{"id":296626,"date":"2025-09-22T13:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T13:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/296626\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T13:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T13:14:10","slug":"open-thread-happy-birthday-to-riley-minix-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/296626\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread: Happy birthday to Riley Minix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy birthday to Spurs two-way player Riley Minix. Today, the former Morehead State Eagle hits the quarter-century mark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">After going undrafted in 2024, Minix joined the Spurs in Summer League, later signing a two-way contract. Minix may have only appeared in one game with the San Antonio Spurs, but he hired during the G-League\u2019s Tip \u2013 Off Tournament, averaging 20.5 points, 6.9 rebounds and 2.3 assists in 33 minutes per game, helping Austin to a 10 \u2013 6 record.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Once the Austin Spurs regular season began, Minix only played in the first three games, missing the remainder of the season after undergoing surgery to repair a torn\u00a0labrum\u00a0in his left shoulder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Spurs want to see more of what Minix can do and extended him a second two-way contract this year. He\u2019s been seen with the team as they make appearances and continue to bind in the offseason, proving that his time with the Silver &amp; Black is not being spent on the outside looking in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">There won\u2019t be a lot of minutes to go around, but between injuries and rest Minix should be able to showcase his talent on the larger stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Happy birthday. Here\u2019s to a healthy season and months of opportunities to come.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Welcome to the Thread. Join in the conversation, start your own discussion, and share your thoughts. This is the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/nba\/teams\/san-antonio-spurs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Spurs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Spurs<\/a>\u00a0community,\u00a0your\u00a0Spurs community. Thanks for being here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.poundingtherock.com\/community-guidelines\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:community guidelines;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">community guidelines<\/a>\u00a0apply which should remind everyone to be cool, avoid personal attacks, not to troll and to watch the language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Happy birthday to Spurs two-way player Riley Minix. Today, the former Morehead State Eagle hits the quarter-century mark.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3797],"tags":[26230,7,48484,6,7992,969,474,4075,4074,534,13711,2594],"class_list":{"0":"post-296626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio-spurs","8":"tag-austin-spurs","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-morehead-state-eagle","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-riley-minix","13":"tag-san-antonio","14":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","15":"tag-sanantonio","16":"tag-sanantoniospurs","17":"tag-spurs","18":"tag-summer-league","19":"tag-the-spurs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115248133840137038","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296626","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=296626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}