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He'd be an incredible pickup for the Spurs. If things don't work out with getting Scola here, do you think he'd come for the MLE?
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Most likely out of the Spurs' price range, but he is unrestricted...
He'd be an incredible pickup for the Spurs. If things don't work out with getting Scola here, do you think he'd come for the MLE?
Yes, please. But, like you said, too expensive, I imagine.
Hard to say. Spurs would also have to want to commit that much to him...
Now your talking with Bobby Simmons, he is solid and a damn good shooter.
to signing this guy.
Sure, he'd be great. But as Kori points out the only way the Spurs might have a shot at signing him outright would be if Scola doesn't sign.
Can't afford him. Will get outbidded. Besides, he'd probably want to start, and who can blame him?
I'll probably get reemed for this, but I would use the whole MLE on SImmons (if he wanted to come) before I'd sign Scola.
He's going to be an All-Star before he's done in the league. Bowen with an offensive game.
And as Bowen's replacement for the rest of the Duncan era? Damn we'd be set.
Yeah Simmons would be nice a solid two way player who could fit very easily in the Spurs system.
But isn't he kind of a pipedream, too much $, even if Scola DOESN'T come?
If the Spurs were somehow able to use their $1 million exception (currently $1.6 mil) on Scola then they'd have the full MLE available for someone else. The only price I recall seeing for Scola was starting at $2 million.
IIRC, Manu was originally signed to that $1 mil exception when he joined the Spurs back in 2002, so perhaps there is some precedent...
did Manu need money for a buyout??
I thought thats why Scola's contract needed to start so high.
I thought he had like a 2 million dollar buy out.
Isn't the issue of starting the killer?
Which starter would he replace?
He would be trying to crack the 8-man Spurs championshp rotation or
prefer to start one a top-8 playoff contender?
He wouldn't be trying to crack anything. Simmons would be our Sixth Man without question, and eventually take over for Bowen.
It depends on how much teams are willing to throw at him. If it comes down to MLE type offers, I think you could probably talk him into joining the World Champs, especially after being in the purgatory that is being a Clipper.
Sign and trade? The Clips usually just don't want to get shown up by losing a player for nothing.
Will Holt Cat really open up the wallet this summer? Hmmm...
, I don't know if there's a better fit out of any of the free agents. He would be the perfect signing.
But he hasn't had his big payday yet, and I don't see how a team or two won't offer him more than the MLE. Sure, offer him the MLE and hope he takes it. But it's certainly a long shot. You would probably be asking a young up-and-comer to come off of the bench and take a pay cut.
It's a pipe dream, but make the offer. If for some reason he accepted, the Spurs would have everything they could ever hope for.
Not an option in my small mind.
I'd love for the Spurs to acquire him, but even if the money worked, the PT don't.
Actually the PT would be there at the 2 and 3 spots. You can slide Barry to backup point, and send Beno off in a trade.
Get Simmons and you have a nice 2/3 rotation of Manu, Bowen, Simmons, and spot duty from Devin Brown.
He also solves the Bowen replacement equation. The signing is the perfect fit, but financially I just don't think we can swing it.
He'll get more than the MLE and the Clipper won't do a sign-and-trade. I don't think they ever have.
I'd send Sterling draft picks for the rest of his life if he wants them, maybe even rights to one of our Euros if we have a good idea one of them isn't going to pan out.
Teams that will have more than the MLE to offer players:
Atlanta 20 million
Charlotte 10 million
Cleveland 26 million
Denver 40 million
Clips 30 million
Milwaukee 28 million
New Orleans 16 million
Seattle 23 million
Washington 38 million
trade them Javtokas too.
Rights to javtokas, and 06 and 07 first round picks.
Bobby Simmons is gonna be a stud in 2 years.
You can't trade your first round picks in successive years.
With Martin, Camby, Miller, and all those first round picks over the past couple years, there's no way Denver has 40 million in cap room. Numbers must from from last summer before the Camby extension and Martin were signed.
Mark - those are committed salaries. That's the best I could find scouring the web.
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