Updated: December 17, 2011, 8:34 am ET

Spurs Spare Jefferson From Amnesty

By HOOPSWORLD
Basketball News & NBA Rumors

Meet the new starting small forward, same as the old starting small forward.

After a week of flirting with other small forwards, the Spurs will open the preseason tonight at the Toyota Center with Richard Jefferson still on the roster and the remaining three years and $30.5 million on his contract still on the team payroll.

Friday’s NBA deadline for executing amnesty on a player — waiving him in order to clean his contract off the books for salary-cap purposes — came and went without Jefferson being jettisoned.

via Jeff McDonald of the San Antonio Express-News

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