Kawhi Named to All-NBA First Team

[BatManu20]

Per par. Congrats, well-deserved.

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[BatManu20]

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[TrainOfThought5]

2nd year in a row. Robbed of MVP for first year. Legit shot at FMVP next year in my opinion.

[apalisoc_9]

Someone needs to give us the name of the idiots that picked Durant over Kawhi despite the former missing 15 freaking games.

Also who the hell picked him third team.

You'd think by now the NBA would be smart enough to know who to pick as voters.

Smdh.

At least Lebron only had one idiot who picked him second.

[BatManu20]

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Wonder if Kawhi would take a hometown discount ala Tim Duncan tbh. Doubtful, but worth bringing up in discussions.

[Chinook]

Fuck that. No way would I want to be caught with a current-era max in 2021, especially not an advanced one. That contract could literally take up half the cap in that year.

[LaMarcus Bryant]

Per par. Congrats, well-deserved.

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We need to find out who the cocksucker who voted Kawhi 3rd team is

[unleashbaynes]

:cry

[apalisoc_9]

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Damn..

42 a year is crazy excessive....wow

[BatManu20]

Fuck that. No way would I want to be caught with a current-era max in 2021, especially not an advanced one. That contract could literally take up half the cap in that year.


Damn..

42 a year is crazy excessive....wow


Make that $43.4M/year.

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[RD2191]

:claw

[unleashbaynes]

:claw

Finally, someone uses this emoji correctly.

[NASpurs]

$42 mil a year? Trade his ass. We can get the whole 76ers team for that amount. :lol

[BatManu20]

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[BatManu20]

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[DMX7]

Make that $43.4M/year.

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Adjusted for inflation, Jordan's final year salary with the Bulls was like $54M but that was just a one year deal.

[apalisoc_9]

Davis getting freebies because he gets voted as center meanwhile he doesnt even play center. God i hate this hack.

[dabom]

Fuck that. No way would I want to be caught with a current-era max in 2021, especially not an advanced one. That contract could literally take up half the cap in that year.

I don't know when you're being a pussy faggot sometimes. :lol

[ElNono]

The Anthony Davis hype is off the charts, tbh

[dabom]

Get paid kawhi. Your the best player in the world.

[BatManu20]

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[rastaspur]

43 million a year. Damn. Thats over $1.9 million per regular season game. If he averaged 30 points a game and played all 82 games, thats almost $18,000 for every point scored.

[apalisoc_9]

Curry twink should have recieved more votes. Can't believe playing for a great team is penalized now. The warriors looked the strongest without Durant.

[apalisoc_9]

43 million a year. Damn. Thats over $1.9 million per regular season game. If he averaged 30 points a game and played all 82 games, thats almost $18,000 for every point scored.

What? :lol

[BatManu20]

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[BatManu20]

What a legend.


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[rastaspur]

Basic math. What dont you understand?

He would be paid about $1.9 mil per game whether he played over the course of a 43 mil per year contract.

That is a huge number.

[coachmac87]

The Anthony Davis hype is off the charts, tbh

What center is better?

[Chinook]

I don't know when you're being a pussy faggot sometimes. :lol

The Spurs have been great at avoiding getting hit with a current-era max so far in this TV deal. But this DPE may ruin them. That was such a bad idea for the CBA and a huge overreaction that's already backfiring.

[apalisoc_9]

Basic math. What dont you understand?

He would be paid about $1.9 mil per game whether he played over the course of a 43 mil per year contract.

That is a huge number.

1.9 million per regular season game? Nikka there's 82 regular season game. He inly gets paid 43 a year. If he made 1.9 a game, he'd be making 100 Million dollars a year.

Are you as high as your avi.

[Chinook]

Basic math. What dont you understand?

He would be paid about $1.9 mil per game whether he played over the course of a 43 mil per year contract.

That is a huge number.

That must be some good shit you're on, Rastaman.

[dabom]

Dude is carrying scrubs. 100 mil in 10 years for kawhi is peanuts. Dude deserves it.

[Robz4000]

There's no way in hell Kawhi takes all that money. He's way too competitive; no chance he handicaps the team's chances like that.

