Spurs 2026 Offseason Tracker: Every Move and Storyline
Bookmark this page — we’ll keep it updated throughout the summer as the Spurs shape the roster for 2026–27.
The summer in one line: San Antonio barely changed a thing. The team that reached the Finals is coming back essentially intact, and the only outside addition is a 33-year-old veteran. This is a bet on internal growth.
Updated through July 28, 2026.
The big one: Wembanyama signs for five years, $252M
Victor Wembanyama agreed on July 10 to a five-year, $252 million maximum rookie-scale extension with a player option on the fifth year, 2031-32 (per ESPN).
He turned down the 30% supermax escalators — had he won MVP, Defensive Player of the Year or made All-NBA in 2026-27, that deal would have climbed to roughly $303 million. He declined the escalators outright.
One thing that trips people up: this extension doesn’t start until 2027-28. He plays 2026-27 on the last year of his rookie deal at $16.87 million; year one of the extension pays $43.5 million. Last season he averaged 25 points, 11.5 rebounds and 3.1 blocks, was the unanimous Defensive Player of the Year, made All-NBA First Team, and finished third in MVP voting. Our full breakdown here.
Additions (one)
- Tobias Harris | two years, $31 million, fully guaranteed, no option on year two Agreed July 1, official July 6. Harris, 33, averaged 13.3 points and 5.1 rebounds over 63 games for Detroit last season (NBA.com). Worth noting: his 2026-27 salary is $15,044,000 — precisely the full non-taxpayer mid-level exception. San Antonio spent the whole thing on him.
Re-signings (four)
- Julian Champagnie | three years, $45 million through 2028-29 (June 29) The Spurs declined their $3 million team option and gave him a brand-new three-year deal instead (per ESPN). He averaged 11.1 points and 5.8 rebounds on 38.1% from three last season, and his 195 made threes are a franchise single-season record. On December 31 against the Knicks he hit 11 threes for a career-high 36 points — without attempting a single two-pointer, the first player in NBA history to do that.
- Harrison Barnes | one year, $8 million (agreed June 29, official July 8)
- Jordan McLaughlin | one-year veteran minimum paying $3.29 million in 2026-27 (July 13). The minimum-salary reimbursement rule puts his cap hit at $2.45 million.
- David Jones Garcia | two-way contract (July 22)
The draft: five picks, four kept
The 2026 draft was held June 23–24 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
| Pick | Player | School | Contract |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | Jayden Quaintance (F-C) | Kentucky | Rookie scale |
| 26 | Tarris Reed Jr. (C) | UConn | Rookie scale |
| 42 | Ja’Kobi Gillespie (G) | Tennessee | Two-way |
| 44 | Maliq Brown (F) | Duke | Two-way |
All four signed on July 3.
The summer’s only trade came on draft night: San Antonio sent Trevon Brazile (Arkansas), whom they had just taken at No. 35, plus two future second-round picks to Denver for the No. 26 pick, which became Tarris Reed Jr. (NBA.com).
⚠️ Quaintance’s knee is worse than it looks. The 18-year-old played only four games at Kentucky last season, and the root cause was a torn ACL at Arizona State in February 2025 — the complications from it wiped out most of his sophomore year. (As an Arizona State freshman he averaged 9.4 points, 7.9 rebounds and 2.6 blocks.)
On July 15 he underwent surgery to clean up the meniscus in his right knee, with the team announcing no timetable for a return (KSAT). San Antonio knew the procedure was coming when they drafted him.
The latest timeline is worse: Brett Siegel of ClutchPoints reports he will miss the start of 2026-27, with the internal expectation that he won’t be back until some point in 2027, and that he is sidelined indefinitely (via Hoops Rumors). He did not play a minute of Summer League.
⚠️ You’ll see “he may miss the entire 2026-27 season” in circulation. That is an inference, not what the reporting says — the reporting is that he misses the start and returns at some point in 2027.
Maliq Brown, meanwhile, arrives as the reigning ACC Defensive Player of the Year and Sixth Man of the Year.
Departures
- Trevon Brazile — drafted at No. 35 and traded to Denver
- Harrison Ingram — the Spurs withdrew his two-way qualifying offer on July 14; he signed with Utah on July 25 (terms undisclosed, per team policy)
- Emanuel Miller — waived July 22 to open the two-way slot for David Jones Garcia
- Free agents off the books: Bismack Biyombo, Kelly Olynyk, Mason Plumlee, Lindy Waters III
(Note: Jeremy Sochan was waived on February 11, 2026 and signed with the Knicks — a midseason move, not part of this offseason.)
