It’s a Spurs reunion! Nicely, form of. Two members of the 2014 Spurs Championship and longtime teammates are teaming up once more, this time as participant and coach over in France. ASVEL of the French LDLC and Euro League has introduced it has signed Patty Mills for the 2026-27 season, and he will likely be coached by none apart from his former Spurs teammate, Tony Parker, who’s a 20% proprietor and head coach.
Mills even took a video of his name with Parker, with each expressing pleasure concerning the reunion.
37 years outdated (I actually thought he was older by now), Mills was drafted at fifty fifth total by the Portland Path Blazers in 2009 earlier than becoming a member of the Spurs in 2012, ultimately incomes the spot of Parker’s back-up and taking part in an enormous function off the bench of their 2014 championship run, averaging 10.2 factors whereas capturing 56.5% from three-point vary throughout the Finals. He ended up spending 10 seasons with the Spurs and was the chief of the workforce by way of the 2021-22 season earlier than transferring on because the Spurs started the youth motion. He journeyed round from there, along with his final NBA look being with the Clippers within the 2024-25 season. (That’s one other Spurs reunion we gained’t speak about.) He’s additionally the final supervisor of the College of Hawai’i basketball program.
Many Spurs followers consider/hope the Spurs will retire Mills’ #8 jersey sometime (final worn by Kelly Olynyk final season), and it’s fairly attainable as soon as his taking part in profession involves a finish. Hopefully such an occasion will carry Patty again to San Antonio, however within the meantime, how about some highlights for outdated time’s sake?
