If one decided to power rank the entire NBA on the basis of how much of a title contender they would be over the course of the next three seasons after this one, where would the San Antonio Spurs be ranked? For those of us who do not have an obsession with crunching data to answer such questions, Bleacher Report’s Andy Bailey has gone and done such an exercise on our collective behalves.
Bailey came up with a formula for so ranking the league, which he describes as making use of “picks in this draft and upcoming ones, young talent already on the roster, current performance, projected future performance and loads of subjectivity, every team in the league is ranked by their chances to win a title in the next three years.”
And in this analysis, the Spurs came in at 21st overall, which seems fair given that as recently as the 2023-24 NBA season, they had one of the worst records in the league. “Landing two top-10 picks in this year’s draft helps their placement here,” writes the B/R league analyst.
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“But one budding star and some draft picks aren’t enough for immediate contention (unless those picks help San Antonio land another superstar),” he adds. “As exciting as the Spurs’ future is, championships are probably still more than three years away.”
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