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Great! Will there be a press conference?
SAN ANTONIO – The San Antonio Spurs today announced that they have signed guard/forward Ime Udoka. Per team policy terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Udoka spent last season with the Portland Trail Blazers where he averaged 8.4 points, 3.7 rebounds and 1.5 assists while starting in all 75 games in which he appeared. He led the Blazers – and ranked 19th in the NBA – in three-point shooting during the 2006-07 season, knocking down .406 (89-219) of his attempts. He also scored in double-digits 29 times and grabbed 5 or more rebounds on 21 occasions
In addition to Portland, Udoka has spent time with the Los Angeles Lakers and New York Knicks.
Undrafted out of college Udoka has spent time in NBA Development League, USBL, IBA and internationally in Spain and France. In 2005-06 he was named to the All-NBA D-League First Team and was also the recipient of Jason Collier Sportsmanship Award after averaging 17.1 points and 6.2 rebounds in 45 games for the Fort Worth Flyers. Udoka began his D-League career in 2002-03 with the Charleston Lowgators. He also represented Nigeria at the 2006 FIBA World Championships, where he averaged 14.2 points, 5.2 rebounds and 3.7 assists.
The 6-5, 220-pound Udoka closed out his college career at Portland State where he led the Vikings in scoring, rebounding, steals and blocked shots during the 1999-2000 season. He was also named first team All-Big Sky Conference and selected as the league’s Newcomer of the Year. Udoka began his college career at Eastern Utah and spent a year at University of San Francisco before arriving at Portland State.
Great! Will there be a press conference?
Nice signing. It'll be interesting to see the contract numbers. Less than Jacque Vaughn money for Udoka would be a ridiculously good signing.
yea.
Nice signing. It'll be interesting to see the contract numbers. Less than Jacque Vaughn money for Udoka would be a ridiculously good signing.
insanely good, especially with the 2nd yr not being a player option.
Udoka's "agent" ... right. More like CIA Pop.
it's on nba.com/spurs front page.
I'm glad it's official.
The ups and downs get to me!
I am really curious to see what this team can do. If they somehow manage to bring back Spanoulis as some kind of backup PG you really have a great second unit! If Manu continues to come off the bench you have:
Spanoulis (good slasher)
Manu (great slasher and able to hit the 3)
Ime (good 3 point shooter)
Horry (good shooter)
Elson (whatever)
I really like that are able to have one good wing defender on the court all the time. On offense you always have at least one (most of the time) two slashers sourrounded by players who can shoot the outside shot. That with Timmy down low should be great to watch...
If Udoka can knock down shots, there's a possibility he could take over Michael Finley's role as starter. However, I could also see a role in which Udoka is used as a bench defensive specialist who is utilized when necessary.
Either way, Udoka is the type of player that can flourish under Pop.
Yes, he'll be at the practice facility for a press conference in a few hours. I'm sure some highlights will be on the news.
I checked out his knee last night. It was strong like bull.
So does this give the offseason a Spurstalk
Too many swingmen.So does this give the offseason a Spurstalk
Barry needs to be moved.
(And it would be nice to upgrade Beno)
Thanks!
Thats great.
I wonder what's next. Barry and Beno trade???
Good signing. I'm really looking forward to seeing the contributions of this young player - well he's young by Spurs standards anyway. :-)
Absolutely the right move for the right amount of money. Hope he stays around for a while and becomes Bruce's true heir apparent. Nice to have another potential lock-down defender on the team.
Before the summer began, I really thought the Spurs would make a run for Pietrus, but I aint mad about this at all.
I like the idea of keeping Barry around now. The Spurs simply don't trade expiring contract for contracts with a number of years left. If that remains true, might as well sit on Barry's contract. Put him in a Steve Kerr role and he's still a positive asset.
i think it was timvp in one of the million ime threads that mentioned that when a new player comes they usually don't shoot as good their first year with the spurs........ i don't think that will happen with ime, mainly because those players such as finley or barry or hedo were bums on defense and had to spend all their energy they used to use to shoot on trying to play pop style defense, and that threw them off......... ime comes in already playing damn good hustle type defense that pop likes, so i don't think it'll take him a year to learn how to play defense and then start knocking down shots, and playing with duncan, manu, and parker he's gonna probably get better looks at the basket then he did playing with blazers
What's the minimum you can trade a player under contract for? If you theoretically wanted to trade a backup point guard to Cleveland for ten thousand dollars.
Barry as a backup point is good. I have always thought that. They need to get rid of Beno though.
The Rockets trade was a bad start, not to mention the drafting on Marcus Williams. However, the Spurs could end up having a rather nice offseasn if they can dump Beno and add V-Span. The last spot on the roster should probably go to Mahinmi.So does this give the offseason a Spurstalk
I'd like to see Marcus Williams either sign outright with the Toros (if that's legal) or sign with a European team.
Flip Beno into V-Span, sign Mahinmi and avoid giving Williams a charity roster spot and I'll give this offseason a
Great signing, sounds like a really good guy character wise and we're all aware of what he can do on the court. I don't think he'll have trouble adjusting to San Antonio or the Spurs, I'm interested to see how much our D improves when/if we throw Bowen and Udoka out there at the same time
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