2025 Free Agents

[Biggems]

Who are you looking at with hopes that the Spurs might possibly sign them? I am not sure we will be part of any sort of trade. I hear the Giannis rumors, but I take them with a boulder sized grain of salt. I see us using the draft and maybe signing a few free agents to fill out our roster.

As for myself:

players already available

1 C Steven Adams
2 F Guerschon Yabusele

if he becomes available

F Naz Reid

[RC_Drunkford]

Santi Aldama

[mo7888]

Who are you looking at with hopes that the Spurs might possibly sign them? I am not sure we will be part of any sort of trade. I hear the Giannis rumors, but I take them with a boulder sized grain of salt. I see us using the draft and maybe signing a few free agents to fill out our roster.

As for myself:

players already available

1 C Steven Adams
2 F Guerschon Yabusele

if he becomes available

F Naz Reid

There's a lot of guys I could see depending on how we wanna build this team out.

John Collins
NAW
Aldama
Kennard
Brogdon
Capela
Russell
THJR
Malik Beasley

To go along with the names you mentioned..

[LeBowen]

Grizllies and TWolves cleared space to keep Aldama and Naz, I doubt those two are happening.
Especially Naz, he's a fan favorite there and they're doing great.

John Collins at 80/4 is the best we can hope for, tbh.

[scott]

Charles Bassey

[BG_Spurs_Fan]

As of right now the Spurs don't have any cap space. MLE and BAE unless they make moves. So the more expensive FA targets are but pipe dreams at this point. More like sign and trade targets.

[LeBowen]

As of right now the Spurs don't have any cap space. MLE and BAE unless they make moves. So the more expensive FA targets are but pipe dreams at this point. More like sign and trade targets.

With CP3, Mamu, Biyombo, McL and Bassey leaving, Spurs should be at ~$142.3M in salaries, with cap space being at $154.6M for the next season.
If we keep the #8 pick, that's another $5.7M and #14 is $4M.

[RC_Drunkford]

yeah we'll most likely have to aquire players via trade and should have the MLE available for free agency signings.

[BG_Spurs_Fan]

With CP3, Mamu, Biyombo, McL and Bassey leaving, Spurs should be at ~$142.3M in salaries, with cap space being at $154.6M for the next season.
If we keep the #8 pick, that's another $5.7M and #14 is $4M.

I have the cap holds for the picks a little higher but it makes no significant difference anyway.

The good thing about the new CBA is that teams can acquire contracts into their MLE, which makes almost every team essentially having cap space, despite the fact very few teams have actual cap space. If the Spurs trade the picks, or one of the picks, they could easily get some more cap space by trading Branham's and Wesley's contracts into some team's exception for a couple of seconds. Spurs have like 16 SRPs to use in trades, including a very juicy '26 Utah 2nd that's very likely to be in the low 30s.

[ambchang]

Wemby plays a largely wing role on offence and is a classic centre role on defence. Would be great if we can have a player who can play D like a SF and O like a C. Th e spurs were looking to have sochan in that role I believe. He did a decent, even good job on defence but not on offence. The cuts and dunks were working at the beginning of the year but once the other teams figured things out sochan struggled. Sochan doesn’t have to be a dead eye shooter, just an adequate one, and not to open it up for others, but for himself. Wemby is the one who has to be double teamed out in the perimeter and that opens up the driving lanes for everyone involved. Sochan just has to be adequate enough to have some guy be closer proximity to him so the defence can’t clog up the lane. He doesn’t have to create, he doesn’t have to look for his teammates, he just has to stand there as a reasonable enough threat, and cut for dunks and layups when castle and fox drives. Basically long story short, sochan just has to shoot 32%, at a reasonable clip, with a quicker release, at around 4 or 5 attempts a game. He’s quite a few years from there.

So to replace him, my opinion is that we should be looking for someone who has perimeter defensive skills, can cut and dunk, and can shoot reasonably. Honestly I can’t think of any attainable targets right now though which kind of sucks. NAW may be that guy. And I hope we can get him but I doubt he’s attainable now.

Castle is now tagged to be that inside scoring threat creator, with fox creating havoc driving into the lane, wemby can roam out in the three point area, launch his threes and drive in for dunks to his hearts content. Neither fox and castle are dead eye shooters but wemby is (sort of). Champaigne and Barnes are also capable shooters. What I’m saying is that the spurs lack of shooting is overblown. I’d love to have them get more shooters as well but that’s not the main concern, the main concern is that they have no one scoring inside. The spurs were actually #9 in 3PM last year, the accuracy sucked at #20, but that could be smoothed out with more drive and kicks from fox and castle.

The spurs though were #28 in % of FG from 3-10 feet. This aligns with my observation of them not having much low post scoring. Yes they are #7 in 0-3 feet but that’s a lot to do with drives by guys like castle and keldon. There aren’t too many actual reliable centre like offence from the spurs players, either cut and dunk, rim rollers or low post players.

I’d still like wemby to make more happen down low where he shoots an insane 81% from 0-3 feet. His efficiency from 3-10 feet is subpar right now at 46.8% but with his array of moves and size he can either go around or shoot over defenders with relative ease. But it seems like the spurs have it chiselled in stone that wemby will shoot 50% of his shots from 3 so might as well build around that.

