In the 2017 offseason, the San Antonio Spurs signed center Joffrey Lauvergne to a two-year, veteran’s minimum contract. He can opt out after the first season.
Lauvergne hasn’t played a second for the Spurs yet, He did play plenty this summer, however, for Team France in the EuroBasket 2017 tournament. This pitted numerous European countries against each other in a multi-week event.
Team France recently lost and were eliminated from EuroBasket. Before they were officially eliminated, though, Lauvergne left his mark. He posterized Germany’s Daniel Theis in the third quarter, which got a raucous reaction from commentary in this short clip:
It was a monstrous throw-down from Lauvergne, something the Spurs would likely love to see in the 2017-18 season.