticket-holder and you'll get the real uncensored lowdown on Wilcox.
whoa, bye bye Rasho!
Yeah I know, Russ.
He was much better in Seattle than he was in L.A. but his lack of effort sometimes was infuriating.
I don't really know. People speculate ridiculous numbers.
It's weird to me that his agent (or him, I forgot) came out and said they want a shorter contract.
Isn't that generally a sign that teams are not throwing out the long term contract money that the agent wants so they'll try to up their value in a short term deal?
Well he said that during the season -- that he didn't want more than a 3 year deal because he wanted to work for a big contract next time. I just found it odd. Most guys want as much guarantee money as they can get.
I think the Sonics will make him a decent offer, but I think they'll get outbid.
Man, Are we trying to turn this team into the Utah Jazz with just a few brothers on the team? Some are talking about bringing more Euro's next year also. o, that isn't going to work. We need athletes who can jump out of the gym. White man can't jump. The only player I'd like to see out of this bunch join the Spurs is Nocioni and get rid of Beno.
Great trade.
Thanks to Rasho for being a professional in every sense of the word.
As for Bonner, he appears to be a team player. I think he will fit in perfectly. I guess we will see if he is the small ball solution next to TD.
Williams is old but if he's in shape, he can defend from what I recall. At 6'8, he should be big and quick enough to at least bother Dirk.
I had a question. Does Rasho pay more or less taxes with this move to Canada?
Excellent move by the Spurs FO. Didn't see it coming at all, although I expected them to try and move Rasho as well as Nazr. Losing Rasho's giganormous contract is a big plus, and I am excited about having Bonner in silver and black.
If we can get Evans and Javtokas over as well, I will be very excited about 06-07.
I can't BELIEVE a team took hmi, AND gave us a future 1st round pick
It's a second round pick in 2009!I can't BELIEVE a team took hmi, AND gave us a future 1st round pick
Here's what I think about this:
Hehe Matt Boner.
Ok that is all.
RIF. It's a second rounder, and it's not originally theirs, it's N.O.'s, which means bottom half, probably, as they were close to the playoffs.I can't BELIEVE a team took hmi, AND gave us a future 1st round pick
From raptors.com
Raptors Acquire Rasho Nesterovic In Exchange for
Matt Bonner, Eric Williams & a Future Second Round Pick
(June 21, 2006) -- The Toronto Raptors announced Wednesday they have acquired centre Rasho Nesterovic (RAH-show Neh-STARE-oh-vitch) and cash considerations from the San Antonio Spurs in exchange for forwards Eric Williams and Matt Bonner, and a 2009 second-round draft pick.
Rasho Nesterovic gives the Raptors a legitmate option at centre.
“Acquiring Rasho brings us an experienced presence at the centre position while not affecting our cap situation,” said Raptors president and general manager Bryan Colangelo. “He’s a smart basketball player who will help address our needs, particularly on the defensive end of the floor.”
ok, Colangelo's first move as Tranna GM. Hope it works out for Bryan and Rasho.
aren't you overrating this guy a bit too much?
Haslem is pretty good
I didn't say he's Haslem. I'm saying his defense, if worked on by the Spurs, could be used on Dirk like Haslem's was. Make Dirk work instead of having huge mismatches against smaller and slower players. Put a guy on Dirk who has a chance to match his size.
Good trade. Bonner in the bigman rotation (start?) and Williams a good vet to come off the bench here and there.
Bye Rasho. Bye Nazr.
One down, two (Barry and Nazr) to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Give me Luol Deng, Tim Thomas, Jared Jeffries, or give me death beyotch!
It's good to have another hard worker in the fold. Bonner isn't the world's greatest athlete but he's working on it ... which is more than you can say for most guys in the league.A shot at the top: Running with the Bonner family
By KEVIN GRAY
Union Leader Staff
TEN MINUTES into the run, Matt Bonner pulls ahead of his brother and sister and vanishes into a blanket of fog. He’s gone.
The Red Rocket, a nickname he earned during his first season with the Toronto Raptors, is racing toward the summit of Loon Mountain.
About once per week during the off-season, the Bonners take on the mountain and its many obstacles. Brutal humidity. Wicked black flies. Loose gravel.
They pack emergency rain ponchos in case of rain. Bring it on. While joining them for a climb, I have a first-hand glimpse of what drives Matt, Becky and Luke — also known as the First Family of New Hampshire Basketball. The trio scored more than 4,000 points in high school and earned about $250,000 in college scholarships.
Now Matt has taken the group, including this tag-along reporter, to the slopes of Loon. The 6-foot-10 work-a-holic from Concord High will reach the observation tower atop Loon in 28 agonizing minutes.
On the same day the Pistons play the Spurs in Game 4 of the NBA Finals, Bonner is staying prepared for 2005-06.
During the past season, he battled for rebounds with Shaquille O’Neal, nearly had to fight an enraged Kevin Garnett, and played in all 82 games of his rookie season.
If anyone needs a day of air-conditioning and couch treatment, it’s Matt Bonner. No chance of that happening, he says.
“My whole life people have been telling me that I should take time off or I’ll get burned out. I can’t. I’ll burn out if I take time off because I’ll go crazy.”
