Salt Lake City Summer League and free agency converged last week, overlapping in many roster changes while introducing new pieces to the Spurs 2021-2022 puzzle.
Everyone over 30 is gone — Rudy Gay (Utah), Patty Mills (Brooklyn), Gorgui Dieng (Atlanta), DeMar DeRozan (Chicago) — showing that there is concerted effort to finally embrace the youth movement and development the Spurs have been drafting behind since 2016. They have been replaced in part by John Primo (18) and Joe Wieskamp (21) as well as a slew of new names and yet-to-be-determined draft picks.
Meanwhile, in Salt Lake City, a young couch Mitch Johnson ushered Devin Vassell, Josh Primo, and Joe Wieskamp into their first summer play.