Omaha World-Herald wrote:The San Antonio Spurs announced Wednesday that they have signed the former Creighton star to a two-year contract. Per team policy, the club did not disclose terms of the deal.
But Tolliver told The World-Herald while he is not assured a spot on the Spurs' 2008-09 roster, the contract is partially guaranteed.
Tolliver played with New Jersey's entry in the Orlando Summer League before joining the Spurs' team, where he played seven games in Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. He averaged 13.4 points and 4.6 rebounds in the seven games, shooting 60 percent (36 of 60) from the field and 53 percent (19 of 36) from 3-point range.
Tolliver said improving his 3-point shooting has been the key in landing his spot with the Spurs.
"I knew it would be my niche, how I was going to make my money," he said. "That's why I've worked hard on my shooting and extending my range."
It sounds like there is no guarantee that he will be on the opening day roster. It is a really good sign that the Spurs have been interested in him for quite a while. I read up on a Spurs message board, and they all seem to think he should make the roster if he shows up to camp and does what he is capable of doing. Interesting that he has turned into more of a 3 point shooter since leaving Creighton. This will be interesting to watch, I am really excited for him.
STEVEN PIVOVAR WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER wrote:Tolliver was practicing with the Spurs on Thursday when informed of his mother's death. He left the team to return to Springfield to be with his family. Her death came on the same day that Tolliver, a former Creighton star, officially learned that he made the San Antonio Spurs' roster.
Anthony Tolliver, a rookie free agent who the Spurs signed after an impressive summer league showing, recently returned to the team following an absence due to the death of his mother.
Now that he is back I hope he gets some decent playing time. The Spurs started the season with 3 losses before yesterdays win.
AT played in his first NBA game this evening. Surprisingly he took 6 3's making 2 and one FG - 4 Reb's, 3 Ast's with no TO's in 22 minutes of playing time. Not bad for his first game.
NBA.com wrote:The San Antonio Spurs announced today that they have waived forward Anthony Tolliver. The 6-8, 240-pound Tolliver appeared in 19 games for the Spurs where he averaged 2.7 points and 2.2 rebounds in 10.9 minutes. He also spent time with the Austin Toros, the Spurs affiliate in the NBA Development League. In six games with the Toros, Tolliver averaged 17.8 points and 7.8 rebounds.
According to 590, Anthony Tolliver was at the CU game last night and then he left for Turkey this morning. Â He is going to play out the rest of the season in Turkey and try to make an NBA camp this summer. Â Apparently we is going to make some good money over in Turkey.
Tolliver signed a ten day contract with Golden State last week and actually started their last two games against New Jersey and Phoenix where he averaged a double/double (12/10 and 19/11). Hopefully they will extend his contract or better yet - prove to the league he is good enough to start (for someone better than GS)
No wonder the Wolves were willing to sign him to a two-year, $4.5 million deal this summer.
He playfully announced the agreement on a YouTube video titled "The Decision: Part Deux," a spoof of LeBron James' ESPN special. Clearly, Tolliver is having fun with his new lot in life.
Tolliver isn't a big name, and he's not going to step in and make up for all the Suns are losing without Frye. What he is is another option to fill that stretch four role along with the Morris twins, as well as a great locker room guy (something the Suns value highly).
Tolliver morphed into more of a small forward for the Hawks and Bobcats, but with the Suns he'll slide back to his natural power forward position. As the years have passed, Tolliver has focused more and more on his shooting and less on scoring in other ways, and it resulted in 1.12 points per possession this past year, good for ninth overall in the Synergy database.
This season he was knocking down three-pointers at a 43.6 percent clip. To put into perspective how ridiculous this is, he finished the season sixth in the entire league for three-point shooting. He finished ahead of Steph Curry (obviously Curry shoots a lot more threes) and only a handful of spots behind Klay Thompson.
This is elite territory to find yourself in.
Tolliver, in his 10th season of NBA basketball, is still improving and shows no signs of slowing down.
With Minnesota trading for Robert Covington and Dario Saric, it looks like Tolliver may be stuck on the bench. Head coach Tom Thibodeau tends to give heavy minutes to his starters and uses a small rotation of players off the bench, so Tolliver may see few minutes. Minnesota may not need Tolliver's three-point shooting prowess as much with Covington in the starting lineup.
So what is Anthony Tolliver doing when he is not playing ball? He is part of a four person co-owner group selling blankets. Not just any blanket though. a 10' X 10' blanket from a startup company in his home area Springfield MO
With $94,286 raised in nearly two months, Big Blanket Co.’s crowdfunding campaign came in 943 percent above its goal of $10,000. The campaign ended at midnight after launching Nov. 14.
Co-owners Bryan Simpson, Josh Stewart, Dane Watts and Anthony Tolliver sought the funding to bring to life 10-foot-tall by 10-foot-wide polyester and spandex blankets designed to cover customers from head to toe. Through the campaign, 591 backers contributed. The blankets sold for as low as $129 through the Kickstarter, and Big Blanket Co. is selling the product for a retail price of $209 online.
nebugeater wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2019 9:05 am
So what is Anthony Tolliver doing when he is not playing ball? He is part of a four person co-owner group selling blankets. Not just any blanket though. a 10' X 10' blanket from a startup company in his home area Springfield MO
With $94,286 raised in nearly two months, Big Blanket Co.’s crowdfunding campaign came in 943 percent above its goal of $10,000. The campaign ended at midnight after launching Nov. 14.
Co-owners Bryan Simpson, Josh Stewart, Dane Watts and Anthony Tolliver sought the funding to bring to life 10-foot-tall by 10-foot-wide polyester and spandex blankets designed to cover customers from head to toe. Through the campaign, 591 backers contributed. The blankets sold for as low as $129 through the Kickstarter, and Big Blanket Co. is selling the product for a retail price of $209 online.
nebugeater wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2019 9:05 am
So what is Anthony Tolliver doing when he is not playing ball? He is part of a four person co-owner group selling blankets. Not just any blanket though. a 10' X 10' blanket from a startup company in his home area Springfield MO
With $94,286 raised in nearly two months, Big Blanket Co.’s crowdfunding campaign came in 943 percent above its goal of $10,000. The campaign ended at midnight after launching Nov. 14.
Co-owners Bryan Simpson, Josh Stewart, Dane Watts and Anthony Tolliver sought the funding to bring to life 10-foot-tall by 10-foot-wide polyester and spandex blankets designed to cover customers from head to toe. Through the campaign, 591 backers contributed. The blankets sold for as low as $129 through the Kickstarter, and Big Blanket Co. is selling the product for a retail price of $209 online.