[apalisoc_9]

The only positive about this Rule is that, there's less chances now of forming crazy superteams.

[polandprzem]

By votes looks like it's gonna be hard for him to be the MVP

[polandprzem]

get rather :)

[rastaspur]

Kawhi leonard is the james brown of the nba. Hardest working man in the biz. It has been amazing to watch his trajectory and growth as a player. It is second to none.

Disclaimer: I dont factor baseball into the equation. The improvements by bonds and palmero arent legit.

[TrainOfThought5]

Basic math. What dont you understand?

He would be paid about $1.9 mil per game whether he played over the course of a 43 mil per year contract.

That is a huge number.

What? :lol

[Nathan89]

I love Kawhi but that contract is insane. :bang

[cd98]

Pay the man. He's worth every penny. Plus it offsets. The very best are highly paid, but the good to medium are lower paid under the new deal. Spurs can still put together a winning team.

[Dverde]

Someone needs to give us the name of the idiots that picked Durant over Kawhi despite the former missing 15 freaking games.

Also who the hell picked him third team.

You'd think by now the NBA would be smart enough to know who to pick as voters.

Smdh.

At least Lebron only had one idiot who picked him second.

Reliable sources point to Israel Gutierrez.

[NASpurs]

Dude is carrying scrubs. 100 mil in 10 years for kawhi is peanuts. Dude deserves it.

Shiiiit, I wish it was 100 mil in 10 years.

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

Basic math. What dont you understand?

He would be paid about $1.9 mil per game whether he played over the course of a 43 mil per year contract.

That is a huge number.

My basic math is coming up with $524,000 and change per game over 82 regular season games.

[rastaspur]

1.9 million per regular season game? Nikka there's 82 regular season game. He inly gets paid 43 a year. If he made 1.9 a game, he'd be making 100 Million dollars a year.

Are you as high as your avi.

Yeah. I fucked that up. Gotcha. I divided wrong. Need to switch that numerator and denominator next time. Divide 43.5 by 82 and not the other way around.

That minute calculation is right.

I will take 1 out of 2.

[rastaspur]

My basic math is coming up with $524,000 and change per game over 82 regular season games.

My calculator is mathematically dyslexic. Always switching numerators and denominators.

[rastaspur]

That must be some good shit you're on, Rastaman.

I and I got some new stuff come in. Took the day off work. I apparently have reached my limit today. Getting numbers reversed.

It happens on down time. Often.

[Dverde]

100 million? Kawhi more interested in the proposed $8.75 increase for per diem for road game meals.

[baseline bum]

1. Kawhi took the Spurs to a 23 point lead in Golden State's building
2. That same Spurs team minus Kawhi is -61 in the 5 1/2 quarters since
3. But he's not worth a supermax contract?

[ElNono]

What center is better?

Gobert, Marc Gasol... doesn't even need to be a center (see Team #3), just a 'big'.

AD is a stat whore, tbh, but his teams keep on disappointing. He's been in the league for a while now...

[apalisoc_9]

1. Kawhi took the Spurs to a 23 point lead in Golden State's building
2. That same Spurs team minus Kawhi is -61 in the 5 1/2 quarters since
3. But he's not worth a supermax contract?

Ofcourse he is, but could be tough building a team around a 43 million dollar a year player with a 110 cap.

[apalisoc_9]

Gobert, Marc Gasol... doesn't even need to be a center (see Team #3), just a 'big'.

AD is a stat whore, tbh, but his teams keep on disappointing. He's been in the league for a while now...

I would have voted Donkey face since he plays center about 40% of the time.

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

The money must be there if the league is setting that threshold. And if so, Kawhi definitely deserves such a deal. I'd say he's no worse than top 3 in the league now. We'll probably see some astronomical contract numbers being thrown around over the next couple of seasons.

[Chinook]

It's worse than just that. We're talking $50 Million in 2023 when I am almost certain that the cap will be in the mid-90s at the highest. The TV deal runs out in 2021. With the way ESPN is hemorrhaging subscribers, does anyone think the network is going to give even more money?

