VCoug wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:

nixluva wrote:The Knicks did try to sign the kid. It's still up to him and his agent where he goes.

San Antonio is waiving Austin Daye to clear a roster spot for Green, a league source told Yahoo Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski. The Memphis Grizzlies, Chicago Bulls, New York Knicks and Philadelphia 76ers had expressed interest in signing the free-agent forward as well, a source said.

I know the issue I have is why did the Knicks wait until the showcase? This kid has been high up on the prospect list and was d l player of the month for December. The Knicks had two open roster during a time when Green was getting a lot of press for his play. They chose to go with Amundson and Thomas. Green could have been signed right after the trade. He didn't do anything at the showcase that he wasn't doing the previous month.

Exactly. And even now, why aren't we giving guys like Seth Curry or Quincy Miller a shot? We have so much dead weight on this roster, guys who aren't going to be back next year anyway, why are we wasting our time with them?

CrushAlot wrote:

nixluva wrote:The Knicks did try to sign the kid. It's still up to him and his agent where he goes.

San Antonio is waiving Austin Daye to clear a roster spot for Green, a league source told Yahoo Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski. The Memphis Grizzlies, Chicago Bulls, New York Knicks and Philadelphia 76ers had expressed interest in signing the free-agent forward as well, a source said.

I know the issue I have is why did the Knicks wait until the showcase? This kid has been high up on the prospect list and was d l player of the month for December. The Knicks had two open roster during a time when Green was getting a lot of press for his play. They chose to go with Amundson and Thomas. Green could have been signed right after the trade. He didn't do anything at the showcase that he wasn't doing the previous month.

I think we need to give the Knicks a little bit more credit than this. We can't just assume they weren't interested soon enough. JaMychael had a long relationship with the Spurs.

After going undrafted in the 2012 NBA draft, JaMychal Green joined San Antonio Spurs for the 2012 NBA Summer League and then signed with Spurs in October 2012, However, 4 days later he was waived by the Spurs.

In November 2012, JaMychal Green was acquired by Austin Toros of NBA-D League as an affiliate player and he played for them till end of 2012-13 season.

He then played for Chorale Roanne Basket of France from 2013 to 2014.

In July 2014, JaMychal Green joined the San Antonio Spurs for the 2014 NBA Summer League and then in August 2014, he re-signed with the Spurs

Former Standout JaMychal Green Signs With San Antonio Spurs
Green signs two-year partially guaranteed contract with reigning NBA Champions

Aug. 7, 2014 - TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - Former Alabama standout JaMychal Green has signed a two-year partially guaranteed contract with the reigning NBA Champion San Antonio Spurs, the organization has announced.

Green was a member of the Spurs' 2014 Summer League team in Las Vegas. In the team's six contests, he averaged 7.8 points and 6.5 rebounds in 16.2 minutes per game.

Green played last season playing for Roanne in the French Pro A League. While there, the Montgomery, Ala., native averaged 11.8 points and 6.6 rebounds a game, while shooting 53 percent from the field.

Green spent the 2012-13 season with the Austin Toros of the NBA Development League, averaging 12.3 points, 8.1 rebounds and 1.4 assists in 40 games.

The 6-foot-9, 220-pounder participated in the Spurs’ training camp, but was cut Oct. 22. Green, who played college basketball at Alabama, spent time in the off-season working with the Spurs' renowned shooting coach Chip Engelland.

The D-League big man who has caught the Knicks’ eye
By Marc Berman January 16, 2015 | 11:41pm - With the 10-day contracts of forwards Lance Thomas and Lou Amundson expiring next week, the Knicks have expressed interest in Austin D-Leaguer, JaMychal Green, a 6-foot-9 big man out of Alabama who has notched a double-double in all 15 games. The D-League showcase combine began Thursday in Santa Cruz, Calif.
Thomas and Amundson showed a lot of energy in London in their debuts, but likely just one will remain with the team as the Knicks will try to add more new blood to the roster.

JaMychal Green has left the Austin Spurs of the NBA D-League and will likely sign with an NBA team very soon.
He has drawn interest from the Spurs, Bulls, Grizzlies and Knicks after his impressive showings in the D-League, but New York is the only listed team where he could potentially make an impact right out of the gate. We will continue to follow this situation closely, and owners in deep leagues should keep him on their radar. Jan 17 - 9:15 AM
Source: Marc J. Spears on Twitter

VCoug wrote:

EnySpree wrote:

VCoug wrote:

VCoug wrote:

nixluva wrote:

EnySpree wrote:This guy Green is already in the spurs organization. It's like if the spurs came through and stole Galloway from us. Of course Green is going to come up through the spurs organization. Why would he leave? He has an opportunity to become apart of the second generation, post Tim Duncan era spurs. No use crying over this

Why are you using facts and reason in your post? Why aren't you just talking out of your ass and hating on the Knicks front office as others are prone to do?

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. – JaMychal Green will sign a 10-day contract with the San Antonio Spurs after departing Friday from their affiliate team at the 2015 NBA D-League Showcase, sources told Yahoo Sports.

San Antonio is waiving Austin Daye to clear a roster spot for Green, a league source told Yahoo Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski. The Memphis Grizzlies, Chicago Bulls, New York Knicks and Philadelphia 76ers had expressed interest in signing the free-agent forward as well, a source said. Green, 24, is averaging 23 points, 10.7 rebounds and 2.5 assists this season for the Austin Spurs of the NBA Development League.

The 6-foot-9, 220-pounder participated in the Spurs’ training camp, but was cut Oct. 22. Green, who played college basketball at Alabama, spent time in the off-season working with the Spurs' renowned shooting coach Chip Engelland.

