San Antonio Spurs to Be Better than Expected After Big Offseason

After a 22-win 2023-24 season, the San Antonio Spurs didn’t have much to look forward to in terms of winning, but their No. 1 overall selection in the 2023 NBA Draft showed the rest of the world that the team could be competing in no time. Victor Wembanyama , the 2023-24 NBA Rookie of the Year, performed spectacularly in his debut season, as well as other young players like Devin Vassell and Jeremy Sochan . Seeing that their young players could still use some help with issues such as connectivity and balanced scoring attacks, the Spurs front office set out to add more core pieces, both young and old, in multiple different areas of the offseason process.

Now that the team was able to compile several core pieces of a winning team in the 2024-25 season and beyond, San Antonio could be a very attractive destination for more high-end free-agent talent. If the team could somehow manage to scrape their way into the NBA Play-In Tournament , or even the 2025 NBA Playoffs , others may be enticed to join Wembanyama and a young, rising core.

2024 NBA Draft: San Antonio Selects Stephon Castle No. 4 Overall

In the 2024 NBA Draft, the Spurs had the No. 4 and No.8 overall picks. With the fourth overall selection, the team selected Stephon Castle , a guard out of UConn who was coming off of a national championship victory in his lone season in college. Castle profiles as an extremely solid player on the offensive end, and could potentially be the most NBA-ready player in the entire draft.

The 19-year-old Castle averaged 11.1 points on 47.2 percent shooting from the field, but his three-point shooting could use some work as he only connected on 26.7 percent of his long-range attempts. San Antonio would also trade away their eighth pick, and the rights to former Kentucky point guard, Rob Dillingham , to the Minnesota Timberwolves , seeing as though they had already selected their lead guard for the future.