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Never. We won't see him until next year.
When will LJ III be seen playing for the spurs...?
Never. We won't see him until next year.
He still has another year on his contract, and I don't see how the Spurs can resign Devin Brown.
So LJ III will take his place
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Spurs have enough talent now, for this season, (and as they had last season vs Lakers). A single, un-tested bench player isn't going to have much effect on this season, esp come the playoffs.
The most effective upgrade for the Spurs is to stay with the current lineup and stop ing around blowing games to inferior teams, and start playing consistent basketball, bringing, at least, their average performances to every game, rather stinking piles of below-average crap like @HOU (and the 7 other give-away losses).
OH sorry about the posts. Everytime I posted something, I thought about another thing that I needed to write.
What makes you think that the Spurs won't be able to re-sign Brown?
You'll see LJ if and only if (probably 'when' is better) somebody gets hurt.
Because Devin Brown will probably make more money else where. And since the Spurs have LJIII, they are able to let Brown go. You got to remember. The Spurs are very close to the Luxury Tax, and that's the last thing Peter Holt wants to do--paying the luxury tax.
If we win a le year after year I'm sure Holt won't mind the lux tax.
Oh no, boutons, complacency is setting in.
I'm satisfied with talent, I'm NOT satisfied with the talent's level of play, or the flexibility/creativity of the coaching.
(Spurs had enough talent last season, too.)
The Spurs will have Brown's early bird rights....the luxury tax shouldn't matter when re-signing him.
The early birds rights just means the Spurs can sign Devin Brown even if the team is over the cap.
The Spurs are about $10 million away from the last luxury tax threshold. I haven't seen anything to suggest revenues are down significantly, so no evidence the tax threshold will be lower. At this point next season's committed salaries are only $1 million more than this season's total -- so it's completely within the realm of possibility the Spurs could sign Brown and Scola to decent contracts.
I don't think Brown would find a contract starting at more than $2-3 million anyway.
-- oops, edit of original question
http://members.cox.net/lmcoon/salarycap.htm
EARLY BIRD EXCEPTION -- This is a weaker form of the Larry Bird exception. Players who qualify for this exception are called "Early Qualifying Veteran Free Agents" in the CBA. A player qualifies for this exception after just two seasons without being waived or changing teams as a free agent. Using this exception, a team may re-sign its own free agent for 175% of his salary the previous season or the average player salary, whichever is greater (see question number 22 for the definition of "average salary"). Early Bird contracts must be for at least two seasons (which limits this exception's usefulness -- it's often better to take a lower salary for one more season and then have the full Bird exception available the next season) and no longer than six seasons. A player can receive 12.5% raises using this exception.
I hate to bring it up again so early, but if Malik continues to play these very limited minutes, the Spurs will look to trade him to avoid any tax isues down the road. This is not an idictment on Malik or his play, just the way it must logically play out.
By the way, a close estimate for next season's average player salary is $4.86M.
(The total of team salaries this season divided by 375 + 8%)
The problem is nobody wants to take maliks bad contract. NO ONE. Not even ISAIH THOMAS who has a team made up of bad contracts.
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