The Spurs are back, and we have many people to thank for that. To name a few: Thank Victor Wembanyama's parents for sharing him with us, thank the greatest coach in NBA history, Gregg Popovich, for picking Mitch Johnson, and thank the Sacramento Kings for trading Harrison Barnes and De'Aaron Fox to San Antonio without forcing Brian Wright to give up anything worth missing.
Fox and Barnes have helped turn the Spurs around
Most people don't even know what the Spurs traded in those deals because it was so inconsequential. Allow me to remind you. In the Barnes deal, the Spurs were "forced" to part with RaiQuan Gray—he pretty much never saw the floor.