The San Antonio Spurs’ championship goals are useless.
Sorry. Much less dramatic this time.
The San Antonio Spurs’ summer time league championship goals are useless. Reason for dying: a 106-81 blowout loss to the Charlotte Hornets.
The summer time Spurs have been in prime place to make the semifinals of the NBA 2K26 Las Vegas Summer time League, coming into the sport, needing to win by an honest margin to clinch a spot. After a tightly contested first quarter, the Hornets pulled away on the again of an enormous second-quarter run that the Spurs couldn’t get well from.
It wasn’t all dangerous information for San Antonio, although. With no Dylan Harper, who was shut down for the remainder of the summer time league, all eyes have been on fourteenth total choose, Carter Bryant. Bryant has turned heads in the summertime league together with his protection, however got here into the sport averaging simply 4 factors a sport on under 20% capturing from the sphere. He turned the offense on in opposition to Charlotte.
Bryant completed with 16 factors, 5 rebounds, and three assists whereas capturing 6-9 from the sphere and 4-6 from three. The Hornets began the sport with massive man Ryan Kalkbrenner “guarding” Bryant, or standing within the paint and letting him shoot from three. Bryant rapidly knocked down a pair of triples to make the Hornets respect him from three. He had a number of stable drives to the rim and a candy mid-range jumper as effectively. His protection wasn’t fairly nearly as good because it has been in earlier video games, as he missed a number of rotations right here and there, and misplaced monitor of his man a number of instances. Bryant left the sport after some awkward contact on a display screen within the fourth quarter. It was a puzzling determination to re-enter Bryant, because the sport was already to this point out of attain.
There wasn’t a lot else doing for the Spurs offensively within the sport. Harrison Ingram had an offensive outburst within the fourth quarter to earn him a good stat line. He had 17 factors, 4 rebounds, and 4 assists, whereas capturing 5-11 from three. The Spurs’ second-year wing got here on robust because the summer time has gone alongside. He’ll be an attention-grabbing participant to observe for on a two-way contract.
The hero of the Spurs’ summer time league staff has been David Jones-Garcia. He had his first off-game of the summer time, scoring 12 factors on 4-14 capturing. He added 9 rebounds and 4 assists within the loss.
San Antonio can have a fifth and ultimate LV summer time league sport to be introduced later this week. It stays to be seen whether or not Bryant will go well with up or if the Spurs will relaxation the lottery choose after his harm.
