{"id":362306,"date":"2026-07-06T03:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T03:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/362306\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T03:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T03:06:15","slug":"spurs-make-clear-stephon-castle-choice-after-free-agent-snub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/362306\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs Make Clear Stephon Castle Choice After Free Agent Snub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Although the San Antonio Spurs were brought up as a potential suitor for Hachimura earlier this offseason, he wasn&#8217;t viewed as a realistic option for the franchise,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PurpGoldLakers\/status\/2073232523904331914?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported<\/a> ClutchPoints&#8217; Brett\u00a0Siegel. \u201cWhile the organization did speak with Hachimura&#8217;s representation, the Spurs were targeting experience and veteran leadership on a short-term contract rather than a long-term commitment. That is why Tobias Harris was the Spurs&#8217; top target, and they didn&#8217;t have much interest in Hachimura.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Although the San Antonio Spurs were brought up as a potential suitor for Hachimura earlier this offseason, he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[66156,6393,82,84,83,1066],"class_list":["post-362306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-free-agency","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-san-antonio-spurs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362306","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=362306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}