Pick your punishment
The outing starts with a short warm-up run leading to a brookside bend in the trail. Here, the Bonners stop to stretch and put on their game face. Or, in Becky’s case, start cranking the tunes on a headset.
“Don’t worry, I haven’t been running lately, so you’re all set,” Matt said, responding to my request for a 10-minute head start.
A restricted free agent, Matt isn’t certain which NBA team he’ll play for next season. If it’s Denver, he’ll already be acclimated to the thin air.
Here at Loon, a gravel access road rises 2,100 vertical feet to the summit. It’s roughly 1 mile in length, zig-zagging through a variety of terrain.
“Blue squares and black diamonds,” says Becky, who hopes to sign a pro contract in Sweden this fall.
Matt wears a heart rate monitor under a navy blue T-shirt, which, fittingly, reads “No Pain. No Game.”
Typically, his heart beats 160 to 170 times per minute throughout the entire workout. NBA training camp doesn’t compare to these grueling sessions.
“This is way more intense to have your heart rate that high for that long. Plus, you’re working your legs,” says Matt, who’s also jogged to the summit of Mount Lafayette (elevation 5,089 feet).
I found running with the Bonners often requires lots of walking.
The incline takes an immediate toll on your calves and lower back. Legs quickly become heavy. Blood vessels throughout the body gasp for oxygen — and that’s just the first 10 minutes.
“I like taking people up here for the first time because they have no idea what they’re in for,” Matt, with a sadistic grin, would later say.
Twice I’ve joined the Bonners for the climb, posting a personal-best of about 34 minutes. Luke and Becky have done better. And worse.
Mind game
Nobody in the group runs straight to the top. That’s just not physically possible. The challenge, quite simply, is to run as much as you can.
“It’s definitely a mental thing. It seems like every corner you turn, there’s another huge, steep hill. It’s really easy to psyche yourself out and quit,” said Matt before the run.
The younger brother, Luke, wears a No. 42 Raptors jersey and leaves size 19 footprints in the dirt. At 7-feet, 242 pounds, he is large enough to block out the sun while running behind him.
Unofficially, the University of Massachusetts sop re-to-be is the first seven-footer to climb Loon Mountain in 32 minutes.
“I could feel my heart right through my chest. Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
“Boom!,” Luke says at the summit. “That last steep part is brutal. It’s like straight up.”
Although Matt will be inking a multi-million dollar contract this summer, it isn’t the money that brings him to Loon.
“You’ve got the natural beauty of the White Mountains, fresh air and a chance to have a great workout. That’s all the motivation I need,” he said.
Off the path
In the never-ending quest to achieve optimal physical fitness, Matt has been consulting with Dr. Igor Burdenko, founder of the Burdenko Water and Sports Therapy Ins ute in Bedford, Mass. Even the most finely tuned machines need an extra push.
Burdenko has worked with a wide range of athletes, including Russian Olympic teams, NFL and NHL players. He emphasizes flexibility, balance and developing core strength without the use of weights.
“He does a lot of training in the pool and rubber-band resistance for flexibility,” Matt said. “Every summer, I want to try something different.”
Bonner got the idea to contact Burdenko through Tony Mure, his friend and basketball camp organizer. Mure, 47, also got Bonner into running up mountains last summer.
“Matt is finding something with Burdenko that no other program can give him,” Mure said. “He can get that intense workout without the pounding.”
For a pounding, he’ll drive the hour from Concord to Loon Mountain.
Trail talk
Loon’s popular gondola ride will whisk summer tourists up and down beginning tomorrow. We made the slow descent on foot.
The 45-minute walk serves as a proper cool-down and more. The siblings have a peaceful opportunity to share stories from another completed season — and let the good times roll.
For instance, Matt shared his most embarrassing moment from his rookie season with the Raptors. It happened at Denver during a preseason game against the Nuggets:
“It’s my second or third game, and I’m still trying to make the team,” he said. “We’re sitting in the huddle, and the coach is screaming at us during a time-out. . . . All of sudden, there’s a disturbance behind the bench. This lady is fighting with the guards to get to the bench.
“She’s yelling, ‘Hey, Matt, I’m from Concord, New Hampshire! Concord loves you!’ The guards are carrying her off, the whole team is looking at me because it disturbed our time-out. I’m like, ‘I don’t know her.’”
For the next two weeks, Bonner will be conducting his own basketball camps in Pembroke and Derry. When he’s not blowing a whistle, he may be climbing toward the clouds over Lincoln.
“I like that you can push yourself as hard as you want,” he said.
The state’s all-time greatest basketball player plans on setting a personal record at Loon this summer. Chances are good his time of 28 minutes will be shattered.
“Yeah, I’ll definitely break that,” he said. “I’ve got more time this summer.”
http://www.newhampshire.com/articles...e.cfm?id=56764
[QUOTE=RC's Boss]One down, two (Barry and Nazr) to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! QUOTE]
Jared Jeffries and J.R Smith and I'll be happy.
Spurs need some more rebounding on that frontline.
How about KG for Nazr, Barry, Beno, Scola, and the two scrubs we just traded for.
Sir, hand over the modem.
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