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@WojYahooNBA

Free agent LaMarcus Aldridge will sign with the San Antonio Spurs, league sources tell Yahoo Sports.

BOOM

Now other teams can stop dreaming

 

[Shamrock7r]

Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Now we need a sequel to this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWR_VITiqPA

 

[MetalFearSolid]

Spurs had a heck of a free agency.

 

[Liquidsnake]

@WojYahooNBA

Free agent LaMarcus Aldridge will sign with the San Antonio Spurs, league sources tell Yahoo Sports.

BOOM

Well there it is.

I'm done, gonna go to the gym. F u Jim Jeanie and Mitch.

 

[slightconfuse]

@WojYahooNBA

Free agent LaMarcus Aldridge will sign with the San Antonio Spurs, league sources tell Yahoo Sports.

BOOM

Dam wok dropping fire works

The obvious move for Aldridge

 

[Lee Chaolan]

@WojYahooNBA

Free agent LaMarcus Aldridge will sign with the San Antonio Spurs, league sources tell Yahoo Sports.

BOOM

After he was practically holding hands with Pop walking down the street yesterday, that's no shock. Would have been fun to see him on the Suns, but this was probably his best choice.

 

[Two Words]

Fuck the Spurs. Get old and bad already.

 

[Cheebo]

Suns cleared a lot of space to get him, they are pretty fucked next season.

 

[Kronotech]

Suns don't do well with 4th of July. We trade Steve Nash on 4th of July and lose out on LMA on 4th of July. I hate this holiday.

 

[True Savior]

Pop/Green/Leonard/Aldridge/Duncan

That shit is sexy.

 

[MetalFearSolid]

Please father time beat Duncan already.

I heard the Lakers are still waiting on Aldridge.

 

[Uno Venova]

Don't even know why it took him that long to decide.

 

[neptunes]

So you're telling me there's a possibility Timmy can get 6?

 

[MetalFearSolid]

Spurs are aggressively pursuing free agent David West with a veteran minimum offer now, sources tell Yahoo Sports.

 

[jbug617]

Woj says the Spurs are going after David West now. They trying to get him to take the Vet minimum.

 

[Love Deterrence]

SPURS TOO STRONK

 

[Starphoenix]

Yesssss!!!

 

[neptunes]

Where is Silver in all dis? STOP IT FOR REASONS!!!

 

[ratcliffja]

It's going to be LeBron versus the Spurs part 4 isn't it?

 

[Uno Venova]

Fuck this.

Can they not.

Where is Silver in all dis? STOP IT FOR REASONS!!!

This is almost worse than Kobe and CP3.

 

[slightconfuse]

Pop the new Don if the NBA.

 

[slightconfuse]

LMA 4 yr/80 mil

Player option for 4 the year

 

[Cheebo]

Pop said he is not going to retire anytime soon now, plans to coach all 5 years of his contract he signed last year.

4 more years of Pop coaching the Spurs.

 

[Zeus Molecules]

He'll get voted into the All star game because he's one of the best players in the league still. Just happens to be playing for the most dysfunctional team in the league.

I think that title goes to the kings now.

 

[Ronin Ray]

Spurs need a back up center and a true center. anyway they can trade for Roy hibbert since he's contract is only for one year ?

 

[Love Deterrence]

This is almost worse than Kobe and CP3.

Especially if they get David West coming off the bench for veteran's minimum, hot damn.

 

[Champagne]

Pop said he is not going to retire anytime soon now, plans to coach all 5 years of his contract he signed last year.

4 more years of Pop coaching the Spurs.

yeah there was no way in hell aldridge was signing without some sort of verbal guarantee that pop would coach for at least the duration of his contract

 

[bender]

Pop said he is not going to retire anytime soon now, plans to coach all 5 years of his contract he signed last year.

4 more years of Pop coaching the Spurs.

That answers my biggest question. Congrats to LMA and the Spurs.

 

[neptunes]

They're going to need a healthy PG, Parker is looks worse each post-season

 

[Champagne]

that aldridge duncan danny leonard starting defense is gonna be insane

 

[MetalFearSolid]

ESPN sources say that Cleveland has aggressively entered the bidding for David West, so Spurs have to beat out both Cavs AND Wizards for him

Yes Cavs save us. David West would be huge pickup for them.

 

[neptunes]

why would West take the Veterans min?

 

[Kave_Man]

why would West take the Veterans min?

To win a ship.

 

[neptunes]

To win a ship.

Money >>> chips

 

[Benjamin1981]

Crazy how the Spurs always find a way to extend their window. First class organization.

