Welcome to the Open Thread. In the course of the month of June, we’re speaking NBA Draft. As we lead as much as the 2025 NBA Draft on June twenty fifth, we will likely be revisiting the Spurs draft selections. At the moment we bear in mind the 2016 NBA Draft.
Spurs selected Dejounte Murray with the twenty ninth choose within the draft. He spent his rookie season backing up Tony Parker. Parker suffered a leg harm in the course of the postseason, which allowed Murray to begin in Sport 3 of the Western Convention Semi-Finals,
The following season Parker yielded his beginning spot to Murray, handing him the baton. Murray then grew to become the place to begin guard for the Spurs. In the beginning of the 2018-2019 season, Murray suffered an ACL harm in preseason that saved him out for the complete yr.
He returned in 2019 and for the subsequent three seasons, his output improved. Scoring, assists, and rebounds all elevated. In 2022, Murray served within the All-Star Sport as a substitute to Draymond Inexperienced.
In the summertime of 2022, Murray was traded together with Jock Landale to the Atlanta Hawks for Danilo Gallinari and a number of future first-round picks together with the fourteenth choose that materializes later this month.
Murray performed with the Hawks for 2 seasons in an try and construct a backcourt powerhouse with Trae Younger. The experiment didn’t produce as anticipated and Murray was traded to New Orleans for a bevy of gamers and picks.
Isaiah Cousins, chosen with the 59th choose, by no means suited up for the Silver & Black. He has bounced between the G-League (Reno, Salt Lake Metropolis, and Maine) in addition to abroad golf equipment (France, Greece, Estonia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovakia, and a number of stints in Israel), filling his passport alongside the way in which.
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