SAN ANTONIO — The San Antonio Spurs did some contract housekeeping before the 2024-25 season starts.
The team announced it exercised the fourth-year team options on Jeremy Sochan, Malaki Branham, and Blake Wesley.
Sochan appeared in 74 games last season, averaging 11.6 points, 6.4 rebounds and 3.4 assists. Defensively, Sochan led the Spurs in steals in 12 games and blocks seven times. For his career, he averaged 11.3 points, 5.9 rebounds, and 3.0 assists in 29.6 minutes across 130 games.
Branham averaged 9.2. points, 2.1 assists, and 2.0 rebounds in 21.3 minutes across 75 games (29 starts) last season. He scored in double figures 35 times, including five 20-point games on his way to surpassing 1,000 career points. In his two seasons with the Spurs, Branham has averaged 9.7 points, 2.3 rebounds, and 2.0 assists in 22.3 minutes through 141 games (61 starts).
Wesley is entering his third NBA season after averaging 4.4 points, 2.7 assists, and 1.5 rebounds in 14.4 minutes in 61 games last season, including a career-high 17 points and 7 rebounds vs. Detroit on April 14. In 12 games assigned to Austin, Wesley averaged 17.5 points, 4.3 rebounds, 4.5 assists, and 1.33 steals in 31.3 minutes. He holds career averages of 4.6 points, 2.7 assists, and 1.8 rebounds in 98 total games with San Antonio.
Wesley talked about the upcoming season on Locked On Spurs and how he will fit in the guard rotation.
And to no one's shock, the Spurs exercised their third-year option on Victor Wembanyama for the 2025-26 season.
Wembanyama appeared in 71 games as a rookie, averaging 21.4 points, 10.6 rebounds, an NBA-best 3.58 blocks, and 1.24 steals in 29.7 minutes. He accumulated 1,522 total points, 755 rebounds, 274 assists, a league-leading 254 blocks, and 88 steals to become the first player in NBA history to surpass 1,500+ points, 700+ rebounds, 250+ assists, 250+ blocks while making 100+ 3-pointers in a single season. The 2023-24 Rookie of the Year earned First Team All-Defense and First Team All-Rookie.