SAN ANTONIO \u2014 For the first time in his NBA career, Luke Kornet has a long term contract and what seems like a permanent home playing in San Antonio.<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst time I\u2019ve been in this position in quite a while,\u201d said Kornet. \u201cI felt like it was a great position to be in.\u201d<\/p>\n
The new Spurs big man has been with the Celtics the past three seasons and was a part of their title run in 2024. He was a valuable player on that team and hopes to find a similar role with the Spurs.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn playing long enough, it\u2019s just about the team and how well we succeed,\u201d said Kornet. \u201cI was excited about the opportunity to help everyone bridge into the next step of things.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kornet sees the young talent in San Antonio and the potential for this franchise to maybe have a similar run to what he was a part of in Boston. He\u2019ll bring some needed size to help when Victor Wembanyama is not on the court and could even find some time sharing the floor with Wemby.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019ll be fun trying to figure out the best way to utilize that and implement it,\u201d said Kornet. \u201cObviously, Victor\u2019s got some incredible gifts.\u201d<\/p>\n
A lot of factors played into Kornet signing with the Spurs this offseason, one of them being a return to Texas. Kornet spent time in the Dallas-Fort Worth area growing up and played high school basketball at Argyle Liberty Christian. Now, he\u2019s in San Antonio raising his young kids.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s kind of interesting being on the other side of life, growing up here to now being a parent,\u201d said Kornet. \u201cEspecially in San Antonio the amount of young families and stuff has been awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now that he\u2019s settled and set to be a Spur for the next few years, we\u2019ll see what Kornet can add to this young, talented roster.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 For the first time in his NBA career, Luke Kornet has a long term contract…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":324109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,30320,30319,5281,50,7202,155980,7203,62,358,41035,161791,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5284],"class_list":{"0":"post-324108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-app-professional-sports","10":"tag-app-sports","11":"tag-ctv","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-san-antonio","14":"tag-san-antonio-what-you-need-to-know","15":"tag-sanantonio","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-texas","18":"tag-texas-what-you-need-to-know","19":"tag-travis-recek","20":"tag-tx","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa","27":"tag-vod"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115418443632675786","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324108","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=324108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}