{"id":349666,"date":"2026-06-25T08:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T08:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/349666\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T08:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T08:02:11","slug":"maliq-brown-is-now-a-san-antonio-spur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/349666\/","title":{"rendered":"Maliq Brown Is Now A San Antonio Spur!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _174s0un6 _174s0un5 _1mt21p01\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dukechronicle.com\/article\/duke-mens-basketball-isaiah-evans-maliq-brown-2026-nba-draft-scheyer-boozer-flagg-spurs-timberwolves-nets-jones-carrawell-plumlee-laettner-20260625\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">T<\/a>here are a lot of uncertainties still, but Maliq Brown was taken with the #44 pick by the San Antonio Spurs, and that could be a huge break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">First, the Spurs have been a model franchise in most ways, and they have always had a knack for finding talent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Second, he has a pretty clearly defined role from Day One: defend. And that will be much easier with Victor Wembanyana, aka the Alien, and now Jayden Quaintance, as soon as his knee allows. Also, the Spurs picked up UConn\u2019s Tarris Reed, so Brown should be free to focus first on defense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">It\u2019s a great opportunity for him, and our bet is that the Spurs will be very happy once they get a sense of just how smart a defender he is. It\u2019s one thing to see it on TV, and another entirely to see it in practice and games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are a lot of uncertainties still, but Maliq Brown was taken with the #44 pick by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[16111,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-349666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-main","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}