{"id":126245,"date":"2025-02-28T16:19:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T21:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=126245"},"modified":"2025-02-28T16:19:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T21:19:29","slug":"bismack-biyombo-stay-spurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/02\/28\/bismack-biyombo-stay-spurs\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Veteran Will Stay With Spurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After remaining unsigned throughout the first two-thirds of the NBA season, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/biyombi01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bismack Biyombo<\/a> has impressed the San Antonio Spurs enough to earn a standard contract. The 14-year veteran was initially playing under a pair of 10-day contracts. However, with the league only permitting teams to sign a player to two 10-day deals maximum, the Spurs were forced to decide between letting the big man walk away or sticking with him.<\/p>\n<h2>NBA Veteran Bismack Biyombo Will Stay With Spurs<\/h2>\n<p>According to NBA insider Chris Haynes, the Spurs chose the latter.<\/p>\n<p>In Biyombo&#8217;s last three games, he&#8217;s been averaging 8.0 points, 8.7 rebounds, and 1.7 blocks per contest. This includes two double-doubles, both against the New Orleans Pelicans.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">San Antonio Spurs will sign center Bismack Biyombo for remainder of the season following the conclusion of his second 10-day contract, league source tell me. Bis registered two double-doubles this week. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i4lATPaj7i\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/i4lATPaj7i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisBHaynes\/status\/1895556129561980979?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 28, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The seventh overall pick in the 2011 NBA Draft, he&#8217;s averaged 5.7 points, 5.0 rebounds, and 1.0 block in 16.0 minutes per game this season. He&#8217;s also shooting 66.7 percent from the field, the highest mark in San Antonio&#8217;s current rotation. Perhaps most importantly, he&#8217;s started every game since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/w\/wembavi01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Victor Wembanyama<\/a> was ruled out for <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/02\/20\/breaking-news-spurs-victor-wembanyama-out-for-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">the remainder of the season<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Make no mistake, Biyombo and Wembanyama are completely different players on offense. Even so, Spurs head coach Mitch Johnson couldn&#8217;t help but <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/02\/21\/spurs-renew-bismack-biyombo-contract-victor-wembanyama-diagnosis\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">commend the big man<\/a> for his impact around the rim. Given the way that guards can thrive with a solid screener and pick-and-roll partner, he&#8217;s a simple but effective offensive weapon.<\/p>\n<p>Defensively, there&#8217;s a bit more similarity between Biyombo and Wembanyama. Despite being just 6-foot-8, Biyombo is a determined rim-protector. Because of his experience and mentality, he doesn&#8217;t shy away from communicating either. So, though he doesn&#8217;t have all the ideal tangibles, his intangibles allow him to compensate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After remaining unsigned throughout the first two-thirds of the NBA season, Bismack Biyombo has impressed the San Antonio Spurs enough to earn a standard contract. The 14-year veteran was initially playing under a pair of 10-day contracts. However, with the league only permitting teams to sign a player to two 10-day deals maximum, the Spurs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5008,"featured_media":126255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1608,62,3],"tags":[129,4975,4669],"class_list":["post-126245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spurs","category-basketball","category-nba","category-news","tag-bismack-biyombo","tag-nba-contracts","tag-victor-wembanyama"],"modified_by":"Quenton S Albertie","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126256,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126245\/revisions\/126256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}