Quote Originally Posted by DPG21920
Bruno - your thoughts on Bonner's ability to be salary dumped. Don't think it is likely, but if they wanted to, your thoughts on how easy it would be?
Salary dumping Bonner is quite complicated. Spurs need to find a team with either enough cap space or a trade exception big enough to take Bonner's salary. After looking at it, there are only 4 teams fitting theses conditions: Magic, Cavs, Nuggets and Suns. Magic and Cavs are rebuilding so I doubt they would want Bonner. Suns might be interested with Frye out. Bonner could fit with Nuggets too if Anthony Randolph struggles.

As you can see, salary dumping Bonner isn't that easy with only 2 realistic possible destinations. You can imagine too other scenarios with some partial salary dumping (Spurs taking back a player with a lower salary than Bonner and then waiving him immediately) but it isn't as interesting as a pure salary dump. The way to get ride of Bonner was to amnesty him but Spurs haven't done it.


Another parameter to the equation for the bigmen is how to manage Blair humanly. He has asked to be traded, has worked out a lot this summer and is in a contract year. Starting the season with him deep on the bench is asking for troubles. I would say that either Blair get consistent playing time or Spurs had to trade him. If Pop decides that the 4th big to play with Duncan, Diaw and Splitter should be either Bonner or Powell, then Blair must be traded.