Malone's drama queen act is so damn old. I was tired of it last year and now its like 100 times worse. The Spurs are playing great. Why have the Human Halftime Special ruin it? If the Spurs can't beat the T'Wolves with the gimpy 50 year old, they don't deserve to win a championship.
Personally, I wouldn't really mind the addition since it only makes our squad look MORE like a Fantasy team, but eh...
Malone already had his chance, just like Jason Kidd.
We're winning just fine without them, so now we should just sit back and let both of their ring-less asses stew and learn a lesson about missed oppurtunities.
Bring him in.
Malone >>>>>>> Massenburg + Horry
The hate the people on this forum have for him is borderline inane.
The guy is gonna be team first, and is gonna wanna bust his ass and help the team.
If he proved in a workout that he is healthy, and can play at 100%
Bring his ass in and Cut Wilks.
i hate malone, but i think we should sign him just to keep minny and miami from getting him. Then we can bench his ass, win a championship, and still have clean consciences about giving EVIL his ring.
Fine. Sign Malone and let his ass sell peanuts just to keep him from Minnesota. Better yet, make him fill in for that piñata that he destroyed back at the Dome for some halftime entertainment.
oh please.
RObinson and Malone are friends now, and Robinson has moved on,
the guy is not evil. A man that donates to charity and does lots of good things in the community is NOT evil.
Save the hate for guys like Sprewell Artest and other peanut heads in the league.
Will Mailman come to the Spurs?
Web Posted: 12/08/2004 12:00 AM CST
Mike Monroe
Express-News Staff Writer
If Malone really told his agent, Dwight Manley, that he felt Kobe Bryant had stabbed him in the back in remarks Bryant made to a Los Angeles radio station, then you can take to the bank Manley's assertion Malone won't be playing for the Lakers if he opts to return when he feels physically able.
This is critical, because the comfort level Malone's family had gained in their Newport Beach area home had been the reason the Lakers were No. 1 on Malone's list in the first place. But when Malone gets mad about something, he doesn't ordinarily change his mind.
That being the case, there is no question how he would feel about playing for the Spurs and Gregg Popovich, a man for whom he has the utmost respect: He would do it in a heartbeat. The Spurs have vowed to keep a roster spot available for Malone if he does decide he wants to play this season, and Popovich told him he would wait until January or February to find out what Malone wants to do.
If he does decide to come back, count on the Spurs being the team he would seek to join.
If someone cold s D.rob with an elbow on purpose, I'm gonna call the EVIL. Someone who breaks peoples ribs with flying knees and plays dirty is not a good human being. And if i had that much money, I would donate to charities too...just so the IRS would get off my back. Donating money to charities doesnt mean . It doesnt say anything about a person's character because they could be doing it for the wrong reasons (i.e. tax breaks, to feel better about one's self, etc..).
Malone is just as bad as Spree and Artest. I consider them all trash.
That still doesnt change the fact that I dont want KG or Shaq lining up to him, so I'd still sign him from a business perspective... but in my heart I dont like it.
seems like more and more peeps are using their head over their heart then.
now for malone to hold a press conference that he is going to sign for the spurs for the veteran's minimum and a 2nd year club and player option.
Strictly thinking with my head ...
If the Spurs are winning at their current rate, why would you want to add Malone in February and possibly ruin the team chemistry that late in the season?
who is to say he would ruin the chemistry???
Who knwos , he probobly will add to IT.
Malone is the only reason the Lakers made it to the Finals.
That and the fixed Derek Fisher shot...
I didn't say he'd ruin it. I said "possibly". But I'm asking why you'd risk it that late in the season if the Spurs were still winning at this same clip?
I dont think its fair to assume he would completely mess up our chemistry.
If you look at it now you could make the argument that the D.Brown- Barry crunch for minutes could become a potential problem. The perennial Pop-Rose feud will eventually explode the second Horry has a good game. Or Bowen might jump into the crowd and hammer a few Sonic fans tomorrow night for the of it.
