Four Years, Zero Survivors

The Spurs' 2022 draft class is gone. All of them, waived before this season began, which is not a scandal — it's just how roster construction works at the top of the league. You draft for potential, you develop what you can, and eventually the players who don't fit the contending timeline move on. San Antonio is 64–22 and heading into the playoffs as the No. 2 seed in the West. The math worked out.

What's worth noting is the pace of it. Four years is a full cycle — long enough to know what you have, short enough that none of those players reached a second contract here. The franchise that drafted Victor Wembanyama in 2023 and built around him quickly is the same franchise that cleared the 2022 class entirely to make room for the pieces that fit: Tobias Harris, Julian Champagnie on his extended deal, the veterans filling the margins of a championship roster.

The current group has no obvious connection to that draft class. The contributors who matter now — Fox, Castle, Johnson off the bench, Kornet — arrived through trades, free agency, or later picks. That's not unusual for a team that accelerated its timeline. When Wembanyama arrived, the rebuilding math changed overnight, and players drafted for a different era of Spurs basketball were always going to be the ones who didn't make it across.

It's a clean sweep, and it's a footnote. The playoffs start soon.