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Dammit, thought we were finally going to be able to move on from this
The new “It still hurts…”
I know our good friend Mr. Body wants to keep discussing this matter so here it is.
1:07 mark of Lowe's latest podcast...
Lowe: "I think the Reaves contract has a chance to be one of the best contracts in the league from a team perspective. The Lakers got very, very lucky that nobody got them to pay through the nose. I know San Antonio was going back and forth on it and just for whatever reason didn't do it. And that's a steal."
Hollinger: "I'm surprised. I thought the Spurs would price enforce on them. Knowing that the Lakers would match it -- but just, we're going to make you pay $25 million in those out years because that's when we're going to be competing with you and we just want to make your life as hard as possible."
Lowe: "They thought about it!"
Dammit, thought we were finally going to be able to move on from this
The new “It still hurts…”
hE wAs AlWaYs gOnNa StAy iN lA
I think at 100 million or more LA calls the bluff. I’ll go so far as to say I bet anything over 80 million and LA passes. The last thing we need is to be locked into that contract. We can do much better than Reaves.
What is dead may never die. Reaves = drowned god confirmed.Dammit, thought we were finally going to be able to move on from this
The new “It still hurts…”
To clarify the situation for those who weren't following...
-Austin Reaves was a restricted free agent.
-Reaves was at times the Lakers primary playmaker last season and had an insanely efficient campaign.
-The Lakers couldn't offer him more than $52 million over four years due to salary cap rules.
-The Spurs (or any other team with enough cap room) could have offered Reaves a contract up to $100 million.
-The Lakers were expected to match any offer -- even a full $100 million offer.
-The Lakers could have delayed matching until midnight on July 6th, which would have frozen the cap space of any team who wanted to try to sign Reaves.
-The Spurs decided not to offer Reaves a contract. Every other team ran out of cap space.
-The Lakers were able to re-sign Reaves at the $52 million mark.
-The Spurs never used their cap space in a way that would have stopped them from offering Reaves a contract.
-If Reaves were an unrestricted agent this summer, I think most reasonable people would agree that he would have made ~$100 million on the open market.
The One Who Got Away (TM)
I think they should have gone for it.
Did we move on from Reaves for Herro? Thoughts
Meh we have champagne
The front office did the right thing. I like Austin Reeves and it wouldn’t been fun to stick it to the Lakers, but would it have really been worth paying him that much or tying up your time waiting for the Lakers to respond a week later?
I guess they opted to make an offer to Brook Lopez instead. That didn’t work out either.
I always look to ESPN types for the breaking LAL-San Antonio news.
So they might have wanted to with the Lakers, according to Lakers guys. I hope you all are happy.
He's literally a one trick pony. Why would we want a shooter who doesn't play difference and literally offers nothing but making wide open shots? That's ludicrous.
They thought about saying fck the lakers
He literally can do everything. A shooter only?!
How can I possibly be happy without my Hillbilly Kobe?
So they might have wanted to with the Lakers, according to Lakers guys. I hope you all are happy.
At the end of the day price enforcing is petty and beneath the classy Spurs and even if you hate that:
I'm also not giving rival Lakers bulletin board material that Victor will have to slay through.
I could see the LAL FO sending a revenge memo for Spurs games and even those Laker players are going to know and see the Spurs bind them and so when Reeves' albatross costs them the ability/financial flexibility to land other help because SA bid him up, they are going to mark their calendars for those Spurs matchups.
Just not worth it.
Signs point to Yes, no matter how much you want it to happen brother.
Dude is... you have to look at it from the team's point of view:
They don't know what they have and how they're going to react to an undeniable focal point in Wemby.
They need to see Wemby's 1st year and how the players and how Pop reacts.
Herro is an inefficient, expensive, no-D, mid-ballhogging insta-headcase with a girlfriend on the level Jason Kidd's wife.
Where's the rush? This team has tons of picks to convert (which they are already converting). Cap space to work.
Herro is just a squeal of a baby moment and then reality eventually hits.
wrong thread sorry
If the Spurs had done this they'd be left hanging for the Lakers decision that would 99% be matching. So they lose the time and opportunity to do the deal they just made, just for the pleasure of screwing the Lakers who aren't going anywhere anyway. Smart decision.
As much as i wanted them to sign Reaves, this is a good point. Today's deal with Dallas/ Boston might not have happened and if we do anything else by the weekend that would have been off the table as well.
This is no longer true. The Spurs have used cap space to get an unprotected first round pick swap in addition to Osman and Bullock. With those deals on the table, the Spurs not wanting to waste time on Reaves now makes more sense
lmfao yeah sure
this deal today needed the Spurs to be in it, the other teams could've waited the day.This is no longer true. The Spurs have used cap space to get an unprotected first round pick swap in addition to Osman and Bullock. With those deals on the table, the Spurs not wanting to waste time on Reaves now makes more sense
Spurs passed out and gave the lakers a pass.
typical too nice bull
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