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spurfan still claiming media hates spur when they do nothing but lick PATFO butthole year after year
After everything that's gone down this year, there is NO WAY IN that Pop jumps on the Ball family show wagon. That's just not happening. Now, what might happen is that Ball is flipped to a third team, who give us an asset that we DO want. Kuzma is what he is. I see him as being at his ceiling. He put up 16p/6r/2a on a bad team. He's a rotation player, and a 6'9" guy who shoots 45% overall. LMA takes a lot of jumpers, difficult ones, and still shoots 51%, and people call him soft, and a guy who settles for the jumper too much. What does that make Kuzma? I think he's a typical overhyped Laker youngster, and the fans are just glad to see players on the floor who don't belong in the d-league. Ingram is nice, but I'm not sure you settle for just one prospect in a trade. The Laker picks aren't great, either.
The buzz is that Boston is just standing by waiting for a decision. I'm way more stoked about their youngsters and picks. Jaylen is flat balling in the playoffs, and Tatum seems to be an excellent 3 point shooter. If they get Kawhi, they'll have 4 SFs on their roster. They'll actually need to move probably two of them, so... Their picks are also top 10 or higher, in all likelihood. One or two of the youngsters, and one or two of the picks, and maybe you pry Rozier away, if they won't flip both SFs.
spurfan still claiming media hates spur when they do nothing but lick PATFO butthole year after year
Be careful what you wish for. The people making these aggressive changes are the same ones responsible for Patty's and Gasol's contracts.
"Plus, the fact that the man who has to carry this franchise is 70 years old and could retire in one-two years."
Oh come on, YWGI, Manu is only 40 years old.
Where in my post did I mention anything about the Spurs treating players badly? My point is they gave worse players the benefit of the doubt... Kawhi deserves it too... What Aldridge pulled last year was the absolute worst
Fair enough
Comepletely agree... He needs to be traded... The game is changing more each year...
Matter of fact... I'd trade Aldridge for either Tatum or Jaylen Brown + fillers
They have afforded max contracts at every level. SuperMax is new, but there were plenty of articles that disputed SA losing money and in fact had them doing quite well.
As revenues have jumped, with SAs willingness to pay max contracts before, I can’t see a reason why we would doubt them now.
Ainge would die laughing before he hung up the phone.
Do we really have to deal with Porky for 4 more yearsChrist he looked gassed 90% of this season.
It's inevitable. You think Porky is going to retire knowing Pop will pay him and play him as long as he's on the roster?Do we really have to deal with Porky for 4 more years
In an even longer time as a Spurs fan I've not seen anything like this. Not sure if I can think of even an analogous situation non Spurs either.
Even if healthy, you really have to think long and hard about a super max.
I think that too. I could be wrong of course.
I know Chinook argued in favor of a retooling and I tend to think they go that way too bc the franchise will be in a dire situation tanking and rebuilding in Pops last couple of years. There's a chance Pop retires too in that case. A rebuild takes time and in the meantime a HC will endure a long process of playing players that will leave, a lot of them will not be NBA talent, and will endure frustration. Pop did it in Pomona/Pfizer when he was a young coach, but will be have the stamina at his age at this stage? I don't know. I tend to think they will try to avoid tanking at any cost.
But, it's a real possibility and understandable if Kiwi doesn't come back that they clean house. I think they will delay that tho for as long as they can.
They stand to lose a lot more money if the team sucks and season ticketholders / sponsors bail. That is until they sell to the Seattle ownership group.
The divorce = can’t afford it thing feels like pure speculation.
Why do you think that I doubt the Spurs just because they could refuse to sign super-max deals in next years?
I understand that they could have many valid reasons, financial small market issues, losing Pop in one-two years generates uncertainty as much as Holt divorce...
$219M mean almost three decent players' salaries. If they trade Kawhi, they can get two-three good, young players...
We don't know what Spurs' performances, FO and owners will expect after Pop's retirement. Will they be willing to spend money to build a contender in today super-teams league? Or a decent playoffs team could meet their expectations?
I don't doubt the Spurs. I'm just saying that they couldn't afford super-max deals, which isn't a tragedy. In fact, we read media articles saying super-max contracts are aberrations that force small markets to put at risk their financial future.
How do you know? Such divorces demand cash to settle and if parties don't agree it's hard to see them commit that money to an unknown prospect. It's likely to think if parts divide the money that they will want to take the most.
If Kawhi was a secure prospect there wouldn't be any question as to offering the max, divorce or not. Now he's an unknown.
You are en led to your own opinion, of course. I disagree, however.
They probably couldn't get a guarantee & his uncle doesn't seem like he's interested in leaving any penny on the table.
It's not an opinion. It's a fact. Peter Holt doesn't have a say in all this. Yes they divorced and yes there is money/property to split, but Peter Holt has nothing to do with the Spurs anymore.
Did he sell his shares? He's not a Spurs' majority owner? We know he's not Spurs chairman anymore but he was still a majority owner this season.
Pretty sure his wife controls the spurs so i assume she will ultimately sign off on anything
Agree. But Peter Holt is still a majority owner getting a divorce while his wife has to face the same situation.
No one says this is the biggest issue in the super-max negotation but could be a factor.
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