{"id":358039,"date":"2026-07-02T01:23:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T01:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/358039\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T01:23:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T01:23:25","slug":"the-san-antonio-spurs-agree-to-a-deal-with-tobias-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/358039\/","title":{"rendered":"The San Antonio Spurs agree to a deal with Tobias Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The San Antonio Spurs were expected to pick up a stretch forward with their limited financial room in free agency this summer. They just found their guy, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/contributor\/shams-charania\/0ea829178d453\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania<\/a> reported, they have agreed to a 2-year, $31M deal with veteran forward Tobias Harris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Harris is a 33-year-old (34 on July 15) wing\/forward combo who is coming off a successful season with the Detroit Pistons. He averaged 13.3 points, 5.1 rebounds, and 2.5 assists while shooting 46.7% from the field and 36.8% from three. He started on a Detroit team that had the best record in the Eastern Conference, but fell to the Cleveland Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference Semifinals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Harris is well-known for his three-level scoring ability at 6-foot-8, 225 pounds. He spent a lot of his time spacing the floor off the ball for the Pistons, but was also called upon to be an offensive engine in the clutch, getting some post-isolation plays drawn up for him. Harris was one of Detroit\u2019s best players in the playoffs, averaging 18.1 points and 7.2 rebounds, despite shooting only 29.2% from three. He\u2019ll give San Antonio another big-bodied veteran who can space the floor next to Victor Wembanyama and the guards, with the ability to create his own shot when needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The rumor before the signing was that San Antonio would not commit over 2 years to the forward they ended up signing. They got Harris for a two-year deal that appears to be the full non-taxpayer mid-level exception (roughly $15M a year). That means Harris will likely come off their books when they need to sign Dylan Harper to his rookie-level extension two seasons from now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">It remains to be seen how Harris factors into the Spurs\u2019 rotation. He\u2019ll have to compete with Julian Champagnie for a starting spot. Harris hasn\u2019t come off the bench for a team since the 2016-2017 season. San Antonio has a bit of a logjam in their wing room, with Harris, Champagnie, Keldon Johnson, Carter Bryant, and Harrison Barnes. Mitch Johnson will have to get creative in how he divvies up minutes to a roster that was good enough to make the NBA Finals last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">After the Harris deal, the Spurs still have two open roster spots to fill, along with two-way contracts to give between now and training camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Antonio Spurs were expected to pick up a stretch forward with their limited financial room in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83,68484],"class_list":["post-358039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-spurs-free-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358039","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=358039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}