Deeper look at amnesty candidates reveals Spurs; slim chances at landing big

As an active Twitter user and after browsing our reader’s comments every day, I try to get the general consensus of what fans are discussing regarding the San Antonio Spurs.A few readers keep bringing up the idea of the Spurs signing Elton Brand now that he’s been amnestied by the Philadelphia 76ers. With word coming out of Houston late Wednesday evening that the Rockets were thinking of using the amnesty clause on Luis Scola, my twitter followers started inquiring about the possibility of Scola playing with the Spurs. To see if the Spurs could have a chance at any amnesty candidates, one must understand how the amnesty clause works first. I’ll admit, I’m not the “Larry Coon” of Project Spurs when it comes to team salaries and all the details of player contracts; I usually leave the economics up to our own Trevor Zickgraf. However I was interested in getting a general understanding of how the amnesty clause works. Here’s my simple explanation of the amnesty clause using a player ...