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Forward Drew Gooden has committed to sign with the San Antonio Spurs after he clears waivers on Wednesday morning, two league executives said Tuesday evening.
Gooden was released by the Sacramento Kings late Sunday, making him eligible to play for another team during the playoffs. The Spurs expect to sign Gooden for about $1.5 million, the remainder of their midlevel exception. The contract keeps the team below the NBA’s luxury-tax threshold.
Gooden’s imminent signing comes also comes as the Cleveland Cavaliers have reached agreement with forward Joe Smith, an Eastern Conference executive said.
Gooden averaged 13.1 points and 8.6 rebounds in 31 games with the Chicago Bulls before he was traded to the Kings on Feb. 18. The Kings reached a buyout agreement with Gooden which saved the franchise about $1.8 million.
Gooden has recently battled a groin injury, but the Spurs are comfortable with giving him as much time as needed to heal in hopes he’ll be ready for the playoffs. Spurs officials, who have looked for frontcourt help and tried to trade for Los Angeles Clippers Center Marcus Camby, envision Gooden as a backup to Matt Bonner.
cool.
nice we got him
Well here is his chance to show what he has. We will see how this plays out.
Wonder how much time he will really need to get healthy...I wanna see this cat play.
excellent.
See if his injury limits his minutes and if Pop will do something dumb and make him a backup to Matt Bonner, our starting center, for the foreseeable future.
????
As soon as possible, he needs to start and Bonner needs to come off the bench.
We have no shot at winning a championship with Bonner as our starting center or as our starting power forward. none at all. zero chance.
Woohoo
I've been waiting for that all day
He better be healthy or I'll kick his ass
Gooden should be good to go. He played last Wednesday the 25th with the Kings against the Bobcats and logged in 26 mins scoring 12 points on 5-9 shooting and pulling down 13 rebounds. Bring him on! He will surely help this team with some low-post scoring and rebounding.
You'll give him something to cry about??
Whottt predicts doom in 3....2....1...
did we have to drop someone? maybe pops? or did we have a free spot
And here we go.
Backup to Matt Bonner? Sounds like he'll be taking Oberto's and KT's center minutes?
I'll just ask KT to look him in the eyes
So a big-man rotation of TD, Bonner, Thomas, Gooden, and Oberto. Not bad, not bad at all. Better than the rotation of TD, Thomas, Oberto, and Horry's corpse from last yrs playoffs.
I think he's takign the last roster spot.
Can we get rid of Oberto to make room for Pops?
Spurs now have another big man who can score in the low-post and defend. The Spurs have different combos they can go with on the front-line now. I'm excited to see this pan out. You can put Gooden with TD out there for 2 low-post scorers, or you can put TD with Bonner or Gooden with Thomas or Bonner. Alotta things to think about here.
Spork Killer in 3....2....1.....
Like Lou Gehrig was a backup to Wally Pipp.
Nice.
If Gooden is healthy, I think he will significantly help Spurs.
More combos, I like that
At least something happened ! now the question who is gonna be waived ? hairston ? pops ? udoka ?
This is huge! Looking at the stats, there are only about 15 or 16 big men in the NBA who average 13 and 8.7, now we have two of them.
This should put us over the top for # 5!!!!!
I thought Pops took the last roster spotI think he's takign the last roster spot.
C - Bonner, Oberto, Thomas
PF - Duncan, Ian, Pops
SF - Finley, Bowen, Udoka
SG - Mason, Manu, Hairston
PG - Parker, Hill, Vaughn
So someone had to go to get Gooden......I guess it was Pops since he was on a 10 day contract.
I just hope no one gets Pops and we can get a look at him during next year's training camp.
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