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Spurs PG Tre Jones Ranks Among Best NBA Free Agents
The San Antonio Spurs have a lot of cap space to work with this offseason and a lot of flexibility to do what they need to improve the team.
Most of that money will go towards signing outside free agents, but the Spurs have a player worth re-signing on the open market ... point guard Tre Jones.
Jones averaged 12.9 points and 6.6 assists in his third professional season, enough to place him as the 20th best free agent in this summer's class according to Bleacher Report.
"It flew under the radar because the San Antonio Spurs were in the bottom three all season, but Tre Jones had a solid campaign as a table-setting 1 who takes care of the ball," Bleacher Report writes. "He was 16th in the league in assist percentage and 11th in assist-to-turnover ratio. If a team believes it can help him develop a decent three-point shot (as his brother Tyus did), it could probably justify a pretty solid offer for him."
Jones has been a rising commodity ever since he was taken with the No. 41 pick in the 2020 NBA Draft, and his growth has given the Spurs reason to re-sign him. However, if the Spurs find a player with a higher ceiling in the draft, namely projected No. 2 overall pick Scoot Henderson, it could affect Jones' future in San Antonio.
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