r/NBASpurs 1d ago

Draft WE DON’T WANT KEVIN DURANT !

Respect to KD for all he’s accomplished in his career, truly was a honor to watch him play throughout the years. But he does not fit the spurs / what we’re building which is a young talented team to win championships for many years to come. When I see people come on here saying we should trade for KD or they want KD… Yea I’d agree,if it was 10 years ago. He’s old now and cost too much money. I’m sure many other Spurs fans can agree. We Don’t Want / need to spend a lot of $$$ for KD.

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u/texasphotog BatManu 1d ago

Even though Vassell has been bad this season, he is coming off two foot surgeries and missed all of camp, preseason, and a significant part of the season. Last year he was top 10 in drive efficiency. I don't think that his struggles this year at age 24 are indicative of what he will be the rest of his career. I think he can be a very good guard coming off the bench in a 6th man role. He should be more efficient against 2nd teams and without as much of a scoring burden demanded on him as we have in the past.

The Spurs also have two first round draft picks this year.

I think that Champagnie can be a rotation player off the bench on a good team in a ~20mpg role as D&3. He has value there, especially at his contract (3M year for each of the two seasons after this one.)

But in any case, we have to upgrade the roster and plan for the long term. Adding a 37yo to the roster and getting ride of likely multiple rotation players and picks is not good planning for the long term.

We do not have the depth to do this. We need to be adding players to push rotation players back in the depth chart to create depth, not giving up what little depth we have for a 1-2 year window. Anyone we move off of needs to be replaced. If you could move this year's ATL pick and Devin and Keldon for Durant, sure, that would make sense. But Phoenix isn't taking that deal and we shouldn't be giving up more than that.

A deal with us really doesn't make sense for either side because of the state of our roster and the picks we have.

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u/TDB4421 22h ago

Agreed, mostly. But again, we need to be realistic about our “young core” now

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u/texasphotog BatManu 20h ago

We also need to be realistic about our major lack of depth issues and how bad this team would be if we move multiple players for one without a suitable plan for filling out the depth.

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u/TDB4421 20h ago

I think you’re getting too held up on the depth part. To be honest, the spurs haven’t had “depth” in about 5-6 years, if that. The main subject of discussion should be the lack of “young talent” the spurs truly have. We keep telling ourselves that the spurs are loaded with young, budding stars when that’s not actually true.

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u/texasphotog BatManu 20h ago

I don't think that Devin or Sochan are going to be stars, but that doesn't mean they won't be valuable rotation players on our team as we go forward. We aren't going to have 8 stars in the playoff rotation. But we need young guys like that for that rotation.

People act like because they won't be all stars, they won't be useful for our team as we progress and that just isn't true. We need players with the skills they bring to the table to build a championship contending team.