Locked On Spurs - Daily Podcast On The San Antonio Spurs

Casey Viera, NBA champion Devin Brown and "Locked On Spurs" daily podcast host Matthew Tynan react to ESPN's report of Victor Wembanyama no longer wanting to talk to American media and answer questions about the NBA Finals loss to the Knicks.

The internet spent a day deciding Victor Wembanyama is dodging questions about the Finals. Matthew Tynan has been in the room at camp, and he has a theory about what's actually going on, plus a reminder of what Wemby has already said about the postseason.

Jared Weiss of the Athletic joins Matthew to chat about Dylan Harper and Julian Champagnie's comments at today's training camp.

Nearly 15,000 people showed up to watch the annual Silver & Black scrimmage, and Matthew Tynan was courtside. What does a crowd like that say about where the San Antonio Spurs are headed after the Finals?

Everyone has spent the summer arguing about who plays over who in the San Antonio Spurs backcourt. Matthew Tynan asks a different question: why not all of them? De'Aaron Fox and Stephon Castle hint at what the coaching staff has in mind, and the newest name on the bench may be the reason it's on the table at all.

Victor Wembanyama and Mitch Johnson spoke to the press at today's training camp. How are they going to deal with physicality this season? Can they make adjustments on the fly as needed?

The San Antonio Spurs are stacked, but Matthew Tynan thinks one young wing might be the piece that takes them somewhere else entirely, and the comparison he draws is one Spurs fans know very well. Plus: how at 26-year-old Devin Vassell has become a valued vet in the locker room.

Casey Viera, NBA champion Devin Brown and "Locked On Spurs" daily podcast host Matthew Tynan offer their takeaways from Media Day including high expectations from Victor Wembanyama.

Media Day is supposed to be all optimism, but this one felt different. Matthew Tynan breaks down a San Antonio Spurs team in reflection, starting with Mitch Johnson's candid look back at the Finals and why the criticism aimed at a 39-year-old head coach deserves a little more perspective than it's gotten.

It's NBA Media Day, which means the regular season is right around the corner. Dylan Harper, De'Aaron Fox, and Stephon Castle quash the rumors about their ability to play together, Victor Wembanyama is on a quest to be the best, and Keldon Johnson brings his patented energy to the proceedings.

The first fantasy basketball episode in the Matthew Tynan era goes through where every Spur is actually going in drafts — and tells you why the average draft positions are, in several cases, badly wrong.

Casey Viera, NBA champion Devin Brown and "Locked On Spurs" daily podcast host Matthew Tynan react to the ESPN Top-100 NBA players poll and guess what to expect from Monday's Media Day.

Victor Wembanyama opens the season as the heavy MVP favorite, which sounds like the easy part. Matthew Tynan lays out what actually has to happen for him to close it — and the biggest obstacle isn't his jump shot, his defense, or the competition. It's something more boring and much harder to fix.

Kawhi Leonard signed a two-year, $115 million extension in Toronto, and Matthew Tynan would like this whole thing to end there. What follows is less a victory lap than a reckoning — how a relative unknown out of San Diego State became a Finals MVP in San Antonio, and why that isn't the part of the story anyone will remember.

Some fun voicemails before Media Day takes over. Amadou wants to know who the weakest defensive link is in the Spurs' projected starting five — and the answer isn't the veteran everybody assumes it is. Matthew Tynan and Tyler Prince get into what actually happened to one starter in the Finals, and why New York kept going after him.

Matthew Tynan closes the five-part Rank Stuff series with the one he least wanted to do — ranking Western Conference head coaches. It's the most uncomfortable list of the week, because most of what a coach actually does happens where nobody can see it.

Depth was San Antonio's problem in the NBA Finals. Not anymore. Matthew Tynan ranks every bench in the western conference. Dylan Harper spearheading a second unit with Julian Champagnie, Keldon Johnson, Luke Kornet, Carter Bryant, Tarris Reed Jr. and Harrison Barnes is, frankly, unfair.

Casey Viera, NBA champion Devin Brown and "Locked On Spurs" daily podcast host Matthew Tynan discuss rumblings of expansion being finalized in Seattle and Las Vegas and decide which eight players the organization would block from being selected in an expansion draft.

Does putting Victor Wembanyama on your team automatically give you the best frontcourt in the NBA? Matthew Tynan takes a look at the Western Conference; Jokic's Nuggets at and a Utah Jazz group that includes Lauri Markkanen, Jaren Jackson Jr., Jusuf Nurkic and Kyle Filipowski..

