Is it? Next summer doesn't appear to be the year the Spurs are clearing cap space for, IMO.
We can all hate Klutch but: 1) It doesn't appear as if they set out with the aim to screw the Spurs this summer. Happy accident on their part, most likely. 2) They're quickly growing so dealing with them is just the nature of the beast right now.
This isn't a street fight where agents and teams are out to punk each other. It's a business; a dirty one at that, tbh.
And the Spurs getting "punked" because they're "too nice" is just a national media narrative that doesn't have much basis in reality, tbh. That narrative would make sense if the Spurs would have sent Neph to LA or let Morris off the hook right away instead of drawing it out for an extra two days.
Bullock failed his physical and the Knicks were able to flip Morris before he signed the dotted line. Sucks but it's not much deeper than that, tbh.