Butler Rumor

[exstatic]

Over/under on ploto emailing the tool that runs that site with the rumor....

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

Why the are people still posting like this is a legitimate idea?

It's pretty obvious the reporter just went and looked at salaries to find one to match Butler.

It's even worse that he speculated that we would somehow hand away a pick like that to the Jazz because their owner was trying to trade up.

ing let it die already.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

Is it possible that Pop and RC are engaged in a double reverse smokescreen where they float the rumor that we're unhappy with Butler and he's a head case so that other teams will be less willing to accept him as filler in a larger deal that we may be working? I've always felt like our management was playing chess against a league full of front offices playing checkers.

Uh, why would they make it harder for themselves to work a trade? That makes no sense.

[spurtime]

Uh, why would they make it harder for themselves to work a trade? That makes no sense.

If we would rather include a guy like James White than Jackie Butler as salary matching filler in a larger deal than it isn't outside of reason that we would float a "Jackie's a head case" rumor so that our trading partner would be more willing to take the guy that we want to get rid of more...in this hypo, James White.

[Steve-O-Matic]

If we would rather include a guy like James White than Jackie Butler as salary matching filler in a larger deal than it isn't outside of reason that we would float a "Jackie's a head case" rumor so that our trading partner would be more willing to take the guy that we want to get rid of more...in this hypo, James White.

That's an absurd theory that would be a lose-lose for the Spurs either way. By painting Butler as a head-case, they either...A) significantly diminish their ability to trade him (or at last get anything of value in return) if they DO want to trade him.....or B) paint a false impression in Butler's mind that the organization considers him a headcase if they actually DON'T want to trade him, thereby creating a malcontented player who would rightfully feel back-stabbed.

[spurtime]

That's an absurd theory that would be a lose-lose for the Spurs either way. By painting Butler as a head-case, they either...A) significantly diminish their ability to trade him (or at last get anything of value in return) if they DO want to trade him.....or B) paint a false impression in Butler's mind that the organization considers him a headcase if they actually DON'T want to trade him, thereby creating a malcontented player who would rightfully feel back-stabbed.

2 good points...My theory was absurd. I blame the day long hangover.