“The Spurs are looked at like Basketball U, to even get any type of time under anybody on the staff is helpful for any player whether it’s Summer League, mini-camp, the real roster. There’s no fooling around with these guys, they’re like the Mecca of (NBA) basketball.”
It takes a humble player to come to Summer League at the age of twenty-eight and look for a fresh start. Thomas Robinson not only accepted the challenge of playing with young draftees straight out of college, he went into it with the team that’s first requirement is that the player is “over himself.