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The Spurs need to let Maggette know that they need a decision quick.
Otherwise, the lost opportunity costs are too great and they may alienate more attainable players.
True, I think JR Smith gets that honor, but that's mostly due to the fact that Maggette seemed like a pipe dream until very recently.
The Spurs need to let Maggette know that they need a decision quick.
Otherwise, the lost opportunity costs are too great and they may alienate more attainable players.
Sorry.
Sorry sorry.
Bears repeating.
Who the writes like this?If all goes according to plan, Maggette will finally join the San Antonio Spurs, who were very much in love with him a couple of seasons ago when his last contract came up.
Yeah they do. I have a feeling Golden State will go after him and do something foolish. They aren't getting Brand, they aren't getting Arenas and they just lost Baron Davis. Why not play for Golden State for a year or 2 at 8 mill per season ? Stay on the West Coast and put up silly numbers in Don Nelson's offense. -- Inflate your worth for 2010 in a player friendly system.
Yes more Spurs musings from Bill "The Rocket Guy" Ingram. That dude is a tool, professionally and personally.
Good Gawd Russ, do you have a stuttering problem ? JK
So your assumption in based off speculation you created? Good to know.
great, why couldnt espn report this.
because they don't steal stories from Yahoo...like hoopsworld does.
Better keep Pietrus on speed dial until we get a confirmed report from a more trusted source.
Does Rummpd still write for Hoopsworld? He, um, fit in well there.
Giving a lot of $ to Maggette doesn't fit their MO for perimeter players. They just lost 29 year old Davis because they didn't want to commit a large amount of $ to him. They squeezed Barnes into taking virtually nothing last summer. Ditto for Pietrus. With the talent they have on the perimeter it'll be much easier for them just to keep what they have and keep their payroll down. Maggette doesn't have the name ID of a Davis, Brand, and Arenas, so it doesn't make sense in throwing a lot of $ his way.
If Maggette does go to SA, this will benefit him. He'll get the exposure of being a key contributor on a championship-caliber team. If the Spurs win it all in the next 1-2 seasons, Maggette is still young enough to command a bigger payday in the summer of 2010, assuming the Spurs structure the contract accordingly. We all know that players on championship teams have very high (sometimes ridiculously overpriced) market value.
I think there is still a pretty decent chance Arenas signs with GS.
Only thing that ESPN is saying about Maggette is that the Spurs are preparing to make an offer...
Hoopsworld is like reading the national enquirer
There's no chance Arenas signs with GS.
if this is not true then the Spurs need to jump on JR Smith or Pietrus FAST!!
HOOPSWORLD just reported that Gregg Popovich is really an undercover gray alien from planet NEPTUNE!!!!
man, I live in San Diego.....I wish I had seen Pop !
Then nothing happened...
Barry and Maggette...not sure if this has been posted yet, nothing new really
Pro basketball: Spurs plan to make offer for Maggette
Web Posted: 07/02/2008 01:09 AM CDT
By Jeff McDonald and Mike Monroe
[email protected]
Two seasons after the Spurs unsuccessfully tried to trade for Corey Maggette, they appear to be trying to recruit him.
According to two NBA sources, one from each conference, the Spurs are preparing to make an offer to Maggette, who became an unrestricted free agent Tuesday when he opted out of the final year of his contract with the Los Angeles Clippers.
Details are not known, but the Spurs are believed to be poised to offer the 28-year-old guard-forward their full mid-level exception worth about $5.8 million for the first year, the sources say.
Maggette, who gave up $7 million to nullify his Clippers’ contract, would seem to satisfy the Spurs’ annual search for a young, athletic scorer on the wing. A 6-foot-6 slasher, Maggette has averaged 16.1 points during a nine-year NBA career, including 22.1 per game last season.
Spurs general manger R.C. Buford declined to comment on negotiations with any particular free agent.
News of Maggette’s potential courtship came hours after another swingman, Brent Barry, informed the Spurs he had decided to opt out of his contract, turning down the veteran minimum of $1.262 million to become an unrestricted free agent for the second time in six months.
In an odd bit of coincidence, Barry was part of a failed deal with the Clippers in January 2007 that would have brought Maggette to San Antonio. Another coincidence: Barry and Maggette share the same agent, Arn Tellem.
Reached late Tuesday night, Barry said he hadn’t heard anything of an impending deal between the Spurs and Maggette. He was more concerned with mapping his own future.
“I’ve got one year at the veteran minimum,” he said. “I’ve talked with R.C. about maybe doing more, and I am talking to some other teams, too. I’m en led to do that.”
It is presumed Barry’s latest list of could-be suitors will look a lot like the one he mulled in February, after a whirlwind flurry of transactions saw him traded to Seattle and then waived in the span of a few hours.
Barry eventually wound up re-signing with the Spurs then, shunning inquiries from Houston, Phoenix, Dallas and Boston. There is a chance he could end up with the Spurs again — although that could hinge on what happens with Maggette, because the two essentially play the same position.
This time around, the Rockets have reportedly offered the 36-year-old guard their $1.9 million biannual exception.
Jacque Vaughn, the only other Spurs player who had the right to opt out of his contract this summer, has decided to return to San Antonio for the final year of his deal. Vaughn, a backup point guard who could see his minutes challenged by first-round pick George Hill, is scheduled to earn the veteran minimum next season.
Under NBA rules, teams cannot sign free agents until July 9. Between now and then, the Spurs could have some compe ion for Maggette’s services.
The Orlando Sentinel, citing an unidentified friend of Maggette’s, reported earlier this week that the guard was encouraging the Magic to join the bidding for him.
Maggette played for the Magic during his rookie season of 1999-2000, and his parents still live in Central Florida. Like the Spurs, Orlando can offer Maggette its mid-level exception as a starting point.
Barry’s latest turn on the free-agent Tilt-A-Whirl comes after one of the most head-spinning seasons of his professional career.
Barry averaged 7.3 points and shot a team-best 43-percent from beyond the 3-point arc in his first 29 games last season.
A calf injury in December all but derailed his promising campaign. He was still shelved in February, when the Spurs dealt him and Francisco Elson to Seattle.
The Sonics quickly cut Barry, kicking off a month-long courtship that eventually ended with Barry right back where he started. Still recovering from the calf injury, Barry played sparingly for the Spurs until the posteason.
He was most active during the Spurs’ Western Conference Finals ouster against the Los Angeles Lakers. He scored a season-high 23 points in the Spurs’ Game 4 loss, which ended in a controversial non-foul call that would have sent Barry to the foul line with a chance to tie the game.
In an odd bit of coincidence, Barry was part of a failed deal with the Clippers in January 2007 that would have brought Maggette to San Antonio. Another coincidence: Barry and Maggette share the same agent, Arn Tellem.
WOW.....
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