The San Antonio Spurs are the one staff within the 2025 NBA Draft with two picks contained in the lottery. They’ll have alternatives to pick out gamers at quantity two and quantity fourteen. Whereas the second decide is predicted to return a top-level prospect, the fourteenth is a little more of a toss-up.
The fourteenth decide has a variety of outcomes all through historical past. There are stars like Bam Adebayo, stable starters like Michael Porter Jr. and Marcus Morris, good function gamers like Aaron Nesmith, and gamers who’re out of the league like Denzel Valentine or Romeo Langford (no disrespect to the previous Spur!)
San Antonio is in a novel place the place they’ll choose a near-sure factor with the second decide, and take a swing with the fourteenth choice, or choose a safer, high-floor participant who matches a positional want. The Spurs might use one other huge man, and gamers like Thomas Sorber, Collin Murray-Boyles, Derik Queen, and Asa Newell will probably be out there at fourteen. There can be a alternative number of younger wings at fourteen, together with Cedric Coward, Carter Bryant, Nique Clifford, Liam McNeeley, and Rasheer Fleming, all of whom might fill a necessity for the Spurs.
Nonetheless, the prevailing thought across the league, in line with rumors, is that the Spurs would favor to commerce this decide for a veteran. That could possibly be in a splashy commerce for somebody like Kevin Durant, or in a extra measured transfer for a veteran wing or huge man who would come at a less expensive value. If nothing of that kind involves fruition, the Spurs might transfer out of or again within the draft, buying extra belongings in a transfer that might resemble the Rob Dillingham commerce from the 2024 NBA Draft.
In some ways, there’s a extra numerous set of choices for San Antonio with fourteen, making it one of the vital fascinating decisions of their offseason. What do you suppose the Spurs ought to do with the final choice within the lottery? Vote within the ballot beneath and go away your ideas within the feedback. We’ll be again later this week with the outcomes.
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