West to the Spurs

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  1. magnifier661

    magnifier661 B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

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    Not saying I would wish this on them, but wouldn't it be crazy if those old guy get bit by the injury bug and they miss the playoffs? When will the devil cash in on Tony, Duncan and Ginobli?
     
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    And who beat Detroit in the finals of the following year?



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    Don't forget about tax benefits in Texas guys...

    I'm going to follow the Spurs very closely this year and i will cheer for every loss and every misfortune they'll have. I want Lamarcus to have the same finals Kevin Love had and i want ANYONE but them to take the finals.
     
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    They are going to be unbeatable.
     
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    I think the formation of super teams is and will continue to be a problem because it hurts league parity; that said, only one super team was effective and they split up afterwards; now, what is a problem is cap circumvention. If West makes anything more than about 5 million next year you know he was promised 'hey we need you but we can't pay you this year, how about after X retires?' And the same goes for Duncan if he signs a fat contract and retires and the Spurs agree to pay him out. While technically not against the rules, it allows for people to give up 10 million a year if there are backroom promises going around like that. And it has happrned.

    Possibly instituting a rule that you can't make less than X amount of your previous salary. In this case, you can't make 10% of your former salary lol.
     
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    At this point I think they make the playoffs if Tony, Duncan and Ginobli miss the entire season with SARS as long as the rest of the team is healthy and Pop is at the helm.
     
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    Good for West. The players are screwed by the CBA and really screwed by this version of it. They're not slaves, but the teams have all sorts of leverage to assert control. LMA had to forego a lot of money to exercise free will to go to the team of his choice. Same with West.

    I say, more power to them.
     
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    Probably could have signed for 3/30 with the knicks or something. Dude probably have up close to 30MM for a ring he won't really earn anyway.
     
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    Seems like LA is going to be playing a lot of 5, something he refused to do for us.
     
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    If he does play a lot at the 5 for them without complaint, then that would show he really didn't care for our franchise.
     
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    Yeah, me too. That mean old CBA, forcing players to either take megamillions to stay, or to take slightly fewer megamillions if they want to play somewhere else. The horror, the horror.

    My heart goes out to these poor, abused little bunny wabbits.

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    Darkwebs Awakened to emptiness Staff Member Moderator

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    Less than a year ago, David West on ring-chasing:
    Uh huh.
     
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