Boris Diaw and the Charlotte Bobcats, as has been anticipated for some time, have reached agreement on a buyout, and the San Antonio Spurs are interested in bringing aboard the French big man.
The Spurs covet Diaw because he can play several positions and should be able to provide some front-court depth. He is also close friends with point guard Tony Parker, as the two have played together on the French national team. Parker is lobbying the Spurs organization to sign Diaw, according to the Express-News.
Should the Spurs sign Diaw, they’ll be getting a player who wasn’t exactly in his former coach’s good graces.
As the Charlotte Observer notes, Diaw started in a franchise-record 258 games for the Bobcats but fell out of favor with coach Paul Silas this season and was recently benched. Diaw played in just two of his final nine games as a Bobcat.
“I like a player who is really committed to not only the team but to himself and then doing the best he can as a player,’’ Silas said before Charlotte’s March 7 home loss to the Utah Jazz. “Some of the things that would go on, like not shooting the ball, passing all of the time (were unacceptable). ...
“I needed hoops and he could put the ball in the hoop. When that wouldn’t happen it was very disturbing. I think if he had played all out, the way he should have, it would have been a much, much better club.”
This is Diaw’s 10th season in the NBA, and he has career averages of 9.6 points and 4.9 rebounds per game.
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