Vincent Goodwill Discusses The Spurs Future With The 2nd Overall Pick In Tomorrow’s Draft | 6/24/25

Yahoo Sports senior NBA writer Vincent Goodwill joins the Dan Patrick Show and discusses the San Antonio Spurs future while having the 2nd overall pick in tomorrow’s NBA Draft

i’m curious about the Spurs if they’re taking Dylan Harper so that back court’s pretty crowded so I got the rookie of the year I got De’arren Fox and it feels like somebody is not going to be long for San Antonio what are the Spurs going to do well talking to people around the league the Spurs are the team that they’re like “Okay keep an eye on them.” Because the Spurs like to keep things close to the best they’re not going to go out and telegraph their moves remember we didn’t see the De’Aran Fox trade happening they like they already got they already got a young guard there and then they added another one right so I wouldn’t be surprised like there have been instances where I don’t know if you remember this Dan the Phoenix Suns of 97 had Kevin Johnson a young Steve Nash and Jason Kidd and it wound up working out that you know KJ was a little bit older steve Nash was a little bit unfounded at the time and you kind of let these things work themselves out you take the best player available like I don’t I’m not a believer in reaching but I am a believer in the Spurs having number two and number 14 i think they head number two hoping that Kevin Durant would pick them and they would use that as far as draft capital in a trade but now that they don’t I wonder if they’re going to take I don’t I don’t see that being a tenable thing but also this ain’t this supposed to be a positionless league ain’t that what they tell us i don’t believe that mind you i don’t believe it’s a positionless league i think that’s a bunch of bull it is amazing though when you look back on the Phoenix Suns you had three Hall of Fame point guards i don’t think KJ’s a Hall of Famer but he played like a Hall of Famer at times jay Kidd and and Steve Nash but you’re right nobody knew about Nash i remember being at a practice facility and watching Nash and I go you know that that’s the kid from Santa Clara like he’s he’s pretty good and then they said “Well he he won’t play here he won’t start here.” And then all of a sudden he goes to Dallas and next thing you know you know he’s somebody unique um but you didn’t worry about salaries back then Vincent now I got De’arren Fox what’s he going to cost me um although I get Castle and Harper on you know rookie deals dear Fox going to cost me a lot of money so it feels like he might be the guy jettisoned here well you just got him like that’s you just got him but I think if if you knew that you were going to end up with a second pit like I they wouldn’t have made the move probably for him if they knew they were going to be in this situation i like him but if I can get younger and I don’t have to spend money i thought they were going to get Durant i I thought that that they realized that he can help us he can take pressure he can be a bucket and but the you know they’re they’re not yet where the Rockets are and the Rockets might be a year away san Antonio feels like maybe two years away from being uhoh here they come well Victor’s coming and I think there’s a difference between Victor’s coming and the Spurs are coming i I I think they’re on two different kind of a little bit different timelines will he be the best player in the game in five years if not him who are you kidding me well player Shay Gil is going to be there for a little while whether you whether you believe that um but it feels like you know by 25 I think I said that he’ll be the best player in the sport Victor i mean why won’t he be the best player in the sport two years from now why won’t he be the best player in the sport next year like it do you see what he’s doing he’s out there with the monks he looks like Eddie Eddie Murphy and the Golden Child do you remember that movie yeah that was a bad movie that was that was a bad good reference bad movie but yeah he’s with the Tibetan Monks there uh but yeah I look I’m a big fan because he should have been defensive player of the year uh the last two years but I just wonder can the team keep up with him because that’s Well he’s Well he’s not going anywhere and here’s the thing no but the talent around him can they keep up with him as he develops so Castle can he shoot better uh is Harper going to be you know a true you know go-to guy who else do you have on that team who’s going to help you um you know so that that would be my only concern with that no I don’t disagree with you i mean I think they have pieces that you can move the Jeremy Sohans the Kell Johnson’s guys like that that you if you’re talking about packaging players and figuring stuff out if you want to press the fast forward button but until a player goes into his first rookie extension and if you think about this like the NFL where if you get a quarterback on a rookie contract and you start putting in those veteran pieces around him like Seattle did with Russell Wilson like a decade ago that’s what the NBA is turning into now where if you get a guy on the first contract or the first rookie extension that’s when you start building a championship team that’s why you have all these teams sort of positioning themselves to make runs now before guys get really really expensive i wouldn’t be surprised if the San Antonio Spurs put all their chips to the center of the table but traditionally that’s not how they have operated