Welcome to the Open Thread. Throughout the month of June, we’re speaking NBA Draft. As we lead as much as the 2025 NBA Draft on June twenty fifth, we shall be revisiting the Spurs draft selections. At present we keep in mind the 2010 NBA Draft.
At this level in Spurs historical past, drafting within the twentieth spot was the very best that they had obtained since Tim Duncan went first within the 1997 draft. With that twentieth choose, the Spurs selected swingman James Anderson. Sadly, Anderson suffered an early damage in his profession and spent a lot of his first season yo-yoing between the Spurs and the D-League affiliate Austin Toros. After his first season he handed on his participant choice and went into the summer time a free agent.
Anderson continued to bounce round searching for a spot within the NBA and settling for stints within the D-League, however the San Antonio suited him up once more in a Spurs uniform (this time as #11 as his earlier #25 was now being worn by Nando de Colo) in 2012. With each Kawhi Leonard and Stephen Jackson nursing accidents, Anderson was once more stepping in as a small ahead. He was waived once more lower than a month later.
He continued to wrestle to discover a dwelling, spending brief spans with the Houston Rockets and Philadelphia 76ers earlier than transferring internationally into Lithuania, Istanbul, and Russia, Turkey, Spain, and Saudi Arabia the place he continues to play.
Within the second spherical, the Spurs drafted Ryan Richards, and English energy ahead/middle. Richards didn’t be part of the Spurs as he was rehabbing from two shoulder surgical procedures. In ten seasons, altering groups eighteen instances, Richards has stuffed his passport enjoying on Belgian, Swiss, Austrian, Grecian, Hungarian, Iranian, Lebanese, Bahraini, and Macedonian basketball groups.
So, in a 12 months during which the Spurs retained each of their very own draft selections, each gamers suffered what look like career-altering accidents.
If 2010 appears a mellow Spurs drafting 12 months, 2011 made up for it in spades.
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