Spurs should celebrate inevitable Giannis trade if latest reports are true

Based on the rampant rumors circulating in the NBA world, the Giannis Antetokounmpo Love Island campaign will be coming to a close sooner rather than later. The two finalists are the Miami Heat and Boston Celtics, according to Marc Stein. That means the Spurs won't have to worry about the Greek Freak inserting himself into the Western Conference. That's an absolute win.

Before we knew the race for Milwaukee's franchise star was down to two Eastern Conference ball clubs, there were whispers that several teams out west were looking for ways to get in the lead. OKC, Minnesota, Houston, and Golden State are all franchises previously rumored to have interest in Giannis.

Depending on what they would have had to send out to make a deal happen, that would have been a pain in San Antonio's rear end.

The Spurs may end up as the sole superteam out West

There are no superteams in the NBA right now. The league put the current Collective Bargaining Agreement in place, specifically, to eliminate them. However, their main objective was to avoid star players teaming up to try and run the league for a sustained period of time, as the Golden State Warriors did during the Kevin Durant era.

It's a little more difficult to stop when a team just drafts and develops incredibly well. San Antonio falls into that category. Victor Wembanyama is already a bona fide superstar and a top 3 player in the league—number one depending on who you ask. Dylan Harper will eventually be an All-NBA player, and not enough people have talked about it, but Stephon Castle has that potential as well.

OKC is the closest to having a superteam right now, with Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Jalen Williams as their two alphas. Both guards have made All-NBA teams, and they're young enough to thrive together for the foreseeable future.

Chet Holmgren was supposed to be the guy who elevated the group from a great team to a super one, but his Western Conference Finals performance put a hole in that idea. After they were eliminated, analysts started to wonder whether they should offer the ex-Gonzaga standout to Milwaukee for Giannis.

Thankfully, the Thunder are committed to Holmgren, axing that idea because it would have been catastrophic. Whether the Bucks' asking price was too high for the other Western Conference teams, or they just didn't want to pay the tax penalties for going too far over the cap, it's A-ok with the San Antonio Spurs.

They'll keep developing their supremely talented young stars, and when those guys take their next leaps, it could easily elevate the Silver and Black into superteam status. It'll be the most organic one created since the Spurs' original Big 3. We all know how that run went.

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