***The Official Brian Wright Appreciation Thread***

[benefactor]

You sir are a man among manly men.

Strength and honor.

[NASpurs]

He made me eat crow. Great trade.

[GAustex]

I am gonna miss Sidy

[Tyronn Lue]

We all said he was great. I remember it.

[jeebus]

Someone should get receipts

[vy65]

A scholar and a gentleman.

[024]

Holy shit that son of a bitch did it

[tonight...you]

He crushed it.
No other way to say it.

Now we move forward.
I'm hoping for more moves to balance things out to our advantage.
Otherwise then it's up to Mitch and the Old Man to figure out how to maximize this cast of characters.

At least the talent level went exponentially up so let's do this damn thing.

[Dejounte]

That’s an amazing trade to pull off. Wow. Can still get my boy Rasheer Fleming

[CorrectCrusader]

He cooked, I gotta change my pfp n shit

[Uriel]

“Diversity hire” :rolleyes

[BatManu20]

Let 'em hang big dawg.


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gi08bXxXgAAPxdo?format=jpg&name=medium

[scott]

We knew this man could sell, and today he showed us that he could buy with the best of 'em.

Bow down before this man. And I don't think he's done.

[mikec]

Incredible deal. I salute you Mr RIGHT.

[spursparker9]

Well done Brian Get It Right!

[slick'81]

Spurs raped the kings omfg

[rankingtear]

Can't beat this man in trade negotiations.

[100%duncan]

GLADLY EAT CROW

[sananspursfan21]

Literally gave up no major players. Even the pics aren’t bad. What a king.

[sananspursfan21]

57-25 incoming fellas.

[100%duncan]

We knew this man could sell, and today he showed us that he could buy with the best of 'em.

Bow down before this man. And I don't think he's done.

We have a logjam at guards. Hopefully we see another deal incoming for Wemby's back-up.

[baseline bum]

I'm still in shock the Spurs just got De'Aaron Fucking Fox for a package centered around the 20131 pick. This is like Bill Curley for Sean Elliott levels of amazing.

[Gibbz]

From Lil' Brian Wrong, to Master Chef Wright :bobo

[lefty20]

Let Wright Cook!

[slick'81]

Kept vassell our good picks and dumped zollins fckn yes

[Spurs Brazil]

Great job Wright!


https://x.com/SamQuinnCBS/status/1886228563235668359

[slick'81]

Brian wright is a god

[vy65]

Don’t love that this kills the 20131 meme we had going on

[Gandalf]

Great job. However, is he fully in charge of the coaching hires? Because if so, he still has work to do, though I imagine that won’t be feasible until the offseason. Maybe kick the tires on Castle’s UConn coach. We have a team that is becoming more attractive for a future coach hire.

[z0sa]

Ready to eat crow. Wright has moved into S tier with this one, boys.

[ffadicted]

To put it all in perspective, we got Fox for:

Zach Collins (not in rotation)
Sidy Cissoko (not in rotation)
Tre Jones (not needed with Fox Paul and Castle)
'25 Charlotte pick (not happening anyway)
'25 Chicago pick (not happening this year, and protected anyway)
'27 Spurs (Wemby and Fox will make sure this is 20+)
'31 Minnesota (We will forget about this by then)


Absolutely unfuckingreal rinsing. Kept Castle Vassell & Sochan, our pick this year while it may still be descent, BOTH Atlanta's picks, AND the Dallas pick, the Minnesota swap, AND didn't even give Sac their pick swap back LMAO. How the fuck did we pull this off

[mo7888]

That’s an amazing trade to pull off. Wow. Can still get my boy Rasheer Fleming

Quick reaction - Fleming and De Larrea should be real targets outside the top 10.

[lefty20]

Don’t love that this kills the 20131 meme we had going on

It was either the meme or the Hawks picks. Had to give up something valuable.

No wonder Wright took an extra day to think it over.

[mo7888]

That’s an amazing trade to pull off. Wow. Can still get my boy Rasheer Fleming

Quick reaction - Fleming and De Larrea should be real targets outside the top 7.

[dn0774]

I've talked my fair of shit about Wright and Co the last couple of weeks; amazing trade, couldn't have asked for a better deal on paper.

