The San Antonio Spurs just showed the whole basketball world how top-notch their organization is as key free agents last off-season decided to join forces with them to be part of their culture.

Zooming into forward David West, who came from Indiana and decided to turn down the third option of his contract which is worth more than $11 million and ultimately sign with the Spurs for the league minimum.

So what made him decide to settle for a lot less in exchange for a higher chance to win a championship next season?

"Towards the end of my career, it's just (about) having options and being able to make decisions based on everything but the fact that I need, need, need money and have to scrape every last dollar out of the NBA," said West via USA Today who is said to be one of the most generous NBA players today. "I'm beyond that at this point in my professional and personal life."

"I see guys all the time make decisions based on the money, especially toward the end, just hanging on and trying to make up for mistakes they made earlier. But we're not in that situation."

For West, he was able to make sound investment since he got into the league and that security made it less harder for him to leave money on the table.

"My whole career, I've been very strategic about what I've done with my money and how we've invested," West said. "The future is very bright, so when it came down to this basketball decision, I was saying, 'Well, it's not about money at this point, it's about finding ... a good basketball environment where I might learn and ultimately compete at the very top."

"These guys (the Spurs) are there every year. The organization, there's like a mythological lure about them and the way people talk about them."

As an added bonus, he is a fan of the San Antonio Spurs since he was young and playing for them is a dream come true as well as the experience will definitely be priceless.

"I've been a Spurs fan my whole life, and having an opportunity and wanting to learn from (Tim) Duncan and Manu (Ginobili) and Tony (Parker) and obviously Coach (Gregg) Popovich and all his knowledge, I just felt like it was a good environment, and it was the best environment," said West.