I guess my point is theres no way of knowing how Malone would act on our team. From his past history I would suspect that he would not mind adapting to whatever role he was given... the guy is so damn hungry for a ring to satisfly his EVIL Ego, that he was willing to take an $18 million pay cut! He also successfully survived in one of the most volative NBA environments - The Fakers locker room. If the guy can find a way to navigate through the Kobe-Shaq BS, then I'm sure he wont have a problem with not having to do a damn thing on the Spurs.
But lets just say he were to disrupt the chemistry... then that would be some serious basketball karma at work. For a team like the Spurs that pride themselves on quality players, a Malone meltdown would suck, but it would be just.
Anyway, I'm willing to risk it. If things go crappy once hes here, then let him go or trade him. The Spurs wont do that, but its always an available option. I just feel that the guy is desparate and will do what it takes to win... including not rocking the boat on our roster (which I might add has one of the most stable core of players in the league).
How much better does it get if you are Malone? Having RC and Pop slobbing all over you like a newborn chihuahua, and coming into a team that is already championship bound. If I were him I'd relax and enjoy the ride...
Again, I didn't assume that. I said "possibly". (Is there a reading comprehension problem here?)I dont think its fair to assume he would completely mess up our chemistry.
I just don't see what the great benefits would be of having Malone here that late in the season if the Spurs were in the flow already. And the trade deadline is in late February I think, so you couldn't exactly trade him if he isn't working out.
As for the Spurs/Pop still saving a place for Malone in the Monroe article, I think that's just re-hash from what the Spurs said this summer. I don't think they made any new comments about it today.
Tell me this: Why is it such a huge risk bringing him in?
Are the Spurs such a fragile organization that bringing in a new player would "ruin" anything?
Plus Jan. is not late in the season. It's the halfway mark. I hate Malone with a passion, but I just dont see much downside to bringing him in. Obviously you do. Personally I'm waiting for a Spurs mini-collapse. i hope they cool off a little bit and then peak again in late March/early April, but they are bound to fall back down to a mid-season funk sooner or later.
"ESPN.com reported in August that Malone had informed new Lakers coach Rudy Tomjanovich that, if he plays a 20th season, he would only sign with the Lakers. Malone and Manley later had lunch with Lakers owner Jerry Buss on the eve of training camp to let Buss know that Malone wouldn't sign with another team.
But San Antonio and Minnesota continue to check in regularly with Malone, according to league sources, promising to save a roster spot for him." - (http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=1940902)
And even if they werent in constant contact and "saving a place", do you think RC would lose any sleep cutting Wilks for Malone?
Evil or not he is one of the hardest workers in the NBA. if not he wont have lasted till now.
Why does everyone perceive him as EVIL? cause thats the way dear old Jerry Sloan coaches. look at that whole Jazz team that time. EVERYONE on that team was dirty. You telling me John Stockton is not dirty? That guy was downright dirty. but it worked and he survived in the NBA for a damn long time. it was how sloan won at that time. you have marginal players supporting a PF with good passing skills and a sweet mid-range jumper and a super over-achieving PG. Sloan just moulded them into what they are today so quit saying that he is EVIL.
he was just taught to play that way and both have defied the odds.
Id say bring him in and give him some garbage mins to start with to get him back into the groove. then when your team is having a garbage night, when rasho is in a funk or when timmy is in foul trouble or if someone is injured. stick him in and see what he can do. this guy can certainly carry an offense if he is 100%. period.
I dont see how we can lose.
I like Malone. I was a Jazz fan when they used to beat the Spurs. I'm not anti-Malone -- I just don't see the big benefits of adding him in February. The reason I am saying February is because they said on the radio it would be another month or two before he makes a decision whether he's going to play or not.
It's just too much drama. If he is healthy, which he claims but I doubt, then he should be able to have decided by now if he's going to play or not.
Even today after Manley said that Malone wouldn't return to the Lakers. Malone, on a call-in, said that he wouldn't go as far as to say that. What's all the drama about? Play or don't play, but stop stringing teams on for months and months and months.
The Spurs aren't fragile, but I just don't see the pluses in bringing a guy in midseason if the team is clicking. All of a sudden you have to try him out in game situations and mess with other players minutes. February is the time when you should start honing your rotation, it's not a time for experimentation.
