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    Why are you arguing this so hard? You've got a chance to sign an important player for well less than the current market price, and you want to wait and see, just in case he gets injured? Damn. If teams thought that way, why would they ever sign a multi-year contract. Every player in the league is one missed step from a torn ACL. These teams would just be paralyzed.

    Sometimes you just have to admit that you didn't think things all the way through and move on. Pavlov is exactly right. The other FA "opportunities" next year are pretty much e. Lock up Aldridge and move on to other priorities.
    the idea of signing a multi-year deal is to prevent the player from leaving in free agency after one year. that's not the issue here. sometimes you negotiate a team option, sometimes you negotiate a player option. sometimes you have a partial guarantee.

    Aldridge is already under contract for next season. a partial guarantee for that last year was negotiated by the parties.

    again, as timvp wrote in the article, it was likely a showing of good faith with the hope of fostering a continuing relationship with LMA. i can buy that as a reason.

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    and yet no tangible cost in waiting it out
    And no real cost in doing it.


    the choice might be a 24 million dollar aldridge that cant play who is fully guaranteed
    What are the odds that happens?

    Minimal, as you stated and don't want to repeat.

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    And no real cost in doing it.


    What are the odds that happens?

    Minimal, as you stated and don't want to repeat.
    i'd rather avoid a minimal risk than take on a minimal risk, generally.

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    i'd rather avoid a minimal risk than take on a minimal risk, generally.
    Great. Good for you.

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    Again, Spurs' turnovers are the only thing keeping the Knicks in the game. I'm giving the Spurs a pass since it's the first game of the season.

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    Why do it now though? The partial guarantee could've made his contract a useful trade chip at the deadline.
    Please explain why the Spurs should trade LA -- their leading scorer for most of the past 5 seasons?

    Who also happens to be a very hard worker and solid D big?

    Why?

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    If/when they move him, it feels like they want to build some good will so the next team doesn’t just salary dump him. That way they can tell him, “don’t , we just gave you a 16m send off” when they deliver the trade news.

    If they end up keeping him, it’s still good value for two years.

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    Why do it now though? The partial guarantee could've made his contract a useful trade chip at the deadline.
    and gotten more effort out of him.

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    Who would trade for him only to release him? Wouldnt someone trading for him want him for the full year at the bargain rate of $24M?

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    Sounds like they didn’t official guarantee him but rather moved up his “guarantee by” to January 2020 (per Hollinger). Wonder what that’s all about?

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    Again, Spurs' turnovers are the only thing keeping the Knicks in the game. I'm giving the Spurs a pass since it's the first game of the season.
    20 TOs by 3 quarters is exceptional. Usually results in a loss but this was the knicks

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    You rang?

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    Sounds like they didn’t official guarantee him but rather moved up his “guarantee by” to January 2020 (per Hollinger). Wonder what that’s all about?
    Something for the accountant. They wanted to put LMA's guarantee date in the next calendar year.

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    Wait, wasn't his guarantee date already originally in Late June?

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    Didn’t realize you had posted here.

    In another thread at the time you mentioned that LMA had a partial guarantee not a full one

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