San Antonio Spurs
Post by George Gervin on Sept 14, 2021 19:02:11 GMT
Spurs trade:
84 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander $4,394,855 (2021-22); $6,047,321 (2022-23)
2022 SAS 1st round pick
Total Outgoing: $4,394,855
Suns trade:
96 Anthony Davis $38,648,870
Total Outgoing: $38,648,870
*Using 2021-22 salary numbers as the Spurs have $53 MM in salary cap space to absorb AD outright and are not required to conform to 125% matching salaries rule*
I accept. To fully understand how I got to here, you have to go back to pre-D5 draft, pre-KAT acquisition from Memphis, where I had what I would qualify as a gut punching playoff exit. Don’t get me wrong, it was an amazingly competitive series vs. Amare Stoudemire ’s Kings, but losing at home, in G7, in OT to boot was a stinging rebuke of my roster construction. To that end, I started going to work and tried to get AD before even entertaining the KAT acquisition. Ultimately, despite making several solid offers for him, I couldn’t close the deal pre-draft and moved onto KAT. However, I still had AD as an ultimate target in the back of my mind.
Fast forward to post-draft and KAT trade, and that pursuit never waned. Even before the Suns acquired AD, I tried again to go get him with no luck. Well, Brad Stevens and I discussed this trade not too long after he had posted his deal with the Bucks, and after some back and forth, we came to this structure. I know there will be GMs who will consider me batshit insane to give up SGA, who just averaged 24/6/4 on 62% TS with 52/42/81 splits, due just $10 MM over the next two years and could be controlled the next seven easily with a 5 yr max extension, and by all accounts is already an elite echelon finisher around the rack (League record 25 drives per game and an absurd finish rate in the paint), for a player without BRs…but this is Anthony fucking Davis, an elite two way player, top 12 player in this League who I can add to Luka Doncic and Karl Anthony-Towns to form what I think is D5’s strongest trio west of the I-95 super teams in Brooklyn and Boston. I will happily roll the dice on this, as the chance to get in now, on a player AD’s caliber, to set up for what I hope is a very deep playoff run this season, is a no brainer. I have full confidence I can make a great case next summer for him to stay in San Antonio.
The Two Towers era has arrived on the River Walk, with the Slovenian Conductor leading the charge. Go Spurs go!
84 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander $4,394,855 (2021-22); $6,047,321 (2022-23)
2022 SAS 1st round pick
Total Outgoing: $4,394,855
Suns trade:
96 Anthony Davis $38,648,870
Total Outgoing: $38,648,870
*Using 2021-22 salary numbers as the Spurs have $53 MM in salary cap space to absorb AD outright and are not required to conform to 125% matching salaries rule*
I accept. To fully understand how I got to here, you have to go back to pre-D5 draft, pre-KAT acquisition from Memphis, where I had what I would qualify as a gut punching playoff exit. Don’t get me wrong, it was an amazingly competitive series vs. Amare Stoudemire ’s Kings, but losing at home, in G7, in OT to boot was a stinging rebuke of my roster construction. To that end, I started going to work and tried to get AD before even entertaining the KAT acquisition. Ultimately, despite making several solid offers for him, I couldn’t close the deal pre-draft and moved onto KAT. However, I still had AD as an ultimate target in the back of my mind.
Fast forward to post-draft and KAT trade, and that pursuit never waned. Even before the Suns acquired AD, I tried again to go get him with no luck. Well, Brad Stevens and I discussed this trade not too long after he had posted his deal with the Bucks, and after some back and forth, we came to this structure. I know there will be GMs who will consider me batshit insane to give up SGA, who just averaged 24/6/4 on 62% TS with 52/42/81 splits, due just $10 MM over the next two years and could be controlled the next seven easily with a 5 yr max extension, and by all accounts is already an elite echelon finisher around the rack (League record 25 drives per game and an absurd finish rate in the paint), for a player without BRs…but this is Anthony fucking Davis, an elite two way player, top 12 player in this League who I can add to Luka Doncic and Karl Anthony-Towns to form what I think is D5’s strongest trio west of the I-95 super teams in Brooklyn and Boston. I will happily roll the dice on this, as the chance to get in now, on a player AD’s caliber, to set up for what I hope is a very deep playoff run this season, is a no brainer. I have full confidence I can make a great case next summer for him to stay in San Antonio.
The Two Towers era has arrived on the River Walk, with the Slovenian Conductor leading the charge. Go Spurs go!
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