It’s no secret the San Antonio Spurs have been stockpiling future belongings. Spurs common supervisor, Brian Wright, has adopted the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder’s mannequin of buying as many draft picks as attainable whereas build up its younger core. In keeping with ESPN’s Bobby Marks, San Antonio’s treasure trove of belongings is one of the best within the league.
In a current piece for ESPN, Marks ranked the 5 groups that maintain 62 first-round draft picks over the following seven years, and 13 of the 30 choices within the 2025 draft: Oklahoma Metropolis, San Antonio, the Utah Jazz, Brooklyn Nets and Houston Rockets.
Here’s a temporary reminder of the first-rounders the Spurs personal over the following seven years:
All seven of their very own
Two unprotected from Atlanta (2025 and 2027)
High-14 protected against Charlotte (2025)
High-10 protected against Chicago (2025, top-8 protected in 2026 and 2027)
Unprotected from Minnesota (2031)
Swap rights: Atlanta (2026)
Swap rights: Boston (2028, top-1 protected)
Swap rights: Extra favorable of Dallas and Minnesota (top-1 protected) (2030)
Swap rights: Sacramento (2031)
Marks was most excited by the standard of the Spurs draft capital. In fact not owing a choose to anybody for the following seven drafts is nice, however San Antonio has amassed some extremely valued picks as nicely.
The Atlanta Hawks draft choices in 2025 and 2027 (plus the correct to swap in 2026) are amongst a number of the greatest belongings within the league. If one other tumultuous season happens in Atlanta, the Spurs might discover themselves with an additional lottery election in a stacked draft. The lack of DeMar DeRozan will hit the Chicago Bulls laborious. A bounce-back season from Zach LaVine and Nikola Vucevic might guarantee they keep out of the highest 10 within the draft. Charlotte is a wild card, however good cash is on the younger group lacking the playoffs. There’s a world the place the Spurs might have 4 first-round picks, but it surely’s extra possible they wind up with two – their very own and Atlanta’s.
In fact, what’s nice about all these picks is that the Spurs don’t really need to make use of all of them. San Antonio might dangle these picks in offers to amass ready-to-win gamers to encompass Victor Wembanyama. Or, as they did within the 2024 NBA Draft, they might flip a choose for a number of belongings down the road, just like the cope with the Minnesota Timberwolves. Both means, these high quality draft belongings have put themselves able to construct a contending roster round Wembanyama.
