SPURS TRADE CURTIS JERRELLS TO NEW ORLEANS
SAN ANTONIO - The San Antonio Spurs announced today that they have traded Curtis Jerrells to the New Orleans Hornets in exchange for a conditional second round draft pick.
Jerrells, a 6-0 guard, was signed by the Spurs on March 24, 2010, but did not see any action with San Antonio during the regular season or playoffs. During the 2010 preseason he appeared in five games with the Spurs, averaging 6.4 points, 2.2 assists and 1.4 rebounds in 15.8 minutes. Jerrells also played on the Spurs 2010 Summer League team in Las Vegas, averaging 10.8 points, 4.4 assists and 2.4 rebounds in 26.8 minutes in five games.
During the 2009-10 season Jerrells started all 50 games for the Austin Toros of the NBA Development League, averaging 20.7 points, 4.5 rebounds, 5.7 assists and 1.86 steals in 40.2 minutes.
What it means is that the Vipers will probably never have to deal with Jerrells again. New Orleans doesn't really assign players to the NBA Development League (which is a shame, since they obviously see the value it had for Jerrells), so don't expect to see Jerrells down with New Mexico anytime soon.
EDIT – I'm ready to eat my words about Jerrells not going to New Mexico. No one's told me he's going to be assigned, but it just occurred to me that Dell Demps, who was the GM of the Toros last year, is the in his first season as GM of the Hornets. Based on that, I fully expect the Hornets to finally start using the NBA Development League to their advantage.
More importantly, it pretty much sealed the deal that Garrett Temple will make the team. Now that I ever had any doubt, but, I have to admit, when Temple hurt is ankle during Summer League and Jerrells got a bigger opportunity to show what he can do, I got a little nervous. But as I've said many times, Temple will never be back in the NBA Development League. He's going to have a nice long NBA career.
Hopefully Temple won't be assinged to the toros to match up against the vipers in the playoff. Stephen
ReplyDeleteI was wondering if they would do that last year. Since they didn't, my guess is they won't this year. They're not going to have a reason to assign Temple. He's going to be very valuable to a not getting any younger Spurs team.
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