I get the pluses of a team adding Malone. But that team maybe should be Minnesota not San Antonio.
Pro's and Con's of Malone:
Advantages
-He's a dirty (yet savvy) veteran who knows the game.
-Adds physical presence that is not Cro-Magnon Massenburg-like.
-He can shoot the J.
-He can pass from the post.
-He can flop with the best of them.
-He's got the ref's in his back pocket after 20 seasons.
-He's got a new knee!
Disadvantages:
-He's a dirty who's old.
-He's EVIL.
we cant lose on picking him up!
Come on dont tell me you havent heard of mid-season trades that help a team win championships?!?!?!
only thing this is like a trade for malone for mike wilks on the IR.
Rasheed Wallace should ring a loud bell shouldnt it?
Of course midseason trades can help. But I just don't see how a hobbled Malone can help a Spurs team that is already playing top notch ball. Maybe the Spurs will rattle off 10 losses in a row and I'll be calling for mass changes by then, who knows. But right now, Malone's indecisiveness and drama just seem unnecessary.
Malone is an indecisive punk, and I totally agree he needs to put up or shut up already.
But I see his drama as a hindrance to a young inexperienced team like the Lakers, not as much for the Spurs.
Either way, I'll be unhappy. If we do sign him and win a part of me will feel like a traitor for giving him a ring. If we sign him and lose... obviously that sucks even more.
I just hope he doesnt come back at all. The league is a lot better without his ripped jersey and Jim Gray (let me cry because no one knows how it feels to lose a mother except me) cry me a river interviews.
Kind of a different take on this...
Dallas would take him. Minnesota would take him. Are the Spurs so high and mighty that they're too good all of a sudden that a 40+ year old lock for the Hall wouldn't help off the bench? He was averaging 13 points a game last year, and over 20 the year before that. He's only 5 years older than Massenburg, our current scrub 3rd big man. If Malone doesn't mind wearing warmups most of the game, bring him in. He's going to have to assimilate with the core of this team, and if he starts any prima-donna , the doghouse he'll be in will absolutley dwarf the one Malik was in last season.
I think he's an SOB, but I'd rather he be my teams SOB rather than a rivals.
Glad you saw the light!
One very good reason to take him is so that he isn't wearing a Wolves uniform in May, grabbing and holding Duncan with impunity.
I think we mostly agree on 2 things :
a) Malone is a drama queen
b) Malone is probably pulling this little stunt for a better shot at a ring
Given this, I'm sorely tempted to turn Malone's ass down and not give him a free ride to the championship ... except ...
a) I'm still jittery about our frontcourt. It all looks good so far, but what happens if Duncan has a bad day or falls into foul trouble in a crucial playoff game? I don't think Nesterovic is good enough to anchor our interior defense in that scenario. Neither do I think he's a post-up threat that demands double teams; he wouldn't provide our guards too many open looks. Just picture Malone in the mix now. If Timmy picks up quick fouls in a game 6 with Minny, Malone is the only one who's good enough to keep us in it with Tim on the bench for long stretches. Horry, Rose, Rasho just aren't going to keep it compe ive against an opposition frontcourt as good as Minnesota or Detroit.
b) I think if any team is going to avoid problems relating to bad chemistry, ego clashes and internal one-upmanship, it's gotta be the Spurs. In Pop's system, the only way to earn minutes is to contribute the way Pop wants. No one gets by on reputation alone (if Barry doesn't get his act together, all he's gonna see is garbage time). Malone just won't be able to muscle his way into the lineup on the strength of his resume. If Pop thinks Malone's too old and slow or he sees Malone disturbing the peace, Malone can be a spectator the rest of the way.
I think our downside is protected. If Malone ends up showing his age or flaunting his ego, all we lose is Mike Wilks.
But if he does provide 15 mins a game of strong post presence, good rebounding and a reasonably consistent jumpshot, then we're taking the Larry O'Brien trophy home.
Bottomline:
He doesn't contribute = We miss Mike Wilks
He actually makes a difference = Spurs 2005 champs
I'd go for it if he's available.
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