The opposite night time on the Spurs Reside Pregame, there was point out of some present NBA gamers with ties to San Antonio.
Charles Bassey, who performed at St. Anthony right here in San Antonio, is a present member of his hometown (through Lagos, Nigeria) Spurs. He lately suffered a season-ending ACL damage. Bassey has proven a number of potential and hopefully may have an opportunity to return to the large present and exhibit his recreation sooner or later.
Taurean Prince performed highschool ball at Warren Excessive College. He’s presently with the Los Angeles Lakers and got here by means of for 2 video games in entrance of his hometown crowd. The Spurs and Lakers cut up the video games, Prince performed effectively in each scoring 17 and 15 within the two video games.
Jordan Clarkson, a standout at Wagner Excessive College, additionally simply handed by means of city with the Utah Jazz earlier this week. He usually torches the Spurs, and his 24 factors on Tuesday was constant along with his output in earlier matchups.
The fourth is Stanley Umude, who additionally attended Warren Excessive College. He went undrafted in 2022 and is presently on a two-way contract with the Detroit Pistons. We received’t get our first appears at Umude (if in any respect) till the Pistons come by means of on January tenth.
Coming from a special angle, Atlanta Hawks swingman Wes Matthews was really born in San Antonio. That’s as a result of on the time his father, Wes Matthrews, Sr. was taking part in for the Spurs throughout the 1985-86 season. In any other case, the youthful Matthews by no means performed for an area college and possibly has no recollection of his time right here in any respect.
There have additionally been numerous former gamers who honed their craft within the Alamo Metropolis, however we’ll save that for an additional day.
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