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Tiago Splitter Signs in Spain; Luther Head to Play in China

Found November 17, 2011 on SLAM Online:
PLAYERS: Tiago Splitter,  Luther Head,  Manu Ginobili
TEAMS: San Antonio Spurs

Spurs’ big man Tiago Splitter will hoop for Valencia BC, while Luther Head is off to China. From the Express-News and Yahoo! Sports: “Spurs center Tiago Splitter is headed overseas because of the NBA lockout, and guard Manu Ginobili is being recruited like a blue-chip prep prospect. One season removed from being Most Valuable Player of the Spanish ACB League, the website of ACB team Valencia BC reported Wednesday that Splitter has agreed to join the team. His contract will have an out clause allowing his return to the Spurs should the lockout end in time for the 2011-12 NBA season to commence. Though Ginobili, the All-Star guard, has said he would not consider playing overseas unless, and until, the entire NBA season is canceled, he has gotten offers from European teams on a daily basis, according to his agent. ‘Nothing is imminent,’ Herb Rudoy, Ginobili’s Chicago-based agent reported, via text message, ‘although we field inquiries from European t...
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