To Peter Burns

[chreph]

Wow... lots of defensive people here! Maybe PB should have phrased it better. If the Spurs don't at least take the eventual champs to 7 games, do you extend Manu? If you don't win now and he's not healthy, no $10+ mil extension. If you don't win now and he IS healthy, do you still offer $10-$12 mil for another shot with the cast all another year older? If he's healthy and it's still not enough, the money is already committed to TP, TD, and RJ. If they're going to make a change, not giving Manu $10+ mil a year would be the easiest way out. I'm not saying the Spurs wouldn't still resign him but the dynamic is a little different when you've got $15 mil committed to another player versus if you didn't.

[timvp]

All those that believe the Spurs are willing to pay $24m over 2 years to a guy that will be 35 when the season starts, had problems on both ankles, and only play 72% of the games the last 2 years....please shoot me an email.

I've got some oceanfront property in Arizona I'd like to offer you.

Manu is 31. He won't be 35 until the offseason of 2012.

And yeah, I too have to disagree with PB. The Jefferson trade makes it more likely that Manu will remain a Spur. The scenario in that the Spurs would let him walk was if they were going to clear cap space during the summer of 2010. The 2010 plan is now dead ... so that scenario is also dead.

If the Spurs let him walk now, they'd basically just get the MLE to replace him with. They'd be crazy to do that ... and they won't.

The chances of him getting an extension this summer just went way up. Tacking two years onto his contract to match it up with Duncan's deal makes a huge amount of sense now, even if you consider his injury woes.

[Brazil]

so timvp time to move your avatar I guess