Irrelevant facts. The NBA D-League is not the same thing as the MLB Minor League. The vast majority of these players do not have contracts with the parent club and are free to sign with whatever team offers them a contract. A contract, by the way, that will be a minimum of $500K; D-League contracts are for $13K, $19K, or $25K.

What I find especially interesting about this argument, though, is that apparently D-Leaguers living at or below the federal poverty level would be unwilling to leave their parent organisation to come here. Yet, free agents next Summer will be willing to.

Oh, and I forgot. Green so desperately wants to stay with SA that he wouldn't consider signing anywhere else signed with the Clippers last season and, after he was waived, played in France.

The spurs made a roster move to sign the guy. Maybe they said they think he can contribute to their team now. Why would he leave the San Antonio organization if they are actively trying to give him an opportunity? So he should tell Pop that he would rather go play for nothing in ny, rather than be apart of a playoff team?

It's really nothing to complain about here

Maybe if we had offered him a contract when we had a roster opening almost two weeks ago he would have come here instead of waiting and hoping SA would sign him. Or maybe we just force SA's hand and they sign him earlier. The overall point is that we shouldn't be wasting our time with guys like Amundson and Jason Smith. Clearly, neither player is going to help us this season and neither will be here past this year. Those spots could be used by a player that might help us win games past this season.

Has anyone considered that Green was the one waiting until the show case- I think a lot of you are misunderstanding how the d league works. Players build up relationships with certain teams who are developing them- players then have the curtesy to let those teams know if they are being offered a contract by another team. In this case, Green probably knew he'd have more leverage if he waited until after the showcase, teams started offering him contracts and he went to the Spurs and let them know if they didn't sign him, he would sign with one of the others. Thats why the Spurs so hastily cut Daye. If we'd have approached him 2 weeks ago, all that would have happened would have been he would have then gone to the Spurs and they would have cut Daye 2 weeks earlier and then signed Green.

F500ONE wrote:

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Let' be honest the main reason Green didn't come here

Because Phil's Plan A of putting a winning product on the floor failed

Can't even get D-Leaguers to come here

No one cares about Phil's accomplishments in Lakers and Bulls organization

Past history can get you some places but it's not like

Phil is coming off of bringing 11 chips to New York recently

The same bullcrap was said of Carmelo, no one should have cared what he did

In Denver as if he really accomplished something there

Some would have you believe he lit the world on fire while there

I cared more about what kind of basketball player and sports person he was

CrushAlot wrote:

F500ONE wrote:

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https://twitter.com/AdamZagoria/status/556860029689933824

Let' be honest the main reason Green didn't come here

Because Phil's Plan A of putting a winning product on the floor failed

Can't even get D-Leaguers to come here

No one cares about Phil's accomplishments in Lakers and Bulls organization

Past history can get you some places but it's not like

Phil is coming off of bringing 11 chips to New York recently

The same bullcrap was said of Carmelo, no one should have cared what he did

In Denver as if he really accomplished something there

Some would have you believe he lit the world on fire while there

I cared more about what kind of basketball player and sports person he was

I think d leaguers would come. But if a guy looks like the real deal you don't wait until everyone else is ready to pounce and then announce your intentions. The Knicks wouldn't have had to waive a guy that can play to sign Green. They also can offer more playing time and an opportunity to be a rotation player right away. I don't think Covington was holding out for a contender. If you are in the d l you just want a shot. The Knicks had a leg up on most franchises because they had open spots shortly after ten day contracts started. This was just a case of being too late. If the Knicks weren't aware of Green's talents before the showcase or were truly interested in him but didn't get involved until the d league show case there are some organizational problems.

Very True some cases but there were a few teams looking at the kid

He chose the Spurs, I bet if we were winning we would have had a much greater chance

Although do you think he cracks the Spurs rotation and receives playing time there

Who knows when it comes to our operation

Maybe we don't make time for guys like this as we would have

Be swimming in Triangle Juice making love to ourselves

The Spurs conduct business principally even when they win

They cover all bases and I think Green and his agent knows this

The kid wants to be around winning, because if you can contribute

Positively towards it while learning a great deal, you'll remain in the league

CrushAlot wrote:

F500ONE wrote:

Tweet was deleted or there was problem with the URL:

https://twitter.com/AdamZagoria/status/556860029689933824

Let' be honest the main reason Green didn't come here

Because Phil's Plan A of putting a winning product on the floor failed

Can't even get D-Leaguers to come here

No one cares about Phil's accomplishments in Lakers and Bulls organization

Past history can get you some places but it's not like

Phil is coming off of bringing 11 chips to New York recently

The same bullcrap was said of Carmelo, no one should have cared what he did

In Denver as if he really accomplished something there

Some would have you believe he lit the world on fire while there

I cared more about what kind of basketball player and sports person he was

I think d leaguers would come. But if a guy looks like the real deal you don't wait until everyone else is ready to pounce and then announce your intentions. The Knicks wouldn't have had to waive a guy that can play to sign Green. They also can offer more playing time and an opportunity to be a rotation player right away. I don't think Covington was holding out for a contender. If you are in the d l you just want a shot. The Knicks had a leg up on most franchises because they had open spots shortly after ten day contracts started. This was just a case of being too late. If the Knicks weren't aware of Green's talents before the showcase or were truly interested in him but didn't get involved until the d league show case there are some organizational problems.

Absolutely Crush. Well said once again.

#Knicks inquired today about PF JaMychal Green, who is leaving Spurs, but Jax has no roster spot. Green has 2 other offers on table.

smackeddog wrote:Ha ha, after the meltdown on these boards 10 days ago, comes this tweet from Berman today:

#Knicks inquired today about PF JaMychal Green, who is leaving Spurs, but Jax has no roster spot. Green has 2 other offers on table.

This is when Bargs need to be cut and why people did not like the Amundson or Thomas move