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Spurs Looking For Trade?
SpursReport
Monday, January 10, 2005
According to a report that appears in Monday's Chicago Tribune, the Spurs- despite being the league's best defensive team and having
Tim Duncan- may be looking for help.
The report says that league sources indicated the Spurs recently approached the Bulls' about acquiring Tyson Chandler (or perhaps even Eddy Curry).
"Don't worry, Chandler isn't going anywhere," writes columnist Sam Smith. "Eddy Curry isn't likely to be departing either. Even I'm on board with that. With the way the Bulls have played lately, it makes sense to let this team finish the season together."
The Spurs, most everyone's preseason pick to win it all, are said to be concerned about playing smaller teams that like to run.
"I know some people think it's not going to last, but that's because they don't want it to last," Popovich said of some of the great start by running teams like the Phoenix Suns and Seattle SuperSonics. Conventional wisdom says those teams will collapse in the playoffs, when the halfcourt game usually plays a bigger role. "Those guys aren't going to forget how to run and they're not going to forget how to shoot. Can they win in the playoffs playing like that? I don't see why not."
The paper says getting out of the West could prove more difficult than it first seemed to the Spurs.
Two of their seven losses have been to the spread-the-floor, running Sonics (including their only loss at home). They've also lost to open-court Orlando and high-scoring Sacramento. And they caught the Suns on a bad shooting night for Quentin Richardson (0-for-7) and Steve Nash (4-for-14). The
Spurs defense had something to do with that shooting, but the margin for error against quicker teams is not great with the streaky
Tony Parker and
Manu Ginobili in the backcourt.
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The Spurs have been looking to add some speed and came to the Bulls," writes Smith. "Chandler would have been a beautiful fit now that he appears healthy, and he probably would have assured the
Spurs the title.
But the Bulls supposedly weren't biting at the package, which was believed to include center Rasho Nesterovic. It looks now like the Bulls will sit out the Feb. 24 trading deadline."
Sources in San Antonio, however, tell SpursReport that this information is speculative and that the
Spurs are unlikely to make any changes before next month's trading deadline.
Rumors of a deal involving Curry may have started two months ago, when one of Curry's agents went public with a trade demand that Curry hadn't authorized. At the time, the Bulls' 0-9 start made the 6-foot-11-inch center's departure seem a lock.
Now the Bulls have won nine of 12, Curry has hit double figures in 15 straight games and realizes "there are two ends to the basketball court," and he and management are looking optimistically to his future.
马刺寻求和公牛的交易,卷进传闻的是Rasho和Tyson Chandler(or Eddy Curry)