The Iron Curtain of the Holy City: From the NBA to the Top of America

Still haunted by the San Antonio Spurs’ unfinished championship dream in 2025, Lynn Holt is reborn in 2018, back in San Antonio. At the time, tensions between Kawhi and the Spurs are on the verge of exploding, and the team is about to sink into a seven-year rebuilding slump. As heir to the Holt family, Lynn moves decisively to seize control of the franchise. Armed with a reborn man’s precise foresight, he launches a series of trades that upend the league. Rejecting the mediocre assets offered in real history, he turns Kawhi into Simmons, then swiftly trades again to secure the No. 3 and No. 10 picks, landing Luka Doncic and Mikal Bridges and laying the foundation for a two-star core.

Unwilling to settle for a short-lived resurgence, Lynn decisively trades Aldridge for the Grizzlies’ No. 2 pick and drafts Ja Morant, the “Point God,” building a historically great trio. With Popovich’s tactics behind them, the Spurs quickly return to the top of the Western Conference. Though they fail to win a championship before 2025, they become an unshakable, dynasty-caliber force in the league, with an ironclad defense and an offense that dominates the court. Off the court, Lynn’s ambitions have already grown.

Using the Spurs as his starting point, he establishes Holt Capital and invests in sports intellectual property, new energy, oil, and real estate, sending its valuation soaring. Leveraging the team’s influence, he allies with Texas business and political power brokers, anonymously supports politicians’ campaigns, and secures policy advantages and a voice in both government and commerce. In secret, he consolidates Texas’s underground forces, trading funding and resources for protection and building a dual identity: a business and political titan in public, and the underworld’s power broker behind the scenes.

From trade battles in the NBA to capital warfare in the business world, from deepening his hold on power in Texas to expanding his influence across the United States, Lynn Holt uses the Alamo City as his foundation, wielding iron