The Spurs are hopeful that Victor Wembanyama will participate to some degree in the Las Vegas Summer League, Marc Stein writes in a Substack post.
A previous report suggested Wembanyama would likely only practice with the Summer League team, as the Spurs want to give him some time off from competitive action following his French league season. It’s unclear if Stein is suggesting that Wembanyama might see some game action after all.
Wembanyama will be the top pick in the draft on Thursday after the Spurs won the lottery. They are scheduled to play in Sacramento’s California Classic summer league July 3-5 before heading to Las Vegas.
We have more from the Southwest Division:
- While rumors have been flying that the Pelicans might consider dealing Zion Williamson or Brandon Ingram this offseason, Rod Walker of the New Orleans Times-Picayune believes the franchise would be better off holding onto them and hoping for better results next season. While the team reportedly has interest in trading up in the draft to select G League guard Scoot Henderson, the Pelicans with Williamson and Ingram are better than they would be with either the Henderson/Williamson or the Henderson/Ingram combo, Walker opines.
- Ja Morant‘s 25-game suspension makes it a tougher decision for the Grizzlies to trade backup point guard Tyus Jones for help on the wing, Damichael Cole of the Memphis Commercial Appeal opines. If the Grizzlies trade Jones, they’ll have to find another starting point guard to hold them over until Morant’s suspension ends. However, finding an upgrade at small forward will be more difficult if they hold onto Jones, who has one year left on his contract. Even if they keep Jones, they still need more depth at guard.
- In case you missed it, the Rockets might make a strong run at free agent point guard Fred VanVleet.
I know that the Griz may want to hold onto Tyus, but a deal centred around him and OG from the Raps makes too much sense to not happen.
Tyus, Zaire and 2 firsts matches salary and worth. Griz are still in a position where they can offer the full mid-level, maybe they offer Tre Jones the money. He would be a good fit, and both the Griz and Raps get what they want/need.
Naw
You are over valuing OG that’s too much. Good
Thing you aren’t a GM
I guarantee Scoot will have a better and longer career than Zion ……
Utah would be smart to move up from 9
If Amen Thompson is on the board still I think he could be a really really good lead guard for them. Big enough to play either guard spot, super athletic, great basketball IQ, defensive should be good, only missing a jump shot which he looks to be trying to add to his game.
I could see him being like a Ron Harper, can play either guard spot, tall, athletic, non shooter but scores 20+, fills up the box score and smart player.
Rod Walker thinks the Pelicans are better off with Zion, but forgets that Zion has to actually play for that to be the case. Availability matters, and Zion is rarely available.
Already load managing at 19 years old lol
Can someone explain why anyone would give up anything of value for Zion?
Hype
We’re going to pretend that he doesn’t avg 26ppg(60 Fg %)
When he’s healthy.
Sure is a lot of opineing going on with the writers on this site.
You can read articles all day on a million other sites and you won’t come across the word opine. Get on here and everybody’s opineing. But never mind me….I’m just opineing.
“While the Pelicans are interested in trading up in the draft and selecting G League guard Scott Henderson”
Who? :)
Dana reads his comments! *fixed*