[lefty20]

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[Ginobili2Duncan]

I never doubted my nigga B Wright.

[KobesAchilles]

General

[bdictjames]

Not too bad. Let's see what the Spurs do in the future. It takes more than a collection of talent to win... that talent has to be cohesive and work together. I think that's the question at this point. Hopefully Wright and Mitch are the answers.

[Mr. Body]

The trade was fairly good for the Kings, if they had to lose Fox. Bulls needed to dump Lavine and weren't getting much anyway. It's technically a SAS fleece but it sort of helps everybody.

It's what lead here as much as anything.

Managed to get a protected first for DeRozan, who we weren't keeping.

The Charlotte pick was a throw-in in the Murray trade. It was looking like nothing but managed to become worthwhile anyway.

The Dillingham #8 was from moving Poeltl.

And then the SRPs are like cupcake sprinkles.

We maintain good draft odds for every year going forward I think other than one (2028?).

[Leetonidas]

You son of a bitch, I'm in!!!

[lefty]

https://x.com/killer_vito/status/1886231056098938995

[SpursBills]

Brian Wright cooked hard on this one - instead of just leaning into the leverage advantage Fox gave him and fleecing the Kings outright, he correctly identified that different teams have different priorities and worked something out that benefits everyone.

Spurs - need their second star, got Fox
Kings - didn't want to bottom out, need more shooting, only a mild downgrade from Lavine to Fox and got lots of picks to compensate
Bulls - need to bottom out with 2 stacked drafts coming up, got off the Lavine contract so they can do that

Especially if the Bulls get a top 4 pick in 2025 or 2026, I don't think any fanbase necessarily feels like they got fleeced, meaning that Wright can continue to keep up good relations with these guys for future trades. "You can shear a sheep many times, but you can only skin it once"

[spurraider21]

leveraging the chicago pick in this trade was a masterclass move. sacto didnt want to rebuild and getting chicago to kick in lavine instead of us giving up an asset like vassell was great business. ive soured on vassell but hes definitely worth more than the bulls pick, plus this enabled freaking Zollins to be the salary match as opposed to devin.

[RC_Drunkford]

Masterclass :flag:

[Uriel]

Brian Wright cooked hard on this one - instead of just leaning into the leverage advantage Fox gave him and fleecing the Kings outright, he correctly identified that different teams have different priorities and worked something out that benefits everyone.

Spurs - need their second star, got Fox
Kings - didn't want to bottom out, need more shooting, only a mild downgrade from Lavine to Fox and got lots of picks to compensate
Bulls - need to bottom out with 2 stacked drafts coming up, got off the Lavine contract so they can do that

Especially if the Bulls get a top 4 pick in 2025 or 2026, I don't think any fanbase necessarily feels like they got fleeced, meaning that Wright can continue to keep up good relations with these guys for future trades. "You can shear a sheep many times, but you can only skin it once"
Exactly this. It’s amazing to me how sports fans think of trades as “fleecing” or “robbing” someone as if it were a zero-sum game. That’s not how trade works. No GM willingly walks into a trade to get fleeced.

Rather, different teams are in different stages and have different needs. And so Wright correctly identified different teams’ different needs and came up with a trade that helps each of them in their own way, given where they want to go.

[thiste]

Going to call him Brain Wright from now on.

[quentin_compson]

Meh, Pelinka got Luka, Wright only got Fox.

[ginobilized]

This ninja Brian Wright has single-handedly restored my faith in this FO moving forward.Totally love what he did with the options available.
If he pulls another move by Thursday, even better.

I now have a reason to live. Thanks and apologies for ever doubting you, BW Ninja GM.

[Teamduncan21]

Great job Wright!


https://x.com/SamQuinnCBS/status/1886228563235668359

Was already mentioned above. But I wouldn't say they're suckers. Wright was able to give the other team what they want and maximized the value of the assets.

Bulls have been trying to get rid of lavine for a while now. Some posters here even is considering it for Spurs. I believe they wanted picks. So their own picks allows them to tank and flexibility to trade 2025/6/7/8 picks. Vs before it's locked. Even if it doesn't convey they still can't use it as an asset. They also get like 50m of space.

