The San Antonio Spurs are projected to control two lottery picks at the end of the 2024-25 NBA season. And there are already plenty of folks out there in the world of draft projections who have some ideas about how the Spurs’ front office ought to be using those picks.
As odd as it might feel to be worrying about the 2025 NBA draft just a few months after the 2024 version of the event, there are experts making a living doing this stuff year-long. Among the better-known and higher-regarded of them is Bleacher Report draft expert Jonathan Wasserman, who has a prospect in mind for San Antonio at No. 11 overall, the latter of those two picks mentioned above.
That prospect would be big man Asa Newell, currently suiting up for the University of Georgia in his freshman season. “At 6-foot-11 with a live motor, … Newell should deliver immediate activity around the rim, easy baskets and putbacks to Georgia,” writes Wasserman. “He covers a lot of ground and loves to crash the glass and sprint the floor in transition.”
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“But his developing 3-point stroke and post skill is what will help push him up draft boards in 2025,” adds the B/R draft analyst. “Newell shot over 41.5# from 3 during 21 Montverde games logged by Synergy Sports.”
“There should be plenty of NBA interest in an athletic 19-year-old energy big who can stretch the floor this early in his career.”
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