Since the San Antonio Spurs recently lost in the first round of the NBA playoffs for the second year in a row but this time to the Denver Nuggets, the off-season starts once again and now fans and teams wonder where each free agent will sign this Summer. There will be lots of photo shopped jerseys on player and lots of false accounts. As always people will overreact to the free agent madness.
The Spurs have have seven players whose contracts expire after this season. Those players are Rudy Gay, Dante Cunningham, Quincy Pondexter, Chimezie Metu, Drew Eubanks, Ben Moore, and Donatas Motiejunas. The most notable player is Rudy Gay who was a key player to the Spurs season. He may have to look at taking a pay-cut if he wants to remain in San Antonio. Keep in mind that Gay won more in one season with the Spurs then he did his entire career. Personally I would like the Spurs to make a splash with landing a free agent no one expects to come. Spurs are in need of a play maker and someone who can create their own shot which was something they lacked off this past season. There Spurs will have 23,811,190 available in cap space to spend this off-season. Personally I would like to get rid of Demar Derozan and acquire these three players and I know of a rumor that is going around that could be true but would require everyone’s ego to be put aside.
The key free agent would be small forward Jimmy Butler who is what the Spurs need and the Spurs are what Jimmy Butler wants. First off Butler is one of the best defenders in the league and he knows how to score and get to his spots. He is also and excellent team player he is demanding and wants to be apart of a winning culture he is also a blue collar player who wants a coach who will yell at him and get the best out of him, that’s the Spurs everything he wants is in San Antonio but if he does come Spurs will have to work some magic with the cap and Butler would have to take less money.
Personally if the Spurs do not go after Butler I’m sure every Spurs fan would love to see Danny Green back who can still play and is still an all NBA defensive player and can hit threes. If Kawhi Leonard does leave Toronto Green will look to come back to San Antonio as he has said on his podcast The Green Room where he never wanted to leave and how he would be willing to comeback but I also do expect Green’s hometown team of the New York Knicks to go after him. Spurs are in need of a back up center and Ivica Zubac perfectly fits that role as he is young enough to learn from Aldridge and Popovich and should click right in with fellow international Jakob Poeltl plus he will be a cheap free agent.
The last free agent is Kawhi Leonard. Yes, Kawhi Leonard i have heard rumors that he could potentially be interested in returning to the San Antonio Spurs. Leonard has quickly realized how good he had it in San Antonio and what he was able to do with them. Leonard was not a fan of all the booing and traitor chants in San Antonio when he came back mainly because he does not like not being liked. According to some of Leonard’s family sources is that he has a tendency of going back to things and because of that I could see him returning. Leonard fit the Spurs perfectly. In order for it to happen Spurs would have to be open to fixing the relationship and adjust to him which is something the Spurs have never done for a player.
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