And100 wrote:HarthorneWingo wrote:kej718 wrote:There are several NBA player personnel executives who believe the Spurs will offer Duncan a two-year contract that begins between $6 million and $7 million, with a partial guarantee and a player option in the second season. If Duncan doesn’t exercise the option, he gets, say, 50 percent of that season’s salary. In effect, his salary for next season would remain over $10 million, the partially guaranteed portion of the second season’s salary remaining on the Spurs team salary after the cap explodes with the NBA’s new TV money kicking in for 2016-17. “You can call it a ‘wink-wink’ deal if you want to,” an Eastern Conference team executive said. “It’s what they did with (Antonio) McDyess, so why not for Duncan?” Duncan’s cap hold is slightly more than $15.5 million, so such a two-year deal would drop their team salary by more than $8 million.
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I'm not sure if they get Aldrige but it seems like they are making room for another free agent or to resign a guy like Danny Green.
Of course. That's because all Duncan cares about is winning, unlike the douche bag we have on our team that only cares about himself, his "brand" and his business ventures.
Between the years 2006-07 and 2011-12, Duncan had salaries ranging from $17.4m to $21.2m against a cap that ranged from $53m to $58m, topping out at $22.2m in 2009-10 vs a $57.7m. He was 33 that year and taking up over 38% of the cap. Word of advice - the internet and the information available makes pushing ridiculous narratives like that dangerous when you don't so simple homeework.
Why have the Spurs been so good since they initially drafted David Robinson? In 1997 they drafted Tim Duncan, won a championship in 1999 with him and Robinson leading the charge. Coming off their first championship, Manu Ginobili was subsequently drafted by the Spurs in 1999, and he’s been with the team since 2002. Tony Parker showed up the year before that (2001), and Tiago Splitter was drafted in 2007. Tim Duncan’s contract extension (and the resulting small’ish extensions Ginobili and Parker took on afterward) had ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with the core that could send the Spurs back to the Finals for the third straight year this June. It had nothing to do with the Spurs dealing for Kawhi Leonard, or finding Boris Diaw and Patty Mills on the waiver wire.
Tim Duncan’s contract extension has helped keep the Spurs away from the luxury tax, which is important, but absolutely none of San Antonio’s championship-saving moves stemmed from Tim Duncan taking less money.
If the Spurs played in the same media market as the Lakers, or the Knicks for that matter, you don't think for one second Duncan (let alone Parker and Ginobili) would be making more money? Don't kid yourselves people. The fact is the Spurs don't have MSG or Time Warner Lakers Sports Channel money to enable them to offer more money to their best players.
Give me a break with people calling Melo a douchebag for doing the right thing for him and his family. Fans and mediots rip on players for blowing their money Antoine Walker style and then want to rip on them for making the best business decision for themselves. Save the heads I win Tails you lose proposition for Screaming A Smith and Skip Shameless.
