[Scotto] The San Antonio Spurs exercised their team options on Stephon Castle ($12.67 million), Dylan Harper ($13.61 million) and Carter Bryant ($5.39 million) for the 2027-28 season.

[u/Knightbear49]

https://bsky.app/profile/mikeascotto.bsky.social/post/3my3re6qvns2f

[u/SloshaPacana]

It's crazy that 14m is a rookie salary now, i mean ofc because of the cap increasing but you're drafted basically top 20 and you have generational wealth, even more so than before

[u/Djgarrett1121 → u/SloshaPacana]

That was Lebrons salary when he went to the Heat. 15.7 million I think. 

[u/wallace6464 → u/Djgarrett1121]

I remember when 4/80 was an insane contract 

[u/Honest-Pay-8265 → u/SloshaPacana]

I mean being drafted in top 20 is same odds as winning a lottery. I guess they deserve it.

[u/Garb-O → u/SloshaPacana]

yeah boys inflation exists no matter how hard you try to hide from it

[u/Fletch71011 → u/SloshaPacana]

I don't know how people manage this but 70 percent of generational wealth is gone in 2 generations and 90 percent by 3. Like you have to be incredibly stupid to blow that kind of money yet almost everyone does.

Almost all wealth is "new" wealth. The richest and nicest guy I've ever worked with had hundreds of millions and is going to die bankrupt because his kids were all addicts and/or in prison and all outspent their trust funds and he spent everything he had left trying to get them out of it. Funny enough, setting your kids up for life might be one of the worst things you can do for them by the numbers.

[u/GodPowardKingOfLies]

Shocked, really thought one of them would get cut

[u/International-Chip93]

What are they doing!? Trade these bums... Ahhh 😏 honestly almost highway robbery with how good these kids are

[u/supacatkid → u/International-Chip93]

Two of them are top 5 picks. It would be weird if they weren’t this good.

[u/NoShape0 → u/supacatkid]

...it's pretty easy to back through the drafts to see top 5 picks turning out bad lol

[u/Odoaiden → u/NoShape0]

Ya Harper was the only one where it was pretty guranteed he was going to be good

[u/supacatkid → u/NoShape0]

But the expectation is that top 5 picks will be franchise players is it not?

[u/devidomo → u/supacatkid]

You know drafting players isnt a science right?

[u/supacatkid → u/devidomo]

Yeah definitely. But what does that have to do with expecting players picked in the top 5 to be good?

[u/applecider42 → u/supacatkid]

Because not all top 5 picks are good…

[u/theloneliestorbit → u/applecider42]

You're confusing expectations with guarantees. Nobody drafts someone in the top 5 expecting them to be a bust. That's literally his point lol.

[u/mydrumluck → u/supacatkid]

And yet three teams passed on Castle.

[u/Advanced_Art_233 → u/supacatkid]

Oklahoman intelligence on full display yet again

[u/supacatkid → u/Advanced_Art_233]

Is the expectation not that top 5 picks be great?

[u/notfadeaway72 → u/supacatkid]

Sure just like I expected Jahlil Okafor and Markelle Fultz to be great

[u/supacatkid → u/notfadeaway72]

Right, that was the expectation. But they weren’t which was weird and was a story for years.

It’s crazy that Kawhi ended up being so good or Jimmy Butler, Tony Parker, etc. it is not “highway robbery” for top 5 picks to end up being good/great players.

Swear to god if my flair wasn’t Thunder flair people wouldn’t be so far up their asses about this. Can’t say shit about spurs players without everyone getting defensive

[u/International-Chip93 → u/supacatkid]

Happens all the time

[u/validhoops]

Shocking development

[u/Appropriate_Ice2656]

Cowards

[u/The_Assassin_Gower]

Future RIP for the spurs salary when all these contracts need maxes at the same time

[u/Either_Imagination_9]

So next year those guys are gonna be asking for contracts?

[u/Mario_Viana → u/Either_Imagination_9]

yeah that's how nba careers work

[u/Either_Imagination_9 → u/Mario_Viana]

Your name is Mario

[u/Duskuser → u/Either_Imagination_9]

Wahoo

[u/Either_Imagination_9 → u/Duskuser]

Itsa me

[u/Queue-t → u/Either_Imagination_9]

Castle can be extended next year. The following year would see Harper and Bryant extensions.

[u/nbaaccountobserver → u/Either_Imagination_9]

You’re not allowed to ask question on Reddit buddy.