[Guide] on April 1st news In today’s Spurs 95-81 victory over the Heat, Tony Parker completed a
This milestone represents the Spurs’ 1,000 regular season games, ranking second in team history, second only to Tim Duncan (1,323 games).
Parker performed well in this milestone race, and the style of the French sports car remains.
Ginobili, another member of the GDP, played 857 games on behalf of the Spurs. There is still a certain distance from the 1,000-game mark. He currently ranks fifth in team history.
Parker scored 16 points, 5 assists and 2 rebounds today.
Tony Parker
Duncan is the founder of the Spurs dynasty, the greatest power forward in history, with all the glory in one body.
Parker and Ginobili are also the founders of the Spurs. If they go to other teams, they have the ability to be the star players and have the ability to write their own chapters.
But whether it is Parker or Manu, they both insist on staying by Duncan’s side, and most of the time they are Duncan’s green leaves, preferring to sacrifice their own achievements.
Parker once said that he may really leave the Spurs one day, but there is a prerequisite.
That is, if Duncan doesn’t play, Manu doesn’t play, and Mr. Popo has retired.
Before that, I will not leave, the amount of money is not the key issue.
Parker has entered the All-Star six times in his career, won the Finals MVP once, and was selected to the All-NBA Second Team four times.
But he never got a max salary with the Spurs.
Duncan was the absolute core of the establishment of the Spurs dynasty, but there is one problem that we cannot ignore, that is, as Duncan ages and his ability degrades, the core of the Spurs is also transforming.
They have gone through Duncan’s power forward period, Parker’s point guard period, and now Leonard’s small forward period.
When Parker was the core, he won the MVP of the 2006-07 season finals. At that time, he was fully capable of getting a maximum salary.
In other words, if Parker was out of money at that time, he could have gone to other teams, and now he can get a second maximum salary.
But Parker did not do this. Like the other two members of the GDP, he would rather get a little less, but also wanted to strengthen the team so that the team can always maintain the championship strength.
This spirit of sacrifice, in today’s NBA era, is already close to myth and legend.
Before Leonard, the current core player of the Spurs, became popular, the Spurs tried to renew his contract and offered him an annual salary of tens of millions.
Leonard refused. He wanted a maximum salary and didn’t want to lower his salary.
There is no intention to belittle Leonard here. He has this ability and deserves a maximum salary. It’s just that he didn’t inherit the spirit of sacrifice of GDP, and his business flavor is stronger and his feelings are weaker.