Spurs picked up George Hills option for 2010-11 season

[duncan228]

A Spurs no-brainer: Hill gets extension
By Mike Monroe

In what may have been the easiest decision the Spurs' basketball operations department has made this season, the club on Wednesday picked up its option for the 2010-11 season for guard George Hill.

After Hill's spectacular preseason -- he led the team in preseason scoring and played so well coach Gregg Popovich repeatedly referred to him as "my favorite player" -- it would have been a shock had the Spurs not picked up the option.

The third year of Hill's rookie-scale deal will pay him $1,157,160.

If he continues the progression of his game as he has from year one to year two, he will be a bargain at that price.

[Bruno]

Mike Monroe is wrong (again).
Hill will earn $854,389 next year.

[Mark in Austin]

Even if they don't extend Ian, it might not necessarily mean they are giving up on him - they might just think it is worth taking a chance that they'll be able to re-sign him for less next summer. Given how he's played so far, that seems reasonable to me.

[My Fault]

Bye Ian

Lol reading into it to much.... Extending Hill was a no brainer, Ian no so much.

[quentin_compson]

Definitely a no-brainer, still good to hear (or read).

[Bruno]

Even if they don't extend Ian, it might not necessarily mean they are giving up on him - they might just think it is worth taking a chance that they'll be able to re-sign him for less next summer. Given how he's played so far, that seems reasonable to me.

If he show some good things this year, he will get a more than the $1.8M salary he should have had in 2010-2011. Teams will overpay for a young, promising and athletic bigman. For example, Amir Johnson get $11M/3 years after barely playing in the NBA.

If he sucks or doesn't play, Spurs won't be interested in re-signing him.

[Spurs Brazil]

Mike Monroe is wrong (again).
Hill will earn $854,389 next year.

EN writers getting worse and worse

[bigdog]

Awesome. If he continues to improve and mature this year he will definitely get a nice contract extension.

[DPG21920]

Good news is, that if Ian's option is picked up, that means the Spurs got S-Jax in a trade!







Just kidding.

[EricB]

Good news is, that if Ian's option is picked up, that means the Spurs got S-Jax in a trade!







Just kidding.

From your lips to God's ears.

[MaNu4Tres]

the only reason to wait is to see if they can trade him to another team. In that case the other team may want the option picked up. I don't see any scenario where they extend him to keep him. If they were going to do that, why not make the announcement together with the hill announcement? Surely they don't need two regular season games to come to a conclusion.

+1