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Welcome back Melvin.
SAN ANTONIO - The San Antonio Spurs today announced they have signed guard Melvin Sanders. Per club policy terms of the deal were not released.
The 6-5 guard has played in eight games in two stints with the Spurs this season, averaging 2.6 points and 1.9 rebounds in 9.6 minutes per game. He finished with a career-high 8 points on 4-of-5 shooting in a 104-76 win over Charlotte on 1/24.
Sanders had been playing for the Fayetteville Patriots of the NBA Development League prior to his call-up. In 19 games with the Patriots he averaged 14.0 points, 3.9 rebounds and 2.2 assists in 32.2 minutes per game. Sanders posted a season-high 28 points on 11-of-16 shooting at Little Rock on 1/19.
Sanders averaged 15.6 points, 2.4 rebounds and 1.0 assists in five games with the Spurs summer league team at the 2005 Rocky Mountain Revue. The Oklahoma State product spent the 2004-05 season with the Dakota Wizards of the CBA where he averaged 18.7 points, 5.8 rebounds and 3.0 assists on his way to being selected to the All-CBA Second Team and the CBA All-Defensive First Team.
Welcome back Melvin.
He's back!!
I think I had put my vBookie on him.. not that it counts now .. but ya know.
You get the glory of being right, at least.
looks like he will be getting a ring
Not a bad signing, but I would have rather seen a guy with a little more size
i'm sure timvp is delighted about this...
cool
I think the Spurs have just clinched themselves a le.
He's played more minutes, made and taken more shots, and grabbed more rebounds as a Spur than Mengke Bateer did, and Bateer has a ring. I guess we'll see if Melvin sticks around to the end of the season.
I wonder if it's injury protection ONLY or if the League nudged the Spurs to help them keep the roster average at 14 players.
According to the new CBA, the NBA guarantees a league-wide average of at least 14 players per team. The league is surcharged if they do not meet this obligation.
I don't think so for three reasons :
- Even if I haven't made the computation (it's quite complex), I think that the average of 14 will be reach because at the start of the season a lot of teams were with 15 players.
- I don't think the league can nudge Spurs.
- Even if the league had done that, they will save in the best case $130,000. It's not a lot of money.
It's a good signing. He seems to be a nice guy and he knows our plays.
Exactly. Does anyone think we're short on the rotation at either guard position, assuming Beno and Barry are first options and Finley can play 2 as well as 3?
If anything I think we are weakest at the 3 and might need some help there.
Hmm. It makes a some sense signing a guard once NVE was put on the shelf, but Sanders again? They must realy like this guy. I personally would've given one of Roanoke's shoot-first points a try to duplicate NVE's game (Will Bynum, Anthony Grundy), or tried another more versatile swingman like Ime Udoka or Erik Daniels.
Maybe this is just another placeholder signing instead of an audition.
Pop commented on the Pop show that this year in the playoffs they may change the rule such that you can put anybody on or off the IR to get 12 active.
It makes sense to have extra players, just in case one of our guards tweaks an ankle.
Holt Cat, that cheap bas !
Yeah, I don't understand either Chump.
Sanders hasn't shown me anything all year, but I guess the coaches see something different.
who woud you have preffered him to sign?Holt Cat, that cheap bas !
Spreewell?!
He knows the system. He plays defense. It makes sense to me as an insurance guy.
Dude, it was a joke. While Holt is no Cuban, I hardly think he is cheap, especially not to the detriment of the Spurs.
Melvin Sanders isn't an NBA level player. He just isn't.
Well, you do realize the Spurs didn't just keep him all season to save Holt a few hundred thousand, right?
Heaven forbid....
Yes, they have mentioned that regulation season IR rule carrying over into the playoffs on the news and on the radio a couple of times now. It makes so much more sense than having to submit the playoff roster so far in advance and not being able to change it.
10 day contract?
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