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I said I would entertain trade options with him being involved if it brought back the right package.
Fair enough. I apologize if I came across as a bit of a dick, because I wasn't intending to be a dick. I just go from 0 to 60 when I see any sort of "we need a decent big" or "if we put our 9th-12th players in a sack, we can trade them for someone good!" ideas and I go nuts when I see whiffs of both.
I just don't think there are going to be many quality options with Tiago as bait, never mind the Neal/Bonner/Blair pupu platter. Like them or not, they're cheap, quality minute-eaters in the Spurs system and there aren't going to be better/cheaper options. There aren't enough crappy GMs in the league to trade the pupu platter for something good, and even Billy King can do good if he's got unlimited wealth behind him. So, the best hope is finding a bad GM and get a decent player out of the N/B/B trio, which means you'd then have to fill out the roster with
half the Toros and call that your bench, since the other option would be to lure a bunch of vets to play for the minimum, and history shows it's rare for SA to get quality out of the "I'm going for a ring" types.
The other option...keep the same basic roster, and hope Kawhi develops at the same pace he did last year or better, and hope the year's playoff experience wound up putting hair on Splitter/Green/Neal/Blair's balls because they all kinda wilted in the heat of the WCF last year.
