Unabashedly rebuilding, Spurs aim to win for losing
But while Wembanyama’s talents have front offices champing at the bit to get him, Spurs players have no interest in tanking.Sean Elliott saw the future of the NBA, just as clearly as if it were the present.
“To be a championship program, you have to have a couple superstars on your team,” Popovich said. “That doesn’t exist right now. … It’s just a fact, and to avoid that fact seems kind of senseless to me.” The list of newcomers is highlighted by a trio of teenagers selected in the first round of the June draft — forward Jeremy Sochan , and guards Malaki Branham and Blake Wesley .
It is possible the Spurs challenge the franchise record for losses: 62, set during the injury-riddled 1996-97 campaign that ultimately gifted them Duncan.That would likely be just fine with a Spurs front office in search of the next franchise-altering superstar.“Us players aren’t looking at the next draft pick,” said Sochan, the Baylor product who was the Spurs’ first top-10 pick since Duncan went No. 1 a quarter of a century ago. “We are staying in the present and trying to get some wins.
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