[Chinook]

The money must be there if the league is setting that threshold. And if so, Kawhi definitely deserves such a deal.

No, it's not. It's projected that it will be there for the first two years, but after that is a mystery. Could see the league going throw a minicollapse. I wouldn't touch the DPE until I a) know how the next TV deal will look and b) know if the contracts will be adjusted downwards to reflect the league's economic reality.

[coachmac87]

Gobert, Marc Gasol... doesn't even need to be a center (see Team #3), just a 'big'.

AD is a stat whore, tbh, but his teams keep on disappointing. He's been in the league for a while now...


Lmao.

Man if AD was on Utah or Memphis those teams would be a lot better...Have Gobert or Gasol on NOLA let's see how good they are..

Who's been AD's sidekick??

[SAGirl]

Gobert got robbed.
:claw
Congratulations Kiwi!!!
Well deserved.
He'll be worth it if healthy. The Big One.
Cap I assume will go up too. But he's carrying a big burden anyways... deserves to be paid like it.

[SAGirl]

The Spurs have been great at avoiding getting hit with a current-era max so far in this TV deal. But this DPE may ruin them. That was such a bad idea for the CBA and a huge overreaction that's already backfiring.
Unavoidable for a player of his caliber.
Having a team around him will be tough but Spurs just cannot afford deadweight like they are carrying now for example. As I said b4 this news even: I would not offer Pau more years at less or whatever; he's washed up already. Spurs will have to continue to develop and bargain bin hunt. They cannot afford any more bad Tony/Pau like contracts.

[ElNono]

Lmao.

Man if AD was on Utah or Memphis those teams would be a lot better...Have Gobert or Gasol on NOLA let's see how good they are..

Who's been AD's sidekick??

He had the same sidekicks that Frauden took all the way to the 2nd round of the playoffs + Jrue Holiday + now Boogie.

He has a 1st round sweep to show after 5 seasons in the league....

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[ElNono]

You have to be at another level of awful not to make the playoffs in this West, with both Davis and Boogie...

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[apalisoc_9]

He had the same sidekicks that Frauden took all the way to the 2nd round of the playoffs + Jrue Holiday + now Boogie.

He has a 1st round sweep to show after 5 seasons in the league....

You know someone is an idiot and a casual once they start using the "take out and replace argument"

:lol

Eric Gordon winning Sixth man of the year with Frauden :lol

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

No, it's not. It's projected that it will be there for the first two years, but after that is a mystery. Could see the league going throw a minicollapse. I wouldn't touch the DPE until I a) know how the next TV deal will look and b) know if the contracts will be adjusted downwards to reflect the league's economic reality.

Interesting. But you know there will be guys out there asking for that kind of money if it's being touted. Hopefully the league can build some sort of clause for de-escalation into such deals.

[Chinook]

Unavoidable for a player of his caliber.
Having a team around him will be tough but Spurs just cannot afford deadweight like they are carrying now for example. As I said b4 this news even: I would not offer Pau more years at less or whatever; he's washed up already. Spurs will have to continue to develop and bargain bin hunt. They cannot afford any more bad Tony/Pau like contracts.

I don't know if it is unavoidable. That money is absurd, and I don't think any team could make it work unless the cap can stay at near $110 Million. Sure, they could keep Kawhi, but good luck signing or keeping another star. It may end up really not mattering because 2021 feels like a lockout year right now.

[Chinook]

Interesting. But you know there will be guys out there asking for that kind of money if it's being touted. Hopefully the league can build some sort of clause for that into such deals.

I think it's going to be a huge labor fight whenever the new CBA is up. Owners are going to (rightfully) want the contracts to be scaled down, and the NBPA is going to balk, because it's now run by superstars who will put their max contracts ahead of the overall health of the league.

[Nathan89]

Players for damn sure are not going to agree on scaling down their contracts. This is on the league for not having these stipulations in the agreement prior.

[Chinook]

Players for damn sure are not going to agree on scaling down their contracts. This is on the league for not having these stipulations in the agreement prior.

