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While I think Jamison's price might be a little steep, it's still within the realm of possibilities.
His price shouldn't be too unreasonable. He also appears to be a player that values teammates and winning, two of the Spurs strong suits.
Only one I want for sure is Pietrus. If your worried about his basketball "smarts", Pop can teach almost anyone. You can't teach athletic ability which he has in massive amounts. Anyone else is certainly debatable. Spurs would be VERY lucky to get 2 of those names. Certainly NOT 3.
While I think Jamison's price might be a little steep, it's still within the realm of possibilities.
His price shouldn't be too unreasonable. He also appears to be a player that values teammates and winning, two of the Spurs strong suits.
V Spanoulis would certainly help.
And we somehow need to convince Tiago to come next year.
Spurs have $5M to play with, so let's be realistic. That means no....
Elton Brand
Jermaine O'Neal
Allen Iverson
Antawn Jamison
Luol Deng
Josh Smith
Baron Davis
Corey Maggette
Shawn Marion
Andre Iguadola
Ron Artest
Gilbert Arenas
There are also a couple restricted FAs that a $5M would most likely be matched for....namely JR Smith and Josh Childress.
Just trying to keep it real...
JR Smith or Kelenna Azubuike, please.
we need a good C and some young atletics wing players cause ime and bowen are going down...
JR Smith is too much of a chucker (and I don't think that will change no matter who is coach is). He may be young and athletic, but I could see him having negative value wherever he goes.
He's basically a slightly better version of Ricky Davis.
lets go for maurice evans
Is that $5 million without releasing or trading any players?
Because we could work a trade to get one of those players.
A lot of players would die to play along side Tim Duncan and get a ring. Just one good player on that list makes us easily the best team in the NBA.
You never know, one of those players could sign a one year deal with a potential long term deal next summer. If that's possible.
Wouldn't be bad. He lives in San Antonio so it could be an easy sell, though I wouldn't pay him 5 million.
Granted, the Spurs didn't have any interest in Artest last year, but situations change.
My feelings are that Artest may be what both need to get back to the level they all want to be in. (Never thought I would consider that.)
Spurs almost traded for Artest a couple months back.
There are conflicting reports about that, with the consinsus being what R.C. said, namely that Artests' name never came up.
I cannot imagine HOW the spurs could get Artest.
yeah, i'll probably agree with you here........ i did hear someone say something about drafting joey dorsey from memphis on the espn boards, i think this would make sense, he's a strong big body, and can contribute off the bench early and give a spark like malik rose used to.........
i'm anxious to see what this team does in the off season i just hope i'm not disappointed
What do you mean with $5M?
According to hoopshype we are spending $53.6M next year (including $1.25M on Vaughn) - Duncan, Parker, Ginobili, Bowen, Bonner, Vaughn, Udoka, Mahinmi and Barry.
Luxury tax may be expected at $72M, so we should have almost $19M ro spend.
The cap doesn't work like that.
Your confused about how the cap works.
Question, is this 5 million the MLE or is it what we do have under the cap?
J.R Smith would be good cause of his jump shooting mainly those threes also Josh Childress is a hustler I saw that in hawks/celtics series that guy jumped over KG and Perkins for those rebounds he'd be a good addition also.
alamo man playing r.c.buford
"we know our long term future will be tied into who we can aquire in summer of 2010.so let's build for the short term now this summer and find players that allow us to match up better with los angeles and the hornets [scoring wing,defending big] to make as good a run we can the next two years. so no trading of ginobili or parker will even be considered. also we need to bring back barry and kurt thomas for their specific skills. and when july 1 comes we will plan to visit and offer the following with back up plans if they don't sign with us:
wing target m.pietrus (i am willing to give him most or all of the mle and 5 years. he'll be a good piece for the long term future too and this price will be a bargain once he adjusts to the 'spur way']
option 2: maurice evans [i know he's 30 but we only need home for 2 years]
will consider: jarvis hayes and antoine wright [high draft pick bust so far that could explode in our system]
big man target:kwame brown [if he doesn't change his spots he'll be cheap and easy to cut.but oh at his best he can contribute big time here:thinking 12and 8 a game]
option 2:d.diop [wanting him to defend for us as he did against us]
will consider: adonal foyle and cris mihms
our draft pick will be the best combination of defense,shooting, passing point guard available-with shooting a premium-mario chalmers is our hope"
the planned depth chart wins or gets closer in 2009 and 2010 before we really rebuild
bowen/udoka/barry
duncan/mahimi
brown/oberto/thomas
parker/chalmers/vaughn
pietrus/ginobili
thank you
Well, releasing players wouldn't give the Spurs anymore room, but you're right about a trade.
Here's the problem with that....
The Spurs have no really desireable players outside the big 3 and unlike this year, they have no significant expiring deals that could net a potential contributor.
All the Spurs really have to play with are Bonner's relatively cheap contract ($3M) and Splitter's rights if he doesn't come over....neither of which are attractive at this point.
It would be unrealistic to expect the Spurs to pull off a trade that would net any of the players I mentioned above.
STOP playing RC immediately.
Possible, but it's really grasping at straws....
First, most of the players on that list aren't outright free agents. That means they would have to make a conscious decision to test the market, presumably to get more money. Guys like Jermaine O'Neal and Elton Brand simply aren't likely to give up millions of dollars while they're still in their relative primes....that's only been done once in recent history and he (Karl Malone) was at the tail end of his career.
Second, there are enough suitors that have more than the MLE to throw at the guys like Antawn Jamison that are legit unrestricted free agents.
Bottom Line: While it would be great to get one of these guys for dirt cheap, I'd give it less than 1% chance of actually happening.
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