Spurs center Tiago Splitter is headed overseas because of the NBA lockout.
One season removed from being Most Valuable Player of the Spanish ACB League, the website of ACB team Valencia BC reported Wednesday that Splitter has agreed to join the team. His contract will have an out clause allowing his return to the Spurs should the lockout end in time for the 2011-12 NBA season to commence.
Splitter will be the fifth Spurs player venturing overseas during the lockout, now 140 days old and embroiled in litigation after the disbanding of the players union on Monday. Three-time All-Star point guard Tony Parker is the most prominent Spur playing in Europe, leading ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne in France. Parker is part-owner of the team.
Glad to see that he's going to playing during the lockout, the guy really needs to build up his confidence after a sub par season last year and a crappy showing at FIBA this summer.
He'll also be playing with our 2009 2nd rounder Nando de Colo.
