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On the Joffrey Lauvergne front, the belief is he will not opt into his $1.6 million player option, while more lucrative offers he'll consider to play overseas. If Lauvergne doesn't return, it leaves LaMarcus Aldridge and Davis Bertans, who is considered stretch-four, as the other big men on the roster.
UDRIH14 wrote:already thin at sf, needed green back...
i wonder why they didnt bring gay back unless his looking for a final payday, even gasol got a loyalty contract after 1yr, gay shouldve shown some loyalty and the spurs wouldve treat him like a vet with a loyalty contract
UDRIH14 wrote:anyone else want kawhi back on a new contract? im only afraid he pulls another stunt sitting out again....
without him, the roster looks good they can still compete for a playoff spot...nobody is winning anything as long gsw still has its big4...
Becky Hammon’s pioneering NBA journey received another boost from the Spurs when they announced Wednesday she will move into a position of prominence for a woman in pro basketball.
It’s a promotion that elevates her from the back of the bench to the front — a first for a female assistant.
With her move up in the pecking order of Gregg Popovich’s assistants, Hammon will now sit courtside, elbow-to-elbow with fellow assistants Ettore Messina and Ime Udoka.
The Spurs made history on Aug. 4, 2014 when they made Hammon, a longtime WNBA All-Star guard who played her final eight seasons with the San Antonio Stars, the first full-time, paid female assistant coach in the history of major North American pro sports....
The Milwaukee Bucks made headlines in May when interviewed Hammon for their head coaching vacancy. Although the job ultimately went to former Atlanta Hawks coach and Spurs assistant Mike Budenholzer, Hammon’s interview bolstered her reputation as the most likely candidate to shatter the NBA’s glass ceiling.
The Spurs made forward Davis Bertans a restricted free agent, tendering him a $1.6 million qualifying offer, league sources said Wednesday.... If the Spurs and Bertans desire a long-term deal, the team could rescind its qualifying offer and use his early Bird rights to ink him to a four-year deal worth up to $35.1 million.
In his second season with the Spurs in 2017-18, Bertans averaged 5.9 points per game over 77 contests while shooting 37.3 percent from 3-point range....
"He's a wonderful shooter, but he also understands how to play," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said afterward. "He's really unselfish and he works hard. And he really spreads the court for us, obviously."
Last week, the man with ample money and curiosity to fly anywhere on the globe chose to board a plane to San Diego, not to sightsee but instead to recruit.... A couple of nights later, the man who could have thrown his cell phone into the ocean was using it instead to talk to a teenager from Reading, Pennsylvania. The Spurs had just made Lonnie Walker IV their first-round draft pick Thursday, and so Popovich set forth on starting another new relationship.... He did this knowing full well that in the coming months and perhaps years, Walker will make him yell and scream and want to tear his hair out, just like every other player he has coached.
Popovich got on the plane. He picked up the phone. And for a franchise in dire need of some normalcy, he was there to provide it. It can’t have been easy.... A Spurs staffer said there have been moments this offseason when Popovich has allowed himself to show just a little bit of his anguish, but for the most part, it has been business as usual. He’s been as involved as ever in roster planning, and everything else that his title of president of Spurs basketball entails.
UDRIH14 wrote:bertans 35/4? more stupid loyalty contracts given out by patfo...
yes around 10m is the new mle price todays price, but still 10m is 10m and t hats alot of money for a scrub
a four-year deal worth up to $35.1 million.
