Are these the same San Antonio Spurs? Along with the news of Richard Jefferson’s new contract, the Spurs quietly signed Gary Neal off their summer roster to a 3 year deal. This is highly unusual for the Spurs as unprovens usually don’t yield such a long term contract with the Spurs. Spurstalk.com (best source of insider Spurs info) did not say whether the contract was partially guaranteed.
Gary Neal has a quick release shot and played nicely in a few Summer League games including one game with 20 points in the first half.
I’ve never watched Neal play outside of his highlights so no commentary from your 19th favorite San Antonio Blogger.
a little more detailed info about gary neal…in his first year of professional basketball he played for KARSIYAKA, a turkish first division team which I am on of the million fans…let me tell you guys, he might be a undersized for his position in NBA but, he has best shooting technic ever I watch (not on TV). I spent 3 years in the states and attent all basketball games of my college (clemson) and many nba games (hawks) and I started to go basketball games when I was 6years old…so you can count on my words…he can shoot so quickly that defender even can’t get close to him to defend…his career in europe outside KARSIYAKA is also a story of success. he transferred to barcelona and then moved to Italy…he was top scorer in italian league…a very good move from spurs…we, KARSIYAKA fans, always remember him not leaving the court on his last game with us, kissing the logo of the team on his own jersey…we’ll be praying for him to be successful in NBA…
Thanks for the info, Erinc! Great stuff.