I’ll just say, it looks like you put thought into this post. I disagree with your idea.

But It feels like we would have a couple of years of championship potential, then we would do what we started 3 years ago. I think I am more into giving this team more time. Who knows if we would be able to assemble a team as good as we have now with Duncan’s expiring contract?
   Also, imagine Duncan never again has a good season because of injury, you could say that with any player, but with an older guy like Duncan it’s more likely. So we would do all this, then never get a good couple of years out of him.
  Also, I don’t think Rudy has to start to be happy.He could still get a lot of time off the bench. I have heard this a lot lately, about Rudy not staying because he plays behind Roy. I think the thing is that Roy has played at SF already, quite a bit actually. A team with Roy and Rudy on at the same time is good, and also whenever Roy is injured Rudy can start. I think for a while at least Rudy is going to be just fine with us.
  Anyway, it is a good Idea, and I like your going outside the box. Many have talked about getting Parker but not Duncan. I am curious to hear from a real trade expert like storyteller, I have a feeling there is some reason this would not work out.

When KP was on Canzano’s program he kept pressing about who he was talking about until KP finally said something to the effect of, " I value some players that everyone else might think are garbage."

Considering no one on planet Earth regards Parker or Duncan as garbage I’m going to bet there is zero percent chance he was talking about any of those guys. The person he was talking about is probably a long shot, dark horse candidate that we wouldn’t really expect. It’s probably someone we wouldn’t imagine as a real good possibility and probably someone who doesn’t have the best reputation around the league.

I was thinking more along the lines of Jamal Crawford.

“Brandon Roy is one of my best friends and when he went to the playoffs (with Portland) I was just as excited as if I was playing. I told him ’I’m playing through you’ and I was up there supporting him and going to games. And this is the closest I’ve been now it’s time to win. You can do all the individual stuff but until you win you won’t get the credit you deserve.”-NBA Fanhouse

I think that would fit a little more with what he was talking about, although it’s certainly not as exciting. Crawford is a gunner who consistently puts up 20 points and 5 assists in a relatively inefficient way. He’s a fantastic three point shooter except he takes a lot of contested shots off the dribble, not sure if that’s Nellie and Isiah’s fault or his own. If KP thought Nate could cage the beast then maybe Jamal would be a good combo guard for Roy to play next to. He would certainly thrive as a spark plug off the bunch and he would be the only guy besides Roy and Outlaw who could consistently create for himself in the back-court.

It also helps that he and Brandon train together every summer in Seattle. If he wants to take a pay cut to come here I think it would be something to get a little excited about, especially if Outlaw get’s traded.

no, this will not ever happen. Duncan is their Roy, there would be riots in the streets. San Antonio is passionate about the Spurs in a way that only a small market can be. Also, reports of San Antonio’s demise are greatly exaggerated. Off season 2010/11, they have Tim and Tony on the books, that is all. With a healthy Ginobli, Dallas doesn’t beat them and they advance to the 2nd round. Tim Duncan will retain his value for a long time. His game is not predicated on athleticism, but on intelligence. Tim and Tony will be like Robinson and Duncan were, a young star and and aging star making a couple more runs.

As for us, WHY would we trade LMA? Tim Duncan is too old to trade for LMA. Also, Parker is nice, but lets see what we have in Bayless first. We are not getting Parker w/o trading Roy. Greg Popovich and R.C. Buford weren’t born yesterday. They trained KP! They will not be hung out to dry.

LMA is a very nice player, but you are suggesting Two NBA Finals MVP players for a USA Select team invitee and some promising bench players.

We’d have to throw in what San Antonio wants, without completely gutting our bench.

They can have anything they want. Parker is in his prime and is often unstoppable. I would take 65 games a year from Dunan until he retires. His game is what it is and getting older will affect him less than it will other big men.

Roy, Duncan & Parker = Flat out the best roster in the league even if you round out the roster with our 20 2nd round picks that we have. Add Oden, Pryz, Webster, Blake & draft a SF…… yikes.

I wouldn’t trade LA for Duncan straight across Duncan is done, LA is just getting started.

to think that KP would trade away our building blocks of the future for TP and Duncan, who is aging fast and dealing with small injuries, is ludacris(I hope). Batum, Rudy, Bayless are all in KP’s plan for the future. No way this happens, although the idea of TP in Portland is kinda cool.

I trust KP not to do something so drastic with our great young roster.

In KP we trust

But If we can’t get to the Finals with Tony Parker, Tim Duncan, Greg Oden, Brandon Roy, and Martell Webster, then I don’t see us ever getting there.

that you believe Canzano

Basically we become the Portland Spurs and they become the San Antonio Trail Blazers?

But as many others have said, this trade seems premature, and possibly to our detriment.

We’d almost certainly HAVE TO gut our roster to make this happen, and that would be too big a price to pay.

It would also be taking a step back in terms of managerial philosphy. The new plan seems to be developing through the draft, with specialists traded in and out as needed—this would trade away a good portion of all that drafting and development.

San Antonio is simply not going to trade away Duncan, or if so, certainly not now. Trading Parker wouldn’t make too many fans happy either. I know it’s a business, but by that same logic, in a business sense you’d be saying, “We’re going to forego a chance to win it all again now, for more chances later.” A franchise and fans used to losing might accept that business decision, a franchise and fan base used to winning it all every other year might find that harder to swallow; especially given they’d be taking on a lot of ‘unproven commodities’, (at least in the fan’s eyes—we’d know what they’d be getting), in exchange for two proven winners.

All that being said, it wouldn’t suprise me one bit if this trade was talked about by KP. But for me, hopefully it was early talk and not taken seriously.

I love Duncan and really like Parker. In fact TP might be a perfect fit here. But why mix and match parts trying to make a “better” team when the one we already have is looking pretty darn good and is young and bound to improve with experience?

Besides, I don’t see Duncan wanting to leave San Antonio. He’s put down some pretty deep roots. The Spurs are the sort of organization that would be unlikely to trade their star if he was against it.