Free Agent: Rasheed Wallace

[Spursmania]

, Just got on. Can't believe all the rumors. Why aren't the Spurs pursuing Wallace agressively? If they have other plans they better get to it before all the good bigs are signed it. Please, no Bass.

Artest to the Lakers? Wow.

[z0sa]

Hopefully our first offer was 3yrs @ MLE, and a starting position.

[timvp]

Here is an interesting thought. How about a sign and trade with Detroit?

We give them Bonner, Finley and Marcus William's unguaranteed contract for a 6 million dollar deal with Sheed?

Can't. They'll need to sign him with cap space money and they won't have $6M after signing BG and Villy

[MarHill]

I'm glad the Wallace is taking his time and not rushing at the first offer. I hope this give RC and Pop some time.....to make a fair offer to Sheed.

3 years for the MLE and call it an evening.

However, I would still like Gortat and would love if the FO could steal him from the Mavs!!

[Spursmania]

Hopefully our first offer was 3yrs @ MLE, and a starting position.

[Slinkyman]

Here is an interesting thought. How about a sign and trade with Detroit?

We give them Bonner, Finley and Marcus William's unguaranteed contract for a 6 million dollar deal with Sheed? It gives the Pistons more depth and expiring contracts (possibly to use while dealing with other teams for trades) and it also gives us Sheed without using our MLE.

I figure this works for all three parties involved. Sheed gets his money, the Pistons can pick up players and the Spurs get Sheed and still have the MLE. This move would have to be made after the Pistons sign their two free agents in Ben and Chuck. They do have Sheed's bird rights so they might as well use them.

Would Detroit want Bonner and Finley?

[timvp]

Don't his bird rights the Pistons own give the team the chance to offer him what he wants without using an MLE.

They have to renounce him to create the salary cap room to sign those two.

[objective]

no thanks on Wallace if it takes 3 years on a deal. He's already in decline, he's going to be total dead weight nd quitting on the team well before a 3-year deal is done.

Give me McDyess instead. He's fine with playing a role, and you never have to worry about him quitting or giving a full effort or being out of shape. And if there's another Spur this year or next who is good enough to snatch the starting big role (be it Splitter, Mahinmi or Blair) . . . McDyess is a professional who would be fine coming off the bench.

[Chillen]

I hope Sheed signs with the Spurs, so in the 2010 playoffs he makes the Lakers taste his own ass and Duncan's to. As good as a signing as Artest is for LA, Sheed and Duncan is nasty.

[coyotes_geek]

, Just got on. Can't believe all the rumors. Why aren't the Spurs pursuing Wallace agressively?

I wouldn't get too worked up about it. Rumors fly around like crazy this time of year and most of it is crap. We have no idea who the "league sources" are who allegedly said the Spurs are pursuing Sheed aggressively. , for all we know that league source could be Danny Ainge just throwing a comment out there hoping that Sheed will overhear it and think the Spurs don't want him.

[coyotes_geek]

...a Dallas S&T with Orlando. Bass would go to the Magic and Gortat would go to Dallas.

I don't think that's possible, at least not without getting a 3rd team involved. Both Gortat and Bass would be BYC. That makes a deal pretty complicated to work out.

[thOOdee]

3 year! do it!...TWIN TOWERS BACK IN ACTION!

[lefty]

This just in :










I just made a big poop

[z0sa]

Hopefully Sheed signs with us. He and Dyess are our best bets at filling the gaping hole in the frontcourt.

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

no thanks on Wallace if it takes 3 years on a deal. He's already in decline, he's going to be total dead weight nd quitting on the team well before a 3-year deal is done.

Give me McDyess instead. He's fine with playing a role, and you never have to worry about him quitting or giving a full effort or being out of shape. And if there's another Spur this year or next who is good enough to snatch the starting big role (be it Splitter, Mahinmi or Blair) . . . McDyess is a professional who would be fine coming off the bench.

This is my thinking too.

[rjv]

if the spurs were so interested in gortat then why was there never an offer made to him? sounds like a smoke screen to me.

[Marcus Bryant]

no thanks on Wallace if it takes 3 years on a deal. He's already in decline, he's going to be total dead weight nd quitting on the team well before a 3-year deal is done.

Give me McDyess instead. He's fine with playing a role, and you never have to worry about him quitting or giving a full effort or being out of shape. And if there's another Spur this year or next who is good enough to snatch the starting big role (be it Splitter, Mahinmi or Blair) . . . McDyess is a professional who would be fine coming off the bench.

Because McDyess won't be "dead weight" in a couple of seasons.

[SenorSpur]

Looks like Gortat is off the market for the Spurs.

http://www.realgm.com/src_wiretap_ar..._with_dallas/#

[rjv]

honestly, mcdyess did have a better year than wallace did last season...the gap between them is really marginal at best.

[z0sa]

Looks like Gortat is off the market for the Spurs.

http://www.realgm.com/src_wiretap_ar..._with_dallas/#

Can the spurs grab Dyess easier than Wallace? How many eggs are we stacking in our basket by participating in the Sheed Sweepstakes? Could Dyess get locked up, Wallace become a celtic, and spurs possibly even lose on a guy like Gooden?

I doubt they're letting anything get past them, but we're in the dark about how aggressive the FO's stance is on acquiring Sheed. If we can grab Dyess without the drama, I may go for it. No reason to risk Oberto starting at center (or Matt Bonner, yeah I said it)

[coyotes_geek]

honestly, mcdyess did have a better year than wallace did last season...the gap between them is really marginal at best.

The Spurs can't go wrong with either. Personally I'd give the edge to Sheed just because of his D in the post.

I'm also liking Zaza Pachulia. Curious that he's not getting any attention from any teams yet.

[Spursmania]

Our chances seem to be getting slimmer and slimmer of picking up a quality big. Was it Obstructed View that said free agents never sign with us-good ones anyway. Maybe he's right.

It's looking like the Celtics will get Sheed and Gortat is gone to Dallas. So, that leaves Dyess-great, but we know how he doesn't want to leave Detroit.

Boston.

And, I don't give a damn about Bass. I'm not too optimistic anymore, but I hope I'm dead wrong. and the FO will surprise us again.

[Marcus Bryant]

5 years, $32 mil for Gortat?

[picnroll]

This is beginning to remind me of when the Spurs had all the cap space in '03, after Kidd jerked them around. Spurs targeted Brand, then it was O'Neal, and finally they landed ...

Rasho

[coyotes_geek]

5 years, $32 mil for Gortat?

Crazy stuff, isn't it? Dallas can have him for that as far as I'm concerned.

I think he'll do okay there, but that's a lot of scratch to fork over to a guy because he got noticed during a playoff run.

And somewhere, off in the distance, Desagana Diop raises an eyebrow............