I definitely understand where you are coming from. I'm just not emotionally invested in wasting my time hating him. I will never respect him or his family, but I just don't care about him going forward.
You're much more spot-on than most here would like to admit. Terribly easy to judge not trading Duncan, and not trading Kawhi, with Monday's newspaper in your hands (is that a saying in English too?).
Also, the conversations and optics regarding disgruntled stars and how teams should manage them has changed exponentially in the last few years, ironically with Nephew's spurning at the blazing front. It's all too easy now to ship out your star, get 6 picks in return, and be halfway over a rebuild in an off-season. That wasn't the case at the time, and especially not so given Nephew's injury/condition, and the mystery that surrounded it, had teams low-balling offers to the Spurs.
I definitely understand where you are coming from. I'm just not emotionally invested in wasting my time hating him. I will never respect him or his family, but I just don't care about him going forward.
It takes no time or energy away from me to wish that on him.
I honestly don't even pay attention to anything regarding him outside of this board and wouldn't comment here if not for the overt mythologizing and/or excuses that are constantly made for him.
I know timvp pointed to there being fault on both sides, but the level of intensity SA played when Nephew returned, and TD's high praise for the medical staff in his HoF speech speaks volumes tbh
It’s not apples to apples. Duncan was becoming an unrestricted free agent after a 3-year rookie contract according to the rules of 20 years ago. Kawhi ghosted his team with several years left on his contract. I understand the team’s desire to try to reconcile with him back then, though in retrospect Boston’s alleged offer of Tatum and Brown in February would have been the way to go.
The only offer for Nephew with any significant veracity was Tobias Harris and LAC two firsts.
Which in retrospect may have been inferior to what they got. Tobias was an expiring and probably not a lot of trade value.
Stars leave small markets all the time and historically have even forced trades (see Kareem and Chamberlin). The Spurs got a le out of nephew and now have a lot of assets-
Time to move on.
lol
They will whine about it for another 20 years.
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