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Tp said to a french newspaper he won't leave the spurs this year and plan to sign as a free agent .....
http://www.lequipe.fr/Basket/breves2...ny-parker.html
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Parker's article on Lequipe.fr
here's Parker's quotes from the article.
"I spoke to pop, he told me i won't go anywhere. Portland and New York were 2 serious options but San Antonio said no. And i love the spurs, i want to stay 1 year and become a free agent. "
"It's clear, it was an average season. Everytime i came back from injury, something else happened. It's good if i don't play a whole summer, i'll have a real preparation. Starting July 10th, i'll have a personal physical trainer. I've never done that before. After an average season, i want to show the world it was an accident."
"After next year i will have spent 10 years in SA. It's a great loop and a good challenge for me to go elsewhere. If I leave i can have another career, 8 or 9 years in another franchise."
Tp said to a french newspaper he won't leave the spurs this year and plan to sign as a free agent .....
http://www.lequipe.fr/Basket/breves2...ny-parker.html
translation needed
last part is weird
Soooo...he's saying he's happy to stay one more year, then all but guaranteeing he's leaving after this next season?
Huh.
Hope this is translated wrongly, because if he already wants to leave and made his intentions clear, the Spurs should consider trading him.
In short:
- Pop told Parker he is going nowhere next year.
- Parker will work a lot this summer to come back as strong as ever and prove everybody last year was an accident
- Parker is looking forward to being a FA next season cause after 10 years in SA, he would like to have a new challenge in a new place
Link: http://www.lequipe.fr/Basket/breves2...ny-parker.html
If that translation is accurate, they should've traded him yesterday. I wonder if Oden was part of the Portland deal...
WTF?
If its true, why would he say that now.
Anyway, thanks Romain
Soooo he's bailing next year... nice
It does say "If I leave I can have another career" but yea it seems like an awkward translation.
Bas better just be making ambiguous statements.
I hope it's a bad translation. But if its true, im wondering why would he say that now. Im not questioning his loyalty to this team, but it's pretty stupid to say.
If he actually said this him and get him outta here. If its a poor translation than so be it.
..you guys are mad, uh?..
This one is going 5 pages with a lot of hate..
wow what a bombs , i'm flummoxed. If true i hope we find a point guard for Timmy's sake.
does the CBA allow for a sign & trade b/w the end of 2011 season and beginning of 2012 Free Agency (july 1st?)
Nice. Former Final MVP want to leave the Spurs next year.
I like him on the team, but I fail to see how he didn't just make himself trade bait.
He already was.
haha yeah I think so too. Now he and Spurs fans are glad and should be happy he stays and he does something like this and still will get hate because he said this.
This one is going 5 pages with a lot of hate..
But I do think he shouldnt have said that and I dont get why he would do that. It's creating for something that he also could just shut his mouth. Unnecessary
I love Parker for what he's been for our team, but if his perspective is effectively to leave our team next season, I see no sense in retaining him...the point is that his best market value, all things considered, is not now but will be at the middle of this season, near the trade deadline...when, after a summer of rest and a good training, being in such a good shape just for making other teams see he deserve a "maximum" contract, he will have had enough time an games to show them his value.
At that point, Spurs better trade him to team that offers the best value they can get back (possibly, multiple draft picks and young players).
I understand that, but one of the points of the article was to say Pop had stopped shopping him.
"loyalty to this team"
it's job, a business, and next year as free agent (if he doesn't get injured more than his weak ankles are now), he can probably get $M/year more employed elsewhere than from the capped-out Spurs company (as he looks at what Spurs pay RJ).
The guy has givin us 10 in yrs! Come on people! Look at the pictures on facbook/twiter tou guys be postin! If you can't see he's a spotlight person(I don't blame him) then your jus stupid! So many people on here wanted him gone anyway. 10yrs people. 10yrs(but trade his ass now to get some)
I know it is a business of course. And next year he can do what ever he wants to, that's normal. But, its stupid to say it a year before. That's what its about. That's pretty stupid. Because of that, people will question his loyalty to this team. Not loyalty in the past or in the future, but just his loyalty to this team in this upcoming season.
People will wonder if he is really going for it, people will question if he really cares. People will question if he really is motivated and working his ass off for this team if he is looking of going away anyway. (Im sure he will, he is loyal and do whatever it takes, but still. People will start thinking.)
And why? He could have just prevented people from thinking that and hating and questioning him by just shutting his mouth and not telling it. Why putting yourself in that position? Instead he should have waited until next year and then do whatever and say whatever he wants to do.
Of course, if he really said it like this. Media is not really to be trusted.
Wow, now I'm surprised.
It seems pretty clear that he won't be a spur next year...
Two possibilities here, either that despite his big ego he knows that he ain't no franchise player and that TD's career is coming to an end or that it had been said to him that he won't get a max deal from the spurs.
Anyway if he made up his mind, you sure as look to move him RIGHT NOW to get some value in return. We can't afford to loose him to free agency without getting something back.
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