Depends on. If Duncan comes back: Gasol, if not, Bogut.
Probably a team who doesn't care who wins next year...sixers? Nets?The FA & Trade market is about to mega heat up. Teams now know where KD is going, who's left and what the bar is to beat. They will do what they can to compete knowing they have to make some moves.
Heck, GS has to trade at least Bogut, so will be interesting to see who is the villain and takes him on.
Except for the fact that it's not skyrocketing in coming years like it is this year. Durant's cap charge and Curry's will eat up a majority of the room below $107ish. Durant has to opt out next year or else dollars get too hard once Curry gets raise.
Spurs wouldn't have MLE if they trade for Bogut with cap space. Trade goodies are interesting though. What the heck is GS going to have to give up?
i'd be very surprised if they don't have a trade lined up already.
The question nownis will Pau sign with Spurs or look for the highest $$$?
IMO, and I have to see what OKC does in trades (what they have to give up to dump Bogut which I don't think will be much) and who comes to GS, GS still has work to do and can be vulnerable this season if they can't find a good starting C and they can't rely on bench.
But they are so stacked
SA, if they can do a little bit of work is right behind GS now. LAC is close, MEM might end up being right there if they are healthy, but OKC is gone.
It's like the East now where we know who the clear cut favorites are and there are a handful of teams that might be able to surprise GS/CLE if things go well.
Injuries happen. Trades happen. Youth blowing up happens. We will see.
But if SA whiffs on Pau, Tim retires and they possibly lose West/Boban, SA will take a step back. Which is ok if it means getting a year to scout GS and really make a great push next year to reload.
Punt on the season tbh. Don't sign anyone, just give Manu and Tim a bunch of money and trade LMA if he isn't on board for tanking a season.
They left off Pau. As the GM at Memphis, he took one up the ass so his Lakers could get him, for ING nothing in return. He's really good at getting what he wants.
Something tells me the Warriors wouldn't trade with the Spurs.
Watch Pau go to GSW for the minimum
Jeez I bright this up a day ago, but Marc gasol is not nothing. Franchise player really. Better than pau probably
Nobody knew that at the time though.
Zaza Pachulia makes the most sense, at this point..
Only way to beat GS will be through injury, why not sign the dirtiest player in the game?
Yeah punt the whole season away when you are the clear 2nd best team in the West. Because injuries never happen... fukin dumbass
If your only hope is injuries its better to just try for a high draft pick and plan for the future. If you wanna be delusional be my guest though.
Unreal, isn't it? LOL some fans around here have no ing idea what it's like to be in the lottery or a fan of 95% of the other teams.
You never, ever throw away a full season if you have the possibility to be a top 3 team.
Difference is the Spurs aren't a perineal lottery team; tank for a year, draft the best player possible, and go for CP3/Westchimp/etc next offseason. The core of Kawhi/LDN is young enough to survive one year of tanking.
Dude, that is ridiculous. SA *can* still be good. GS, while stacked, can possibly have some holes as well. You don't punt a season (which is impossible to do with KL/LMA/DG anyways
He'd be alpha if he came here or went to the Celtics. He didn't want that.
Why doing keep mentioning scouting and watching to see what GSW does? You can't guard a team like that. To even have a shot you will have have a significantly more talented team to compete. You can't just make a couple of tweaks. We could watch them for a decade and the roster as it stands won't be able to compete.
THEN you can sign Matt Bonner again.Watch Pau go to GSW for the minimum
I hope the Durant move motivates Duncan to come back.
Then they don't need to do anything stupid to get Pau, like trading Green. Can't trade Green now with all the guys he'll be needed to cover against GS.
Sign Manu, Bertans, Boban and some fringe big or bring Milutinov.
Cross fingers and hope for the best.
Exactly. I'm quite shocked he chose the Warriors because of the beta backlash that would come. This guy truly is a beta. Would have been an Alpha on most other teams, but this stupid er went to the one team where he'd be a definite beta.
What? I'm talking about next season (not this year, but next). This year may very well end up being the year of GS and there is nothing SA can do. SA doesn't have a ton of room to re-tool. They likely will next year. They can see how GS plays, how they look and target specific types of players next year when SA has actual money to rebuild.
I don't know where on Earth you got what you said from what I have said.
Spurs may not have any choice but to take a step back. You cant just invent players to sign. If Tim retires, Pau says no and SA has limited money (which is the case) there is literally nothing they can do.
I said worst case, if that happens, SA gets to see how GS looks and when they have a lot more FA's next year and more money to truly improve, they can go at it then.
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