After choosing Stephon Citadel with the 4th choose, the Spurs chosen guard Rob Dillingham out of the College of Kentucky with the eighth choose earlier than instantly buying and selling him to the Minnesota Timberwolves the rights to swap 2030 first spherical choose and their 2031 top-1 protected first spherical choose, per Shams Sharania. (In different phrases, they used the eighth choose to pick out somebody who’s at present in eighth grade! No? I’ll see myself out, despite the fact that that was J.R. Wilco’s line.)
With the eighth choose of the NBA Draft, the @spurs choose Rob Dillingham!
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Timberwolves traded 2031 unprotected first-rounder and a 2030 swap (high 1 protected) to Spurs for Rob Dillingham, sources say.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) June 27, 2024
There was hypothesis that the Spurs could commerce this choose if to an absence of roster area and lots of extra picks in future, deeper drafts to return. If there may be extra to this commerce that has but to be reported, we are going to let you understand.
Barring one other commerce that features a choose within the first spherical of this draft, that’s it for the Spurs tonight, however make sure to examine again tomorrow for the second spherical of the draft, starting at 3:00 PM CT. The Spurs will probably be choosing at each thirty fifth and forty eighth.