 

[Champagne]

Yes Cavs save us. David West would be huge pickup for them.

west always struck me as the sorta dude that does not like lbj enough to join him like that, which is why I suspect the Cavs weren't originally in talks for getting him, but who knows how much he really does want that chip..

 

[h1nch]

This tweet made me lol

Wes Matthews' Achilles is the NBA's assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. LaMarcus to Spurs, DeAndre to Mavs w/Wes. Blazers/Clips broken up.

 

[NervousXtian]

Ptown resident and Blazers fan here,

Anybody know why we have trouble signing free agents from an over all NBA player perspective? I guess it's all down to Aldridge just wanting to leave this year but I never thought going into the summer that we'd lost all our starters. We woulda been second or third in the west if we didn't have so many injuries so I thought everyone would want to re-sign.

As a fan I wanted to see the team go further than first round of the playoffs but on the other hand it will be exciting to see a new team grow. The only high note about all this was at the end of the Memphis series when we put in McCollum and Leonard and they started to blow shit up for a minute. We still got them at least so I wanna watch them get more minutes. With all these new young fast ass dudes on the team it seems like Olshey wasn't happy with the Memphis blowout and wants to outrun that defense.

This Aldridge drama has been entertaining the fuck outta me though. I wish he would stay and take the money. Always take the money.

I think honestly it all comes down to Wes. Olshey and the team obviously didn't think that Wes was going to be worth $15 million and 4 years coming off an Achilles.. and I sorta agree.. I love Wes, but that's one of the hardest injuries to ever come back from and be the same.

So you lose one huge key person, and it dominoes... LA was always gonna listen to pitches in FA.. but the Wes injury changed what coming back to Portland meant.. it was a slight rebuild again.. and he knew also next year even if we kept Batum instead of trading him that Batum was gonna walk as we weren't gonna pay him what he think's he's worth.

It came down to winning. If Portland was healthy coming into this year, then maybe he stays.. but we weren't.. We weren't going to pay Wes, notice how you never even heard of that talk? So without Wes, LA was more likely to walk.. if LA walks.. why overpay for RoLo?

Tear it down, start over.. sad.. but Wes is the reason.

 

[obijkenobi]

Money >>> chips

I kinda get the sense that the dude really wants a title before he retires tho. Can the Cavs offer anything other than the vet's min?

 

[Fatalah]

I just discovered Twitter, and it's awesome.

This just happened

 

[slightconfuse]

Take a 1 year deal win a chip then when the cap explodes get a better deal

 

[Kave_Man]

Money >>> chips

I don't disagree but he's also 34/35 years old near the end of his career.

Winning a championship at this point sometimes trumps that when they've had a long career and didn't blow their money.

Besides 1 year to go for it with the Spurs and then try to sucker someone into giving him a "big" contract to finish off his career could still happen.

 

[neptunes]

Take a 1 year deal win a chip then when the cap explodes get a better deal

Not sure if that's how it works, once you take a Vets min, it's going to be a whole lot harder to convince a team to pay you higher afterwards.

 

[Forceatowulf]

Why do I get this feeling in the pit of my stomach that the Lakers FO is still waiting for Aldridge to call them....

Koufos is still available btw, Lakers. You should, ya know, do your fucking jobs competently and fucking sign him immediately, seeing as we have a glaring hole in that position right now, instead of just sitting on your asses. You've embarrassed yourselves enough for one off-season, now do your fucking jobs one time, please.

Lakers didn't even contact Tobias apparently. *sigh* I don't even know anymore man

 

[Fistwell]

Why do I get this feeling in the pit of my stomach that the Lakers FO is still waiting for Aldridge to call them....

Chris Broussard just reported Lakers calling for a 3rd meeting.

 

[smurfx]

Why do I get this feeling in the pit of my stomach that the Lakers FO is still waiting for Aldridge to call them....

Koufos is still available btw, Lakers. You should, ya know, do your fucking jobs competently and fucking sign him immediately, seeing as we have a glaring hole in that position right now, instead of just sitting on your asses. You've embarrassed yourselves enough for one off-season, now do your fucking jobs one time, please.

Lakers didn't even contact Tobias apparently. *sigh* I don't even know anymore man

aldridge said on twitter he is signing with the spurs.

 

[Subitai]

Saw LMA finally decided on the ESPN2 ticker watching Megatoad upset Chestnut.

 

[Lionel Richie]

Somewhere in Cleveland, someone has been put on suicide watch.

 

[Love Deterrence]

Brad Turner ‏@BA_Turner:
Pacers have called Mavericks about possible S/T with center Roy Hibbert involving Monta Ellis, Clippers and DeAndre Jordan, sources.

 

[TomShoe]

GG BOYS Suns fans

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Can't wait to sign West & Ginobili and start truckin'.