Spurs To Sign Tobias Harris To Two-Year Contract

The contract will be fully guaranteed, with no player or team option on the second year, reports Kelly Iko of Yahoo Sports (Twitter link).

Harris, who turns 34 later this month, played an important role in Detroit’s dramatic rise up the standings after signing a two-year, $52MM contract with the team in the 2024 offseason. He started all 156 regular season and postseason games he played for the Pistons, doing his part to establish a winning culture and raising his level in the playoffs when Cade Cunningham needed help carrying the scoring load.

Harris put up solid if unspectacular stats – 13.3 points, 5.1 rebounds, 2.5 assists, and 0.9 steals in 27.7 minutes per game on .469/.368/.866 shooting – in 2025/26 after recording similar numbers during his first year as a Piston. He was often cited by his teammates and head coach J.B. Bickerstaff as an example of a true professional, with Bickerstaff repeatedly referring to the 15-year veteran as his “safety blanket.”

After joining a 14-win team in Detroit and helping them win 60 games just two years later, Harris will be joining a Spurs club that’s far more fully formed. San Antonio is coming off an appearance in the NBA Finals and views the veteran forward as a good fit alongside its core of Victor Wembanyama, Stephon Castle, Dylan Harper, and De’Aaron Fox. Those four players shot a combined 33.0% on three-pointers during the postseason, so Harris will join sharpshooter Julian Champagnie in providing additional floor spacing, as well as secondary shot creation.

Rui Hachimura and John Collins were said to be among the other targets the Spurs were eyeing using their non-taxpayer mid-level exception. The team reportedly didn’t want to offer more than a two-year deal to any of those players in order to maintain cap flexibility for when Castle’s second contract hits the books in 2028.

By using their non-taxpayer mid-level, the Spurs will create a hard cap at the first tax apron. They still project to have about $10.5MM in breathing room below that threshold and roughly $4.6MM in space below the tax line with 13 players under contract, tweets Yossi Gozlan of The Third Apron.

Despite having a hole at power forward and the full MLE to offer, the Spurs were never expected to pursue LeBron James, sources tell Marc Stein and The Stein Line (Twitter link).