The scheduled arrival of No. 1 prospect Victor Wembanyama puts the Spurs' rebuilding project on the fast track, but titles are never guaranteed
The scheduled arrival of No. 1 prospect Victor Wembanyama puts the Spurs' rebuilding project on the fast track, but titles are never guaranteed.By now, Antonio Daniels should have known to believe his own eyes.
Daniels, a former Spurs point guard and now an NBA analyst, had to back the clip up and watch again. And again. Is he a taller Kevin Durant or only a better-shooting Giannis Antetokounmpo, all with the defensive potential of a Rudy Gobert?“He’s playing a different game than everyone else,” said Jonathan Givony, ESPN’S resident draft expert and founder of the popular website DraftExpress.com. “It’s a different playing field for him. The geography of the court is different. If he gets the ball anywhere near the paint, there’s no stopping him.
For fans across the city, Tuesday’s draft lottery victory rekindled dormant dreams of hanging a sixth championship banner in the AT&T Center.Titles not guaranteed Notably, neither Robinson nor Duncan won a championship as a rookie. Duncan did not earn the first of his five rings until 1999, the same year Robinson garnered the first of his two.
With those two healthy for the start of the 1997-98 campaign, a rookie Duncan essentially inherited a Spurs squad that had won 59 games in 1995-96, the last time it was whole.
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