Center Jakob Poeltl is drawing lots of trade interest ahead of the Feb. 9 deadline, per Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN.
“I think he’s going to be one of the real pivotal players at the NBA trade deadline,” Wojnarowski said. “You saw in recent years there was not as much of a market for centers. That’s changed this year. There’s a lot of interest in Poeltl and there are a lot of teams for San Antonio that will make the kind of offers that (the Spurs) may want to move him.”
Poeltl is eligible for a four-year, $58 million extension, but could potentially get larger deals in free agency over the summer.
“But if you’re San Antonio, and you win the Victor Wembanyama sweepstakes, (Poeltl) makes perfect sense in the middle with Wembanyama at the four,” Wojnarowski said, adding that the Spurs would like to keep Poeltl for that very reason.
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