Manu Ginobili: A Spur For Years to Come

It's official, folks, Manu will remain a Spur for the next three seasons. Manu was in the position to be a free agent this summer, but of course the Spurs ownership and front office did have some marbles amongst them and shot for El Contusión and his unborn twin boys, (the future of the Spurs, I have no doubts) to remain in San Antonio by offering $38.9 mil/3 years, the maximum amount we were allowed to spend for him. It was crucial to make sure we extended Manu's contract now (or sooner) because we couldn't allow him to test the waters of free agency, where I'm completely certain he would be offered BIG money. I know his near 40mil might seem big enough, but when teams like New York have been completely and unabashedly cutting players and trading for players with expiring contracts in order to throw massive checks at the numerous skilled, high profile free agents like Dwayne Wade, Lebron James, Chris Bosh, Amar'e Stoudemire, Rudy Gay, etc., it's a good idea to make sure the Manu Ginobili gets cut out of that moneypool.

So, this is the news that any sensible Spurs fan was hoping to hear. Without Manu, our current team has no future. No one in the entire league can play like Manu. Just watch one of his highlight videos.

As Kobe has said, "[He's] a bad man," and we couldn't let our bad man become anyone else's bad man. We just couldn't. He is, after all, "The Man with no Swagger."