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Spanoulis > Michael Jordan
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I am so confused by reading this entire thread.
I know the difference between announcements and official announcements, so has Splitter made his mind, or do we have to wait until the end of their finals still?
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Spanoulis > Michael Jordan
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If Spanoulis made the Spurs roster, I would go try out too.
Spanoulis = Kill Bill Pana = Scrubs
Your mindless ASSumed I meant get rid of Bowen totally. That's not was I said.
This is how I've understood the story :
Tau has made some offers to Splitter in the past weeks. Splitter has turned them down and said that he will play in NBA next year.
Tau has recently made another offer with more money to Splitter and Splitter has shown interest to it.
Most reports are saying that Splitter is set to sign this offer with Tau. His agent is working on the last details of his contract and baring something unexpected, Splitter will sign a new contract with Tau in about one week when he will end his season.
There are another report with quotes from his agent saying that Tau has made a great financial offer to Splitter but that Splitter is still wondering what to do and will make his choice at the end of the season.
THANK YOU!
This majority of this thread was some Greek guy arguing about something or other in broken English.
Carry on!
Exactly. Or like the old AFL football league. They paid out some outrageous contracts to veterans and premier rookie draft choices like Joe Namath and Steve Young in compe ion with the old NFL to gain some instant fan acceptance.
Eventually the price war in both basketball and foofball caused a merger of the ABA/NBA and the AFL/NFL. It can happen here if the Euro teams/owners have deep enough pockets and want to compete for players.
The arguments that the NBA and the NFL were better leagues didn't hold water then when it came to players wanting the best money deal for themselves--and they don't hold water now.
It's sheer chauvinism.
It isn't just about how much money he would make the next couple years. Even if Splitter doesn't accept the contract extension, he'd still be under contract. He'd have to pay approximately one million euros to get rid of it (actually, some sources say that it's "only" 1 million dollars, so I don't know...). Apparently the Spurs can only pay US$500K.
SO, let's do the math:
500 000 U.S. dollars = 322 913.976 Euros
1 000 000 - 322 913 = 677 087
677 087 Euros = 1.04840151 million U.S. dollars
1 048 401 - 809 300 = 239 101
(I used Google for the conversions)
It's like he'll have to PAY US$200K if he wants to play in the NBA next season FOR FREE.
Sad, but the Spurs knew that when they drafted him. Risky business, I guess...
I don't think that's how it works.
Ian Mahinmi will not contribute next year.
I dont get others around here who compare the two as of now.
Splitter is perhaps the best player in the second best league in the world... Hes polished and hes ready to go.
Mahinmi plays in a pretty pathetic league....hes basically a poor mans Amir Johnson... hes 2 years away minimum.
Theres no comparison... Splitter was our guy.
Were stuck with Oberto next year and probably another Elson type scrub... while the Blazers got Oden and Aldridge
Lakers got Bynum and Gasol
Hornets got Chandler and West
Suns have Shaq and Stoudemire
Heck the Jazz got Boozer and Okur
We have Duncan and....
hahahaha........funny, yet sad all at the same time.
actually a good point made by this post.
actually, Oberto from last year's 07 team was good.....he sucked this year big time.....got fat and happy from the new contract
Don't the Spurs have a man on the ground over there in Spain/Brazil to talk some sense into Splitter ? at least get him to wait until after the Playoffs so Pop can talk to him ?
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Because you don't understand europeans make more money for interest in NBA. You know nothing international basketball better when vspan go to spurs. vspan second coming of larry bird without crutches.
Greek players better than ginobili with at ude. You don't know basketball I do much better.
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wow the second coming of larrry bird? man im so sick of people nowadays dissing larry legend like that.
So nothing is set in stone then?
The following proposal has been made in another thread and I'm starting to warm up to it.
Package his rights in a trade to another team that can afford to wait in exchange for either a number 1 pick this year or next.
I still think a fullcourt press with Duncan, Ginobili, Parker along with Pop would change his mind.
How? Seriously. They each buy him a couple cars?
Its worked before, what would it hurt?
Honestly. If he signs with Tau STILL after meeting with them, then you are where you were a couple days ago when he said hes signing with Tau. Theres nothing to lose.
I think the promises of a nice sized role, good amount of playing time on a le team, along with a very nice sized contract after two years could be enough.
I have no news to report about Tiago but just want to say one thing
Spanoulis
I never seen this guy play but I hope he never wear a Spurs uni.
And I hate him because of Kill Bill Pana.
Stupid Spanoulis have nothing to do in this thread
Well, I hope so. Extra financial incentives technically are illegal, right? They can hit him with a sense of 'loyalty' to the Spurs and that Tau isn't really a championship contending team, albeit very good (they get diced every year in Euroleague). The silver bullet, if any, the Spurs have is the threat not to bring him over in two years: it's now or never.
I agree with you Bruno. It's the second offer who made Tiago change his mind.
I think you've gotta be honest with him.
No we can't match that. But lets get through these two years, get the rookie contract started, and then after that THEN we can give you your money.
I mean its not like after two years the Spurs can give him MORE.
Its a SET pay scale.
yes, but unfortunately those are precisely the players that NBA and euro teams are vying with one another for; the people here discussing whether AK would get the same obscene NBA deal in europe are kidding themselves, and its really quite irrelevant to this discussion.
in the foreign player market, talented young prospects good enough to be 1st rounders are good enough to be euroleague stars, so the euro teams are more than willing to pay up so that they arent "stolen" from them. its quite rare for an older player to make the jump, and rarer still for that jump to be successfull. what matters here is those young, talented, often experienced 20-24 yr old professional players that teams need to build around. right now an NBA team is better off using a 2nd rounder to get them than a 1st, because of the scaled contracts. it will be interesting to see how these scenarios affect future drafts
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