The San Antonio Spurs may agree to a 2 year deal with Tim Duncan. Duncan as a free agent has the option to retire, move teams, or even stay with the Spurs. We’ve heard a lot about if Duncan and Ginobli don’t decide to return, the Spurs endless free agency possibilities. But what if they do return? What if the same team comes back, and they can add free agents to make it even better. It’s possible, according to a source, if they sign a ‘wink-wink’ deal with Timmy D.
According to Mike Monroe of the San Antonio Express-News:
There are several NBA player personnel executives who believe the Spurs will offer Duncan a two-year contract that begins between $6 million and $7 million, with a partial guarantee and a player option in the second season.
If Duncan doesn’t exercise the option, he gets, say, 50 percent of that season’s salary. In effect, his salary for next season would remain over $10 million, the partially guaranteed portion of the second season’s salary remaining on the Spurs team salary after the cap explodes with the NBA’s new TV money kicking in for 2016-17.
“You can call it a ‘wink-wink’ deal if you want to,” said an Eastern Conference team executive.” It’s what they did with (Antonio) McDyess, so why not for Duncan.”
Duncan’s cap hold is slightly more than $15.5 million so such a two-year deal would drop their team salary by more than $8 million.
Sneaky, cheeky, Spurs.
