NBA Future Power Rankings: Every Team’s Spot In 5 Years
By Ti Windisch
No. 9: San Antonio Spurs
Gregg Popovich, Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili will all be gone in 2020, but it’s hard to imagine this well-built Spurs machine stopping even without its long-standing conductors.
Kawhi Leonard should still be around, and it’s clearly not hard for San Antonio to find more talent–LaMarcus Aldridge and David West were both brought in fairly easily this offseason.
Although it hasn’t been talked about too much, it’s really not that hard to imagine the Spurs talking a superstar like Kevin Durant into stepping into Duncan’s massive hole in the starting five.
Durant might not be the guy, but don’t be surprised to see some huge name decide to settle in San Antonio over the next five years. Who knows, maybe Aldridge will morph into the kind of ageless superhuman Duncan did. It’s hard to know exactly how they’ll do it, but very easy to guess the Spurs will be good going forward.
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