If there is any lesson the San Antonio Spurs learned last season, it\u2019s that you can never have enough big man depth. They seemed to take that lesson to heart with their moves this summer. Not only did they sign Luke Kornet to flank Victor Wembanyama, but they also picked up Kelly Olynyk from the Washington Wizards. On Thursday they made another move that should add more depth heading into training camp.<\/p>\n
Today, the Spurs announced they have signed Micah Potter to a training camp contract. The four-year big man will bring San Antonio\u2019s roster count to 18. The team can take 21 players into training camp, and can have 15 going into the regular season.<\/p>\n
Potter has played four seasons in the NBA for the Detroit Pistons and Utah Jazz. Last season, Potter appeared in 38 games for the Jazz, starting 10. He averaged 4.3 points, 4.3 rebounds, and shot 42% from the field and 31.6% from deep. Potter is known as a stretch big. He\u2019s shot over 40% in two of his four NBA seasons.<\/p>\n
The big man has been effective in the G League during his career. Last season, he averaged 14.5 points and 7.9 rebounds for the Salt Lake City Stars. Even if Potter doesn\u2019t crack the regular-season roster, he\u2019d give the Austin Spurs a solid big man, which they seemed to lack on last year\u2019s team and the Summer League roster.<\/p>\n
The Spurs will start training camp in September. They have one open regular roster spot, and all three two-way slots are occupied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If there is any lesson the San Antonio Spurs learned last season, it\u2019s that you can never have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3797],"tags":[7,6,969,474,4075,4074,534,37789],"class_list":{"0":"post-218659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio-spurs","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-san-antonio","11":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","12":"tag-sanantonio","13":"tag-sanantoniospurs","14":"tag-spurs","15":"tag-spurs-free-agency"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114990255123326672","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}