San Antonio Spurs fans are understandably excited about the team’s young core of talent. Starting with their play in the Bubble in Orlando, the young Spurs have made the best of the extended minutes doled out to them by the coaching staff. Even though the Spurs had been drafting outside the lottery for years — actually decades — until last the last draft, virtually all of the recent late first round picks have been “hits”, not “misses”.
As a result, I was very interested to see how Sam Vecenie of The Athletic would rank the Spurs in his annual ranking of teams’ prospect cores that came out recently.