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The future of the San Antonio Spurs organization changed with the drop of a single Ping Pong ball this summer. They won the draft lottery and, with it, the right to select Victor Wembanyama with the first overall pick. With the 19-year-old Frenchman in place, the Spurs will have to do everything they can to put a winning team around him.
Luckily for Wembanyama, he couldn’t have landed in a better place. The Spurs organization is known for its winning ways, and Gregg Popovich is arguably the greatest coach of all time. And the two sides will have a long while to figure things out.
With the way rookie scale contracts play out and the likelihood of an extension, Mike Finger of the San Antonio Express-News pointed out that the Spurs should have Wembanyama in town “at least through 2030.”
“For the Spurs, there’s no reason to believe that Wembanyama won’t be around at least through 2030,” Finger wrote. “His rookie deal keeps him under team control for four years, and before that contract expires, the Spurs will be able to sign him to a five-year extension worth far more than anyone else can offer him. Almost every star player signs that extension, and even the unhappy ones don’t start making trade demands until much later.”
Obviously, anything can happen in the NBA. We’re seeing players change teams frequently now more than ever. But on top of the obvious rookie contract and likely extension, the fit with Wembanyama and the Spurs just feels right.
And he hasn’t even played in a game for them yet.
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