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Yup because we didn't have flexibility.
So he wanted closer to $40MM than $24MM.
Yup because we didn't have flexibility.
Bummer.
Root for another team.
Now these offseason moves really don't make sense.
tell them we'll throw in nando
Really? That's your response? I make a comment that we didn't land a guy because we didn't have cap flexibility to offer a deal.. Didn't say "Oh it's all over" Great Job buddy.
If AK could have been had for 8 million per then Manu really screwed the Spurs.
Keeping Bonner too..
If Tpark ever tells you to root for another team ask him about 2005 in the Finals.
I only Manu took less money tbh.
How does Flip Saunders lands a GM job?
Yeah that too.
Then either Kirilenko signs with someone for a high dollar one year deal or he learns that his decision wasn't the best and takes a multi-year deal for the MLE. Spurs at least tried to find a way to get him more $.
damn...
I wonder if he was an afterthought.. After they signed Manu and Splitter they say, " AK47 is still available lets go after him" or was he called prior.. because then that says a lot about the guys negotiating there deals.
The Spurs moves just become more and more puzzling. If AK had interest here - it seems a better idea to use your capspace to land him at all costs before signing Pendergraph and Bellinelli. Why limit yourself to a S&T for those 2 when they're fairly redundant here? Makes me wonder who the Spurs were considering in their offer. Was Danny Green part of that package?
Who the would the TWolves find appealing that didn't include Danny Green? Bonner and Diaw? LOL
Depends when the interest was there.. Was it after they signed Tiago and Manu or before... you go to them and tell them they need to be flexible because they're trying to land AK and then that says a lot about that deals.. or was this an afterthought... did they reach out and get a figure after they signed Manu/Tiago and still went ahead with Marco/Pendergraph and keeping Bonner...
Its very puzzling.
Spurs didn't offer Green in the S&T. They offered Bonner and more crap.
Tiago and Manu were the first orders of business. You didn't know how much capspace you had until that was taken care of. So they were obviously limited a bit there, but I think it would have been possible to get to the 8 million per year mark with some moves to open up cap space. Maybe not after Manu's deal though. If they had cut Bonner then it would have all been moot because they would have had the space.
Keeping Bonner is probably the biggest mistake of the offseason.
call them back and throw in another 1st. idc. something. not like we're going to be serious contenders in the immediate post big-3 era anyway. lets do whatever we can do win over the next year or two.
I doubt that Bonner and Crap was what appealed to the Twolves. I think it was Bonner+Green. Maybe Diaw+Green.There were possible combinations of Spurs assets that appealed to the T'wolves, but ultimately Minnesota was unable – or unwilling – to take back the contracts on what could've been an $8 million to $9 million annual salary agreement for Kirilenko, league sources said.
If you have to put Matty in the deal RC, ask for Kevin Love first.
They did call Monta early, wonder if they were in contact with Kirelenko. At that point I low ball Manu and tell him what they're trying to do over collectively tell them both to take a smaller salary. Doesn't make sense with what they did after, as if they went out of there way to sign guys that they could flip? Bonner has been a brutal mistake for a long time.
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