This is such a stupid, spur-of-the-moment way to look at things, and it's really pervasive here in SpursTalk, perhaps because it allows posters to continue ting on the team.
Yes, Dallas has a franchise player in Doncic. Zion's looking mighty good. Ja is great as well (though I'm lower on him than Luka/Zion). There's other franchises you haven't named, like Atlanta, that also have more promising-looking players than are on the Spurs' roster right now. But how did those franchises come to get those players? How many years of sucking, whiffing on prospects, blatant tanking, or flat-out sucking did it take for those teams to get those players? Dallas hasn't done in the playoffs since '11, and had to wait out Dirk's twilight years before taking to the bottom (and getting extremely lucky with stupid FOs in ATL, PHX and SAC) to draft Luka. But at least they managed to win a le with their last star.... Pelicans and Grizzlies have been sucking ever since their inception. Between both teams, they literally only have 1 DIVISION le, Pels' from 2008, after which it's been losing season after losing season, even after getting a franchise talent in AD.
Stop looking at the small picture. The Spurs were winning les more recently than some of these ty teams were making the playoffs! We're riding Pop's twilight years now. For worse or worse-r, he's earned the right to retire in his own terms, and the FO/ownership clearly agrees. Once he's gone, we'll maybe suck, draft higher, and see what comes of it. The sky isn't falling because we don't have that talent right this second - what's the hurry? Teams draft high-level prospects every year, and incompetent FOs squander away those opportunities every year as well. It's incredibly stupid to say X or Y team has an outright better future than the Spurs (which is my entire gripe with this thread, not with you particularly, my guy) just because they have a better talent on their team, because it takes SO MUCH MORE than that single talent to actually win a championship, which is every team's end goal at the end of the day, not talent ac ulation.
Once again: the Spurs have won les more recently than any of these teams that "has a better future" and, contrary to popular belief, it was not due to top-end star talent alone, or even mainly (especially given a le run as special and collective as '14). And due to this, I feel confident in saying the Spurs have a better chance of ringing again before these other teams, too. Stop being preys of the moment.