The Spurs held their annual media day on Monday, allowing reporters and at least one bumbling blogger to formally address players for the first time since their elimination last April. In between shooting promotional videos and pictures that we’ll see throughout the season, Gregg Popovich and a handful of players took to the podium to chop it up with the media, recap their summers and field various questions about the season ahead.
We learned that both Rudy Gay and DeMar DeRozan spent parts of their offseasons in Wyoming, albeit separately; that Derrick White is over his China jet lag and learned at least how to say “thank you” in Mandarin while over there; that the Spurs are not over the Marcus Morris saga that saw them lose Davis Bertans for nothing; that Dejounte Murray would occasionally text DeRozan clips last season indicating how he would do better to set him up; that Murray has looked healthy and fast in the pickup games they’ve played together, and that Pop wonders whether Lonnie Walker IV (who various teammates mentioned looking forward to take on some kind of role in his second season) might be even faster.