We Might Need to Accept the Possibility That This Front Office Is Betting on Fox, Wemby, and Castle as the Core

[Frenchfred]

My point exactly. Spurs fans STILL living in the past and thinking everybody who comes to this team should be a Duncan or Ginobli.This is 2025, not a decade ago. Vic is not Duncan. Still he will deserve every penny and more from a corporation generating millions of dollars annually off of his name and likeness alone. You wouldn't give your employer a discount for the work you do and neither should Vic.

I'm not saying that he has to, I said that he looks like a guy who would do it for the team. Are you really going to compare me leaving money on the table to somebody making 50-100 millions a year? Trust me, if I had that salary, I would take half and would care more about my legacy.

[dbestpro]

No way am I giving up Castle or Fox in a Durant trade. We are on the way up, not the way down.

[kxs783kms]

I'm not saying that he has to, I said that he looks like a guy who would do it for the team. Are you really going to compare me leaving money on the table to somebody making 50-100 millions a year? Trust me, if I had that salary, I would take half and would care more about my legacy.

We all know that the numbers given aren't what these athletes end up with. After paying lawyers, their agent, marketing team, taxes, etc, that money dwindles down quick. Most of these guys retire in their mid 30's if they even have a long lasting career. Some think Wemby's career will be even shorter than that. That means these guys have to live off the money they make for another 30-40 years or longer. Why do you think you see some of these professional athletes working in media, investing in businesses, etc afterwards? I wouldn't take a paycut when one day I may have a career ending injury and get released by the team, while the organization continues to make their millions annually despite my situation. Any player would be a fool to give a team a paycut if they can get max pay.

[Allan Rowe vs Wade]

We all know that the numbers given aren't what these athletes end up with. After paying lawyers, their agent, marketing team, taxes, etc, that money dwindles down quick. Most of these guys retire in their mid 30's if they even have a long lasting career. Some think Wemby's career will be even shorter than that. That means these guys have to live off the money they make for another 30-40 years or longer. Why do you think you see some of these professional athletes working in media, investing in businesses, etc afterwards? I wouldn't take a paycut when one day I may have a career ending injury and get released by the team, while the organization continues to make their millions annually despite my situation. Any player would be a fool to give a team a paycut if they can get max pay.

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[scott]

I’ll respond to you directly instead of the guy you’re quoting. Never enjoyed engaging with him since all he cares about is throwing personal insults.

That said, I think it’s off to say the Spurs were building around Vassell, Keldon, or Sochan. The last real core they tried to build around was Kawhi and Aldridge. Once that ended, they shifted gears completely. They started tearing things down, collecting assets, and positioning themselves for the draft.

They were not building around those guys. They were waiting for someone like Wemby to come along. And now, for the first time since that era, it feels like they might actually believe they have more than one real core piece on the roster. Wemby is obviously the centerpiece, but Fox and Castle might be the first players they truly feel comfortable building around for the long term.

That is the entire premise of this thread. It is a hypothetical based on the idea that the front office believes it has finally found its core. Not just the top two or three players from any random year, but a real foundation to move forward with.

It’s the core until someone better comes along or they decide it’s not. Even if there is some grand master plan… things change, and the front office will adapt.

As fans, we naturally want to identify a core and start hoping that group will be the one that takes us where we hope to be… just like fans did with the Power of Friendship at one time. That’s my point here.