Rumor Check: Six Reports, Still No Trade Talk

By the Spurs Nightly Desk · Wednesday, October 7

No new rumor reports have surfaced since R.J. Davis signed on September 25, and the six items on file break down to four confirmed camp moves and two still open, neither of them a trade. The cap sheet leaves roughly $2.1M of margin before the luxury tax, which is barely enough for a camp invite, let alone a blockbuster.

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Did any new rumors surface this week?

No. The last report on file dates to September 25, when R.J. Davis signed and the camp roster was called set. Everything since, including Southwest Notes and Spurs Notes items from Tom Orsborn on October 4, named Tobias Harris alongside other teams' issues, not San Antonio-specific trade chatter.

What's the status of the R.J. Davis signing report?

It carries a confidence score of 31 and is still marked open, even though Blake Murphy's same-day roundup grouping San Antonio with Toronto, Sacramento and Minnesota confirmed the camp add. Davis is on a training-camp deal, the kind of move that fills a roster spot without touching the cap sheet.

Is Chris Kent's G League hire still just a report?

Yes. It dates to September 12, carries a confidence score of 20, and remains open a month later with no reported link to Mitch Johnson's staff in San Antonio. Nothing since has upgraded it to confirmed, and nothing has walked it back either. It's a lower-profile hire than most reports this desk tracks.

Does the cap sheet leave room for a trade?

Barely, and that's by design. San Antonio carries $198.3M in salary against a $200.4M luxury-tax line, a gap of roughly $2.1M. That margin covers camp fliers like Davis, not a trade of any size, which is part of why none of the six reports on file describe one.

What about the chatter on a Keldon Johnson extension?

That's a fan newsletter's math exercise, not a report in this file. The Spot Up Shot laid out what a one- to four-year extension or a deal at the non-taxpayer mid-level could look like, ahead of Johnson's walk year. No source has reported the Spurs and Johnson are actually negotiating.

The verdictSix items, four confirmed, two still open, and none of them a trade: that's the honest read on San Antonio's rumor mill right now. The margin for anything bigger than a camp signing is thin enough that it would take a real report, not a grouped roundup, to change that.

Are the Spurs working on any trades right now?

No report in the file describes one. The six items on record since September 12 cover camp-roster moves and a G League hire, and even the open ones are about camp bodies, not deals.

How much cap space do the Spurs have left?

San Antonio carries $198.3M in salary, about $2.1M under the $200.4M luxury-tax line, with no real room to speak of beyond that margin.