27th pick, i guess not

[chosen_one8976]

[QUOTE]Maybe I am taking this out of context, maybe not. But according to Newy Scruggs, the Mavs had a chance to get the Spurs 27th pick for 3 Million dollars.

"For $3 million of Mark Cuban’s money, he could have bought the pick from the Spurs and made Arthur a Maverick.

Nope, no deal. The Mavs just waited for their turn at 51 in the second round and drafted a kid who looks like the singer Usher. Shan Foster was the SEC Player of the Year at Vanderbilt. He can play some guard and forward and shoot it well from long range."

Though they make the arguement for Arthur, I still think that moving up to get CDR would have been better. When reports came out that teams were asking for "crazy money", I was thinking in the 5-8 million dollar range./QUOTE]

[MavsFanFinley]

The Spurs sent out an email to all teams asking for their best offer for it early morning draft day. My guess is they were asking for early 2nd round picks (think Blazers, Minnesota, Seattle who had mutiply picks there) and cash. Or a future 1st depending on the team.

I'm sure the Mavs called about it but wouldn't have had anything the Spurs wanted. Future 1st wouldn't be high enough, no high 2nd round pick (s), and the Mavs were likely not wanting to give the full $3 million.

[chosen_one8976]

they just wanted 3 mil, which as it sounds was pretty cheap compared to what others teams were trying to get out of the mavs

[Robillion]

I doubt that Cuban would have passed up getting that pick for just $3 million... I moreso beleive there was much more to it than that...

[MavsFanFinley]

No way the Spurs were asking for money alone. A pick or picks had to be involved as well. They might have asked some teams to take Bonner off their hands instead.

[horse900703]

I will not do that~