The alternative is them getting locked out and not receiving anything. This wouldn't be a matter of owners not liking something but having to take it anyway. This could literally cripple the league if the players ignore it. It was likely going to be a lockout had the owners fought for the provision anyway, so it makes sense to not have that fight until it's necessary.

[Mal]

Give names of assholes voting Kawhi`s 3rd all nba, DeAndre Jordan 1st all-nba, Curry over Westbrook for 1st, Durant over Lebron/Kawhi for 1st.

[rastaspur]

Voting results should be shown. Voters who vote ridiculously should lose their privilege and be replaced.

Allow coaches and gms to vote on whose ballots were the worst. The two worst each year get dropped and two new voters replace.

[cjw]

Give names of assholes voting Kawhi`s 3rd all nba, DeAndre Jordan 1st all-nba, Curry over Westbrook for 1st, Durant over Lebron/Kawhi for 1st.

Curry over Westbrook is totally defensible. One played full season for team with most wins in league. Also, of the five votes that didn't go to Lebron and Kawhi, Durant got three and Green got two. I'm less okay with that but no problem voting for Warriors (other Green votes at center). I do want to know, though, if someone put three Warriors on first team which is not defensible.

But third team, and who did they vote for over Kawhi???

[hater]

Congrats

Now play game 3

[Russ]

Don't bury the lede:

LMA was a vote-getter (officially).

:flag:

[GSH]

Wow, that's a lot of nachos the Spurs have to sell.

At least Kawhi will be able to afford gas for that shitty old Tahoe he drives. So that's one worry off his list. :lol

[Darius Bieber]

Doubt Kawhi cares tbh. He'd rather have another Ring than this honor.

[GSH]

I think it's going to be a huge labor fight whenever the new CBA is up. Owners are going to (rightfully) want the contracts to be scaled down, and the NBPA is going to balk, because it's now run by superstars who will put their max contracts ahead of the overall health of the league.



I said it was going to happen when they got that huge single-year increase, and a whole bunch of mid-tier players got ridiculous contracts. Now the superstars are going to say, "Well if HE is worth $XXX million, I should be worth $ZZZ million."

They're going to have a hard time taming this beast now.

[Keepin' it real]

Let's pray he doesn't become injury-prone. That would ruin (is ruining) everything.

[spursistan]

Lock this dude up longterm, tbh..

I don't want us to take any fuckin chances with Kawhi in free agency. He is not that snake ass nigga Durant, but you never know. A lot can change in couple of years: Pop might step down; the front office failure to improve the roster, pressure from family/camp to relocate to California.. who knows really?

[SAGirl]

I don't know if it is unavoidable. That money is absurd, and I don't think any team could make it work unless the cap can stay at near $110 Million. Sure, they could keep Kawhi, but good luck signing or keeping another star. It may end up really not mattering because 2021 feels like a lockout year right now.
I Didn't know about the uncertainty in future cap but a guy like Kawhi, if healthy will be worth it.
I would rather see less superteams personally.
Go back to franchise star, drafting , development, good front office management. I wouldn't mind to see more teams of just one star and role players...It might even the playing field for teams and augment competition (spread out concentration of talent)...

[apalisoc_9]

Lock this dude up longterm, tbh..

I don't want us to take any fuckin chances with Kawhi in free agency. He is not that snake ass nigga Durant, but you never know. A lot can change in couple of years: Pop might step down; the front office failure to improve the roster, pressure from family/camp to relocate to California.. who knows really?

Yup.

Gotta think like those gold digging baby mommas...

[DMC]

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Jesus Kawhi is going to go from Bonner rich to Kobe rich in just a few years.

[RD2191]

Why wouldn't Kawhi take as much as he can get? The Spurs already fucked up by building a shit team around him. Does he trust that he can get some actual help when it matters?

[DMC]

Curry over Westbrook is totally defensible. One played full season for team with most wins in league. Also, of the five votes that didn't go to Lebron and Kawhi, Durant got three and Green got two. I'm less okay with that but no problem voting for Warriors (other Green votes at center). I do want to know, though, if someone put three Warriors on first team which is not defensible.

But third team, and who did they vote for over Kawhi???

Draymond probably. Typical blind homer shit.

