Turns out, having an All-NBA player who can win games today is just as important as developing talent for tomorrow.
If you listened to what the critics had to say, Stephon Castle and Dylan Harper made De'Aaron Fox unnecessary and redundant. The San Antonio Spurs didn't need another guard who struggles to bury three-point shots and have thus outgrown Fox before he could even be properly assimilated.
It hasn't taken long for Fox to remind the skeptics of a simple fact: While Castle and Harper project to be able to win games for the Spurs in the future, he can do so in the present—with or without Victor Wembanyama.