The San Antonio Spurs announced that they are ready to heavily invest in their efforts to land a new arena. The team stated in a letter to the San Antonio mayor and city planner that they will commit more than $1 billion toward Project Marvel, which includes the construction of a new downtown arena and surrounding development.

ESPN's Jeremy Woo recently published an article after polling league executives on this year's class. When asking them who the biggest steal of the draft was, Bryant received five of 20 votes, leading the rookies over college standouts such as Walter Clayton Jr., Danny Wolf, and Khaman Maluach.