The Spurs and Kings both made camp moves on Tuesday, with San Antonio bringing in veteran forward Terry Taylor on a non-guaranteed training camp contract and Sacramento re-signing center Viktor Lakhin to an Exhibit 10 deal.
Taylor’s signing gets the Spurs back to the preseason limit of 21 players after they waived former North Carolina guard RJ Davis. The 27-year-old has logged four seasons of NBA service and has appeared in 98 regular season games with Indiana, Chicago, and Sacramento from 2022-25. In those games, he has averaged 4.6 points and 2.6 rebounds in 12.0 minutes per contest.
His latest NBA action came in the second half of the 2024/25 season, when he signed a 10-day deal with the Kings. Before that, the 6’5″ forward spent most of last season with the Brisbane Bullets in Australia’s National Basketball League, then finished the year back in the U.S. with the Iowa Wolves in the G League. He also played for Team USA in the first of two World Cup qualifying windows during the 2026 offseason.
Taylor’s G League returning rights were moved from Iowa to the Austin Spurs in an August trade, and that points toward a likely path once the preseason ends. He’s expected to be waived before the regular season and then report to Austin. If the contract is indeed an Exhibit 10, which the source suggests is virtually certain, he would be eligible for a bonus worth up to $91K if he spends at least 60 days in the NBAGL, on top of his base G League salary.
Sacramento’s move with Lakhin came after the club had previously waived him earlier this month. The Kings have now brought him back on a non-guaranteed camp deal, and the Stockton Kings acquired his G League rights in the same six-team transaction that sent Taylor’s rights to Austin. At the time, the expectation appeared to be that Lakhin would head to Stockton as a returning-rights player this fall and position himself for the $91K bonus.
But the Kings’ frontcourt picture has changed quickly. Maxime Raynaud and Dylan Cardwell are both sidelined for multiple weeks with knee and calf injuries, respectively, and Precious Achiuwa left Tuesday’s preseason game early because of a right ankle injury. With Sacramento short on bodies inside, Lakhin has a chance to push for the team’s open two-way spot to start the regular season.
Lakhin entered the league as an undrafted free agent out of Clemson in 2025 and posted 10.3 points and 7.1 rebounds per game across 31 G League appearances for the Oklahoma City Blue last season.
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