Spurs will pick 19th in draft

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Originally Posted by rascal

Been many years since a significant trade. KL forced the Toronto trade and they dragged their feet making a trade with KL.

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There are good size wings, PF/C in the 19th and even 29th pick. I doubt they trade especially with Spurs success in developing great players, plus DJ coming back (hopefully working on his jump shots). It really depends on Murray development. I like him, but no way Pop will take PG away from White after this series. Murray is still potential, White is real and people talking about his star quality. No way he will be relegated to 2nd unit. Murray would need to co-exist or he would be packaged with Forbes (also getting positive exposure) and could bring a nice athletic wing. But less likely.

After an ACL injury you need to recover properly...and it takes at least one entire season to do that.
Next year Murray can't and won't be the full speed, high jump Murray...if he gets the correct advise and don't act in a foolish way. Instead, next one could be the season he develops habits that could make him a better and more valuable player in the long run...like court vision and outside shooting. His full athleticism will come back, but it takes time. Doing differently could put in danger an entire career...
I don't see (obviously barring injuries, God save us) how he could put in danger DW point guard starting position...expecially considering the good chemistry DW has shown with LMA.
I don't see either him as a startin shooting guard...considering his outside shooting was and is till now a work in progress...and with a third element being a wing with no 3 point shoot (DDR) a shooter is a obvious need in the starting line up.
The best role I see for DJM next year is the one of 6th man coming off the bench with elite defense and higher offensive rythm.
In that sense he could take Manu's role...and it could work perfectly considering his probable partners coming from the bench could be good to very good shooters with suspect defense (Patty and Beli and Davis)...
With the proper and not extended amount of minutes, he could save his legs and heal properly and, at the same time, take back his playing level and have a more than decent stats for his coming contract...
That said, I'm frankly curious about our summer...considering we have two decent picks and a good amount of decent players with market value (DJM included)...

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Originally Posted by rascal

Been many years since a significant trade. KL forced the Toronto trade and they dragged their feet making a trade with KL.

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It would be wild if George Hill essentially nets someone like AD (even if just a year)

Hill => Leonard and Davis
Leonard => DDR + Yak + 29th
DDR + 29 + (parts) => AD 1 year pitch plan
Davis & Yak => flipped for value later

Hill = AD + value extracted from Yak/Davis

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Originally Posted by EricB

It’s unequivocally false that they don’t like to. They run into the problem of a lot of teams don’t want to trade them up.

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Which teams don't want to trade the Spurs up? Is there a list, or do you know them all? Either way, I'm really curious.

Indiana after us getting KY