Just months after agreeing to a multi-year contract, the Spurs and DeMarre Carroll have parted ways. The veteran forward took a buyout and will sign with the Rockets.
It was hard to see this coming, since the Spurs typically don’t like to pay players to go away, but it’s an eerily appropriate ending to a partnership that never made a lot of sense.
The Spurs added Carroll after re-signing Rudy Gay and with Davis Bertans still on the roster, which was curious even at the time. With a glut of guards vying for minutes and DeMar DeRozan entrenched at the small forward spot, Carroll seemed like a good luxury to have off the bench to guard big wings and play power forward in small lineups, but didn’t really fill a need with Gay around.