Horry interiewed on NBA TV

[Kori Ellis]

I'm not sure about that. The Spurs might want to pay Horry more than that. Depending on the new salary cap and luxury tax thresholds the next couple of years, it might make sense to frontload Horry's total two-year compensation by signing him to an early Bird contract with a team option on the second year. The team wouldn't pick up the second year, but sign Horry for the minimum in year two. That way the Spurs could pay Horry, say, $5 million over the two years but take a cap hit of under $1 million for him that second year.

Sure it's convoluted, but from what we saw with Ferry, I think there might be a wink-wink deal to pay Horry more next season. Call it a hunch.

Yeah, I'm sure it could go that way. I'm very interested in what's going to happen with the CBA.

Will they lower the max contracts to five years? Will they split up the MLE into 2/3, 1/3? That would effect a lot of players (agents).

It's interesting that for the past few years a lot of posters were incorrectly saying that there wouldn't be any luxury tax after this summer. Now it looks like, not only will there be a luxury tax but also a Super Luxury Tax. Some teams are going to get crushed with that.

[ChumpDumper]

The tax was without a doubt the #1 factor in controlling payroll inflation; I couldn't see the owners giving that up. This super tax seems interesting. I imagine there will be a few seasons' grace period before it kicks in to give Cuban and Cablevision a chance to get their houses in order. Portland looks like it took the first tax (along with all the losing) as a cue to do so -- I don't see them adding too much this offseason.

[missmyzte]

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/b...305b737ee.html

Coach 'Big Shot'? Spurs forward Robert Horry said Saturday that he wants to play two more seasons beyond this one, and then get involved in scouting and coaching.

"I want to play two more years, hit 15 and quit after 15," said Horry, who is in his 13th NBA season. "Maybe I'll do scouting and then slip into coaching after two more years."

What kind of coach would Horry be?

"I'd be like Pop," he said.

Actually, Horry said he has little interest in coaching at the pro level, preferring college.