NBA's Best Deals

[MaNuMaNiAc]

Here's the whole list

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/mul...content.1.html

7. Manu Ginobili
2002: 2 years, $2.9 million Some three years after the Spurs drafted the Argentinean native in the lower reaches of the second-round, they signed Ginobili to a deal his representatives probably would have laughed at had he been available on the free-agent market. Though hampered by an ankle injury sustained in the 2002 World Championships, Ginobili was San Antonio's best reserve during their '03 le run, and made it possible for them to pass on re-signing Stephen Jackson the next summer.

1. Tim Duncan
2000: 3 years, $32.6 million First, the obvious: Duncan was probably the best player in the NBA from 2000 to '03, averaging 23.7 points and 12.6 rebounds, while leading his Spurs to an NBA le and 59 wins per year. And yet it was the length of this contract -- a surprising three years -- that helped the Spurs build a lasting winner. Had San Antonio's brass insisted Duncan take a maximum seven-year deal back in '00, he may have chafed at the hard-nosed negotiating tactics and headed to any number of suitors, including Orlando, Detroit and Chicago.

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9. Corliss Williamson
1999: 1 year, $500,000

[Spurminator]

I wouldn't rush to call Nash's current deal a bargain just yet.

[ALVAREZ6]

Check out the top 20 best NBA Draft Bargains.

Manu is #4.




4. Manu Ginobili, Spurs
No. 57 -- Second Round, 1999

Finding a future two-time NBA champion, a league All-Star and an Olympic gold medalist with the second-to-last pick in the draft should earn Spurs GM R.C. Buford Executive of the Decade honors. It's easy to forget that Buford also hoodwinked those noted overseas basketball experts, Don and Donn Nelson by agreeing to draft future high school flameout Leon Smith with the last pick in the first round in exchange for the pick used to acquire Ginobili.

[MaNuMaNiAc]

Check out the top 20 best NBA Draft Bargains.

Manu is #4.




4. Manu Ginobili, Spurs
No. 57 -- Second Round, 1999

Finding a future two-time NBA champion, a league All-Star and an Olympic gold medalist with the second-to-last pick in the draft should earn Spurs GM R.C. Buford Executive of the Decade honors. It's easy to forget that Buford also hoodwinked those noted overseas basketball experts, Don and Donn Nelson by agreeing to draft future high school flameout Leon Smith with the last pick in the first round in exchange for the pick used to acquire Ginobili.

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[ChumpDumper]

It's easy to forget that Buford also hoodwinked those noted overseas basketball experts, Don and Donn Nelson by agreeing to draft future high school flameout Leon Smith with the last pick in the first round in exchange for the pick used to acquire Ginobili.

Quite easy to forget, since we traded Smith for Gordan Giricek.

[ALVAREZ6]

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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/mul...content.1.html
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[Willinsa]

A good article to read.