[exstatic]

Wemby plays a largely wing role on offence and is a classic centre role on defence. Would be great if we can have a player who can play D like a SF and O like a C. Th e spurs were looking to have sochan in that role I believe. He did a decent, even good job on defence but not on offence. The cuts and dunks were working at the beginning of the year but once the other teams figured things out sochan struggled. Sochan doesn’t have to be a dead eye shooter, just an adequate one, and not to open it up for others, but for himself. Wemby is the one who has to be double teamed out in the perimeter and that opens up the driving lanes for everyone involved. Sochan just has to be adequate enough to have some guy be closer proximity to him so the defence can’t clog up the lane. He doesn’t have to create, he doesn’t have to look for his teammates, he just has to stand there as a reasonable enough threat, and cut for dunks and layups when castle and fox drives. Basically long story short, sochan just has to shoot 32%, at a reasonable clip, with a quicker release, at around 4 or 5 attempts a game. He’s quite a few years from there.

So to replace him, my opinion is that we should be looking for someone who has perimeter defensive skills, can cut and dunk, and can shoot reasonably. Honestly I can’t think of any attainable targets right now though which kind of sucks. NAW may be that guy. And I hope we can get him but I doubt he’s attainable now.

Castle is now tagged to be that inside scoring threat creator, with fox creating havoc driving into the lane, wemby can roam out in the three point area, launch his threes and drive in for dunks to his hearts content. Neither fox and castle are dead eye shooters but wemby is (sort of). Champaigne and Barnes are also capable shooters. What I’m saying is that the spurs lack of shooting is overblown. I’d love to have them get more shooters as well but that’s not the main concern, the main concern is that they have no one scoring inside. The spurs were actually #9 in 3PM last year, the accuracy sucked at #20, but that could be smoothed out with more drive and kicks from fox and castle.

The spurs though were #28 in % of FG from 3-10 feet. This aligns with my observation of them not having much low post scoring. Yes they are #7 in 0-3 feet but that’s a lot to do with drives by guys like castle and keldon. There aren’t too many actual reliable centre like offence from the spurs players, either cut and dunk, rim rollers or low post players.

I’d still like wemby to make more happen down low where he shoots an insane 81% from 0-3 feet. His efficiency from 3-10 feet is subpar right now at 46.8% but with his array of moves and size he can either go around or shoot over defenders with relative ease. But it seems like the spurs have it chiselled in stone that wemby will shoot 50% of his shots from 3 so might as well build around that.

He’s not posting up, throwing reverse pivots and hook shots. If he’s within 3 feet, he’s dunking the ball. Those are dunks. The reason his efficiency drops at the next level is simply because he can’t post up, or move anyone out of the way.

[Dejounte]

It’s a “program” as Mitch said. Watch them focus on sufficiently good on court + locker room vets in the vein of Barnes. The Spurs tell everyone who they are every year. The idea is to focus on a core group and set them up for success by giving them a good environment and mentors to learn from. They will invest heavily on the Big Three plus whoever they add with their highest pick. They probably already see guys like Keldon and Vassell as Spurs Culture guys who serve as the accelerator in their growth.

I’d say they go for older types like Adams, John Collins, Brogdon. Doubt they go for young guys like Aldama.

[Seventyniner]

Wemby plays a largely wing role on offence and is a classic centre role on defence. Would be great if we can have a player who can play D like a SF and O like a C. Th e spurs were looking to have sochan in that role I believe. He did a decent, even good job on defence but not on offence. The cuts and dunks were working at the beginning of the year but once the other teams figured things out sochan struggled. Sochan doesn’t have to be a dead eye shooter, just an adequate one, and not to open it up for others, but for himself. Wemby is the one who has to be double teamed out in the perimeter and that opens up the driving lanes for everyone involved. Sochan just has to be adequate enough to have some guy be closer proximity to him so the defence can’t clog up the lane. He doesn’t have to create, he doesn’t have to look for his teammates, he just has to stand there as a reasonable enough threat, and cut for dunks and layups when castle and fox drives. Basically long story short, sochan just has to shoot 32%, at a reasonable clip, with a quicker release, at around 4 or 5 attempts a game. He’s quite a few years from there.

So to replace him, my opinion is that we should be looking for someone who has perimeter defensive skills, can cut and dunk, and can shoot reasonably. Honestly I can’t think of any attainable targets right now though which kind of sucks. NAW may be that guy. And I hope we can get him but I doubt he’s attainable now.

That's exactly why I think if the Spurs do extend Sochan, it will be with the intention of starting him rather than bringing him off the bench. His role complements Wemby's really well as you pointed out, and he really did make big improvements this season in efficiency. He also was the primary defender on star wings and guards. Bringing him off the bench reduces both his minutes with Wemby and against the opponents' best players, a double whammy.

I don't think he needs to be a high or even medium volume three-point shooter, though. He would already be the fifth option on offense even when he plays with bench players.

[cutewizard]

Can we get both Naz Reid and Yabusele??

[DPG21920]

I have the cap holds for the picks a little higher but it makes no significant difference anyway.

The good thing about the new CBA is that teams can acquire contracts into their MLE, which makes almost every team essentially having cap space, despite the fact very few teams have actual cap space. If the Spurs trade the picks, or one of the picks, they could easily get some more cap space by trading Branham's and Wesley's contracts into some team's exception for a couple of seconds. Spurs have like 16 SRPs to use in trades, including a very juicy '26 Utah 2nd that's very likely to be in the low 30s.

Moving Barnes should be pretty easy IMO - they could find a taker for him and free that money up if needed too