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Spurs Assign Ian Mahinmi To Austin Toros
SAN ANTONIO - The San Antonio Spurs announced today that they have assigned center Ian Mahinmi to the Austin Toros, the NBA Development League team owned and operated by the Spurs.
Mahinmi is currently recovering from right ankle surgery performed on 1/31. He has yet to see action for the Spurs this season. Mahinmi appeared in one game for the Toros this season where he scored 4 points and grabbed 1 rebound in 20:46 minutes.
http://www.nba.com/spurs/news/mahinmi_toros_090402.html
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No surprises here.
Hopefully this means he's feeling healthy enough to play. Even getting in a couple of games would be good just to make sure that ankle is functional. If not, the Spurs may try to salary dump him . . .
Good news.
I hope he can play some games there
Domination.
Big disappointment this season. Too bad dude got hurt.
4pts and 1 rb in 20 minutes....
ok POPS did what, 25-13 in the d-league...so what dos 4-1 translate to in the NBA?
Translation: you're an idiot.
how so?
I would say this gamble didn't pay off... maybe time will disagree with me, but right nowon Ian...
Players get injured. It happens.
For an entire season with a bone spur?
The causes are sometimes difficult to diagnose, yes.
Is he a dissaponitment .......yeah.
But he really needs to shine next year.
Alfred Hughes, Dwanye us, Fred Roberts,Tom Copa, Lyold Daniels,Greg Sutton, Shelton Jones,...... anybody want to add Ian to this list???????????????????????
Most of you are overreacting. He missed most of the season due to injury. It happens. We don't know if he is good or not yet...
If he can produce again and in the Summer League that may keep him from the Luxury Tax chopping block.
Isn't that what we said last year after Horry was done?
he'll be back next year and average more points and rebounds then greg oden
Hopefully he can get some play time before the season ends. Maybe he will help the Toros for their le run.
With all due respect, one recent injury doesn't explain four years of nada.
Nobody, not the French national team, nor any Euro pro team, nor any other NBA team has ever had the lofty opinion of Mahinmi that the Spurs had that one night in June '05.
Not before nor since.
If anyone disputes that, find a glowing quote (about Mahinmi) to the contrary from any one of the above sources over the last few years.
I don't get this whole "four years" thing. I've seen it posted here a couple of times. The Spurs didn't bring him into their plans until last year, and he had a nice 17/8 d-league season. This year was an injury wipeout. By my count, that's two years.
You mean the opinion that Sam Presti had.
First let me repeat what I posted a few days ago, that I won't be surprised when Mahinmi is off the Spurs roster by July 15th by either trade or released with the understanding that he'll go back to europe.
Nobody is more disappointed in him than me, I was clamoring for the Spurs to not re-sign KT so that he wouldn't get in the way of Mahinmi getting minutes. I loved Mahinmi's progress in the d-league and what his potential could have been with his athleticism next to Duncan.
But now I realize that his time with the Spurs is probably done. The freak injuries like pectoral tears right before summer league and invisible bone chips have ruined what I think was an incredible opportunity, though with how Pop has doghoused George Hill for Vaughn maybe that opportunity may have been more imagined than real.
But as to what other people ever saw in Mahinmi . . .
An Express News article quoting a scout as saying in 2006 after Mahinmi's first summer league : "Even after watching Mahinmi's worst games, one scout thought he would have been a lottery pick in this year's draft."
Then there were multiple instances of Draft Express praising Mahinmi during his d-league play last season, declaring that he had better upside than any big man in the d-league, that he was the number one name mentioned by NBA scouts as having a future in the NBA, and numerous other glowing remarks about his game and the progress he made in the d-league. Including " Many people questioned San Antonio when they picked Mahinmi in the first round of the 2005 draft, but he looks to be a future NBA player judging by his performance in the D-League."
And ESPN nba guy David Thorpe has previously written that Mahinmi looked like a "mega-talent".
According to an SI article, an eastern conference executive said "Mahinmi has the potential to be an All-Star"
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So there was something there with Mahinmi, but little did anybody know that he'd have these kinds of injury issues.
And as much as I was enthralled with his d-league play I was terribly disappointed by his 2008 summer league play, he seriously looked like he had taken a step back.
And now, a year gone by and wasted, there's really no future for him.
The Spurs will either re-sign Gooden or get somebody like Rasheed Wallace in the summer.
And they'll still have Kurt Thomas and Matt Bonner under contract, and maybe Oberto if they don't buy him out (I believe his contract is partially guaranteed, if so, he'll be traded or cut like Bowen).
And word about him not being Spurs material has trickled down to Don Harris regarding his work ethic/toughness, so you know he's on the outs.
Ian Mahinmi's time as a Spur may be over come July.
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