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Aye. At first I wanted to use the amnesty on Jefferson, but now I had really hoped they had found a deal before it came to this. At least he's gone. More room for Leonard, Anderson, and whichever FA comes in.
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The Spurs have decided to use the amnesty clause on contract of Richard Jefferson, league sources tell Y! Sports. He has 3 years, $30M left.
Aye. At first I wanted to use the amnesty on Jefferson, but now I had really hoped they had found a deal before it came to this. At least he's gone. More room for Leonard, Anderson, and whichever FA comes in.
Happy day.
Good.
Oh...and lol Pop, lol RC.
So does this mean Spurs are gonna go with what they got from last year plus new starting small forward and Leonard?
Makes perfect sense.
This would explain the constant flirtations with every available free agent SF.
Who the do we have lined up for SF?
Caron butler just tweeted: Just met with Spurs great visit first class all the way....
Chirs broussard just tweeted: Caron Butler's choices: SA or CHI for the $5 million midlevel exception, or NJ or LA Clippers for about $7 mill/year...
Interesting that this news coincides with the Caron Butler meeting.
Wow, that sounds like Butler or Howard is signed up. Not sure how we can get a big man I to guard the rim now...
Pop and RC have to be pretty confident that the Spurs will land a small forward unless they're gonna go with starting Leonard.
Yeeees Jesus.
He's gone!
I'm so happy I may cry.
There is a god!
Good Riddance
It was the right move. You get to save ~$6 million this season, get more money to throw at a free agent to improve the team and avoid doing some sort of ill-advised salary dumping trade.
Yeah, I was just going to say it sounded like the meeting with Caron went well. Sad to see him go, as he played well pre-injury and is a good guy. Think it could be a good situation for him in San Antonio, though. (If that is where he ends up)
oh caron please come here
Damn. The Spurs must be pretty confident that they are going to land one of the FA forwards Butler, Howard, Battier? Who's it gonna be guys?
With the Clips offer of $7 mil per year, and with Chicago offering a better chance to win, I'd be surprised if Butler chose the Spurs.
Still, good riddance to RJ. I hope Pop and RC learned a valuable lesson from all this. You cannot forcefit a player, whose game and personality do not fit your standard profile template, into your organization.
Great news for the spurs and great news for RJ.
It was a bad fit with the big 3 and now he has a chance to have the ball a lot more in another team.
So right off the bat they save $6 mill and can throw it at another free agent?
Does that mean the Spurs F.O. is willing to admit the RJ experiment was a failure? And then resigning him was too?
So the Spurs paid RJ $54+ million for two very mediocre seasons. To put that in context, Bruce Bowen received less than half of that amount while with the Spurs despite playing in San Antonio for eight seasons. Talk about a got damn travesty . . .
Good news.
I assume Spurs are convinced they have Howard or Butler locked up.
Now the Spurs will have to get creative to get help inside. My guess is they have started offering McDyess' expiring/partially guaranteed and Blair to teams that have a big man they desire.
With knowledge of the salary value of the Spurs trading assets (McDyess/Blair), Anderson Varejao is probably high on the Spurs' short list of targets.
there was really no one on the market at that time @sf
ja woulda started all year. but obviously they know it was a failure
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