Jokes apart… I couldn’t be happier… he’ll rot with the Celtics and y’all enjoy seeing how he doesn’t have much left in the tank…

For the record this isn’t McDyess or bust either… the Spurs could be on trade mode to acquire bigs such as Foster, Collison or maybe even Kaman. There is also extra talent available like Pachulia and other ones mentioned around from this Free Agent class.

One thought — I’m not sure that we should worry too much about the length of a deal that we might offer Sheed. I think the RJ trade and the possibility of signing Sheed indicates that the FO is doing all it can to win now and is not really worrying about rebuilding yet.

When we do go to rebuild, though, recent examples from other teams suggests that it’s good to have a lot of big contracts expire in the same year to free up enough cap space to go after a big FA or two. As long as Sheed’s deal were to expire in the same year as Tony, Timmy, or RJ’s deals, it might actually help us jump-start the rebuilding process when we come to it.

Thank you for the follow up. I took a double take at your previous comment and wondered if the inclusion of the comment was a separate point or was a reply to my comments.

That said, I do agree with your observation and I’ll add that I sense this is a component in the mis-characterization of the NBA among groups in this country.

In no way am I accusing you of having said anything racist. I’m just trying to point out that race plays a role in our perceptions of athletes, and I think that is especially true when we are talking about what I might call “socially disruptive” black athletes, i.e. the ones who make their voices heard whether they’ve been asked to or not.

Some people characterize that behavior as being disrespectful towards authority, while others, like myself, prefer to see it as a) theatrical or liberatory or b) irrelevant just as long as the player gets their job done.

Either way, I do think athletes who are aggressively outspoken, whether politically or in incidental situations like Sheed, tend to have their on court achievements obfuscated until after they have retired and the discussion shifts from their words to their actions.

Hands down, acquiring Sheed would more than benefit the Spurs, it should solidify them as contenders.

Go Spurs!

But Artest balances out our addition of RJ and then some. Maybe, just maybe he will move to LA and be disruptive bc of his decision making, but honestly I see him as stepping up as the third best player on a team on it’s way to another title.

Wow, we need a player that’ll protect the paint.

It says a lot that all the Celtics stars are in in Sheed’s living room right now. It’s tough to know if the FO will spend for Sheed.

I’m against adding mcDyss, and dobt even mention Oberto and Rasho, Pop doesnt eben want to play those guys. They dont deserve new huge contracts.I say try to engineer a trade for someone similar but younger.

I really don’t think he was accusing you of being racist, but certainly race has an impact on the mass perception of players. Look at Chris Anderson for example, he doesn’t carry nearly the same connotation as Sheed does but he actually served a two year drug suspension from the NBA and plenty of Spurs fans still wanted him, despite how hard it is to actually get a drug suspension in professional sports these days.

I would say that Wallace often gets a bad rap for being on the Jailblazers back in the day, but that was quite a while ago, he’s won a championship since then, I’m willing to believe that a man in his late 30’s has matured since then, to think otherwise is to buy into a media caricature of Rasheed Wallice. Besides, in terms of technical fouls, Sheed may have led the league last year, but barely, and the year before he was 3rd. In fact other players like Rip Hamilton get ejected about 3 times as much as Sheed… see for yourself:

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/statistics?stat=nbafouls&qual=true&sort=techs&league=nba&split=0&season=2009&seasontype=2&pos=all

Clutch City, I don’t think the situation is quite as urgent as you make it out to be, I think the Spurs can still contend even if they only have a serviceable big next to Duncan. I don’t think I agree with the notion that the Lakers have gotten better. I was bored at work today and did some math and based on a projected roster for this year that includes our currently signed players, plus a couple from our summer league, even if the Spurs signed Sheed AND Oberto in free agency, they will have pushed the average age of the team down from a 29.47 last year to about an estimated 27.5 this year, even with bringing back 9 players from last year’s roster who are all a year older.

To contrast, the Lakers just basically traded in Ariza for a version that’s 7 years older while everyone else on the team got a year older. Don’t expect the Lakers to have a youth or athleticism advantage on us next year… if we don’t do something about our front court soon they may have a solid size advantage though.