For the 1,837th time, the San Antonio Spurs aren’t done. After a breakfast meeting in Los Angeles Wednesday and then a followup Lunch on Friday, the Spurs convinced superstar free agent LaMarcus Aldridge to leave the Portland Trail Blazers and agree to a four-year, $80 million max contract to move back home to Texas.

I’m happy to say I’m going home to Texas and will be a Spur!! I’m excited to join the team and be close to my family and friends.

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— Lamarcus Aldridge (@aldridge_12) July 4, 2015

All the dominos that had to fall perfectly for the Spurs to pull this off did, and in impressive fashion. First, the Spurs had to agree to a five-year, $85 million deal with Kawhi Leonard, then they had to get Danny Green to take a discounted four-year, $45 million contract and finally had to trade Tiago Splitter and his hefty salary to the Atlanta Hawks to clear up the cap space to land Aldridge.

Of course, all of this hinges on Tim Duncan (and probably Manu Ginobili) taking a huge discount, which could include a partially guaranteed contract, and all reports indicate he’ll do that.

So with basically everyone back from the last few years of title runs, the Spurs will still have their same starting five with Aldridge in the place of Splitter. Calling that a huge upgrade would also be a huge understatement.

Of course, Cory Joseph and Matt Bonner are both still free agents who are relatively likely to return, but certainly not guaranteed. As Gregg Popovich said after the Spurs’ playoff loss to the Los Angeles Clippers, the team will probably look very different for the 2015-16 season, but with Aldridge on board and Green back in the fold, that doesn’t really seem like such a bad thing.

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