Every rebuilding team needs a prospect who comes out of nowhere and brings excitement. Your K.J. McDaniels, Toney Douglases, Drew Eubankses (Trail Blazers version) who just show up and bring joy during awful seasons. The losses are bad enough, but when there’s no one unburdened by expectations just doing fun things, that’s when things get dire.
The Spurs were lacking that type of guy recently but have found it in Charles Bassey. The big man is clearly not in San Antonio to be a savior or even necessarily a long-term piece, but that makes watching him bounce around the court all the more enjoyable, as weird as that sounds.