Battier i agree, Scola when he first came to the NBA yes, Kidd i disagree, i don't like him as a character, Batum no, overrated imo even when he was younger. I would like young Chris Paul more than Kidd. I really liked Chauncey Billups back then as well, his high IQ.
Corey Maggette back in 2008 was close to signing here and then he signed with the Warriors. I remember people were so pissed it didn't follow through and we got Roger Mason instead.
I always thought Marcus Camby would be nice to play next to Tim and I remember they almost traded for him in 09 for Hill, Bowen, and Oberto? Almost the same package they used months later to get RJ.
Then we almost had Caron Butler when the rumors about the Spurs amnestying RJ were happening.
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Wasn't Corey Brewer suppose to sign here before he signed with the Mavs? He's the one player Spurs fans always wanted on the team.
If memory serves, Korver wanted to sign but his wife didn't, so he stayed in Atlanta.
So instead they had to sign Marco in the summer of 2013.
SHAQ has changed ALOT since retirement. Hard to even look at him as the same person tbh
yes. now the dude is a spokesman for everything except tampons. mumbling and incoherent and arrogant.
Kinda crazy that we got 5 rings while PATFO went after plenty of All-Star free agents and the only one who ever signed here was LaMarcus Aldridge. And Spurs fans hate him
Kawhi Leonard
oh wait...
No, he WENT to Atlanta. He was a FA, and had been in Chicago the previous two seasons.
The three seasons after he signed with ATL and not us
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Wrong
Bulls traded him to Atlanta the year before for a trade exception they never used, all to cut salary
After getting rejected by Kidd, the Spurs made an offer of nearly the same $$$ that New Orleans was offering to PJ BROWN, I think it was 4/32
It wasn't a great offer for the Spurs, it was obvious that Brown would decline out of starting quality by year 3 or sooner due to his age, but he was the choice before Rasho.
His reason for staying at the time was that he was from Louisiana and family reasons
And sure enough they traded him away before his deal was up
Basically every time a player stays for family reasons they end up getting traded anyway. Korver's wife loved Atlanta, traded before deal was finished. PJ Brown and his family? Traded before expiring. Kidd's wife and her media career in New York? Traded.
Yeah, Shaq the celebrity is a pretty funny guy, if not a bit oversensitive (his whole "RINGS" shtick with Barkley is old).
Shaq the player was pretty insufferable. And he never would've teamed up with Big Dave or stayed in San Antonio.
Vince Carter for George Hill and Roger Mason was a thing if memory serves me right.
I'm pretty sure LMA signing with SA was about 90% his son living here. Tbh. Spurs being a winning team was just the cherry on top.Kinda crazy that we got 5 rings while PATFO went after plenty of All-Star free agents and the only one who ever signed here was LaMarcus Aldridge. And Spurs fans hate him
Trade was done. Barkley in the summer of 92 for I think mings Willie Anderson and one other guy, and McCombs kyboshed it
Gerald Wallace, Anderson Verajo (sp), Primoz Brezec, Eduardo Najera, Al Horford, Andrei Kirilenko, older Gary Payton. I think all of these guys either fit the Spurs character or playing style. Heard we were supposed to sign Najera but he declined. Stupid jackass
Just thinking about prime Allen Iverson and Tim Duncan, how many rings would they have had?
Scola, duh! And Batum, portland drafted him one spot before we did, last but not least, Dejan Bodiroga (AKA the guy Manu model his game after).
I really hoped Pau would have signed with us when he signed that deal with the Bulls. He was playing at an all star level and we probably could have made a championship run.
I would have liked to see Luol Deng with us. Going further back maybe Allan Houston without that huge contract tho.
When younger I always wished to see how would a Duncan and Garnett pairing turns out. But I know a lot here dislike KG.
FIFYKinda crazy that we got 5 rings while PATFO went after plenty of All-Star free agents and the only one who ever signed here was LaMarcus Aldridge. And Spurs Talk trolls hate him
I don’t think anyone here loathes KG as much as Tim does. That was never going to happen.
I thought the Barkley trade blew up when mings blew out his knee in a pickup game when trade talks were going on.
While we probably get a ring with Robinson and Barkley, we also would have had Barkley in 96 when Robinson got hurt. With Barkley here, we probably still make the playoffs, never get in the lottery, never win it and never draft Duncan.
Andres Nocioni
Richard Hamilton
Tayshean Prince
Leandro Barbosa
Rasheed Wallace
He was my dream player to acquire for a really long time (at that time), and with us, he would have had a Manu type of career. He played elite defence, he grabbed rebounds, shared the ball, attacked the basket, and made his threes or at least, he would have with the Spurs shot 36% in his final year, and around 33% early in his career.
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