NBA Rumors: San Antonio Spurs Set Sights On A Bradley Beal-DeMar DeRozan Swap Next Season

The San Antonio Spurs is riding on a 24-32 win-loss card, which is not looking good for a team that is vying for a playoffs spot. If the playoffs started today, there will be no sighting of black and silver for the first time since 1997 – and that was the first year of Gregg Popovich as a coach and they drafted Tim Duncan during the rookie draft.

Since then, Pop was able to steer the Spurs to the playoffs every single season but truth to be told, they have been struggling to rack up some wins this season and they have had long strings of losses (8) than consecutive victories (3). In their last game, San Antonio succumbed to the third-quarter run by the Oklahoma City Thunder and lost the game on the road, 131-103.

Having a player who is at his peak would certainly help the cause of the Spurs to be included in the conversation to be one of the contenders for the championship – and that is what Bradley Beal can bring to the table.

According to an Air Alamo article, bringing the 26-year old scorer to Texas should be the priority for the Spurs this coming summer. Last night, Beal made a feat that was last achieved by Kobe Bryant – score 50 points on two straight nights. He scored 55 points in a 137-134 loss at home to the league-leading Milwaukee Bucks to reach the plateau. A night before, He scored 53 points in Washington’s 126-117 defeat against the Bulls in Chicago.

To be more specific, Beal was only the 11^th player in history to do it, or if we want to raise the numbers a bit higher, he’s only the third player in history with back-to-back 53-point outings after Wilt Chamberlain and Houston Rockets’ James Harden.

Beal is starting to feel bad about the direction of the team is going this season, especially with their failure to win games where he thought can be won. “I don’t like losing. I’m sorry — especially winnable games. I don’t like losing, so (frustration) gonna keep building up for me until we starting winning and changing our culture,” the former Florida Gator said in an interview.

And the Spurs is a team who knows how to win despite a shaky season that the team has gone through since the departure of Tony Parker to Charlotte Hornets until his retirement last year but is still making it to the playoffs.

In order to make it happen, the Spurs should be open to letting go of DeMar DeRozan if they want to bring the team in a new direction. Should the Wizards ask for more, they can still throw in Lonnie Walker IV in and a couple of first-rounders to the deal.

Being one of the league’s top scorers and his playmaking abilities, the Spurs could find themselves as contenders rather than hanging on the ropes just like their past two seasons.