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Vaughn will be playing those minutes...
Mira Mighty Mouse is coming.. He can choot it
Vaughn will be playing those minutes...
Yeah, right...the guy who can't spread the floor?
I don't think so.
JV will rotate in on defense. But if we're needing points the players who can spread the floor will be playing.
I think this should be a good signing. We need some kind of spark. Anything! Didn't he put up 56 pts in a game last season?
What I find myself wondering is...is he any good? I mean really. Is he consistent? Will he fit?
What kind of a player is he?
I admit I know very little about him.
can't do any worse at this point...damon will get opportunities....we'll c what he do wid it
I have to admit, I'm happy with the move.
Howeva, it appears the FO has pushed the panic button.
I think at this point, something was needed. With Stoudamire on the roster, there's not a huge hurry for Parker. He can rest up a bit and come back fresh. The Spurs may lose a few more than they would with a healthy Parker but they need to be able to have Parker, Ginobili and Duncan at full strength (or as close to it as possible) when the playoffs start. Signing Damon gives Parker the opportunity to get a little rest in now so that he's not playing hurt come playoff time.
At least that's what I think.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/b....744575e1.html
NBA: Spurs to sign guard Damon Stoudamire
Web Posted: 01/31/2008 11:32 AM CST
Mike Monroe
San Antonio Express-News
PHOENIX – The Spurs have lost three games in a row, but they scored an off-the-court victory on Wednesday when veteran point guard Damon Stoudamire decided he will sign with the Spurs as soon as he officially clears waivers on Thursday morning.
Several other top-tier teams, including the Phoenix Suns, Boston Celtics, Denver Nuggets and Toronto Raptors, had expressed interest Stoudamire, who on Monday negotiated a buyout of the remaining two years of his contract with the Memphis Grizzlies.
Stoudamire won’t be eligible to sign with the Spurs until Thursday morning, but his agent, Aaron Goodwin, confirmed that he will sign with the Spurs. He figures to move immediately into the team’s playing rotation because of the injury that has sidelined starting point guard Tony Parker, who underwent an MRI exam in San Antonio on Wednesday. Results of the exam on Parker’s left heel and ankle won’t be known until Thursday.
Parker and Jacque Vaughn were the only true point guards on the Spurs roster. Manu Ginobili and Brent Barry both put in some time at point guard when Parker missed four games in December, but Barry is expected to be out another three to four weeks with a strained muscle in his left calf.
Now 34, Stoudamire requested that the Grizzlies work out a buyout of his deal when he dropped behind rookie Mike Conley and second-year man Kyle Lowry on new coach Marc Iavaroni’s point-guard rotation. He played in 29 games this season, averaging 7.3 points.
The career 40.8 percent shooter is making 38.3 percent of his 3-pointers this season and 39.7 overall. He has been in the league since 1995 and has a career scoring average of 13.8.
The seventh pick of the 1995 draft, Stoudamire played his first two-plus seasons with the Toronto Raptors, averaging 20.2 points in 1995-96. He played seven full seasons in Portland before being traded to Memphis in the summer of 2005.
He suffered a knee injury in his first season in Memphis and played only 27 games. He appeared in 62 games last season, averaging 7.5 points, on 39.1 percent shooting, and 33.7 percent 3-point shooting.
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Mike Monroe: Getting the point
I asked Mike D'Antoni yesterday if he thought Damon Stoudamire might be able to help the Spurs, and his response was "Yeah, if we don' t get him first."
I think that was his way of saying he hoped Stoudamire would not end up in silver and black to help bridge the gap at point guard while Tony Parker gives his sore left ankle and heel time to simmer down.
He probably feels even more strongly about it, now that we know Parker will miss at least the next seven Spurs games: tonight's game and the six that follow on the rodeo road trip that precedes All-Star weekend.
Coaches and GMs never want to see their compe ion improve, which is why both the Spurs and Suns have been tracking the rumors about Jason Kidd. Neither team wants to see Kidd in Dallas, which is reason enough for Mark Cuban to hope he can pull off the rumored three-way deal involving the Mavs, Nets and Portland Trail Blazers.
For the same reason, Cuban probably would have preferred seeing Stoudamire sign with Toronto.
In the air-tight race in the Western Conference, a few losses will make a big difference in playoff seeding. If Stoudamire can help the Spurs win two or three more games during Parker's convalescence, he will have been well worth the money the club will play to get him.
In fact, the league will help the Spurs pay for him, under a little-known section of the collective bargaining agreement designed to encourage teams to sign veteran players like Stoudamire when they are free agents. Players of three or more years of service (and Stoudamire has 13 years) who sign one-year minimum deals cost teams only what a two-year player on a minimum contract gets, $770,670. The league pays the player the difference, and the team is charged only the two-year minimum for salary cap and luxury tax purposes.
In essence, the Spurs' salary outlay this season hardly increased when they let Jeremy Richardson go and signed Stoudamire.
http://blogs.mysanantonio.com/weblog...onroe_get.html
So Cuban refuses to keep a young Steve Nash, but he's gonna go all in for a 40 year old Jason Kidd?
that makes sense.
It's hard to follow, but Kidd and Nash have both been on the Mavs and the Suns.
Kidd would be going back to the team that drafted him just like Nash.
Odd journeys.
Has Damon officially signed? I wonder what the hold-up could be if he hasn't. All reports for the last several days indicated that he would sign as soon as he became a free agent, and that he was supposed to become a free agent on Thursday morning.
Any word?
Fifth point guard this year.
35 years of age.
Seen him 3 times this year.
Not as much irrelevant on offense as weak on defense.
Maybe it was Presti, The Man, after all.
The red button has been pushed.
How much will this guy pay the Spurs to shower with Manu Ginobili and Tim Duncan?
I thought he wouldn't be able to sign until 9pm central time?
Now I hear it was suppose to be as early as this morning.
So which is it?
I was going on what I read elsewhere:
Aaron Goodwin, the attorney who represents veteran point guard Damon Stoudamire, waived Tuesday morning by the Memphis Grizzlies, said Stoudamire is giving "strong consideration" to signing with the Spurs if he clears waivers on Thursday morning.
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/show...79&postcount=1
I've got 10pm EST.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3223023
Holt's Cat and I are hanging around the same places.
My bad. Should have done more reading.
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