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Pryzbilla receptive to Spurs
Web Posted: 07/02/2006 12:00 AM CDT
Johnny Ludden
Express-News Staff Writer
http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/b...a.1609ede.html
Spurs officials won't speculate on their chances of signing Joel Pryzbilla. But they know this much: At least, they're in the hunt.
Przybilla's agent, Bill Duffy, said Saturday the Spurs are among the teams the free-agent center is considering.
"He's wide open," Duffy said. "Nothing has been looked at too closely yet, but he certainly has a lot of respect for the Spurs."
The Spurs are limited to offering Przybilla their midlevel exception, expected to be worth about $5 million. They can extend the contract to as many as five years for a total of around $29 million.
Przybilla has played for Portland the past two seasons, and the Trail Blazers have made keeping him their top priority. But they also are limited to giving Przybilla their midlevel exception.
Chicago and possibly New Orleans — two of the five teams with salary-cap room — will likely establish the market for centers. The Bulls reportedly are first targeting Detroit's Ben Wallace. If Chicago does not sign him, Przybilla could be among the Bulls' other options.
In addition to being able to offer Przybilla a substantially larger contract than either Portland or the Spurs, Chicago also is close to Przybilla's home in Milwaukee. Duffy said it's "too soon" to tell whether the Spurs' financial limitations would hurt them.
Przybilla has said he would like to play for a winning team, but he also hasn't ruled out returning to Portland.
leverage.
To whom?
Chicago?
Eh.
5-year, $29M for Przybilla is decent. Not my first choice but at least the guy can rebound. But for Pop to make him worth it, he has to find a way to play him versus Dallas and Phoenix.
I guess the Przybilla-to-SA fans have to hope that Chicago lands Big Ben and no other team with salary cap room comes after him.
I'm not high on this. Not one bit. I understand it may be the best we can do, but I don't like it. This guy is Rasho wiht a bit more game.
That's all we need.
He's like Rasho but Rasho jacked up on 'roids and meth.
I don't really get the Spurs' logic here. Do they think Przybilla can guard Dirk? Obviously not but then why blow your wad on a guy who isn't going to play against the two toughest teams next year?
Only way this makes sense is if Pop admits he was wrong to go to small ball and will use a center next year. If that is the case, Przybilla brings good rebounding and shotblocking to the table.
I'm not thrilled but it's a lot better than the Spurs going after a Vlad Radmanovic or a Tim Thomas.
We need somebody, but this guy has Rasho Mark II written all over him.
We don't need Rasho with more game unless Pop has learned from his small ball mistakes. You can't pay money for these guys and then bench them when the time comes for them to show up.
Joel is good
Ian will be here next year
hopefully he can guard dirk
dirk was not the reason spurs lost
it was howard
I don't know... this would be a nice upgrade at the C position (at a much more reasonable price) but if this happens it still leaves us with a lot of holes to fill, and not much money to do it.
If they can work out a trade or two to go along with this signing it could make for a very successful offseason, however.
It was Dirk. Dirk forced the Spurs to put a midget at power forward. The midget ball caused the Spurs to not be able to rebound. Not being able to rebound killed the Spurs' defense. The dead Spurs defense let the Mavs score more points than the Spurs.
Game over.
Then I'm guessing Pop is going to say small ball next season.
If the Spurs are offering Pryzbilla the whole MLE, then does that mean Javtokas agreed to the LLE? Or does it mean the reports of Javtokas to the Spurs were premature?
Chicago, Charlotte, Atlanta, New Orleans, Toronto, and Utah have at least $7 million to throw at him. Pryzbilla's a pipe dream.
They prefer to be called "little people."
I'd assume they gave him the LLE. I doubt they would WANT to give him more than that and I doubt he'd demand so much from the team that brought him back to life.
So why did Miami win?
Last time I checked, Miami didn't have midgets out there trying to rebound.
The Spurs lost because Pop decided to change the game plan, the same game plan that won 63 games.
, even the media picked up on it and every peached small ball as the new way in basketball. Then the Heat won and that was dropped faster than Star Jones.
Probably the LLE because offering a non-proven player for the MLE is stupid.
Because Haslem can guard Dirk.
Because they could rebound.
Well everyone here was saying Javtokas was getting a 3-year deal. LLE can only be a 2-year deal. That's why I'm asking.
A lot of people here were saying Javtokas was getting part of the MLE, not the whole thing.
Wait, so why weren't there any midgets out there?
Pop screwed up.
He knows it.
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