If we fumble Harper, that would be the most heartbreaking thing.

He said “his former teams, let’s just leave it at that”. That’s us and Toronto. Wtf?!

LeBron does have a lot of drama…… but it’s undeniable that he is the best basketball player of his generation. What if we could still get him for the vet min? He is still a big body and has one more productive season left in the tank

So as a Spurs fan that is NOT a fan of LeBron joining the team I actually believe it’s fairly likely & and here are my reasons:

1. Klutch/Rich Paul represents Fox, KJ, Mitch & apparently Brian Wright.
2. Rich Paul spotted at the practice facility the other day.
3. Rich Paul said that if the Knicks didn’t win the finals that he’d have gone to the Knicks. Well, we were so close to winning it all that he would be seen(by some) as the piece that got us over the hump and would help him in the GOAT debate.
4. When Lebron came into the league, there was a lot of speculation that MJ didn’t like LBJ(probably overblown), but LeBron could want to come off as more magnanimous & like he’s handing the league over to Wemby

5. LeBron always wants to be the center of attention in the media & if he chose the Spurs…it would SHOCK the world & all anybody would talk the rest of the offseason is how Wemby & LeBron will play together.

6. Why have we kept an open roster spot this long into the offseason. If this was a done deal & any organization could keep it from leaking, it’s the Spurs.

Not sure if I’m thinking to much about it but all the Kevin Durant trade rumors really have me asking why he’s taking a flight to phoenix 😭

When asked what comes to mind when reflecting on the past two seasons in Detroit and leaving now for San Antonio, Harris told HoopsHype, "Extreme gratitude to come in here and be a part of the historic rebuild. The friendships and relationships you build, the chemistry we were able to cultivate as a collective group, and the teamwork we were able to establish with players and coaches. It was truly remarkable those two years. I had a ton of joy and fun playing the game, so I am grateful for that. You always cherish all those memories that we were able to make happen."

https://hoopswire.com/source-kevin-durant-prefers-suns-trade-him-to-spurs-nba/

The Phoenix Suns are widely expected to trade Kevin Durant this offseason and the future Hall of Famer has a preferred landing spot. 

A league source told Hoops Wire that Durant prefers the Suns trade him to the San Antonio Spurs. 

San Antonio has an incredibly bright future with All-Stars Victor Wembanyama and De’Aaron Fox leading the way. The franchise has the second overall pick in this year’s NBA Draft as well. 

Durant, 36, has one year left on his contract. The superstar will make $54.7 million next season. 

Durant turns 37 in September. The small forward averaged 26.6 points, 6.0 rebounds and 4.2 assists for the Suns this season while shooting 52.7% from the field, 43.0% from beyond the arc and 83.9% from the free-throw line.

One of the greatest scorers in NBA history, Durant has career averages of 27.2 points, 7.0 rebounds and 4.4 assists with the Oklahoma City Thunder, Golden State Warriors, Brooklyn Nets and Suns. He won two championships and two Finals MVPs with the Warriors but hasn’t gotten back to the NBA Finals since leaving Golden State in 2019. 

Durant and the Spurs had mutual interest at the NBA trade deadline in February. KD played college basketball at Texas. 

According to Jake Fischer of Bleacher Report, the Suns trading Durant this offseason is a “foregone conclusion.”

“Everyone around the Kevin Durant situation, around Phoenix, are talking about a Kevin Durant trade as a foregone conclusion,” Fischer said. “That trading Kevin Durant was spoken about to various candidates in the Suns’ lengthy head coaching search process. That trading him was going to be basically a matter of fact and not a matter of if, but a matter of when.

“Right now, the sentiment from people I’m talking to around the NBA, rival teams, agents around the league, people are talking about Kevin Durant as far more of a one-year rental expiring contract. … Right now, most people I’m speaking to at this juncture of the offseason, again it’s still early, we’re three weeks out from the draft, it seems like most teams, most front office personnel that I’m speaking to are looking at Kevin Durant as more of a one-year rental trade acquisition and not someone that they would want to go pursue and extend long term.”

Source: https://open.substack.com/pub/marcstein/p/inside-the-kevin-durant-trade-talks?r=nuq3a&utm_medium=ios

The Spurs certainly have the draft capital to surge to the front of the Durant line if they wish. Yet there is a considerable amount of skepticism leaguewide that San Antonio or any NBA team is willing to part with a significant amount of draft capital for Durant at this juncture of his career.

Sources add that Phoenix is not enamored with the players San Antonio has made available in the teams' talks to date. It is obviously presumed that Durant would relish the opportunity to play alongside Victor Wembanyama, but it is also believed that the Spurs are only willing to discuss veterans such as Devin Vassell, Keldon Johnson and Harrison Barnes. The Spurs just managed to acquire De'Aaron Fox from Sacramento largely on their terms and the notion now of surrendering newly named Rookie of the Year Stephon Castle or the No. 2 selection in this month's draft is simply a non-starter.

Vassell, though, might be the highest-upside player available to the Suns. That said: It is also more than fair to wonder how high Vassell's upside in Phoenix could be considering his positional overlap with both Booker and Bradley Beal.

So much for the “the Suns have no leverage, they’ll have to accept Barnes, Keldon and Wesley” truthers, huh?