The NBA's best wings all migrated East — so what's left out West? Matthew Tynan and Tyler Prince rank the Western Conference wing groups and keep circling back to the same answer: the Spurs are ludicrously deep. Devin Vassell, Julian Champagnie, Keldon Johnson, Carter Bryant, and Harrison Barnes make a wing rotation Matthew won't quite call the best in the West.

An extra episode for a great voicemail on the Spurs' cap future. Matthew Tynan flags the deadline few fans know: Devin Vassell becomes extension-eligible in early October, and if it's not done before opening night, it's off the table until next year. Keldon Johnson's window runs to June 30 — and behind it all, does a De'Aaron Fox trade become inevitable once Wemby, Castle, and Harper get paid?

Wembanyama is the MVP favorite — but Matthew Tynan and Tyler Prince argue the Spurs actually won the day with their backcourt. De'Aaron Fox, Stephon Castle, and Dylan Harper rank as the No. 1 guard group in the Western Conference, ahead of even Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's Thunder, because they can control the pace of a game for a full 48 minutes.

Casey Viera, NBA champion Devin Brown and “Locked On Spurs” daily podcast host Matthew Tynan discuss their biggest takeaways from the offseason and have fun with ChatGPT’s projection of the Spurs.

Dylan Harper isn't dodging the De'Aaron Fox question. Matthew Tynan and Tyler Prince break down Harper's answer from a summer Q&A, why the so-called rivalry was never real, and how Fox mentoring the guy drafted to play his position says everything about this locker room.

The Spurs blew a double-digit lead in every game of the NBA Finals — and all season long against the Knicks — and Matthew Tynan and Tyler Prince say learning to close is this young team's real test. The good news? The swagger everyone criticized isn't going anywhere.

The NBA finally dropped the hammer on the Kawhi Leonard saga — the Clippers forfeit five first-round picks (2029-2033), Steve Ballmer is suspended a year, and Spurs fans are the ones dodging every one of these bullets. Matthew Tynan and Trevor Zickgraf break down the most severe penalty in years.

Spurs people aren't calling Dylan Harper a star — they're calling him a superstar. In Part 2 of the crossover with Gavin Schall of Locked On Knicks, Matthew Tynan digs into Harper's absurd rookie postseason (40% from three over the final three months, elite agility testing, unstoppable getting to the rim) and why some around the league would take him over Cooper Flagg.

Everyone's talking about the Tobias Harris signing, but Matthew Tynan and guest Gavin Schall think Billy Donovan's arrival might matter even more — his drive-and-kick system and track record with young players fit this Spurs roster perfectly.

Casey Viera, NBA champion Devin Brown and "Locked On Spurs" daily podcast host Matthew Tynan react to the historic punishment to the Clippers following the Kawhi Leonard cap circumvention scandal.

Matthew Tynan was asked to rank the top few players in the Spurs' rotation — and the team's so deep he left the reigning Sixth Man of the Year, Keldon Johnson, off his top 7 entirely. He and Tyler Prince lay out the order (Wembanyama, Fox, Castle, Harper, Vassell, Harris, Champagnie) and the tough truth behind it.

Which Spur would you want on your side in a fight? Can Dylan Harper attain starter status this season? Should the Spurs be looking to make moves at the deadline? All this and more LIVE on today's episode of Locked on Spurs

Casey Viera, NBA champion Devin Brown and "Locked On Spurs" daily podcast host Matthew Tynan talk San Antonio's soaring expectations entering 2027 and whether the idea of them are too ambitious.

Victor Wembanyama is making professional basketball players look like kids. France dismantled Slovenia 92-67 without Luka Dončić, and Matthew Tynan and Tyler Prince break down how Wemby's size — plus FIBA's no-offensive-goaltending rule — turns him into an almost unfair matchup nightmare.

Did the Knicks hand the NBA a blueprint for beating the Spurs, or did San Antonio just get out-sized? Matthew Tynan and Tyler Prince land on the latter — it was personnel, not scheme (Karl-Anthony Towns on Wemby, Josh Hart on Castle) — and it's exactly why the Spurs went out and added the size they were missing.

Wembanyama got his revenge on Nikola Jokić — France beat Serbia 91-90 on one of the most absurd, easiest buzzer-beaters you'll ever see, and Matthew Tynan and Tyler Prince break down Wemby's 18-5-2 bounce-back (including blocking Jokić twice on one possession).

