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Spurs' Brazilian Contract

SAN ANTONIO, Kompas.com Club - San Antonio Spurs NBA players decided to sign ceter Brazilian Tiago Splitter who is also the best player the Spanish Basketball League.

Spurs decided to take a splitter in the first round of the draft. "We decided to take the best players currently playing in the NBA tifak," said Spurs manager gemeral, RC Bufford.

Splitter is a player with 2:22 m height. He led the club to win the Caja Laboral Vitoria Spanish league twice during the seven seasons there.

He noted an average of 15.4 points and 7.1 rebounds in the 2010 season. The result has left him twice selected as the best player in both the regular season to even the final.

Although not expressing it openly, the Spurs are expected Splitter contracted for three years with a contract value of 11 million U.S. dollars.

Splitter himself admitted will be happy to play with his idol during adolescence, Tim Duncan. "I am pleased to be with the players like Manu Ginóbili, Tim Duncan and Tony Parker," he said.