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Season snapshot
Elite regular-season results · competitive results younger coreSAS finished 62-20 (0.756) with 23 playoff game(s). Its governed core had 10 players and a rotation-weighted age of 25.2. The team had 1 critical/structural basketball problem(s), 2 future pick-control row(s), and 40.0% future core salary schedule coverage. This describes the planning position; it does not recommend a direction.
Record
62-20
Playoff games
23
Playoff wins
13
Core age
25.2
Primary creator
De'Aaron Fox
Current decision lanes
Transactions, injuries, rumors and staff changes are separate evidence lanes — never merged.13transactions1injuries0rumors0staff changes
TransactionDavid Jones Garciatwo way signingJul 22, 2026Completed
Re-signed to a two-way slot. Reconciled from a dated index row carrying a cited transaction source. | Exact event and roster-action lineage promoted by nba_live_gap_closure_program_v1_20260825.
TransactionEmanuel Millerwaiver exitJul 22, 2026Completed
Two-way contract waived. Reconciled from a dated index row carrying a cited transaction source. | Exact event and roster-action lineage promoted by nba_live_gap_closure_program_v1_20260825.
Transaction
Injuries & availability
Governed medical episodes — evidence about players, separate from team decisions.| Player | Injury | Body part | Out | Returned | Severity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luke Kornet | left ankle soreness | ankle | Dec 4, 2025 → Dec 8, 2025 | Dec 8, 2025 | — |
| Stephon Castle | left hip strain | hip | Nov 17, 2025 → Dec 8, 2025 | Dec 8, 2025 | — |
| Jordan McLaughlin | left hamstring strain | hamstring | Nov 17, 2025 → Dec 10, 2025 |
Last observed season rotation
Players with actual NBA minutes for the latest eligible season; not a complete current registration ledger.| Player | Role | Strongest functions | Minutes | On/Off | Stab. RAPM | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Julian Champagnie | — | — | 2,956 | — | — | metrics unavailable |
 De'Aaron Fox | — | — | 2,915 | — | — |
On/Off and stabilized RAPM are separate impact lanes on a per-100 scale — never combined into one grade. A dash means evidence is unavailable, not zero.
20 of 20 — complete
Basketball functions
Eleven separate function readings — need, coverage and redundancy stay apart; no team score.CreationNo immediate need
Functional Strength · led by Stephon Castle, then De'Aaron Fox
Full reading
SAS 2025-26 Creation: production percentile 75.0; largest contributor Stephon Castle (30.4% of above-replacement production); no_immediate_function_need.
Defensive event creationCritical need with weak depth
Functional Shortage · led by Victor Wembanyama, then De'Aaron Fox
Full reading
SAS 2025-26 Defensive event creation: production percentile 12.5; largest contributor Victor Wembanyama (32.4% of above-replacement production); critical_shortage_low_quality_depth.
Shot creation
Team performance and shot-creation architecture.SAS ranked 22 of 30 in self-created shot share (44.7%), 7 of 30 in self-created eFG, and 10 of 30 in assisted eFG. Primary creator: De'Aaron Fox. Team-level creator attribution: 99.3%. Creation profile: assisted structure heavy; dependency: distributed creation; shotmaking: two mode elite.
Self-created FGA share
44.6%
Self-created eFG
50.9%
Assisted eFG
59.9%
De'Aaron Fox share
21.9%
Contracts & cap
Selected player charges under the serving definition — not full cap legality.SupportedTax Team Below First Apron Threshold
Selected player charges
$188.1M
Share of cap
122%
Tax line
$170K over
First apron
$7.88M under
Second apron
$19.8M under
SAS 2025-26 carried $188,065,189 of selected player charges (121.6% of the cap), placing it in tax to first apron on selected player charges. Its highest contracted function cost was interior_finish at 24.0% of the cap; highest measured need was event_creation. Exact exception and transaction legality is withheld without team cap-hold and exception-use ledgers.
Future core salary schedule
Upcoming decisions
Governed contract events ahead — dates carry their honest quality.Keldon Johnsoncontract control horizonJun 30, 2027
Keldon Johnson has a reported contract-control horizon through the 2027 season. The June 30 date is a season-boundary planning proxy, not proof of exact free-agency status. The player is inside the two-season extension-review horizon, but exact eligibility and value are not certified.
Stephon Castlecontract control horizonJun 30, 2028
Stephon Castle has a reported contract-control horizon through the 2028 season. The June 30 date is a season-boundary planning proxy, not proof of exact free-agency status. The player is inside the two-season extension-review horizon, but exact eligibility and value are not certified.
Luke Kornetcontract control horizonJun 30, 2029
Luke Kornet has a reported contract-control horizon through the 2029 season. The June 30 date is a season-boundary planning proxy, not proof of exact free-agency status. No extension-review trigger is applied yet.
Devin Vassellcontract control horizonJun 30, 2029
Devin Vassell has a reported contract-control horizon through the 2029 season. The June 30 date is a season-boundary planning proxy, not proof of exact free-agency status. No extension-review trigger is applied yet.
Future assets
Draft-control coverage: provisional future pick control tradability unresolved. Partial coverage renders as partial — never as a zero-asset team.2028 round 2Tradability not confirmed
SAS has a provisional-control row for the 2028 2-round pick as of 2026-06-30. Tradability is not confirmed.
2028 round 2Tradability not confirmed
SAS has a provisional-control row for the 2028 2-round pick as of 2026-06-30. Tradability is not confirmed.
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Organization
Basketball authority and staff context — descriptive, never a grade.No governed authority-regime rows are knowable for this team at this as-of moment.
CoverageResolved
withheld: falseresolved team: true
Supporting relations (7)
- gb_state.frontend_team_season_overview_v
- gb_state.team_functional_coverage_v
- gb_state.frontend_team_roster_card_v
- gb_state.team_asset_control_timeline_v
- gb_state.team_roster_decision_calendar_event_v
- gb_organization.role_tenure_assertion
- gb_state.nba_team_decision_feed_at
