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"You can make trades in February?"
I watch these Spurs and I think just tear it down and build it back up.
Everything should've been on the table. Were we not selling, or was Pop just not willing to sacrifice his career win percentage?
Wtf knows at this point,tbh
thanks poop
no wonder kawhi left
He was busy watching politics not taking basketball serious
Realistically, the Spurs have no assets to give away. Just garbage vets and no youth with star potential at the moment.
No other team would ever pick up the phone from the Spurs with only the trash ass players we have to offer.
I disagree. There were apparently some discussions about Rudy, but we wanted too much for him. I doubt the Spurs initiated much of anything, but I would bet that they wanted too much for anybody to get traded. I think all of our guys are tradeable - IF your expectations aren't out of whack. I just think the Spurs' expectations were out of whack.
What ever moves the Spurs wanted to do at trade deadline would be more possible come draft night. There was no rush to gut the team now.
Just gonna have slightly more devalued assets on our hands.
We.Like.What.We.Have
I don't think anyone wanted our trash.
Really? Another stupid thread for you to talk to yourself about the same . At least ducks has something interesting to say.....
.never mind. It's same brainless as usual.
Because DeMar is really the only player other teams ask, Rudy got some interest but I doubt anyone will give a first round pick for him and even if they did this draft is pretty thin. We couldn't get a decent pick for LA when he wanted out, and his value has gone way down since then.
And with DeMar we can do a sign and trade this summer, he will be the biggest FA in this class so we should be able to get a nice return for him.
Not really. Team's would get about a season and a half out of Aldridge and a half season to convince DDR to stay.
The draft occurs before DeRozans opt-in date, so the Spurs would likely have to wait until after he opts-in to try and seriously shop him.
In the off-season, maybe something like Aldridge for Otto Porter and a 2021 lottery protected Bulls could get done. Their not far off from being a playoff team in the East now, so adding Aldridge could make them likely to do so next season.
Porter has pretty much been injured for a year and a half and overpaid. If he gets healthy, he'd actually be a pretty good 3 and the Spurs would get an extra 1st.
The teams wanting DD or LMA are playoff teams wanting the push for a deep run or le run. In the offseason, more teams have higher aspersions.
We had salvageable goods. I really just think Gregg cannot stand the thought of his coaching record plunging any further.
Looking through the currently playoff teams, really only Orlando and Boston and Miami would make sense for one of them. Boston and Miami really wouldn't be able to make a trade with matching salary. Orlando might want DDR but only after he opts in.
Chicago and Portland make sense for Aldridge. Portland could do Ariza, Collins, and Hood for Aldridge. Hood would miss most of next season, Ariza is not very good anymore and Collins has yet to break out (due to injury). Spurs would almost certainly want a 1st in that deal.
It was. No takers.
Frankly, I wasn't even hearing rumors of trades.
Ariza would need be on a separate trade with matching salaries.
Teams were probably baffled because they couldn't decide who they wanted more, Rudy or Belinelli.
The Spurs are in a horrible financial situation, as far as making any serious moves. The highest paid player on the team does not even attempt 3-point shots. For example.
The Kings hit 19 of 35 three-pointers against us. In beating the Clips, the Twolves went 26 of 44 from the arc. Teams notice things like that.
Then they look at DDR. Who shoots zilch for zilch from the arc. Do they want him? Not much. Would they pay $27.7 million for him? Har har har.
DDR can do some things, sure. He's a good player in some ways. He can get you 20 ppg the hard way, 2 at a time. What's that really worth, in ye olde modern NBA? Wild guess...$15M. Can the Spurs afford to take a $12M loss on that contract? Nope. All they can do is let it run out. So, no trade.
Same with Rudy Gay. The Spurs are overpaying him by too much. The team can't afford the hit to trade him.
Same with LMA. Sure, he could be traded, but at what price? There's the rub.
Fans talk about the players, but it's really about the money. The Spurs, these last few years with Pop, have been grossly overpaying players. Now it's come around to bite them. They can't afford trades. The financial losses are too heavy.
It's all turned into a big Pau Gasol situation. The Spurs moved Gasol by agreeing to pay part of his salary themselves. Of which $5M is still on the books this year.
Sure, the Spurs could have a "fire sale" and move most of their players - by agreeing to pay, oh, maybe $50 million worth of salary to players who aren't here any more. Good grief.
He can't be aggregated for two months after the trade. It wouldn't matter in the off-season.
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