Reply With QuoteGive me Kidd and Scola.
Or Corey Maggette, Tyrone Hill, Lucious Harris and Robert Horry.
Damn talk about awesome role players to add to your championship team.
Holy :shock
Hear hear!
Give me Kidd and Scola.
Or Corey Maggette, Tyrone Hill, Lucious Harris and Robert Horry.
Damn talk about awesome role players to add to your championship team.
Holy :shock
Didn't Scola sign for 5 years on his current team?
Is he planning on (or are the Spurs planning on him) being in a Spurs uni soon?
Trade Scola's rights to LA for Kobe Bryant, rework Kobe's contract so that he is making around $1mil a year.
Sign and trade SJax to Orlando for TMac, rework TMac's deal like Kobe's.
Use Stem-Cell technology to fix David Robinson's back
C: Healthy, Techno-DRob
PF: Duncan
SF: TMac
SG: Kobe
PG: Parker
Bench
Malik
Bowen
Manu
Willis
Mark Madsen (part of Kobe trade)
Bateer
talk Zarko Paspaj out of retirement
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Big Syke - Those are indeed some nice role players to fit under the cap. Good job.
If I'm RC Buford, I'm scared.
way to dodge the question SF. why don't you actually try answering it.
Yeah, there's nothing more to be scared of than TD, TP, Ginobili, Rose, SJax, Clax, and $15 million in cap space.
Scary indeed.
How scared can one be with most of a le-contender returning intact and the money to add a Hall-of-Fame caliber player on top of that?
Unless Buford is scared of options, I think he'll be a'ight.
I doubt O'neal and Kidd are going anywhere. Elton Brand will probably wait till he is an unrestricted FA before he moves.
Therefore:
PG - Parker, Speedy
SG - Payton, Manu, Jackson
SF - Bowen, Jackson
PF - Karl Malone, Luis Scola
C - Duncan, Malik, Willis
Duncan is already playing center much of the time.
Speedy is a great player, but I think a lot of GM's question his durability. I think he can be re-signed for $1.5M. I don't think re-signing Speedy counts against the cap.
Payton, two yr contract - $6.5M, $7.5M
Malone, two yr contract - $6.5M, ($7.5M team option)
Scola, three yr contract - $2.0M, $2.2M, $2.4M
Speedy, three yr contract - $1.5M, $1.7M, ($2.0M player option)
Willis, two yr contract - vet minimum
Starting lineup:
PG - Parker
SG - Payton
SF - Bowen
PF - Karl Malone
C - Tim Duncan
Pretty damn awesome!
:brotha
See, I"m not Kidd slanted
Truthsayer has a seriously viable lineup that evokes thoughts of a dynasty.
Karl Malone? No thanks. He will demand the rock too much and when he doesn't get it, he will complain. He's all about breaking Abdul-Jabbar's record at this point.
F Karl Malone. San Antonio doesn't want him.
Karl will score more with fewer shots. Playing next to Payton, Parker, and Duncan - no one can afford to double Malone.
I think Karl wants a ring.
The idea of Payton and Maolone intrigues me. But I think it will take three year contracts to get either one of 'em.
(BTW, Malone would only have to average 8 pts a game to break the record in the 3 year time frame)
I don't know about Payton and Malone. Both are up there in age and both are used to being focal points. I'm not sold that they'd be able to handle being role players for the Spurs.
Maybe one of them, but both of them would cause problems.
All you brand lovers, would you take Malone for one season if we could get Brand the next. I don't know if it would work out, but would you if you could?
Stockton and Malone shared the spotlight for many years without the soap opera that exists in LA. I don't see Malone as having an ego problem.
As for Payton, I think he really wants a ring. He's always played great defense and Pop likes that. He'll have a young stud or two behind him (Manu and Jack) and that will keep him on his toes.
Claxton's going to cost the team capspace, so I don't think he should be brought back unless the Spusr are very unsuccessful this summer or Speedy agrees to a minimum deal.
Are you guys CRAZY?!? Why would you want to give Malone a ring. Let steroid infested rogaine boy retire with nothing. Wanting Malone goes against everything about being a Spurs fan
Malone is also a great pf. I was posing the question, he signs for one year to get his ring. then we get Brand the next season. Good team for years to come. Just an option. Some people can look past hatred to good basketball.
This is the one extension to the Holting-pattern I am for, if RC can get some kind of verbal commitment from Brand after he signs for the qual-offer.
Extending this cap space would be a tough task, I would assume. The only way to get it done is to sign only 1-year contracts this offseason. That would probably mean losing guys like Stephen Jackson and Speedy Claxton.
Plus, the cap space would be less because the current contracts will count more against the cap next season.
timvp, Im going to guess a $42.5 million cap in 2004-05.
Assuming Duncan doesn't opt out the Spurs have $24.2 million comitted to 3 players (I'm including the slot Duncan's salary will take in the team's capspace while he is a free agent). Brand's deal will be $10.625 million. About $3 million will go for roster spots under 11. I'm not sure if Ginobili counts 150% of his prev salary for his qual offer, or 300% of his prev salary. If 150% it will cost $2.3 million and the Spurs would still have room for Jax to be making about $2.7 million. If it's 300% for Manu the Spurs would just squeeze enough room in for Brand.
Not my first option, but in the off-chance they could get an oral agreement from Elton and get Malone to play one season it doesn't seem too bad. I love Jax, but I'd move him in a second to get Brand.
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