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Spurs' situation with Splitter reminds of Scola
San Antonio Express News
The most efficient Western Conference big man in March has been Houston's Luis Scola. In nine games, he has made 58.9 percent of his shots and averaged 23.6 points and 13.6 rebounds, keeping alive the Rockets' fading playoff hopes.
Scola is better known in these parts as the best draft pick the Spurs never signed. Every time he has a big game — a 44-point explosion against the Nets, or 30 points and 14 rebounds vs. the Spurs — he picks at the scab of a wound that won't heal.
Now the Spurs face the prospect of another summer like 2007, when they traded Scola's draft rights to the Rockets, along with total bust big man Jackie Butler, for Vasillis Spanoulis and a 2009 second-round pick.
Tiago Splitter, the Spurs' first-round pick in 2007, is widely acknowledged as the best big man in Europe. This summer, he has an opt-out clause in his contract with Tau Ceramica, the Spanish League team for which he has played since he was a teenager.
This was thought to be good timing for the Spurs. The league's collective bargaining agreement contains language that allows teams to treat first-rounders who play three years for non-NBA teams, post-draft, as if they are free agents. It will have been three years this June since the Spurs made Splitter the 28th selection of the 2007 draft, so he falls into that category.
Up to now, the Spurs had been limited to offering the 6-foot-11 center $970,000 for the first year of his rookie scale contract. Now, they can offer a lot more, but they are still bound by collective bargaining agreement rules. Just as they have no cap room to offer big money to free agents from other teams this summer, they are limited to cap exceptions as they try to lure Splitter.
The most they can offer: The mid-level cap exception, expected to be around $5 million.
Trouble is, even that amount likely won't pry him out of Spain. That's because the prospect of an NBA lockout that could wipe out the entire 2011-12 season is enough to make any player making mega-Euros think twice about bolting for the NBA. Splitter's deal reportedly is worth more than $5 million.
“That's why they're probably not going to get him, even for the full mid-level,” said one NBA executive. “If you've got a nice, guaranteed deal over in Europe, why would you sign over here and face a lockout? I'm telling you, the full mid-level probably isn't going to get it done.”
What's left, then, if the Spurs don't want their 2007 first-round pick to be a waste?
They're still the only NBA team that can negotiate with his people — Splitter switched agents within the last few months, dropping Herb Rudoy for Arn Tellem — and there are a lot of teams with significant cap space this summer who could make him a better offer if they had his rights.
“It's more likely they'll try to do a sign-and-trade that includes his rights,” said the same NBA front-office figure. “Maybe he can end up in a deal involving Chris Bosh.”
With the Raptors tanking lately, threatening to drop out of the Eastern playoff picture, their chances of retaining Bosh get slimmer and slimmer, and a sign-and-trade more and more likely.
If the Spurs can leverage another team's desperation to alleviate some of their own, they should do it.
Don't get overly excited about the prospect, though. The suggestion from afar was that the Spurs might be able to use Splitter's rights as a third-party sweetener in a Bosh sign-and-trade, getting another player or future draft pick in the package, not Bosh.
Then they will have to hope Splitter doesn't produce as consistently as Scola. |
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