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Keldon Johnson on his role with the @spurs: “I remember a couple years ago, I had a hard conversation with Pop. One morning, we were getting ready to play Dallas, and he pulled me to the side and told me that he thought it would be best for the team if I started coming off the bench. I said, ‘Yeah, of course. Whatever’s best for the team, I’ll do it.’ And I truly meant that, too. But I’m also just human, man. And I was like 24 years old. If I said that I fully bought into this role from the jump, I’d be lying. I had averaged 22 points in the NBA. I’d won a gold medal with Team USA at the Olympics. So I just didn’t understand. I couldn’t wrap my head around it. And ultimately, I didn’t take it well. I sulked. I let the outside noise affect my play. I didn’t present the best version of myself as I was coming off the bench for the rest of that season. And I knew that I was much better than that. I’ve been reflecting on that part of my journey a lot lately, with the position we’re in right now. To backtrack a little bit…. When I was drafted in 2019, that was probably one of the most stressful nights of my life. I’d had a great year at Kentucky, and I thought I was going 9 or 10. In my mind, my floor was 15 to Detroit. The crazy thing is, I didn’t even work out for San Antonio. We talked a little bit on FaceTime, but I honestly didn’t think I’d still be on the board at 19 when the Spurs picked. Definitely not at 29, where I ended up going. I don’t know why I slipped so much, but thank God I did, because I landed at a proven organization with vets who could mold me. That situation could have gone one of two ways. Thankfully, it went the good way. Dejounte was young, too, but he knew the ropes better than me, and he made sure that I did everything the right way. I can’t thank him enough to this day for how much he’s helped my career. Same thing with DeMar DeRozan. Those guys really embraced me and took me under their wing as a young guy, and showed me how it was done. I feel like I had such a great group of vets, whether it was LaMarcus Aldridge, Patty Mills, Rudy Gay — all those guys went out their way to make sure I was solid. I feel like they knew how good I could be before I even knew how good I could be. They didn’t let me skip any steps, which was huge for my career early on. And yeah, fast-forward to summer 2024, and I got to thinking back on my first couple years here in San Antonio, and how I could get that spark back, get back to being me. That’s when I started to see the bigger picture. We had picks. There were all these signs that we were building something that was gonna be special, all these bright green flags. But there was this one red flag. Me. In that moment, I had to take a hard look in the mirror. And man, I just got embarrassed. I hated that feeling — the feeling that I had let my vets down, and especially let my younger teammates down. This organization believed in me since day one, when Pop and our GM at the time R.C. Buford took a leap of faith on a player who was sliding in the draft and didn’t even have a workout at their facility. They had a plan, and I was a big piece of that plan. I just needed to get out of my own way. Period. I knew that I could either be the person who tries to fight the change, who makes it about them and their ego, and tries to do everything their way (which never really works). Or, I could trust the process. And the Spurs never gave me a reason not to trust it. So I bought into my role, and I put my best foot forward each and every night. Whatever I had to do to be the best version of myself, I did it. And I feel like this season has been a testament to that. I’m just really at home here. I think that’s probably obvious, right? The cowboy hat isn’t a gimmick. San Antonio is all me. Being a country boy, that’s just a part of who I am. From Huntington Prep to Oak Hill Academy to Kentucky, I feel like I just carried that country boy vibe with me everywhere I went.” playerstribu.ne/KJ

He was in the white house a week ago praising Trump to his face and didn't say a single thing about the war crimes or Epstein files

But Greg Abbott is silent when a Republican attorney who sodomized a boy for years gets 60 days in jail from Abbott's buddy, Ken Paxton.

Softest fan base in the league

Out of the shadows... Welcome. 🦇🦇

@getnickwright I refuse to believe losing 10k affects your entire personality and opinion this much

I don’t dislike Wemby! And if the Spurs get there, I’ll be rooting for him in the WCF. But the way the media has framed what was objectively the worst moment of his brief & brilliant career & a stunning moment for any superstar (ejected from a playoff game!), has been galling.

This has sparked a lot of dumb taco discourse that’s exposing all the Yankee Republican influencers as the wannabe Texans they are

If you have Hamilton outside your top 3 I lowkey think you're a klansman.

@getnickwright WE GET IT DAWG YOU HAVE 10K ON THE WOLVES, god damn

This game being framed as some return of a wronged hero RE: Wemby, rather than a guy who was very fortunate he wasn’t suspended after wildly flagrant elbow to an opponent’s throat is just wild to me.

Ayo hurt 2 players in 1 games with reckless behavior but you won't hear a peep from people who have been complaining Carry on. Got a game to win at 7 pm

How many years have you been black in Mississippi or America

So he’s supposed to just sit there and take it? Wolves haven’t won a thing, and even if they did that doesn’t give them some officiating advantage over the Spurs lmao. First ejection of his career and y’all are acting like this is an every game occurrence

@FTFonFS1 @getnickwright Watching anything wolves related on this show just became extremely unwatchable and almost unprofessional, when one of the 3 main hosts has a 10k stake in the team. The first segment where you could really see the bias come out overwhelmingly. Pretty dissappinting

“If they win the series, nobody cares that he got suspended for a game. If they lose this series, then this is the guy who could be the best player in the world…losing his cool...arguably costing his team the game.” @getnickwright reacts to Wemby's ejection:

Lmao all that moaning meanwhile Ayo sniped Deaaron Fox ankle and actually injured him 💀

This type of whip tackle is illegal in the nfl 🤣🤣

That's so wild that the popular gif of Harper reacting to Wemby's elbow isn't actually him reacting to the elbow. It's reacting to Wemby getting hit in the head.

Thats what Harper was reacting to lmfao but somehow the refs "didn't see it"

McDaniels elbowed Wemby in the head & still no whistle…. When refs refuse to do their jobs players feel like they have to take matters into their own hands… if anyone should be suspended game 5 it’s that reffing crew

Ejection was fully warranted but there were 37 fouls before that moment