Dylan Harper is in shape with Spurs, NBA comparisons, family history
Two years ago, the basketball gods gave a gift once in the generation of San Antonio Spurs, giving them the best choice in the draft of the NBA the year in which Victor Wembanyama was becoming a professional. Last season, the Spurs chose the fourth and selected Stephon Castle, which became the debutant of the year.
The gods from basketball did not do well to the blessing of the Spurs – they obtained choice n. 2 In this year’s draft and are widely foreseen to select Dylan Harper, the 6’6 “guard from Rutgers. (There is a very poor possibility that exchange the choice, but it should be for an established superstar, and this does not appear close to success).
How will Harper adapt with the Spurs? Who remembers his game? We reduce everything.
Harper’s Fit in San Antonio
Out of his field, he hypothesized that Dylan Harper was not electrified to go to San Antonio because he already has a list of quality guards. This is a team that has mistaken for De’Aron Fox at the last commercial deadline to be combined with Wembanyama, and a year ago he enrolled the combined guard castle to be part of their future backcourt. He went on average 14.7 points and 4.1 assists per game, Winning Rookie of the Year.
When he was asked by EspnHarper said he was enthusiastic about playing with Wembanyama and Castle.
“I mean, it would certainly be fantastic and I would certainly be happy to have this opportunity just because they are two young players, young stars and the rest of the team from top to bottom is really good, so when you can play with better players and the best of the best, it highlights your best game.”
Where does Harper fit with all that talent?
The best game of Dylan Harper’s season.
36 points
6 rebounds
6 assists
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– Logan Adams (@loganpadams) June 21, 2025
From the point of view of San Antonio, this is an easy call: you always take the best player on the scoreboard, and Harper is the second best player in this draft. The teams that make choices based on the positional need end up saying things like “we don’t need Luka Doncic, we have Fox” or “we don’t need Michael Jordan, we have Clyde Drexler”. Take the best player, find out and, if necessary, do an exchange later. Spurs are nothing but the most patient organization of the championship.
Harper is a combined guard in the castle mold and many scouts think that Harper will be better. Harper scored on average 19.4 points, 4.6 rebounds and 4 assists a game that shot an impressive 48% since the floor of last season, and has shown a fantastic feeling for the game. Harper is not a classically explosive player, but his ability to get to the edge and finish or flat to the open man should be beautifully combined with Wemby, as well as players on the wing as Devin Vassell. If Harper and Wembanyama begin to show a real chemistry – and they are on the same temporal sequence of age – then the Spurs can rely on that and adapt to need.
One thing to look at: none of Harper, Fox or Castle are fantastic external shooters. Whatever one of them developing that blow, in particular a catch-e-shoot aspect, will have a huge advantage in obtaining minutes in this season and in the future.
Dylan Harper’s NBA comparison
Ask people throughout the League on Harper and present two names.
Cunningham falls. The guard of the points of Detroit Pistons, who has made an all-nba jump this season, is another high player for the position that is not an explosive athlete but can reach the edge and reach his points on the floor, then break down the shot. Some scouts took note of how Harper fought in points in Rutgers when the teams pitted the paint and think that they leave with the best spacing of the floor in the NBA (especially compared to Rutgers). Like Cunningham, Harper can play a little out of the ball and make difficult blows.
James Harden. Harper is not strong or quite athletic like the former MVP, but his ability to get to his place, make difficult blows and bend the defense to his will is similar. The only thing Harper has on Harden? It strives defensively. Harper is not an elite defender, but the effort is there and is not an easy target for this purpose.
Dylan Harper’s father, brother
Dylan Harper enters the NBA with an impressive basketball pedestrian. His father is Ron Harper Sr., choice n. 8 In the 1986 NBA Draft which continued to play 15 seasons in the championship and won five championships, four with the Chicago Bulls of Jordan and one with the Shaq/Kobe Lakers. Do not forget her mother, Maria, who played college’s ball in New Orleans and is a basketball coach to date – it is she who taught Dylan the game.
Even Dylan’s older brother, Ron Harper Jr., played Rutgers and bounced between the G-League and the NBA in the last three years, playing in 11 NBA games (last season he played for the Pistons). Dylan also has a younger sister, mine, who is still in high school.