The defending Western Conference champion Spurs offered point guard Beno Udrih a chance to return to San Antonio this summer, but he declined, signing a free-agent deal instead with the Knicks.
Now that Mike Woodson has banished Udrih and he has asked for a trade, the Spurs might be a candidate for the Slovenian point guard who has two rings from his time in San Antonio.
Former Knicks general manager Scott Layden, now in the front office of San Antonio, was at Wednesday’s game scouting the Knicks.
Woodson sat Udrih again, despite the fact J.R. Smith declined to play because of an ill-fitting mask and Iman Shumpert didn’t play the second half because of a hip flexor problem.
Woodson blamed the 106-101 overtime loss to the Kings on having to go big in the second half because of the Shumpert injury and not have Carmelo Anthony play power forward.
Woodson could have avoided that by using Udrih in a two-point guard alignment. Woodson said he was afraid of inserting Udrih or Metta World Peace because neither had played in a while.
Udrih did not play in his ninth straight game and for the 11th time in 12 games. His agent, Marc Cornstein, met with Udrih before Wednesday’s game. The Wizards also have interest in Udrih.