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A 2013 archive photo shows Portland Trail Blazers power forward LaMarcus Aldridge (cen-
ter) Nicolas Batum (left) and Robin Lopez. All three will be playing for different teams next
season.
Aldridge to Sign with San Antonio
Power forward latest Blazer saying goodbye
(AP) — LaMarcus Aldridge
announced Saturday that he
will sign with San Antonio
in a move that will align him
with Tim Duncan and Kawhi
Leonard to form what would
figure to be among the league’s
most-formidable frontcourts.
“I’m happy to say I’m go-
ing home to Texas and will be
a Spur!!” Aldridge, a Dallas
native, posted to his verified
Twitter account. “I’m excited
to join the team and be close to
my family and friends.”
The Spurs could not com-
ment because of the league’s
offseason moratorium. Al-
dridge, who spent his first nine
seasons with the Portland Trail
Blazers, will be eligible to sign
his new deal Thursday.
He met with several teams,
all who were offering what the
Spurs did: $80 million for four
years. The Los Angeles Lakers
tried to woo him to play along-
side Kobe Bryant. The Maver-
icks tried to sell him on coming
home. Houston and Phoenix
made pitches as well, and Pat
Riley flew to Los Angeles to
try to talk Aldridge into leav-
ing the loaded Western Confer-
ence, coming East and joining
the Miami Heat.
It ushers in a new era for
Portland. Damian Lillard got a
new $120 million deal in recent
days to stay with the Blazers,
but Wesley Matthews (Dallas),
Nic Batum (Charlotte), Arron
Afflalo (New York) and Robin
Lopez (New York) are heading
elsewhere.
Now Aldridge, the sec-
ond-leading scorer in Portland
history behind only Clyde
Drexler, is gone as well.
Blazers GM Neil Olshey
made several moves in prepa-
ration for Aldridge’s departure.
He sent Batum to Charlotte for
guard Gerald Henderson and
second-year power forward
Noah Vonleh, added big man
Mason Plumlee in a draft-day
trade with Brooklyn and signed
versatile power forward Ed
Davis to a three-year, $20 mil-
lion deal.
Aldridge averaged a ca-
reer-high 23.4 points and also
grabbed 10.2 rebounds per
game while playing with an
injured thumb last season for
the Blazers. And last year he
added a new dimension to his
game - the 3-pointer, making
37 of them after making a total
of 24 in his first eight seasons
combined.
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