The Spurs don’t need a lecture about free throws. They need a fix.
That’s why Tobias Harris matters. In a season where San Antonio could survive a lot of mistakes because the team was so good, the foul line kept lurking in the background. It showed up in preseason back in October 2025, hung around during the regular season, and then became impossible to ignore when the games got biggest.
The low point still sits there in June. Victor Wembanyama went to the stripe with 1:47 left in Game 4 of the NBA Finals against Jalen Brunson’s Knicks, up one point, and missed both free throws.
A few days later, New York was celebrating a championship in San Antonio. That kind of finish is hard to shake, especially for Spurs fans.
And it wasn’t just that one sequence. Up 104-103 with under two minutes left in a game the Silver and Black led by 29 points, Wembanyama missed a pair of crucial free throws in what was the OG Anunoby tip-in game.
The Knicks won by a single digit. Whether it was Game 5 of the Finals or another close postseason spot, San Antonio kept giving away points at the line.
That’s what makes this such a sneaky issue. The Spurs were solid enough at the stripe during the regular season, hitting 79%, and their clutch play overall was one of their strengths.
But once the pressure tightened, the misses carried too much weight. Wembanyama’s free-throw volume had already reached a career high before the Finals even started, which only sharpened the pain when those attempts didn’t fall.
Harris brings something simple and valuable: reliability. He shot 88% from the line in 2025-26 and 87% the year before, and he’s built a strong 15-season NBA résumé doing exactly that. Coming off a strong year in Detroit, the 33-year-old forward fits cleanly with San Antonio’s core and gives the Spurs a better chance of surviving the kind of late-game moments that burned them before.
No, Harris won’t wipe away the memory of Wembanyama missing those two free throws. That one still hurts. But he does give the Spurs a real answer when the next close game turns into a free-throw game.
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