San Antonio Wants to Get Younger, Signs 35-Year-Old Kurt Thomas

The logical action when seeking to make your team younger is to sign one of the oldest players in the league, right? Those San Antonio Spurs and their tricky math ...

The Associated Press reports the Spurs have come to an agreement with 35-year-old Kurt Thomas, who played for the team for a few months last season after a wink-nod-wink deal with the SuperSonics involving Brent Barry and Francisco Elson. (The Spurs sent Barry and Elson to Seattle, who is run by former Spurs exec Sam Presti. Presti cut Barry, who returned to San Antonio. Also, it has been alleged Presti left a better deal from Orlando on the table in order to gift Thomas to his old buddies. Sam Presti is one shady milkman.)

The Spurs of 2007-08 were the oldest team in the NBA since at least 2004 (and quite possibly the mid-1990s). Adding Roger Mason to the backcourt made things a little less creaky, sure. And Thomas is nothing to sneeze at: few big men, no matter their age, defend like Kurt. But the 'Spurs get younger' narrative just isn't coming together here. This is still a historically old team, one which got knocked out by the Lakers in five this year.