San Antonio Spurs take gamble on Zach Collins in free agency

The San Antonio Spurs have agreed to a three-year, $22 million cope with unrestricted free agent Zach Collins per Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN.

This previous weekend there was reporting that the Spurs had interest in Collins.

Collins will earn $7.3 million per season on common. His contract projection was $2-4 million on {a partially} assured deal per Bobby Marks of ESPN.

Collins, 6’11”, was drafted out of the lottery within the 2017 NBA Draft, however he’s been hampered by accidents by his first 4 years within the NBA. He’s nonetheless simply 23.

Collins simply re-fractured his surgically repaired left foot in late June, and there’s no timetable but for his return. It’ll be fascinating to see if it is a partially assured deal contemplating Collins has had harm issue.

Collins missed all of final season because of harm.

His final wholesome season was the 2018-19 season when he performed in 77 video games and averaged 6.6 factors, 4.2 rebounds. That season, he tried 1.6 threes per sport. Collins is a profession 32.4% 3-point shooter.

With the signing of Collins and Doug McDermott, the Spurs’ cap area is right down to $27 to $29 million relying on in the event that they pull Keita Bates-Diop’s qualifying supply.

As soon as Collins will get wholesome, the Spurs could have Collins, McDermott, and Luka Samanic who can play the 4.