[DMC]

Why wouldn't Kawhi take as much as he can get? The Spurs already fucked up by building a shit team around him. Does he trust that he can get some actual help when it matters?
No fuck that, he should take every penny he can get. If the Spurs are going to stretch out Parker and pay Manu 14m for his 4pts a game off the bench, the Kawhi, being the one and only and with a league full of salivating GMs ready to sell the farm for him, should capitalize on it. Lord knows his acting career isn't taking off.

[polandprzem]

If Leonard is not max player who is?

Clearly Kawhi is top3 player in NBA

[DMC]

If Leonard is not max player who is?

Clearly Kawhi is top2 player in NBA

fify

[hater]

:lmao ppl saying he should and will not take max money :lmao

Hes the best 2 way player in the league. He will and should take max money

Plus he aint winning jackshut with Lamarsha and the other scrubs Pop and RC are putting around him

[TheGreatYacht]

43M/yr :wow

Time to build a super team next year then while the franchise player is making peanuts, like the Warriors did with Steph.

All in for CP3, and even in on Blake if he replaces Lamarsha

[TheGreatYacht]

Also :lol Anthony Davis the black Minnesota Kevin Love continuing to benefit from these pointless Center mandatory spots.

Overrated stat padder.

[apalisoc_9]

Also :lol Anthony Davis the black Minnesota Kevin Love continuing to benefit from these pointless Center mandatory spots.

Overrated stat padder.

:lol

[Chinook]

:lmao ppl saying he should and will not take max money :lmao

It's not about is Kawhi worth the max; it's about is the max too high. It's going to be way too fucking high, even for top-three guys.

[bic50]

No fuck that, he should take every penny he can get. If the Spurs are going to stretch out Parker and pay Manu 14m for his 4pts a game off the bench, the Kawhi, being the one and only and with a league full of salivating GMs ready to sell the farm for him, should capitalize on it. Lord knows his acting career isn't taking off.
Indubitably

[BatManu20]

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[rastaspur]

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Lol at dwert howard being in there. He never should have been dpoy twice.

[lefty]

No Parker?

[TD 21]

Someone needs to give us the name of the idiots that picked Durant over Kawhi despite the former missing 15 freaking games.

Also who the hell picked him third team.

You'd think by now the NBA would be smart enough to know who to pick as voters.

Smdh.

At least Lebron only had one idiot who picked him second.

If they have votes, probably El-Hassan and Lee.


Davis getting freebies because he gets voted as center meanwhile he doesnt even play center. God i hate this hack.

Davis primarily played center for a while, after Gentry benched Asik and Ajinca and before Demps acquired Cousins.

Gobert is the only true center who has a legitimate case for making the 1st team, but I'd rather they shoehorn a top 10 player in, than hand it to a top 20 one on a technicality. They've done that enough, with the likes of M. Gasol, Noah and Jordan, in the past.


The only positive about this Rule is that, there's less chances now of forming crazy superteams.

Yeah, but that's actually going to help the Warriors and to a lesser extent Cavaliers (because of James' age/mileage) maintain their air of invincibility. The damage is done in those cases; their respective cores will remain intact. Now, even if Paul, for example, wanted to consider the Spurs, he'd either have to take an unreasonable discount or they'd have to somewhat gut the team to accommodate him.

[apalisoc_9]

I just wonder, What the hell are people going to do with Curry next year?

He's clearly the best PG in the league. They eviscerated every decent team in that 13-0 run without Durant.

Harden and Westbrook are both going to continue getting their inorganic stats and achieve 45-51 wins something that is significantly less impressive than Curry who probably is the difference between 55 win Warriors and 60 win Warriors..

People underestimating how ridiculously difficult it is to help a team achieve the 60 win Milestone.

[99 Problems]

43 million a year. Damn. Thats over $1.9 million per regular season game. If he averaged 30 points a game and played all 82 games, thats almost $18,000 for every point scored.

That's it, I'm going back into the gym. Sacrifice I'm willing to make.

