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When did TP decline an extension?
From NBA.com FWIW:
As ever, the ground rules: my 30-team rankings are only for offseason moves, the things teams have done since they last played a game. It is not a predicted order of finish for next season; I do not expect Golden State to have a better record than Orlando.
It is as much art as science, weighing the impact both of the Draft and free agency, but also assessing whether teams got value in their free-agent signings. Overpaying the right player is as much a sin as signing the wrong player. New coaches, new GMs, new owners and new arenas are also signficant factors in judging a team's summer success, for a good coach can coax some more wins out of a roster, and a new building can generate the kind of revenue necessary to let a team be aggressive in pursuing free agents and trades.
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No. 6 -- SAN ANTONIO SPURS
2009-10 RECORD: 50-32, second place, Southwest Division; lost in West semifinals to Suns.
ADDED: C Tiago Splitter (three years, $10 million); G James Anderson (first round, 20th overall).
LOST: C Ian Mahinmi (signed with Dallas).
RETAINED: F Richard Jefferson (four years, $38 milliion); F Matt Bonner (four years)
THE KEY MAN: G George Hill.
The third-year man from IUPUI has earned Gregg Popovich's trust, and Tony Parker has steadfastly declined a contract extension. Rumors run rampant -- though Parker denies it -- that he'd like to play in New York. But Parker is probably the guy who can bring San Antonio the most in return in a potential deal. That would only happen if the Spurs believe that Hill is capable of running the team at a championship level -- which Parker already has done.
THE SKINNY: If you don't understand that owner Peter Holt pledged last summer to pay luxury tax through the end of the Tim Duncan Era (which has two years remaining), then what San Antonio did this summer doesn't make sense. But with the owner all in to try and get Duncan a fifth le, the Spurs have plowed forward, extending Manu Ginobili for $38 million in the spring so that he never touched free agency, then giving Jefferson four more years. But for the Spurs' purposes, like everyone else's, Jefferson's deal is a two-year deal. Instead of paying him $15 million this season and having to pay more to keep him next summer, San Antonio gave him a couple of years on the back end, then used the savings from his first-year number to re-sign Bonner and to finally export Splitter from Europe. And that's why the Spurs are so high on this list; getting one of the best big men in Europe for relative peanuts should keep the Spurs in the hunt through Duncan's 2012 swan song.
http://www.nba.com/2010/news/feature...rt1/index.html
Last edited by Cane; 07-26-2010 at 07:14 PM. Reason: Replies focused on that part of the article
When did TP decline an extension?
Probably because the Spurs can't even talk to him about it until later this year. At least, that's what I've read before.
Woah Woah Woah. If TP is declining extensions I'd be all for moving him by the deadline.
weren't spurs number 2-3 last year?
yeah....
Tony never declined any extension.
ghill's not a pg
I'm going to start posting that every time someone says this same b.s. aldridge said. In fact, I'll just make a keyboard shortcut for it --> Ctrl + GeorgeHillIsNotAPointGuard&^@%#$6
Weak write up.
a lot of BS in there
Re-signing Boner should put them last in off-season moves.
Aldridge usually doesn't write such off the wall stuff like Parker rejecting an extension, so he must know something we don't or might have gotten mixed up.
WTF? TP declined an extension.
If TP seriously declined an extension we need to get rid of this guy before the deadline.
Tony hasn't declined an extension because the Spurs haven't offered him one.
and you would know?
TP has gone out of his way to say he's gone after this season countless times already
Link?????
am still waiting to see what the spurs FO will do with the rest of MLE and the LLE....
lmaoooooooooooo @ parker lovers i ing told yall and yall still make up, parker dont wanna be here and hill is the future what yall parker lovers gotta say now .... huh
Eh, he didn't go "out of his way" and it was once.
BTW, this is post #2010 for me and it would be cool to celebrate by getting my screen name in BOLD so I can post in NBA forum free of shame.
Kori, what do I need to do? Send you my resume? references? portfolio? baked goods? . . .
Just send timvp some Malta Goya and Havanna Alfajores.
this article has given me new motivation to come up with some potential parker trades.
LoL @ some of those posting here like they know more then the people that are actually involved with the NBA.
Anyway, Aldridge is not known to make this up like other do. Not sure if he has heard about some-some things that we don't know or he just misinterpreted something instead.
Of course there is allways a chance it can be complete BS as with anything, but it's just not the track record from Aldridge. It's pretty interesting though.
The Bonner hate is getting annoying here. I understand the RMJ and Centerpiece hate, but Bonner, no.
I agree. Let's wait until the season starts and he is royally ing up before we let fly with the hate.
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