The San Antonio Spurs are a proud organization. For the past 20+ years, they’ve been in the running for the NBA championship.
Owing to that legacy, there was a widespread belief that this team would refuse to bottom-out up until recently. When the Spurs traded Dejounte Murray to the Atlanta Hawks for a haul of draft capital, the move was met with surprise.
After all, these are the Spurs. Surely they’re not tanking?
Well, the last time the Spurs went that route, it worked out pretty well for them. During the 1996-97 season, they were widely understood to be tanking.
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The results put the Spurs in a situation to draft some guy named Tim Duncan. If this team wins to maximize their lottery odds again ahead of the 2023 draft, they’d do well to continue trading impact players over 25.
Here are three packages that find big man Jakob Poeltl a new home.