Kings don't wanna tank. Fox is leaving anyway. So they get a different star player with some bonus picks attached.

Kings fans seems reasonably happy. Bulls wasn't but they were really dropping lavine regardless

[LeBowen]

Was already mentioned above. But I wouldn't say they're suckers. Wright was able to give the other team what they want and maximized the value of the assets.

Bulls have been trying to get rid of lavine for a while now. Some posters here even is considering it for Spurs. I believe they wanted picks. So their own picks allows them to tank and flexibility to trade 2025/6/7/8 picks. Vs before it's locked. Even if it doesn't convey they still can't use it as an asset. They also get like 50m of space.

Kings don't wanna tank. Fox is leaving anyway. So they get a different star player with some bonus picks attached.

Kings fans seems reasonably happy. Bulls wasn't but they were really dropping lavine regardless

This specific trade wasn't that bad, but the Bulls pick they got back was given to the Spurs in DDR trade.
This season Spurs got Fox, Barnes, '31 unprotected SAC swap for salary filler, two mediocre picks and one potentially great pick.

[Teamduncan21]

This specific trade wasn't that bad, but the Bulls pick they got back was given to the Spurs in DDR trade.
This season Spurs got Fox, Barnes, '31 unprotected SAC swap for salary filler, two mediocre picks and one potentially great pick.


DeRozan (and indirectly kawhi and George hill) is a gift that keeps on giving. People keep paying us to get DeRozan

[Strategic]

Within the last year the Spurs picked up Paul, then Barnes, then Castle, then Fox and finally jettisoned Collins. Who says the Spurs haven’t won 5 in a row lately?

[CorrectCrusader]

pfp and title fixed

[rjv]

just needs to nail this draft to add to his developing legacy but he's on fire.

[NickiRasgo]

I don't doubt him in making deals since he's been improving year after year (this is his best season in making deals) but he needs to improve in drafting or maybe, hire someone to do the scouting talent and drafting as he did below average outside Wemby and Castle

[stephen jackson]

:bobo

[The Truth #6]

Primo who? Great work.

[scott]

.This ninja Brian Wright has single-handedly restored my faith in this FO moving forward

I'm not picking on you, ginobilized, your comment just made me think of how I wanted to comment on this general thread.

I think there are certain "core areas" that a GM and FO need to be good or great at to truly be a great team. They don't need to be great at all of them, but it helps if you are at least good at all of them.

Asset Disposition (aka, selling). Brian and the FO have proven quite excellent at this in the various trades we've seen. A+ here.

Asset Acquisition (aka, buying). With this Fox trade, we saw that Brian and FO can definitely execute here on a very high level. A+ here as well.

Amateur Scouting (aka, drafting). Still have to see here. Wemby obviously great with a no brainer pick. Castle looking great. Before that, a little iffy. This next draft will be another good test. I'd say a C+ as of right now.

Pro Scouting (aka, free agency and acquisitions in terms of IDing the right guys). I think we've seen a couple of really sharp moves. Picking Champ, Bass and Mamu off the scrap heap is sharp. IDing Barnes as someone we could take back for free and plug right in is sharp. We aren't usually big players in FA, but I'd say this is a B.

Team Construction (aka, how the roster works together). This is the last piece we've yet to see. This is an INC grade for now and will be until next season. Even with Fox, the roster construction doesn't full make sense but it is a work in process and they are putting it together. This is the most important piece that we have to nail, for obvious reasons.

[vy65]

1886471085279134144

Do it Mitch. I mean, Brian.

[mo7888]

1886471085279134144

Do it Mitch. I mean, Brian.

Here we go...

[NASpurs]

You know, I know, we all know he's going back to GSW to join the TOSB gang.

[ginobilized]

I'm not picking on you, ginobilized, your comment just made me think of how I wanted to comment on this general thread.

I think there are certain "core areas" that a GM and FO need to be good or great at to truly be a great team. They don't need to be great at all of them, but it helps if you are at least good at all of them.

Asset Disposition (aka, selling). Brian and the FO have proven quite excellent at this in the various trades we've seen. A+ here.

