The 49th pick in the NBA draft is about as far away from a sure thing as you can get. Most teams are looking to acquire a draft and stash player, or someone who they think can fill an end of the bench role in a few years. The San Antonio Spurs may have gotten more than that with Quinndary Weatherspoon.
Of the Spurs 2019 rookies, Weatherspoon often felt like the forgotten man. He wasn’t a first-round pick like Luka Samanic and Keldon Johnson and didn’t come from a perennial blue-blood program.