This year’s trade deadline will likely end up being a boring one for the San Antonio Spurs. They’re sitting at the bottom of the Western Conference with little hope of a Play-In birth. That said, they’ve been playing much better basketball as of late, putting up a solid fight against some quality teams.
While it may not make sense for the Spurs to make any significant moves at the deadline, there could be some room for them to take chances and add project pieces. Finding second-home (or third-home) players who could develop into useful rotation guys down the line would be a good plan.
Jonah Kubicek of Inside the Spurs suggested a trade that would see the Spurs take a chance on LA Clippers guard Bones Hyland in a trade. The potential move would see the Spurs send Doug McDermott to the Clippers for Hyland and PJ Tucker (who would likely be bought out).
“Hyland showed flashes of potential greatness in his rookie season in Denver but didn’t have a chance of receiving minutes on a win-now Clippers team with James Harden and Russell Westbrook in the backcourt,” Kubicek wrote. “Instead of flipping McDermott for picks (or nothing!), the Spurs could take a chance on Hyland while his stock is low.”
Hyland hasn’t been a part of LA’s rotation this year but, as noted by Kubicek, showed some real promise while with the Denver Nuggets. If the Spurs can help the 23-year-old get back to that point, he would be a decent scoring guard for them to have in the rotation.
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