When you think about the San Antonio Spurs franchise as a whole, it is hard to overlook the fact that they have always been winners and one of the NBA’s best organizations in terms of sustained success.
However, the end of an era has come in San Antonio and these last two seasons are just the start of what will be a tough rebuild.
DeMar DeRozan, Patty Mills and Rudy Gay departing in free agency leaves the Spurs with nothing but young talents and seeing as they have missed the playoffs in back-to-back seasons for the first-time in their 55-year history as an ABA/NBA franchise, it is safe to say that they are not going to be the contending team we are used to seeing.
Dejounte Murray, Derrick White and Keldon Johnson are just a few of the versatile young talents on this roster who are definitely key players for the Spurs to look to build with for the future, but could they also be utilized as trade assets to get an established star to San Antonio?
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Ever since they lost in the Eastern Conference Semifinals to the Atlanta Hawks in a year that they were supposed to contend for a title, the Philadelphia 76ers have been shopping around Ben Simmons and one of the teams who have been rumored to be interested in the young All-Star is the San Antonio Spurs.
Seeing as they are rebuilding and have always been a very defensive-focused team, the Spurs could look to bring in Simmons knowing that he is a project so they can have an All-NBA-like talent to build with for the future.
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At 25-years-old, Simmons still has the potential to be one of the better two-way players in the league one day, but he still has a lot of work to do in order to reach said potential.
With this said, let’s take a look at a potential trade between the San Antonio Spurs and Philadelphia 76ers created by the Bleacher Report NBA Staff that would send Ben Simmons to San Antonio.