Coaching staff
Assistant coach Sean Sweeney left to become head coach of the Orlando Magic. San Antonio responded by hiring Billy Donovan as lead assistant.
Summer League: 0-3 in California, 3-2 in Vegas
California Classic (July 3–6, Chase Center, San Francisco)
- July 3 — lost to Miami 87–88
- July 5 — lost to Golden State 69–98
- July 6 — lost to the Lakers 84–88
Las Vegas (July 9–19)
- July 9 — lost to Atlanta 66–93
- July 11 — beat New York 70–49
- July 12 — beat Milwaukee 90–80
- July 15 — beat Utah 94–82
- July 18 — beat Phoenix 86–81 (consolation)
San Antonio missed the four-team playoff that began July 18; Golden State, the Lakers, Memphis and Houston advanced.
Carter Bryant played only two games, and that was the plan, not an injury. Summer League head coach Corliss Williamson put it plainly: “We started off saying he’s going to play two games, so he’s played two.” He went 7-of-10 for a game-high 19 points against the Knicks. We wrote about his breakout last summer.
Neither Dylan Harper nor Stephon Castle played this year, and neither was on the roster. (The “Harper shut down for Summer League” item circulating online is from 2025.)
Cap and roster picture
The 2026-27 thresholds, set by the league on June 30 and effective July 1:
| Line | Amount |
|---|---|
| Salary cap | $164,961,000 |
| Luxury tax | $200,428,000 |
| First apron | $209,015,000 |
| Second apron | $221,686,000 |
San Antonio’s 2026-27 team salary sits at $196,130,556 across 14 standard contracts and three two-ways. That leaves them:
- roughly $4.30M below the tax line
- roughly $12.88M below the first apron
- roughly $25.56M below the second apron
They have one standard roster spot open, no two-way slots, and their full bi-annual exception (about $5.5 million). The second apron is not a new rule — it has been in force since 2024. What changed is that Wembanyama’s 25% choice makes ducking it over the next few years realistic.
What’s ahead
August: Wembanyama returns to France France named its 15-man roster on July 18, with Wembanyama alongside Rudy Gobert and Evan Fournier. It’s his first national-team appearance since the 2024 Paris Olympics, where he won silver averaging 15.8 points and 9.7 rebounds — he sat out the July window because of San Antonio’s Finals run.
- Camp opens August 16 in Orléans
- Friendlies against Serbia: August 20 in Belgrade, August 23 in Orléans (CO’Met Arena, 18:00)
- August 27 vs Slovenia — Accor Arena, Paris, 20:30
- August 30 at Sweden — Hovet, Stockholm, 17:30
France sits top of Group L at 5-1.
October: preseason and the opener The Spurs announced five preseason games on July 16, opening October 8 at home against Atlanta, 7 p.m. CT. The team says broadcast details will follow.
⚠️ These dates are not official yet, whatever you read elsewhere: as of July 27, the NBA’s own key-dates page for 2026-27 lists no schedule-release date, no opening night and no Christmas Day matchups. Everything circulating is media prediction. Training camp dates haven’t been announced either — the “September 23/24/29” figures you’ll find are 2025 dates.
October–December: NBA Cup Group play runs October 30 to November 27, with the championship game December 11 at Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.
January 2027: Europe Spurs vs Pelicans, January 14 at the Accor Arena in Paris and January 17 at Co-op Live in Manchester.
Expectations for next season: on July 24, ESPN had the Spurs and Thunder as co-favorites at +270, with odds provided by DK Sports (ESPN). ⚠️ Odds move — another book had them around +250 in mid-June, and the whole board shifted after LeBron James signed with Philadelphia. Never read a number without the book and the date attached.
Corrections
- July 28, 2026: the July 27 version said Harrison Ingram was “still unsigned as of July 27.” That was wrong — he had signed with Utah on July 25. Corrected. This update also revises Jayden Quaintance’s injury timeline (adding the ACL history and the latest return expectation) and drops the “still unsigned” claims about the other free agents, since that status changes daily and this page can’t track it reliably.
Every figure and date on this page was verified the day it was published, with sources linked inline. If you spot an error, email contact@gogospurs.com and I’ll correct it publicly.