The San Antonio Spurs have agreed to a two-year, $31 million contract with free-agent forward Tobias Harris, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania. Kelly Iko of Yahoo Sports reports that the agreement is fully guaranteed and contains no player or team option for the second season.
Harris, who turns 34 later this month, spent the past two years in Detroit after signing a two-year, $52 million pact with the Pistons in the 2024 offseason. He started all 156 regular-season and playoff games during his tenure there, averaging 13.3 points, 5.1 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 0.9 steals in 27.7 minutes last season while shooting 46.9 percent from the field, 36.8 percent from three and 86.6 percent from the foul line.
Praised by Detroit head coach J.B. Bickerstaff as a “safety blanket,” the 15-year veteran now joins a Spurs team that reached the NBA Finals last spring. San Antonio views Harris as a complementary piece alongside Victor Wembanyama, Stephon Castle, Dylan Harper and De’Aaron Fox, a quartet that combined to shoot 33.0 percent from beyond the arc in the postseason. Harris and sharpshooter Julian Champagnie are expected to bolster the club’s floor spacing and secondary scoring.
The Spurs are using their non-taxpayer mid-level exception to sign Harris, triggering a hard cap at the first tax apron. Cap analyst Yossi Gozlan projects the team will remain roughly $10.5 million below that apron and about $4.6 million under the luxury-tax line with 13 players under contract.
San Antonio also evaluated Rui Hachimura and John Collins for the same roster spot but limited offers to two-year terms to preserve flexibility ahead of Castle’s next contract in 2028. Despite possessing the full mid-level exception and a need at power forward, the Spurs were never expected to pursue LeBron James, league sources told Marc Stein.
Source: Hoops Rumors
