Unlocking the Spurs’ Secret: What’s Fueling San Antonio’s Unstoppable Rise in the NBA?

Wembanyama understandably gets the headlines, and Castle and Harper have generated well-deserved praise for how well they’ve hit the ground running. But Fox merits his fair share of the credit for San Antonio’s success, too; he’s been exactly what the Spurs hoped he’d be when they air-lifted him out of Sacramento last season, a perfect plug-and-play No. 2 option capable of helping elevate a precocious team to postseason readiness.

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9. Everybody needs a Julian Champagnie

Champagnie went undrafted out of St. John’s in 2022. He caught on in Philly, signing a two-way with the 76ers, but was on the outside looking in for a 54-win Sixers team, and wound up getting waived after the trade deadline. The rebuilding Spurs quickly scooped him up, gave him some actual minutes … and found out that he could shoot it a little bit.

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