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 will likely be revisiting the Spurs draft decisions. Immediately we bear in mind the 2020 NBA Draft.
The Spurs, like everybody else, needed to alter to the COVID restrictions. The 2020 NBA Draft was distinctive in that the NBA hopefuls watched from residence. Most gamers anticipated to be drafted had a case of baseball hats with the assorted NBA logos readily available. They then placed on the designated workforce’s hat on when their title was known as.
The Spurs selected Devin Vassell with the eleventh choose within the draft.
The previous Florida Seminole simply accomplished his fifth season with the Silver & Black. In every of the primary 4 seasons, his stats improved. Initially of the 2023-2024 season, Vassell inked a 5–12 months/$146M contract extension, the most important in Spurs franchise historical past. That season noticed profession averages in factors, assists, and area aim share mirrored the rise in minutes and begins.
With the forty first choose within the draft, the Spurs selected Tre Jones. Jones, 2020’s ACC Participant of the 12 months and Defensive Participant of the 12 months, was a terrific match for San Antonio. A keen neighborhood chief off the court docket mirrored his willingness on court docket to take any position essential. Whether or not he was beginning or coming off the bench, Jones confirmed he was at all times prepared. Final season, Jones (together with Zach Collins and Sidy Cissoko) was a part of three workforce commerce that introduced De’Aaron Fox and Jordan McLaughlin to San Antonio.
The commerce was thought-about a steal for the Spurs as they sacrificed solely draft picks and bench gamers for a star guard in Fox.
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