The Spurs have stuffed at their required 14th roster spot, and it’s with one other returning face. For the second 12 months in a row, Jordan McLaughlin is returning on a minimal deal value $3.3 million for one 12 months, per ESPN’s Shams Charania.
McLaughlin got here to San Antonio with De’Aaron Fox from the Kings in February of 2025 and has been a invaluable veteran off the bench for the Spurs. He appeared in 44 video games final season, and though he solely averaged 2 factors and an help in 6 min per recreation, he was all the time prepared when referred to as upon, together with within the few situations he obtained rotation minutes when any mixture of De’Aaron Fox, Stephon Citadel or Dylan Harper had been out.
The signing fills out all of the Spurs’ required roster spots, though they’ll nonetheless signal a fifteenth participant in the event that they select. Additionally they nonetheless have one two-way slot they’ll fill. With the returns of McLaughlin, Harrison Barnes and Julian Champagnie, the Spurs are returning their high 11 gamers in video games performed, and the addition of veteran ahead Tobias Harris and drafting of huge males Tarris Reed and Jayden Quaintance shores up what had been thought-about the one weak areas within the rotation. In different phrases, the Spurs are operating again a group that made the finals and had been a couple of blown leads from profitable all of it, and so they nonetheless managed to get higher regardless of restricted assets (barring a large commerce, which wasn’t wanted).
Welcome again to San San Antonio, Jordan!
