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Seven of Victor Wembanyama's teammates, including recently signed free agent forward Tobias Harris, have joined the 22-year-old superstar for workouts this week in France. The Spurs on Tuesday posted a photo on their official X account of Wembanyama alongside Harris and six players who helped the Spurs win the 2025 Western Conference championship: Harrison Barnes, Carter Bryant, Stephon Castle, De'Aaron Fox, Dylan Harper and Jordan McLaughlin.
"They want to grow," Spurs CEO R.C. Buford said last week when he revealed on the YouTube show TRASH TALK that "eight or ten" players were expected to join Wembanyama in France for workouts. Buford said Wembanyama organizing the practices underscores his leadership skills. "Just seeing Victor calling his team and saying, 'Hey, come over here and spend a week with me' (shows his leadership)," Buford said.
Bobby Marks: Difference in year 1 25% max $43.5M 30% max $52.2M San Antonio has Stephon Castle extension eligible next summer and Dylan Harper in 2028.
I just went through every pick from 2020 through 2024. That’s 150 first-round picks. First question: did they make an impact for more than a month or two for the team that drafted them? The obvious choices are Anthony Edwards and LaMelo Ball (2020); Cade Cunningham (2021) and Stephon Castle (2024). Throw in guys like Onyeka Okongwu (2020) and Anthony Black (2023) who clearly are difference makers for the teams that drafted them or traded for them on draft night. How many of that 150 total made the “good list”? 46. In total, less than a third of those first rounders have proved, on their original team, that they belong. For every Franz Wagner and Alperen Şengün we had a Patrick Williams or Kai Jones.
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Crazy Stats: Victor Wembanyama and Stephon Caste finished the 2026 postseason with combined totals of 942 points, 355 rebounds, 200 assists, 42 steals, and 86 blocks. No other pair of teammates in @NBA history has combined to produce as many points, rebounds, assists, steals, and blocks in a single playoff run, and only 11 duos have exceeded four of those marks.
Tom Orsborn: Stephon Castle on how the Knicks defense made it tough on him and his teammates: “They crowded the pick and rolls a lot, made us stagnant on the ball. When we tried get to isolation, they took away passing lanes too, made us play one-on-one a lot.”
Oh No He Didn't: Stephon Castle on whether they can come back from 3-1: "I feel like we've made history all year. We've proven that with our backs against the wall that we can step up. I don't really expect this to be any different"
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Stefan Bondy: The NBA’s two-minute report uncovers two officiating mistakes, and neither involved OG Anunoby’s block on Fox. The first was Wemby should’ve been whistled for a defensive 3-second violation with 1:26 left. The second was Josh Hart should’ve been whistled for a foul on Stephon Castle with 1:03 left. On OG’s block on Fox, the NBA determined, “Anunoby makes a legal attempt to block Fox's shot and dislodges the ball from his control before making incidental arm contact.”
Tom Petrini: Mitch Johnson on getting to know Steph Castle: "A lot of times I think as coaches we ignorantly get a player and then it's like their book starts and there's so much history that you can learn about a player and a person before they get to you, and so when you look back at his time, whether it's being coached by Coach Hurley, whether that's how he's raised in his household by his mother and father, whether that's him playing off the ball and sacrificing maybe some of the on-ball opportunities that he's more than capable of at Connecticut to join a national championship team to then win another national championship, a McDonald's All-American in high school that played with the basketball. When you start peeling back the layers, the toughness is there, the discipline and the structure is there, the understanding the value of a role is there, and it's showed itself in so many different ways, and so then once you get that young man who, because you drafted him, and as a player, as a person, you then get to build your own rapport with them, but it is really helpful to understand what people and players go through before they get to you, because if you take the time to understand that, and them, I do think it sets you up to have a successful onboarding process, and kind of rhythm as you get to know them early on, and I give a lot of credit to Brian Wright and his staff for that."
Tom Petrini: Mitch on Steph Castle: "He's found his rhythm because we've asked him to do every single thing that a player can be asked since he's been drafted. I know that goes back two years, not just this year, but he started, he's been brought off the bench. He's played on the ball, he's played off the ball, he's guarded primary ball creators, he's guarded bigger wings, and even some quote unquote bigger players or big guys. He's fearless, he's relentless. He probably doesn't get enough credit for his processing, and that's what allows him to do so much for us. He's in the middle of almost every single play, like Victor, and Victor, for good reason, gets discussed and gets a lot of discussion regarding that, but Steph is in just as many of the plays in terms of influencing them, and he's 21 years old, he's in his second year, and what he's doing in the Finals, I don't know, that's rare air, it's just really, really elite company, and what he's doing, and I think it gets overshadowed, and I talk about all the time, just because it's now starting to become, you expect him to do it.
