We’re lower than two weeks away from the NBA Draft and the rumor mill is churning. Whispers of potential trades and touchdown spots for the 2024 Draft class are seeping onto everybody’s social media timelines. The San Antonio Spurs are one of the crucial widespread groups talked about in these rumors. They’ve particularly been tied to a different hyped french prospect.
This week, SKWEEK, a publication overlaying European basketball tweeted that potential first-overall choose, Zaccharie Risacher, is heading to the U.S. to exercise with the Spurs and the Atlanta Hawks.
Entraînement à l’Astroballe ce matin pour la pépite Zaccharie Risacher !
Demain, il prendra la route des USA où il effectuera plusieurs exercises avec notamment San Antonio ou encore Atlanta ! ✈️ pic.twitter.com/JqcqA3eVh7
— SKWEEK (@skweektv) June 11, 2024
Risacher has been closely featured within the dialogue across the first choose to Atlanta. It is smart why they might wish to get the french wing in for a exercise. However he’s not the one prospect the Hawks have their eyes on. In response to a current report by Kevin O’Connor at The Ringer, the Hawks have explored commerce down situations to focus on UCONN massive man, Donovan Clingan. Whether or not these rumors are reality, or smokescreens, it’s clear that Atlanta is doing it’s due diligence with the primary choose.
This might imply a few issues for the Spurs. If Risacher is the prospect they worth essentially the most, they may commerce up with Atlanta to seize him at primary. Or they may have some indication that Risacher may not be Atlanta’s most well-liked choose at primary, and take the prospect he falls to their fourth general choice. Both means, in a flat draft class, it is smart for Brian Wright, Gregg Popovich and the Spurs entrance workplace to conduct their due diligence on the entire prospects on the high of their draft board.
Risacher isn’t the one prospect the Spurs have labored out to this point. In response to Hoops Hype’s 2024 Draft Exercise Tracker, San Antonio has met with the next prospects:
Zaccharie Risacher, JL Bourg
Tidjane Salaun, Cholet
Dillon Jones, Weber State
Jamal Shead, Houston
Trentyn Flowers, Adelaide (Australian NBL)
Tristen Newton, UCONN
Antonio Reeves, Kentucky
Boogie Ellis, USC
Jesse Edwards, West Virginia
Tristan Enaruna, Cleveland State
Aaron Estrada, Alabama
Blake Hinson, Pittsburgh
KJ Jones, Emmanuel (NCAA D2)
JT Toppin, New Mexico (withdrew from the draft)
There could also be extra prospects which have labored out for the Spurs, however these are those which have been reported on. Risacher and Salaun stick out as two French prospects who challenge to be lottery picks. To learn extra about what Risacher and Salaun carry to the desk as gamers, take a look at our prospect profiles on every.
