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 can be revisiting the Spurs draft decisions. At the moment we bear in mind the 2009 NBA Draft.
On February 20, 2008, Sam Pesti despatched energy ahead/middle Kurt Thomas to San Antonio for Francisco Elson, Brent Barry, and the Spurs 2009 first spherical draft choose. By the point of the draft, the Sonics had been renamed the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder. The Thunder drafted Rodrigue Beaubois because the twenty fifth general choose.
Throughout the second spherical, the Spurs used the thirty seventh choose (acquired from the commerce the earlier yr from the Phoenix Suns for Goran Dragić whose personal draft spot had been obtained one yr previous to that when the Spurs despatched the draft rights of Giorgos Printezis to Toronto) to decide on DeJuan Blair, arguably to switch the void left when Thomas was traded together with Bruce Bowen and Fabricio Oberto to the Milwaukee Bucks. Blair performed 4 seasons for the Silver & Black ending his tenure after the 2013 NBA Finals. He performed three extra season within the NBA earlier than stints in China and the D-League. Presently, Blair performs for the Argentine league San Lorenzo de Almagro. Blair retired a yr later after r testing constructive for oxymorphone-oxycodone.
The 51st choose of the draft initially belonged to the Toronto Raptors, however had been transferred to the New Orleans Pelicans in a commerce involving Aaron Williams. The Spurs acquired the choose from the New Orleans Pelicans in a 2006 commerce that despatched Rasho Nesterović to Toronto and introduced Matt Bonner and Eric Williams to San Antonio. The Spurs then used the choose and drafted Jack McClinton. McClinton was waived by the Spurs and performed in Turkey and Ukraine earlier than ending his profession within the D-League. He and Carlos Boozer co-founded Loaded Dock, specializing in males’s swimwear.
The 53rd choose initially belonged to the Houston Rockets however had been acquired by the Spurs in a 2007 commerce involving Vassilis Spanoulis, Jackie Butler, and the draft rights to Luis Scola. The Spurs drafted Nando de Colo who performed with the Spurs from 2012 till being traded on the 2014 deadling to the Toronto Raptors for Austin Daye. De Colo nonetheless performs with ASVEL in France.
And simply to make clear, the Spurs precise second spherical choose was the 54th general. That spot went to the Charlotte Bobcats together with Eric Williams (sure, the exact same Eric Williams who’d come to San Antonio solely eight months earlier) and money issues from San Antonio in change for Melvin Ely. Charlotte selected Robert Vaden with that 54th choose.
So, when you adopted all of that, you’re starting to know how a lot motion there’s within the NBA. The Spurs didn’t retain both of their very own draft picks and nonetheless managed to wind up with three gamers. And after all the shuffling, a kind of gamers was waived.
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