San Antonio Spurs

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 09-10 regular season                                                     Cap Room: -7,869,339                          Best Bench Player: George Hill

11th place Overall                                                          Luxury Tax: No                                      Power Rankings: 12

7th in Conference                                                           Best Player: Tim Duncan                      Owner/Net Worth: Peter Holt/80M 

Western Conference semi finals                                      Coach: Greg Popovich                           Team Value: 415 million

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 Starting 5    

                                                 PG  Tony Parker PR#9                              SG Manu Ginobli PR#8                                                                                                                                               

                                              SF Richard Jefferson PR#20                   C Tiago Splitter PR#20                     PF Tim Duncan PR#5                                                                                                                                                     

Bench Grade: B

PG George Hill, Curtis Jerrells, Gary Neal SG James Anderson, Alonzo Gee, Malik Hairston, Garrett Temple SF PF Matt Bonner, Antonio McDyess, DeJuan Blair C

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Are we to old to compete?

Yea this ship is certainly coming to a halt. The spurs are no longer in contention. Duncan is diminishing quickly to the point where he is not the best Spurs player. Manu Ginobli has probably taken over that role and yet he is still not young by any means. Richard Jefferson is not a good player anymore. Not a great defender and is struggling offensively. But luckily the spurs management knows which direction their team is going and are smart enough to start finding replacements. With Duncan and Ginobli on the team you will never be bad enough to be a lottery team. And Tiago Splitter although a nice pick up will not have the same impact Duncan had 15 years ago. So they must build through trades. And the most tradable piece is the one that is not 30 yet. Tony Parker. A lot of teams would give up plenty to acquire him and the spurs could get plenty in return. The Blazers, Knicks, Nets, Pacers, Grizzlies, Raptors and Cavaliers either need a point guard or would just jump at the chance. Player like OJ Mayo, DeMar Derozan, Terrance Williams, Rudy Fernandez, Luke Babbitt, Jeff Pendergraph, Anthony Randolph, Danilo Gallinari and of course draft picks would be thrown around and any one would be a good pickup towards building the Spurs for the future. This team is trying to transition as smoothly as possible. It is not their style to go into full rebuild mode and will gradually replace aging starters as the years go on.