Asset Acquisition (aka, buying). With this Fox trade, we saw that Brian and FO can definitely execute here on a very high level. A+ here as well.

Amateur Scouting (aka, drafting). Still have to see here. Wemby obviously great with a no brainer pick. Castle looking great. Before that, a little iffy. This next draft will be another good test. I'd say a C+ as of right now.

Pro Scouting (aka, free agency and acquisitions in terms of IDing the right guys). I think we've seen a couple of really sharp moves. Picking Champ, Bass and Mamu off the scrap heap is sharp. IDing Barnes as someone we could take back for free and plug right in is sharp. We aren't usually big players in FA, but I'd say this is a B.

Team Construction (aka, how the roster works together). This is the last piece we've yet to see. This is an INC grade for now and will be until next season. Even with Fox, the roster construction doesn't full make sense but it is a work in process and they are putting it together. This is the most important piece that we have to nail, for obvious reasons.

All good!

I simply meant I was bordering on 0% faith and now I'm at least 51%. It's been an emotional rollercoaster.
I love the data and breakdowns you bring to this rag-tag forum.

[Mugen]

No lie, I'd love to see Steph/Bron/Durant lineup in Golden State tbh.

Spurs aren't winning shit in the next 2 years, might as well see two of the biggest ring chasers in NBA history team up with Steph.

[Mr. Body]

Irritation with the FO has been entirely based on the Primo draft and Wesley and Branham not being good.

That's it.

[scott]

All good!

I simply meant I was bordering on 0% faith and now I'm at least 51%. It's been an emotional rollercoaster.
I love the data and breakdowns you bring to this rag-tag forum.

I'm about right there with you! I didn't have a lot of faith in this FO, but this definitely restored a lot of it. I'm happily eating crow in that regard!

[daslicer]

No lie, I'd love to see Steph/Bron/Durant lineup in Golden State tbh.

Spurs aren't winning shit in the next 2 years, might as well see two of the biggest ring chasers in NBA history team up with Steph.

I truly hate the Warriors. Draymond just makes them insufferable. It's been nearly a good 3 years of them being irrelevant.

[Floyd Pacquiao]

:lol let’s not go sucking his dick just yet, he still can’t draft and signs dumb and shitty players to stupid contracts. Sign competent players who can shoot and play passable defense

[rjv]

our local ST couch GMs would have been wiped clean by the real SAC GM. thank goodness a professional GM actually handled the process. kudos again to brian wright.

[RC_Drunkford]

Gotta be happy to be a Spurs fan with all these dumbass front offices in the league.

The Mavs traded Doncic for AD and 1 FP, Sacramento built the Bulls west, Chicago just took all our garbage to get a pick back that they traded to us for DeRozan, ATL gave us 2 unprotected picks and 1 swap for a player who’s not even on their roster anymore. :lol

[Sugus]

Glad some people can see the quality of FO we actually have.

Even if the goodwill is all but gone within a week...

This trade is so good it's worth repeating. How the fuck did we get Fox while offloading Zollins, man?! :lol

[slick'81]

Glad some people can see the quality of FO we actually have.

Even if the goodwill is all but gone within a week...

This trade is so good it's worth repeating. How the fuck did we get Fox while offloading Zollins, man?! :lol


wembys agent

[Dex]

I'll give him an A+ just because he found someone stupid enough to take Collins and his shitty contract.

[baseline bum]

Glad some people can see the quality of FO we actually have.

Even if the goodwill is all but gone within a week...

This trade is so good it's worth repeating. How the fuck did we get Fox while offloading Zollins, man?! :lol

I started cheering out loud as soon as I heard we got Fox while watching the ESPN 1320 stream from Sacramento and that was back when I was expecting the deal to be Vassell, Keldon, the Sac swap, one of the 2025 picks, one of the 2027 (with at least one being an ATL pick), and the CHI pick. To think the Spurs got Fox for the Charlotte fake first, the 20131 they got out of moving Dillingham, the 2027 SAS when they're probably a 55+ win team, the Chicago first the team got for free when they wanted to let DeRozan walk anyways, Zollins, and Cissoko, holy shit. Sad to see Tre go but not like he was going to get minutes behind De'Aaron, CP3, and Steph.