{"id":25843,"date":"2025-06-30T00:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T00:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/25843\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T00:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T00:57:10","slug":"san-antonio-spurs-expected-to-target-overlooked-nba-champion-in-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/25843\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio Spurs Expected to Target Overlooked NBA Champion in Free Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Antonio Spurs Expected to Target Overlooked NBA Champion in Free Agency<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The San Antonio Spurs, after a very successful NBA Draft, are expected to target a backup center in free agency to round out a frontcourt centered on Victor Wembanyama.<\/p>\n

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Brook Lopez, Clint Capela, and Guerschon Yabusele seem to be the favorites, although the Spurs could easily put together an offer to entice a league champion to play for his sixth team.<\/p>\n

Luke Kornet averaged six points, 5.3 rebounds, and a block last season for the Boston Celtics and has never made substantial money, although that is expected to change this offseason.<\/p>\n

As an unrestricted free agent, the Celtics have the means to bring him back, although he can certainly find more money and a bigger role elsewhere, and the Spurs fit the bill.<\/p>\n

“Another center target, sources say, that rival executives expect San Antonio to pursue: Boston’s Luke Kornet,” reported insider<\/a> Jake Fischer. “The Celtics’ 29-year-old big man, who has yet to earn north of $3 million in any single season in his eight-year NBA career, appears to have a real shot to cash out in this summer’s midlevel market.”<\/p>\n

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Kornet played a career-high 18 minutes per game last season, but depending on who the Spurs re-sign, he could be one of the only centers in town if he comes to San Antonio, pushing his usage well above 20 minutes per night.<\/p>\n

It stands to reason that he would get paid like a real role player instead of a benchwarmer.<\/p>\n

While Lopez and Capela are better, especially on the defensive end of the floor, Kornet would not be a bad consolation prize for a team looking to establish some winning DNA.<\/p>\n

Check out the Inside the Spurs home page<\/a> for more news, analysis, and must-read articles.<\/p>\n

Related: 5x NBA Champion Asks Simple Question of San Antonio Spurs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Related: San Antonio Spurs Rookies Reveal Plans for Summer League<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 29, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio Spurs Expected to Target Overlooked NBA Champion in Free Agency originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,3125,20540,20539,22724,22866,1260,7202,3138,7203,358,22721,3187,67,586,132,5230,22867,68,2969,4714],"class_list":{"0":"post-25843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-boston-celtics","10":"tag-brook-lopez","11":"tag-clint-capela","12":"tag-guerschon-yabusele","13":"tag-luke-kornet","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-san-antonio","16":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","17":"tag-sanantonio","18":"tag-texas","19":"tag-the-spurs","20":"tag-tx","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-unrestricted-free-agent","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa","28":"tag-victor-wembanyama"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114769601805141916","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}