With two picks within the 2025 NBA Draft lottery, the San Antonio Spurs have loads of selections to make. One is turning into extra clear as we inch nearer to draft night time. It’s turning into evident that the Spurs will choose Dylan Harper with the second general decide, taking the perfect expertise out there to them with their high choice.
The fourteenth decide has been tougher to pin down. It’s been unclear in the event that they’ll even make the choice, as commerce rumors have swirled across the decide, particularly surrounding a possible Kevin Durant commerce. Nonetheless, the asking value appears too excessive for the growing old celebrity, so San Antonio may very well decide a participant at fourteen. However who? Listed below are a number of gamers the Spurs ought to contemplate in the event that they use their fourteenth choice.
Cedric Coward, 21-year-old 6’6” Wing, Washington State
6 video games, 17.7 factors, 7 rebounds, 1.7 blocks, 55.7% FG, 40% 3PT, 83.9% FT
Coward has been the quickest riser within the 2025 draft due to his elite measurements, athletic instruments, capturing potential, and a few nice interviews on the NBA Draft Mix. It’s humorous to suppose what his inventory can be if he had performed a full senior season at Washington State. He solely performed 6 video games earlier than struggling a torn labrum in observe.
Coward can be an superior off-ball participant for San Antonio. He’s an instinctive cutter and a knockdown shooter. He has lots of work to do to show he will be an impactful scorer off the dribble, however he finishes nicely on the rim and hits threes at a excessive clip. The Spurs don’t want the fourteenth decide to be a go-to man, with Victor Wembanyama, De’Aaron Fox, Dylan Harper, and Stephon Fort dealing with extra of the scoring load. Coward matches in nicely as a participant with defensive upside and the potential to be an elite off-ball menace.
San Antonio can be betting on a small pattern measurement with Coward, however he looks like the right Spur. He appears to be a high-character, unselfish participant who can guard a number of positions. Coward would seemingly nonetheless undergo some rookie rising pains defensively, particularly off the ball, however his capturing would give the Spurs a participant they may immediately plug into their wing rotation.
Carter Bryant, 19-year-old 6’8” Wing, Arizona
37 video games, 6.5 factors, 4.1 rebounds, 1.9 shares, 46% FG, 37.1% 3PT, 69.5% FT
Do you see the sample right here? Bryant is a protracted, high-upside three-and-D wing who can present some capturing that the Spurs desperately want. He’s one other quick riser within the draft who might not be out there if the Spurs wind up selecting at fourteen. Bryant needed to reduce his tooth on a great Arizona crew in his freshman season, solely beginning 5 video games, however proved himself to be a key piece of their NCAA Event run.
Bryant is a defensive canine. He’s robust, aggressive (perhaps too aggressive as he struggles with fouls) and athletic. He might be a high-end defensive wing on the subsequent stage. The kicker, and what’s making him look increasingly more like a top-10 decide, is his potential to shoot the three. Bryant hit 37% of his catch and shoot threes at Arizona, and shot 41.4% from three on the EYBL circuit in highschool. He’s bought a pure stroke that appears translatable to the subsequent stage. It seems like there may be some potential for him to finally develop a pull-up jumper as nicely.
Bryant might not be able to play a main function but, however he might be a contributor for the Spurs in 12 months one, and a key developmental piece that will make the San Antonio a formidable defensive drive alongside Wemby and Fort. It is a dream decide for the Silver and Black at fourteen, if he falls to them.
Egor Demin, 19-year-old 6’9” combo-wing, BYU
33 video games, 10.6 factors, 3.9 rebounds, 5.5 assists, 41.2% FG, 27.3% 3PT, 69.5% FT
Demin is a bit totally different from the opposite wings on this record. He’s extra of some extent guard in a wing’s physique, than a straight up three-and-D swingman. Demin was spectacular in his freshman season working out of the decide and roll, and discovering his teammates as a passer. If the NBA Finals have taught us something, it’s that having a number of playmakers on the court docket without delay is tough to organize for. Demin would give the Spurs a playmaker on the wing.
The difficulty with Demin is he didn’t shoot the ball from deep very nicely in his freshman season. Reviews have mentioned that groups are impressed together with his capturing potential thus far in pre-draft exercises. If that’s true, then Demin turns into much more fascinating as a prospect. Nonetheless, questions stay. Will he have the ability to play off the ball nicely sufficient, somewhat than being a main creator? Will he have the ability to create area for himself off the dribble within the NBA? What’s Demin’s offensive function if he’s the 4th and even fifth choice in a lineup?
All these questions apart, Demin simply looks like a participant the Spurs would really like. He’s huge, can play a number of positions, and passes the ball extraordinarily nicely. He was productive in a great convention, and confirmed up on the most important stage within the NCAA Event. San Antonio may take Demin and develop right into a Swiss military knife of an offensive participant that will grease the wheels of an offensive engine surrounding Wemby, Fox and Harper.
Danny Wolf, 21-year-old 7’0” Huge, Michigan
37 video games, 13.2 factors, 9.7 rebounds, 3.6 assists, 49.7% FG, 33.6% 3PT, 59.4% FT
The plain want for San Antonio is a giant man who can both again up, or play with Wembanyama. Wolf is a participant who may in all probability do both in time. The versatile huge can deal with the ball on the perimeter and has good footwork to attain across the basket. He seems snug taking photographs from deep, however hasn’t been all that environment friendly in his three years of faculty ball. If he shoots it, he’d give the Spurs one other versatile, offensive huge man who can dish the rock and area the ground.
Wolf is a bit sluggish, and never significantly stout defensively. He’d fill an identical area of interest that Sandro Mamukelashvili does, simply with extra measurement. Personally, I believe Mamu is a far more efficient NBA participant at 7 foot than 6-9. Wolf has the talent and basketball IQ to make an impression on the subsequent stage, regardless of his athletic shortcomings.
How San Antonio chooses to deal with their huge man depth is likely one of the extra fascinating questions of the offseason. Rumors have swirled for 3 years now that they need a giant who may play alongside Wembanyama, however the best lineups in Wemby’s profession have been with him at middle. Drafting somebody like Wolf can be a transparent indication that San Antonio is eager to play a double-big lineup with two posts who can dribble, move and shoot.
Joan Beringer, 18-year-old 7’0” Huge, Cedevita Olimpija (France)
64 video games, 5.4 factors, 4.9 rebounds, 1.4 blocks, 64.4% FG, 56.6% FT
A Frenchman to the Spurs? How cliche. In an reverse transfer from drafting Wolf, taking Beringer can be a guess on excessive upside and athletic instruments. Beringer has nice measurement and size for a giant man at 6’11” with a 7’5” wingspan, he runs the ground nicely and floats to the rim for athletic dunks. He’s an superior shot blocker for his age. Beringer might be an actual rim working, paint defending menace as he matures.
He’s nonetheless a bit uncooked, and offensively he depends on rim runs, dump offs and lobs. If the Spurs choose Beringer at 14, it will seemingly be a stash and improvement play, they usually’ll handle the again up huge man place in free company. Long run, having Beringer come off the bench to maintain rim safety at a excessive whereas Wembanyama sits would make the Spurs a significantly better defensive crew.
Beringer is rapidly shifting up draft boards. I’d maintain an eye fixed out on Atlanta at 13 as a crew that might use a defensive huge, and will snatch him earlier than the Spurs may take him. He’s actually a reputation to observe for them on the finish of the lottery.
