TJ Ford To San Antonio? (Hoopsworld)

[jag]

Hoopsworld has Miami taking Jared Bayless with the #2 pick in their mock draft...need i say more...

[ChumpDumper]

I offered to be the suspension of disbelief editor for Hoopsworld year ago.

[ShoogarBear]

I can just see Damon Jones now becoming another in the distinguished line of Spurs mid-season over-the-hill-guards acquisitions.

[TDMVPDPOY]

8.5m can get us a bench of supporting casts...fok that

[pawe]

8 million for a glassman? No way, he might get injured while practicing with Horry and Bruce!

[LakerLanny]

I thought Damon Wayans was outstanding for the Spurs in 2004.

[Pero]

ROFL.

HoopsWorld is forever clueless. The Spurs aren't going to pay $8.5 million a year for a backup point guard. Ingram has always been the stupidest basketball writer on earth but this is even stretching it.

When HoopsWorld reaches a new low, they somehow always find a way to go lower. Amazing.

Not only that, TJ Ford is like almost a shorter and faster version of Beno with poorer shooting, he sucks off the bench, and he also complains about it even if he is getting minutes...

[spurscenter]

http://www.hoopsworld.com/Story.asp?story_id=8952

Evening Scoop: TJ Ford to San Antonio?
By: Bill Ingram

It's becoming clearer and clearer that the Toronto Raptors and TJ Ford are going to part company. They will do so amicably, they'll part friends, but they're going to part company nonetheless. Ultimately, Jose Calderon is just too good to come off the bench and TJ has too much trade value to keep him sitting around. The word is that despite Ford's injury history his price tag and his upside (how about the determination it took to come back from that neck injury?) make him a hot commodity for the many teams who need help at the point.

Enter the San Antonio Spurs.

Few teams have had as much trouble finding a back-up point guard as the four-time champion San Antonio Spurs. Beno Udrih couldn't keep the job, but went on to do good things in Sacramento as a starter. Jacque Vaughn never really cracked the lineup when Tony Parker was healthy, and Damon Jones was even less successful. If Gregg Popovich had another option neither of the old-timers would have taken the court at all.

TJ Ford is a UT grad, and hangs out in Austin to mentor young Longhorns as much as possible. For those of you without a map handy, Austin is an hour north of San Antonio, it's home to the Spurs-owned Austin Toros of the NBDL, and the official NBA team of the city is the Spurs. At the rate Austin's growing it will probably be a suburb of River City before long.

It's not a stretch to say Ford lands in Spurs country, where the fans adore him and he could truly help run the team and give Parker some rest. We all know how much Popovich loves to save his starters during the regular season. A healthy TJ gives him the option to take another five minutes per game off of Parker's shoulders, and also gives his a great option to use should Parker get hurt. Don't be surprised to see TJ get a lot of play from the Spurs this summer.

i brought this up long time ago

how funny

[polandprzem]

The best way to read a HoopsWorld article is to print it out.

And then throw it away.

My printer had an error when I wanted to print this

[mrspurs]

true or not..as long as he isnt another euro style shooter...then id take my chances...of all the euro players ive seen....besides manu,scolla and gasol who plays nba style basketball, i wouldnt waste anymore time with euro players....but you wont convince pop and buford....they love euro players....problem is...usa money isnt as good as euro money....the dream to play in the nba was about money.....it aint about the money anymore........go spurs go

[Pero]

Not only that, TJ Ford is like almost a shorter and faster version of Beno with poorer shooting, he sucks off the bench, and he also complains about it even if he is getting minutes...

[MoSpur]

The Damon Jones line wipes away all (if there were any) truth to this article.

[Spurs Brazil]

Pathetic article

Hoopsworld is terrible