Not that unusual, happened with Jalen Smith last season and from Samanic's draft there were Sekou Doumboya, Kabengele and Kevin Porter Jr.
I don’t believe that any of those teams ate salary AFTER picking up an option the previous fall. Simply not picking up an option isn’t all that uncommon. The Spurs were one of the first I remember to do that with 2010 #20 pick James Anderson.
KPJ was just essentially salary dumped by Cleveland for a SRP for being a ing psycho. He’s still progressing on his rookie deal in Houston.
How is a Luka thread still at the top of Spurstalk?
somebody bump the Scola thread pls. Would be more interesting chit chat at this point.
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C'mon folks. John Salmons was let go because he had some mental issues. And I mentioned injuries - James Anderson had that really bad injury, and was never the same so they let him go.
I was pretty clearly talking about guys that had been part of a team, but then just dumped. I never said that not picking up an option doesn't happen, but it is uncommon and it shows that the team has totally lost faith in the guy. But dumping him and eating his salary for the year? That's not something you see often.
Dumping Samanic the way the Spurs did was a pretty clear statement. "We'd rather have the roster spot for pretty much anyone but you."
It's becasue we're coming up to the draft before you know it. Samanic was sort of a notorious draft topic in SpursLand.
Seeing things like this actually make me feel bad for Samanic. The guy is only 22 years old and was actually dominating the G-League for the Knicks before he got injured.
Now he’s out of the NBA and probably spiraling into depression.
Made 10m’s. I don’t feel bad for him.
RC's last final you to the spurs before turning GM duties over to Brian Sometimes Wright tbh
Dude would have gotten scads of playing time at PF if he only moved his ass in San Antonio. I'd rather feel bad for single mothers or the women who will have to take rapists' babies to term in ing Oklahoma because of GOP freaks.
this made me spit my drink
from Wrong to Sometimes Wright. That’s a good one
I guess Brian "Two Wrongs Make A" Wright would have been more popular last summer.
Don’t feel sorry for him at all. Doesn’t seem like he has any self awareness either.
Ooof, so he's that kinda person, huh..... Yuck. Embarrassing to know he donned a Spurs jersey once and we (well, some of us I guess) rooted for him. What a way to shoot your career in the foot, and on top of that, act like you're not to blame for it? Like others are the problem? Jesus.
It was a good gamble, Luka had all the tools... He just needed to grow the up and use them. Looks like that still isn't the case, and who knows if it ever will be. I don't feel a tad bit sorry for him; he'll probably feel the most sorry for his own self when he's 30+ years old, and realizes the full extent of his decisions.
I don't get it. He's depressed bc he's allergic to hard work?
Thankfully it was only $8.47 million total, actually lower probably since no way the owners didn't keep the escrow account in 2019-20 and 2020-21.
Oklahoma? You mean texas right? We're the ones with the backass and barbaric heartbeat bill.
Going back and seeing how many Spur fans liked this bust of a pick.
He had some hard core fans defending him but the alarms were ringin since his second season for me. I am waiting for next year to see what Primo has.
Oklahoma has banned abortion, too. Florida, Idaho, other red states are making the big push, too.
One third of the black population has been eliminated due to abortion. Just something to mull over.
Luca Semanic was a wasted pick. Every NBA team has done that at least once if not many times. Lets learn from our mistakes of the past and move forward instead. Forget Palooka Sammich and move on. Thank god we drafted Keldon Johnson in that same draft.
https://sports.yahoo.com/report-bost...221345341.html
Report: Boston Celtics to sign Luka Samanic to training camp deal
I think the Spurs have learned from it.
The three first round picks all seem to have very compe ive personalities. Unlike Luka and even Lonnie to a lesser degree.
Celtics have cut Samanic. He's only 22 but I'd think his NBA career is over.
I didn’t even know he got picked-up by the Celtics. Maybe they asked Derrick in giving him a shot?
He’s expected to play for Maine Celtics in the G-League. I wonder what his problem. He obviously has bball skills. But just personality issue I guess?
He has no bball skills
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