You know, teams usually do well at the start of a season before they realize they're a team. The Magic might actually be one of the good teams this year, and the Spurs without Kawhi could be one of the teams.
How many times do I have to keep saying this. I was saying it all throughout free agency before and after he got re-signed - he never had a great season a few years ago. He had 3 good finals games. That's it. He was average the rest of those playoffs. He couldn't hit a shot to save his life in the OKC series in 2014 (did have a good second half of game 6, will give him props for that). the bed against OKC in 2016 and was worthless after Kawhi went down in 2017 playoffs too. What Basketball specific measure did the Spurs use to re-sign him for that amount of money? It's like they didn't look at anything Basketball related at all when they re-signed him.