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After the campers were in bed, a few counselors started drinking, and a young woman, another college basketball player, reportedly drank a half- dozen shots of schnapps, one after another. According to police records and the victim’s testimony, she asked Neal for some pretzels, and they went into the kitchen. “I was going to throw up,” she testified in court, according to the Philadelphia Daily News. “So the closest thing to me was the sink. So, I leaned over the sink and started throwing up, like, profusely. In the meantime, as this is transpiring, Gary came behind me and started undoing my pants while I’m throwing up. I’m barely, like, standing.” San Antonio Express-News

San Antonio Spurs, Gary Neal 

She testified Neal and another La Salle player raped her. She vomited again before passing out, she told the courtroom. The defense presented another version. After two days of jury deliberations, Neal and his teammate were acquitted. But to La Salle, this was a Kobe-like mess. Guilty or not guilty, the details were dirty. In the 17 months it took for the case to come to trial, the men’s coach, the women’s coach and both their staffs had lost their jobs. Neal had left school as well. He took out a student loan and enrolled at Towson University, near where he grew up in the Baltimore area. But life as a walk-on also came with obstacles. Neal’s case went before a special administrative committee. San Antonio Express-News

San Antonio Spurs, Gary Neal 

They also had some people on the inside. Neal played for Benetton Treviso last season, and the Spurs employ a few members of the Italian team as scouts. The Spurs then sat down with Neal three different times, including the mandatory one-on-one with Popovich. What they saw was a reserved, serious person; they guess his past contributed to that. The Spurs liked what they heard, and their research supported their impressions. It also didn’t hurt that, in four days of workouts before summer league began, Neal shot the ball historically well. San Antonio Express-News

San Antonio Spurs, Gary Neal 

With an opportunity to make guaranteed money for two seasons with the Italian League’s defending champion, Spurs swingman Malik Hairston asked the team to release him from the final, non-guaranteed season of his contract. Having signed free-agent swingman Gary Neal to a three-year contract last week, the Spurs on Thursday complied with the request. “We valued Malik and had invested a lot in him, but this is an excellent opportunity for him and we were happy to honor his request,” said Spurs general manager R.C. Buford. Hairston must clear NBA waivers before he can sign a two-year deal with Montepaschi Siena, winner of the past four Italian League titles. San Antonio Express-News

The San Antonio Spurs announced today they have signed guard Gary Neal. Per team policy, terms of the deals were not disclosed. Neal, 6-4, 210 lbs., played on the Spurs 2010 summer league team in Las Vegas where he led the team in scoring. He averaged 16.0 points and 2.6 rebounds in 25.8 minutes while shooting .500 (30-60) from the field and .500 (17-34) from beyond the arc in five games. NBA.com

Gary Neal, the shooting star of the Spurs' recently completed Las Vegas Summer League, has agreed to a three-year deal with the team, his agent confirmed this morning. David Bauman says his client is en route to San Antonio, and will sign a contract contingent on passing a physical examination. San Antonio Express-News

Source outside #spurs org believes Neal deal indeed fully guaranteed. Thinks Neal could take Roger Mason minutes from last season. Twitter

Gary Neal signed a three year guaranteed contract with the San Antonio Spurs his agent David Bauman confirms to us. Twitter