Yahoo!: Spurs’ playoff pulse beats with Ginobili- Johnny Ludden

[xamila rey]

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Manu Ginobili:
Será Dallas nuevamente al final. Arrancamos el Domingo 18! Qué lindo que es esto! Ya quiero que llegue! || Dallas it is! We start on Sunday. Can't wait! This is so exciting!

I can't wait either

[crc21209]

Great Great read by Ludden, as always...

[taps]

There are really only a couple of point guards to whom Pop would entrust the reins of his team. Hill or blair likely have to be added to get a CP3.

I think RJ is the trade option FO probably gun hard for

[pjjrfan]

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BTW...if the Express-News wants to see what "intellectual property" looks like, this a prime example.

[manu the best]

.. good article .. as long as we have MANU anything is possible .. GO SPURS GO ..

MANU=CHAMPIONSHIP

[m33p0]

i do hope Splitter with be in silver and black next season... and Tony still a Spur.

[jcrod]

I love Ludden articles.

I'm surprised he brought up Tony being traded because I'm frankly surprised that this is so widespread of an opinion. I am glad he ads the caveat of it being opinion and then brings up the Billups situation because that is exactly what I always think of when I consider trading Parker.

I love George Hill, but I simply believe the talent difference is so huge between him and Parker that I can't make a deal and expect to get back a player of Parker's caliber. I just don't see how that would work out in the Spurs favor.

The more I think about it the more I understand why people believe the Spurs should possibly be open to such deals but I also don't see any trade that might make any sense regarding moving Parker because I doubt we receive any player who will be as effective in this system as Parker.

Totally agree, don't see a trade that would help the spurs. TP is still only 28 and has many more years in front of him. look at Nash, Billups and Kidd. TP is in the same mode as he always wants to improve his game. Hill is not a PG and Manu can't carry much longer. It would be stupid to trade TP.

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Signing Tiago Splitter(notes), the team’s 2007 first-round pick, is a start. Spurs officials are increasingly confident they can lure Splitter from Europe, and the 7-foot center’s scrappy game could fit them the way Anderson Varejao’s(notes) fits in Cleveland.

This, more than anything, caught my eye.

Typical Ludden article. He, like Harvey, gives nuggets of inside information that McDonald and Monroe just can't provide. But he also does his usual slobber fest over Ginobili, minimization of Duncan and acts like the team is mediocre and vulnerable.

[Express-News]

As blunt as that anonymous quote is, I wouldn't be surprised if it's Duncan. It sounds like one of his short and to the point statements.

Great article with lots of good information. It goes against the Spurs MO to guarantee a contract like that, but paying them what they paid him goes against it also. I agree with Ludden though...he has earned every penny.

BTW...if the Express-News wants to see what "intellectual property" looks like, this a prime example.

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Found this on HoopsHype...

"Tiago Splitter will either go to the NBA or stay with Baskonia," club president Josean Querejeta said

Maybe that's why...

Spurs officials are increasingly confident they can lure Splitter from Europe.

So much for Real Madrid offering him major money and luring him.