Here's a contrarian take to send you into the weekend: the Spurs offense is actually more dangerous when Victor Wembanyama isn't the one scoring. Matthew Tynan and Tyler Prince explain why nobody warps a defense as a decoy like Wemby, and how his dribble-handoff and pick-and-roll game unlocks everyone else.

Matthew Tynan is putting it on the record: the Spurs are going 18-2 through their first 20 games. With Tyler back in the producer's chair, the guys run the early slate and make the case for an explosive start — a favorable schedule, winnable matchups, NBA Cup games, and a healthy, hungry roster that could send an early message to the rest of the Western Conference.

Casey Viera, NBA champion Devin Brown and "Locked On Spurs" daily podcast host Matthew Tynan debate which Spur will have the biggest breakout in 2027.

The Spurs just got a schedule that sets up beautifully — and Matthew Tynan is back in the big chair to break down why. For the first time ever, San Antonio landed the maximum number of national TV games (34, tied with the Lakers, Knicks, and Sixers), a genuine marker of the Victor Wembanyama era arriving in full. But the bigger story is the soft early runway: a first month-plus that's Western Conference-heavy and largely dodges the East's best, giving a team with real roster continuity a chance to build momentum while opponents are still finding themselves — the same kind of fast start that launched Oklahoma City's run last season. There's even a hidden scheduling perk: all those TV games mean fewer back-to-backs (just 13, below the league average) and a friendlier travel map.

Casey Viera and NBA champion Devin Brown react to the Spurs' 2026-27 schedule release and discuss what sticks out ahead of the new campaign.

San Antonio Spurs dominate the national spotlight with Victor Wembanyama’s star power, securing a surge of nationally televised games including Christmas Day at Madison Square Garden and marquee NBA Cup matchups. Is the Wembanyama effect propelling the Spurs into the league’s elite media tier alongside the Lakers, Knicks, and Sixers?

San Antonio Spurs earn the national spotlight with double feature in NBA opening week and a marquee Christmas Day clash against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden. Can Victor Wembanyama lead his team to another signature moment on the league’s biggest stages?

If Victor Wembanyama walked into the front office and said "draft my brother Oscar or I'm gone," what should the Spurs do? Matthew Tynan and Trevor Zickgraf say the answer is obvious — you sign Oscar, no questions asked — and have a lot of fun with it, from the Zapruder-style social media sleuthing that spotted Oscar in the background of a Wembanyama highlight to the very real possibility that a rival team could draft him first just to extract a king's ransom from San Antonio. They put it in league context too, comparing it to the Bucks and the Antetokounmpo family and the Lakers' Bronny James pick.

After giving San Antonio's offseason an A- on the Squad Show, he realized he'd underweighted the single most important move: re-signing Victor Wembanyama at a roughly $50 million discount that keeps the Spurs out of the luxury tax and preserves flexibility for the Stephon Castle and Dylan Harper deals to come.

Casey Viera, NBA champion Devin Brown and "Locked on Spurs" daily podcast host Matthew Tynan put a letter grade on the Spurs' summer moves and assess what's next ahead of the season.

A new study says the biggest Achilles risk in the NBA isn't heavy minutes — it's the sudden spike in the 10-to-15 games right before the injury. Matthew Tynan and Tyler Prince break down the UCSF research (19 Achilles tears studied from 2014-2025, seven of them in 2024-25 alone, three in the postseason) and what it means for a franchise that must protect Victor Wembanyama at all costs

Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones wants another public vote on the Spurs' new downtown arena. Spurs Sports and Entertainment CEO R.C. Buford has fired back, and Matthew explains why — even accounting for the usual overpromises of publicly funded arenas — this is about as fair a public-private deal as you'll find in sports, backed by the very real economic bump of the 2026 postseason.

It's okay that the Spurs lost in the NBA Finals — and Matthew Tynan makes the case that falling to the Knicks now might be the best thing that could have happened to this young team.

The NBA is banking on fans getting tired of the Kawhi Leonard saga — and Matthew Tynan makes the case for why you shouldn't give them the satisfaction. He walks through the latest from Pablo Torre's reporting on the Clippers' alleged cap circumvention, including the no-show endorsement money and the eyebrow-raising Rhode Island FC soccer investment, and lays out the uncomfortable read on why the league seems in no hurry to take on its richest owner, Steve Ballmer.