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A revisionist look at the Spurs’ first round draft picks from the last five years

The 29 Club is wholly not like the 27 Club (R.I.P. Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Curt Cobain, etc.). For the San Antonio Spurs, Club 29 includes players drafted in the first round at the 29th spot brimming with potential (realized and perhaps not yet) like Dejounte Murray, Derrick White, and Keldon Johnson.

With the benefit of hindsight, if every NBA draft since 2016 were re-drafted, where would those young players go? And who from that draft class would the Spurs and other teams objectively draft ahead of them? (For the record, you could do a lot worse than a starting five of Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison, and Cobain.