Dylan Harper Posts +10.7 Spurs Plus/Minus in Seven Games

Dylan Harper has the highest plus/minus on the Spurs through seven playoff games at +10.7, a narrow edge over Victor Wembanyama’s +10.3. He has done it while playing 26 minutes a night, and the number tracks with a postseason run that has already produced one of the team’s best two-way stretches.Har…

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Dylan Harper has the highest plus/minus on the Spurs through seven playoff games at +10.7, a narrow edge over Victor Wembanyama’s +10.3. He has done it while playing 26 minutes a night, and the number tracks with a postseason run that has already produced one of the team’s best two-way stretches.

Harper Sets the Spurs Pace

Harper’s +10.7 leads the roster through seven games. He also owns the seventh-highest plus/minus among playoff participants who have played at least 25 minutes and appeared in five games, which puts his run in a wider postseason frame rather than a team-only one.

That production has come from one of the youngest players on the Spurs. San Antonio has leaned on him in a postseason where youth was supposed to be a disadvantage, yet his minutes and the team’s plus/minus data point in the opposite direction.

Game 3 Turned on Harper

His best scoring night of the playoffs came in Game 3, when he scored 27 points. Twenty-two of those came in the second half, after the Trail Blazers built a large lead in Portland and Harper took over the game.

That sequence followed the Spurs’ Game 2 victory, which left them 1-1 before the trip to Portland. Wembanyama had said after that win, “It says that we don't care.”

Harper’s line is the clearest proof so far that the Spurs can get meaningful playoff production from a young rotation piece without waiting for a future season to arrive. The next test is whether that efficiency holds once opponents force the ball out of his hands and ask the rest of San Antonio’s lineup to match his output.

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