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Durant would allow Wemby to play his game tbh. I think you would see the huge difference of how he is allowed to be guarded if Durant is in lineup with him. If you put role players at your forward spot it would be the same coverage for him.
I don't even want Durant, but this is ridiculous.
Durant would allow Wemby to play his game tbh. I think you would see the huge difference of how he is allowed to be guarded if Durant is in lineup with him. If you put role players at your forward spot it would be the same coverage for him.
yup i agree with this
He could command big money from another team, but not spurs.
By being a 5th option, he won't slow down the development of Harper or Castle.
Also by being a 5th option, he needs to be paid like a 5th option.
This is a prerequisite for his trading. Otherwise will be too much risk for us.
Remember, we could use that #14 pick for John Collins who will be better than Durant (at his age) and fits better.
these are some wild takes about Durant…hahah 5th option?!? wow
I don't want him either. So he has be to discount in order to join our Big 4, especially Wemby.
Our big 4 has to have priority over Durant. Otherwise they may want to be traded.
You want to drive Harper or Castle away by playing them behind a 38-year old Durant?
Durant 5th option!?!?. I am not the biggest re in this forum anymore.
Basically we don't need him to win a championship.
Playing him before #5 option will mess up our future stars.
Plus, I mean average #5 option.
At 4th quarter or playoffs, he can be #2 option.
We have to let Harper and castle have their touches.
Jollins will never even approach Durant’s level, come on.
People love using outdated arguments they've been hearing for years.
Durant was one of the best floor spacers in the league last year. That alone makes him invaluable to Wemby. Fox and Wemby would feast on what's left of the team defense facing them. Wemby and Durant both are legitimate deep threats that will make everyone's offense better and easier.
Durant hasn't seen open shots like he will with wemby since the Warrior days. Durant is a true team player. He understands the game and plays his rotations on offense and defense. He doesn't need to be an athlete because he's a freak specimen. The guy can block half the league standing up. He knows how to prolong his career. He's shown it the past two years. His game is absolutely not dependent on youth. He's a physical specimen with ridiculous offensive talent. He wouldn't even have to guard any other teams top 3 players. Spurs have Castle, Sochan, Wemby. Durant and fox playing help defense with that length and speed will be nightmares for other teams.
Durant fits perfect. He's expensive. He should be. He's still a stop 10 player in the league. Let's say he has a down year, hed still be top 20 easy.
Theyre contenders the moment Durant becomes part of the team. Even before they make any other moves or additions. They would be legit contenders. That starting 5 could run with anyone in the league and would likely be the best starting defensive squad in the league.
Oh and one more thing. There is literally noone in the world closer to being physically similar to Wemby than Durant. Wemby learning from one of the greatest offensive talents ever to step on the court, with a similar build, would be priceless to his development.
Not to mention one of Wembys favorite players growing up is Durant. If he wants to play with him, you make wemby happy.
come on now you're overdoing it. There is no team better than OKC defensively and it ain't even close. Spurs defense been garbage with Wemby. KD might make it average, but we're not becoming a great defensive team with him. And that's due to personell and coaching.
It might make us fringe contenders, but the roster would still lack defense and rebounding. Anyway, we're not gonna win a le in 2026 no matter who we add. If the Spurs want KD they need to build a roster that makes sense around him and our other 4 core players.
I'm not a huge fan of Durant, but I do believe he can help teach Victor quite a bit, so that is the main reason I'm interested in getting him.
To the person that said 5th option - Wake TF UP. That's just a crazy take.
one thing I haven't seen anybody mention is the fit of KD and Fox. Fox likes to push the tempo, KD likes to jog up the floor and slow things down.
KD would be our second best player.
He's not as (close to - he's probably a +2/3 player rather than a +8 like his peak) good as MVP KD, he's getting old, but he's still good until he ages like milk instantly.
I think the cost would be something like 14 + Vassell + Keldon - the asset haul that is debatable to give up. I think the idea salary wise would be he comes off / retires as Harper / Castle etc start making bank, and you still have picks coming from the swaps to get high level players to add talent, without having cap space - it accelerates the quality of the team with a better single player until those guys are ready. I think it's unlikely that team wins a le, and limits future trade options, so my preferences is something like Essengue / Carter Bryant at 14, route Keldon and some decent second round picks for a PF upgrade, and go into next year in a state of assessing the future with near full ammo.
Man, so many different things to look at. I don't even really know Fox's game fully yet as we haven't seen him enough in Spurs uniform with a full team. I don't know his style of play that well yet.
People talking about a "Big 4" on the Spurs are being delusional. Castle showed a lot of promise in his rookie season and won ROY (against mostly terrible compe ion), but he has a long way to go to be even considered a net positive player, let alone something like a star - which is fine, given his age and the fact that he was a rookie. And Harper hasn't even played one minute of NBA basketball yet.
I get people are excited about the young guys, I am as well, but there is being excited and hopeful and hyped, and then there is being outright delusional.
Which is why it makes more sense to make smaller moves tbh. This team won’t win a le next year regardless. Pick somebody at #14, make a small trade for a starting PF. Sign LaRavia and a back up C and then see how the team looks going into the season instead of making a big aquisition while your roster has plenty of questionmarks.
We have the assets now for big playoff runs. Like a Durant deal.
That's what is making the Spurs reddit so unbearable to read. Some fans are already acting like we're a guaranteed dynasty but yet they think we need to keep guys like Assell and KJ. They don't realize how far away we are still from being just as good as OKC.
If Castle or Harper want to get traded in their first or second year because they’re not a top option on the team, they’re egotistical maniacs and are going to leave no matter what. That’s not Spurs-like at all.
I think you are way too worried about catering to players who are still developing. It’s also wrong to believe that they will develop best with no one better above them. The core before this one (Vassell, Sochan, Keldon, etc) ONLY started developing when Chris Paul and Barnes arrived. They were stagnant for the years prior and it was basically wasted years. To have no one showing Harper and Castle the ropes like that is going to slow their development down way more than you think. The best players in the NBA right now were brought along slowly. Jokic didn’t come in guns blazing. Neither did SGA.
what kind of playoff run? None of our players have ever been to the playoffs except Barnes. Fox has been to the first round once. They don't know anything about playoff basketball. Adding Durant won't change that.
This is a process and people somehow want to skip steps to go from lottery team to championship. When has this ever happened in NBA history?
Well Timmy won the NBA championship in his 2nd season. Of course there were already veterans on the team with playoff experience. It helps to have vets and KD would fit in well.
Duncan went to a team with 9 players over 30. 1 KD will replace 9 vets?the takes here are getting worse by the hour
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