If given a chance Demarr will produce.
Many a Denver fan said Karl was holdinghim back and I agree.
about time they signed him. I've been saying it for a couple of years. DJ would be a great Spur. He is the AI stopper. He was very effective against AI when he got some decent minutes the season b4 last and apparently he always had the AI assignment during practice and made AI work very hard.
from MySA.com. What does it mean for the luxury tax point of view?
Jeff McDonald
http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/b...0.2960f56.html
Johnson, who was playing for the Spurs' affiliate in Austin, signed a non-guaranteed deal for what is believed to be the veteran minimum.
He should supply immediate depth on the perimeter, something Marcus Williams — the rookie swingman waived to make room for Johnson — could not.
Johnson has NBA experience, most recently spending the past three seasons in Denver, to go with NBA shooting range.
"He's been in the league, and we know he's a good shooter," Popovich said.
The Spurs hope Johnson, a 6-foot-9 former first-round draft choice of Atlanta, can serve as another piece to the patchwork puzzle while their two best bench players are sidelined.
And if not?
"Hopefully," Popovich said, "somebody will rise to the occasion."
and:
"Johnson’s deal, believed to be worth the veteran league minimum, is not guaranteed. Per NBA rules, his contract becomes guaranteed if he is still on the roster Jan. 10.
With Langford in the same boat, and with the Spurs already pushing the luxury tax threshold, it appears unlikely they would choose to keep both players. "
http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/b....65930f41.html
I think the big problem to DJ stays is the fact the Spurs can't send him to Austin
When everybody is healthy he'll end up in the inactive list.
i dont get it
DJ on the spurs pushes them over the lux tax, thats not much at all if the spurs go deep in the playoffs which can offset that tax....
cheap ass
Johnson's been available a few offseasons and didn't end up on the Spurs. Not sure if that was due to a lack of interest on his part or the Spurs'. In any event, it will be very interesting to see what he can do in SA.
I shared the elevator alone with Peter Holt from the Terrace level (got a suite ticket) right before the Raptors game. I should have asked him to please, pretty please, just pay a little lux tax this year, we've won 4 les, we've earned it. I was afraid he'd call security though.
yeah, sure, what the , its only a few million.I should have asked him to please, pretty please, just pay a little lux tax this year, we've won 4 les, we've earned it
ITS NOT MY MONEY!!!
People shouldn't forget that Spurs have send $2.25M in cash in the Beno trade. Between this cash send and Spurs having a high payroll, Spurs are spending a lot of money this year.
Out of all the moves, signing Williams when they could have just signed Johnson is the move that didn't make sense. However, maybe it was just a simple case of abusing the D-League rules. When a player is called up from your D-League team, you jump to the front of the list in terms of picking up players who have made themselves eligible to enter the D-League.
Maybe there was a player out there (Kris Lang, Justin Reed?) who the Toros REALLY wanted and they needed to jump to the front of the pecking order to grab him. To get to the front of the line, they had to call up somebody. To make the abuse of the rules less obvious, the Spurs just called up Williams for a couple games and then waived him. The Spurs would have picked Williams in this plan because it was a player who made sense but the Spurs wouldn't care about losing once they waive him.
This scenario is a bit complicated but it would explain the weirdness of the recent transactions.
What about the risk of losing Washington? Even though he wasn't ready to contribute and didn't have pop's trust, he at least showed that he had enough in him to be a potential solid NBA contributer one day... he's gotta be worth more than that?
If Johnson sticks and Langford is cut, where will we get a third point? Barry/Ginobli or do the Spurs have interest elsewhere?
Either Barry or trade for PG.
In Sunday's game in Tulsa:
Squeaky:
13 pts
6-11 fg
0-2 3pt
4 reb
8 ast
6 stl
2 to
Justin:
25 pts
10-16 fg
2-3 3pt
5 reb (2 off)
4 ast
1 stl
0 to
Toros won 103-98 without Darius, Keith, DerMarr or Marcus.
No stats on Lang or Reed; happens a lot in the D-League with new players. There's only about ten points unaccounted for.
Last edited by ChumpDumper; 12-30-2007 at 08:39 PM.
Johnson acted like he knew how to play.
Because he does.
, he's only been playing at this level for 7 years.
yeah, sure, what the , its only a few million.
ITS NOT MY MONEY!!!
Holt had no problem taking someone else's $ for that arena.
show me another team owner that hasnt. and when you see that hasn't happen.Holt had no problem taking someone else's $ for that arena.
It was a tax that didnt affect me or you, so who gives a .
Those taxes could have gone to something else. And 'everyone else' does it isn't that much of an excuse.
Sure looks like they are going to go over the tax threshold again, and paying Beno's deal means they are already spending above it.
Some don't do it. Seattle for instance.
With the confidence Holt has in the FO and the team's championship pedigree, you'd think Holt wouldn't mind spending a few extra $$$ over the cap (if necessary) if the solution justified the means. But hey, it aint MY money.
He has.
More than once.
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