Lottery Day Countdown - May 17th

[Drom John]

Spurs drafts #9 or earlier:

1997 #1 Tim Duncan
1989 #3 Sean Elliott
1987 #1 David Robinson
1984 #7 Alvin Robertson
1975 #7 Mark Olberding
1974 #5 Tom Boerwinkle
1973 #7 Kevin Kunnert
<1973 draft order within a team was secret for salary negotiation reasons, but
1971 #1 Jim McDaniels, Wikipedia says McDaniels was overall #1

[TD 21]

Take a look at Miami’s roster y’all. Bam was their highest pick, at #14 btw…

Edit: Correction, Herro at #13
Interested to see what moves Spurs make at the draft.

They got Butler primarily because of location.

The Jazz are a better example with Gobert and Mitc , but pulling that off is a fluke and even despite it they've never been legit contenders.

Guys, stop blaming some phantom enemy. No one convinced us to keep fighting a lost cause for 4 years. The overhaul was due since the Kawhi debacle, and it's been put off for a misguided sense of pride. We landed exactly where our chances said we had to land. No one else to blame.

There's a long history of small and/or non glamor markets having something conspire against them and magically having lottery luck in short order.

Obviously, they shouldn't be absolved for not helping themselves, but S bag screwed them, the league allowed it to happen and they've now had 3 chances to somewhat make it up to them and failed.

The league hates this franchise from their being uncooperative partners unlike previous dynasties, as well as for load management.