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Spurs will buy him out if no trade. Spurs will do right by the player. Other teams know that. That is the biggest thing hurting his value.
Well once again we are going to have a nice chunk of cap space with few free agent targets so 9mm for a future FRP is probably the going rate. Saric might also become a nice trade chip at next year’s trade deadline.
Spurs will buy him out if no trade. Spurs will do right by the player. Other teams know that. That is the biggest thing hurting his value.
We’ve always done a lot of things in the past. It’s a different day.
He’s going to have to give back most, if not all of his remaining salary if he wants out. He hasn’t been a real good sport about this. He had to know that he was trade bait, and that most trades happen on deadline day, so just STFU. Noticed he hasn’t been in any podcasts recently. That’s a positive step.
Something else I’d like to see happen if he gets traded: it’s not a negotiation. He goes where he fkn goes even if it isn’t a playoff team. If a deal is in the table that helps us it should be done. Goodwill is for players who did something for this team.
In theory, but most non playoff teams aren't lining up for 33 YO PFs on ending contracts.
Yeah but Thad’s contract could just help facilitate a broader deal which may have him ending up somewhere worse.
Again, in theory, but most bad teams are looking for future resources, not current ones. I can't see a easy scenario where he's just salary ballast. Too many playoff teams would be interested.
Well regardless if anything goes down it’ll likely be done on deadline day.
Exactly. Usually in the last hour or so, too.
Biyombo continues to play well for Phx. 21pts, 12rebs, 5assts 2blks, 1stl on 9-12fgs in 30mins.
Still hoping Thad’s contract can help facilitate some deadline deals and we can get a few SRPs out of it. Moral victory.
Looking at this summer’s cap situation with only the Pistons, Magic and Spurs having space, expiring contracts are going to be in demand at the deadline… Juancho and Thad’s contracts could net us something of value to take bad money back. Unfortunately they can’t be combined in a deal.
With very few free agent targets ourselves the trade deadline is when we should start looking to rent some of the near 40mm in cap space we have in return for young assets/picks or risk PATFO giving a guy like Joe Ingles 3yr/50mm come July. You know its coming.
If Phoenix is not in the perspective to re sign Ayton at the max it could be an idea to use our assets for having him at the deadline... After all Mcgee and Biyombo fit for them both better than Ayton (and in a le perspective both Saric and Smith are, for different reasons, unplayable this season and the next ). Young, Mc Dermott and Eubanks for Ayton, Smith and Saric works...
I wouldn’t give up a young asset like Eubanks.
They're not giving Ayton away in the middle of a le run for ing Thad Young. Might as well have asked for Booker too.
You’re under estimating what Chris Paul could do with Drew Eubanks. It’s be a batter version of lobcity
They're not giving Ayton away in the middle of a le run for ing Thad Young. Might as well have asked for Booker too.
Last edited by KingKev; 01-23-2022 at 10:04 AM.
I am absolutely NOT in favor of renting any of our summer capspace out right now, unless they throw something ridiculous like multiple FRPs at us, which won’t happen. Any team that needs relief will still need it this summer, and we get to evaluate multiple offers.
What you can do now is trade our expirings for more expensive expirings, plus cash and/or picks for tax paying teams. Portland, for example, is foundering, but WILL be a tax payer if they do nothing. They are a bit over $3M over the tax, and their bill will be about $4.5M. It’s a bit bigger than that, though. If we can come up with a swap of expirings that can net them that $3M in savings, it’s not just a relief from the $4.5M bill, they would become a non tax payer, and RECEIVE a payment of about $10M. The net flip would be +14.5M to their books. I think that’s worth a first, and they have all of theirs remaining, except this year’s. Since we received only larger expirings, we still have ALL of our cap room this summer to leverage for FAs, or accepting salary like Saric, an ending contract from Phoenix. When they pay Ayton, they will be in the tax, and will be looking to shed salary.
Eubanks isn’t an asset, he’s roster filler. That will become more apparent when Zollins is activated.
The stupid on this forum is unreal.
They're not giving Ayton away in the middle of a le run for ing Thad Young. Might as well have asked for Booker too.
Lol…….I think sometimes the sarcasm is missed��
Oh yeah Eubanks is a regular Prime Blake Griffin.
The Spurs should at least try to package Thad's expiring deal with a pick(s) to improve their front court to a team looking to shed salary (Pacers/Raptors). I don't know too much about Turner but if he can stretch the floor and play some D, he seems like a good fit. They need some more scoring punch and good big. At some point, the Spurs need to take a chance to improve. Otherwise, just trade your best assets in White and Poetl and go full rebuild with the super young guys (Murray, Vassell, Primo) + your high lottery pick from this season + a treasure chest of picks from your trades. I mean, if your ceiling is making the play-in, seems like you're just spinning your wheels and frustrating the fan base.
Last edited by 8sy21vd; 01-23-2022 at 03:23 PM.
Eubanks is a unicorn. Who else blocks a shot by putting his hand in the rim? That alone should be worth a first round pick
haha I was being sarcastic. I’ve never seen Eubanks as an NBA player. That purported trade was terrible.
Hahah I was being sarcastic. Eubanks will not be on this roster next year, and probably not in the NBA.
You do both, start renting capital now continue in the summer. Teams want to start clearing cap space now so they are in a better position July 1st when free agency starts as a fair amount of signings are announced within hours of the clock striking midnight. I’m not the only one advocating this, top NBA pundits are projecting a busy trade deadline for this reason. Also we have ~40mm in cap space and very few if any real free agent targets. We should be getting ahead of this or risk PATFO paying a guy like Joe Ingles 3yr/50mm as you know dumb contracts like McLovins are a major risk when we are sitting on a bag of cash in a free agent market.
I like your scenario with Portland, and that is an ideal scenario so if any examples present themselves we should jump on that with Thad or Juancho’s contract. Portland probably only has two expiring contracts that make sense in Roco and Nurk (both ~12mm) however and those are attractive win now deadline pieces that will probably return assets, so they could likely shed salary AND net something in return.
What would a Portland trade look like? I always liked Nance
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