Welcome to the daily Thread. During the month of June, we are talking NBA Draft. As we lead up to the 2018 NBA Draft on June 21st, we will be revisiting the Spurs draft choices. Today we remember 2002.
In this draft, the Spurs picked John Salmons 26th and Randy Holcomb 57th respectively, but traded Salmon and the rights to Holcomb along with Mark Bryant who’d played with the Spurs in 30 games the previous season to the Philadelphia 76ers for Speedy Claxton.
Salmons played 13 seasons in the NBA for 6 NBA teams before retiring in 2015.