What an awfully long off-season it’s been. Or to be more precise, what an awfully long time between the Spurs’ play-in exit and the start of the season. It didn’t feel that long last year. Then again, I didn’t switch employers last off-season, and I didn’t move to another city last off-season. Neither did I visit three multi-day rock festivals that involved camping last off-season. But the summer of 2022, well, it was an incredibly eventful one for me. By September, I was in Slovenia and Spurs basketball had become a distant memory.
Meanwhile, the Spurs had traded away Dejounte Murray, finally committing to a full-on rebuild.