The San Antonio Spurs knew Tony Parker‘s reign as their starting point guard was coming to an end a few years ago, so they became aggressive in trying to find his successor.
They spent their 2017 and 2018 late-first round picks on point guards in the hopes of finding the next Parker, who was a late-first round pick himself.
The Spurs ended up getting a promising point guard with each of those picks, but their most recent selection most closely parallels the game of the future Hall of Famer.
Derrick White‘s box score numbers from this season look a lot like Tony Parker’s first year in San Antonio.