{"id":300871,"date":"2022-10-29T14:47:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T12:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=300871"},"modified":"2022-10-29T14:47:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T12:47:03","slug":"spurs-waive-2021-lottery-pick-joshua-primo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/spurs-waive-2021-lottery-pick-joshua-primo\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs waive 2021 lottery pick Joshua Primo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night the San Antonio Spurs announced the release of Joshua Primo.<\/p>\n<p>The news came as a surprise, since just a couple of weeks earlier the Texas team had exercised the 19-year-old guard&#8217;s third-year option.<\/p>\n<p>Primo will still earn just under $8.5 million for the next two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is our hope that, in the long run, this decision will serve the best interest of both the organization and Joshua,\u201d said Spurs Sports &amp; Entertainment CEO RC Buford.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Primo issued a statement to ESPN to bring clarity on the reasons for the drastic separation from the Texas team.<\/p>\n<p>Primo was selected by the Spurs at No. 12 in the 2021 NBA Draft.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Josh Primo statement to ESPN in the aftermath of his release from the Spurs tonight: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/H1n3k3IIcn\">pic.twitter.com\/H1n3k3IIcn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn\/status\/1586180446873743362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xobWqKxkMA\">https:\/\/t.co\/xobWqKxkMA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; San Antonio Spurs (@spurs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/spurs\/status\/1586140373583245312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primo was selected by the Spurs at No. 12 in the 2021 NBA Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":263975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[175],"typology":[185],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-300871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-official"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/02\/joshua-primo1.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300871"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=300871"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=300871"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=300871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}