Stein: Spurs Planning to Offer $9M/per to Simmons

[DPG21920]

Educate us. I'm interested

It's nothing revelatory; he's a restricted free agent for one. He also has a very small cap hold in place (1.7M IIRC). So under any scenario (either SA going after a big free agent, smaller free agent or staying over the cap and using the MLE) he does not dictate anything.

Spurs can match offers while keeping his cap hold on the books, they can renounce him if they needed the extra money for a bigger free agent or they could agree to terms with him and wait to sign him.

[buttsR4rebounding]

Evidently the Knicks have reached out to the Spurs regarding Simmons. I guess for a sign-and-trade of some type. And please nobody say Simmons for Porzigod.

https://twitter.com/IanBegley/status/882104612525928449

[itzsoweezee]

Evidently the Knicks have reached out to the Spurs regarding Simmons. I guess for a sign-and-trade of some type. And please nobody say Simmons for Porzigod.

https://twitter.com/IanBegley/status/882104612525928449

Do the salary restrictions not apply in a sign and trade situation?

[SPURt]

Evidently the Knicks have reached out to the Spurs regarding Simmons. I guess for a sign-and-trade of some type. And please nobody say Simmons for Porzigod.

https://twitter.com/IanBegley/status/882104612525928449

Looking at that roster yikes. Spurs are gonna end up reuniting Ron Baker and Cleanthony Early

[Nathan89]

Evidently the Knicks have reached out to the Spurs regarding Simmons. I guess for a sign-and-trade of some type. And please nobody say Simmons for Porzigod.

https://twitter.com/IanBegley/status/882104612525928449

That's not what the tweet means. It should be read as "Knicks reach out to Spurs player Jonathon Simmons". They aren't reaching out to the team.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

Golden State offering Crawford the MLE and we are worrying about overpaying Simmons. F me.

[KDKSpurs24]

That's not what the tweet means. It should be read as "Knicks reach out to Spurs player Jonathon Simmons". They aren't reaching out to the team.

Exactly.

[Ice009]

Golden State offering Crawford the MLE and we are worrying about overpaying Simmons. F me.

What, they're going after Jamal Crawford now too?

[buttsR4rebounding]

That's not what the tweet means. It should be read as "Knicks reach out to Spurs player Jonathon Simmons". They aren't reaching out to the team.

If so, my bad. Thanks. You'd think someone who actually writes for a living would have a little better command of the language.