Bojan Bogdanovic makes a ton of sense for the Spurs. He's a great shooter and offball player who can get hot and drop 35 in a game. His stats last season are slightly worse but close to DeRozan's numbers, but with way better 3-point shooting. I can see Pop running him through multiple picks to free him up for the open 3 as well as running some hammer action. Spurs could use a lot of plays they used to run for Danny on Bogdanovic. Besides that he can also run the pick & roll and get to the rim and is a good passer. His defense is a little underrated, he's not a traffic cone like Belinelli, but he's also not a great defender. I would say he's average, but when engaged can be solid on D. The Pacers had him guard LeBron in the 2018 playoffs and he did a decent job on him.
The other thing is that he THINKS the Spurs will ship out DeRozan to free up cap space for Bogdanovic, but there are other options. They might as well want to make the team more compe ive for a deeper run in the playoffs and add him to the Aldridge/DeRozan pairing. After Oladipo went down Bojan became the Pacers first option which wass a role that is to big for him, but as a 3rd option he'd be great.
The one problem I see with adding Bogdanovic is that he's not a combo forward. He's not a 4 and since he's not that good of a defender you would like to have a defensive player at PF. Bertans and Gay are far from that. A Thad Young or Marcus Morris would be perfect next to Bojan. Salary cap wise that gets tricky. If you want that SF/PF combo you'll need like 28-30 million in cap space, so you have to move DeMar. If you want to add Bogdanovic to the Aldridge/DeRozan pairing you can not sign a defensive 4 unless you make further trades to free up salary. To see the Spurs make 2-4 trades in the offseason would be considered an anomaly tbh. Besides that they'd most likely have to renounce Rudy which means he would leave.
I've been saying that Bogdanovic + one of Thad Young or Marcus Morris would make the team way better than having DeRozan. Potential teams interested in DeRozan could be Hornets, Nets, Lakers, Suns, Knicks, Heat, Pacers depending on who they sign/miss out on in free agency.
Scenario 1:
Spurs trade DeMar DeRozan for a draft pick to get after one of Hunter/Reddish/Little/Hachimura.
Spurs sign Bojan Bogdanovic (15-18 million)
Depending on which pick DeRozan nets them Spurs have about 10-15 million in cap space left if they renounce Rudy's cap hold. They could then go after Thad Young or Marcus Morris or they keep Gay's cap hold and just resign him.
That would leave them with the Room Mid-Level Exception to add some more free agents/bring over Euro players (Milutinov)
Scenario 2:
Spurs do a sign and trade with the Pacers. DeRozan for Bogdanovic and Thad Young. The Pacers are a deep team, they are looking for a go to guy and after Oladipo's injury they'd probably be interested in DeRozan. Spurs get a good forward pairing that knows how to play together.
The thing is: Why would the Spurs trade DeRozan to get a bunch of free agents when they could just salary dump him and get an extra pick in the draft? Both Bogdanovic and Young are free agents and can be signed with the created cap space like in the option above. The Pacers only have the 18th pick, so even if they add that to the package Spurs could at least get a pick in the lower lottery for DeRozan. The thing that would benefit them in this scenario is that they'd still have bird rights on Gay and could resign him by going over the cap while also having the MLE available to add to the roster.
Scenario 3:
Spurs trade Davis Bertans and 19th pick to move up a few spots in the draft to draft one of Little/Hachimura
Spurs trade Marco Belinelli and 49th pick for a 2nd rounder in the early to mid 30s to draft one of the better 2nd round prospects like Okeke for example. Belinelli and 49th for one of the 76ers 33rd or 34th pick would make a lot of sense for both teams.
Spurs renounce Rudy Gay. That would leave us with roughly 15-17 million in cap space. That's exactly what you would need to sign Bogdanovic.
That leaves the team with the Room Mid-Level Exception of 4.7 million. I don't think Gay would resign for that, but who knows. I think there is a possibility to do a wink-wink type of deal with him, cause he's obviously looking to make a deep playoff run for the first time in his career, I just don't know if he will go as far as giving up 60% of his salary.
Scenario 4:
Spurs do the same they are doing in Scenario 3 above, but they package Bertans and Belinelli in a sign and trade with Indiana for Bogdanovic. That's the one scenario where they keep Aldridge/DeRozan/Gay and add Bogdanovic to the mix.
Scenario 5:
Spurs dump Patty Mills to clear cap space for Bojan Bogdanovic.
Like I said, renounce Rudy and we got 5 million in cap space. Dump Mills 13 million and we got 18. I could see a scenario were you ship out Mills + 28th for an early 2nd round pick.
What's left is again the Room Mid-Level Exception to sign further players.
What the Spurs will do depends on the other moves they have planned. None of these scenarios seem ideal to me, but I like that they are supposedly looking to add some wings and wont just stand pat. The salary cap situation makes adding high quality players very difficult.
I'd much rather somehow get rid of Mills, Bertans and Belinelli to then sign Bogdanovic + Morris and keep all 3 of Aldridge/DeRozan/Gay. Add Murray/White/Walker/Poeltl and 2 picks to the mix and that team could make a lot of noise in the west, but it's highly unrealistic RC pulls that off