[From ESPN]

With Victor Wembanyama in China for nearly two weeks learning more about himself, according to a source, the San Antonio Spurs hope the Frenchman returns to a tweaked roster poised to end a six-year postseason drought.

Rife with assets -- two lottery picks (No. 2 and No. 14) and an additional three future tradeable first-round picks, not to mention controllable contracts -- San Antonio could strike a deal to land an All-Star-level player. But whether the team wants to deviate from its long-term plan for building sustainability is still being decided with a week before the 2025 NBA draft begins (June 25-26, 8 p.m. ET on ABC and ESPN).

The Spurs pushed their long-term plan into motion back in 2020 to land Wembanyama.

"We want to build something that's sustainable. You've got to build it brick by brick," general manager Brian Wright said last June after drafting eventual NBA Rookie of the Year Stephon Castle with the No. 4 pick, then Rob Dillingham at No. 8, before trading him to Minnesota for a 2031 first-rounder and a 2030 pick swap. "All the decisions that we've made to this point have kind of been under that premise."

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