[DarrinS]

So, four players from the West and LeBron

:lol

[SpurOutofTownFan]

Davis getting freebies because he gets voted as center meanwhile he doesnt even play center. God i hate this hack.

that's what the Spurs were accused of with Duncan by the other way around

[SpurOutofTownFan]

No Parker?

lol

[TheDoctor]

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[DMC]

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Meh, that's like saying "Michael Jordan, Carmelo Anthony and Kawhi Leonard". Jordan and Leonard are 100 dollar bills, Howard is the 20 worth of 1 dollar bills he wrapped them in. Howard?

[BillMc]

My basic math is coming up with $524,000 and change per game over 82 regular season games.
Me too.

[loveforthegame]

:claw

[BillMc]

How much do they expect the cap to rise in comparison to these supermax salaries? What percentage will Kawhi likely take of the cap space at 43 a year three years from now?

[Atl Spur]

If the Spurs don't pay Kawhi, every other team with cap space will. I suspect pop and crew will utilize cheaper prove it players

[Spurtacular]

Draymond Green over Gordon Hayward for 3rd team honors is a sham. Never seen a more ho hum season rewarded so highly (except maybe Kobe Bryant's repeated all defensive team honors).

[Spurtacular]

Lol at dwert howard being in there. He never should have been dpoy twice.

Thought he deserved them at the time. Not so sure anymore.

[Chillen]

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Might be the only team that can beat the Golden State Warriors this year, lmfao!

[tbdog]

2nd year in a row. Robbed of MVP for first year. Legit shot at FMVP next year in my opinion.

Someone voted him as a 3rd team pick. That could be the difference.

[tbdog]

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[YGWHI]

Yeah, but that's actually going to help the Warriors and to a lesser extent Cavaliers (because of James' age/mileage) maintain their air of invincibility. The damage is done in those cases; their respective cores will remain intact. Now, even if Paul, for example, wanted to consider the Spurs, he'd either have to take an unreasonable discount or they'd have to somewhat gut the team to accommodate him.

I doubt it.

They have to re-sign Curry in this next offseason with just one year left in KD contract...Also, Livingston, Iguodala, Clark, Pachulia, McGee, will be FA's.

In next years, they will have to choose between KD...Klay...decent role players...

[John Petrucci]

We need to find out who the cocksucker who voted Kawhi 3rd team is

Does Elhassen have a vote? Cuz damn does that guy hate us like I've never seen any media person hate a team.

Nichols always seems to want to downplay anything Spurs, too. Get the feeling she's not a fan in the least. Basically The Jump crew along with jealous Jax that POS :lol

[GSH]

1.9 million per regular season game? Nikka there's 82 regular season game. He inly gets paid 43 a year. If he made 1.9 a game, he'd be making 100 Million dollars a year.

Are you as high as your avi.


Actually, it would be a little over $155M, not $100M. Sometimes mistakes happen - especially late at night. The point is that it's a truckload of money, especially if you get it in $1's. :D


We can argue about what the order should be at the top of the list. But the one thing that voting makes really clear is that there are 4 superstars in the league who are head and shoulders above all the rest.

[YGWHI]

Unavoidable for a player of his caliber.
Having a team around him will be tough but Spurs just cannot afford deadweight like they are carrying now for example. As I said b4 this news even: I would not offer Pau more years at less or whatever; he's washed up already. Spurs will have to continue to develop and bargain bin hunt. They cannot afford any more bad Tony/Pau like contracts.

Loved that part. If Kawhi's new contract will help to limit some vet-type of deal...I'd say it's fine.

PATFO wouldn't fall in love with the old version of a good player and would look for developing young players.

[YGWHI]

So, four players from the West and LeBron

:lol


LeBron fans about LBJ's easy path to Finals instead of having to face GSW, Spurs... "But but the East isn't weak...Bucks, Raptors, Pacers...All great playoffs teams" :cry

[YGWHI]

Davis getting freebies because he gets voted as center meanwhile he doesnt even play center. God i hate this hack.

This was the last year. With Boogie on his team, Davis will vote as PF-forward spot next season

[Arcadian]

How the fuck does Deandre Jordan make it over KAT, Marc Gasol, and Demarcus Cousins? Ridiculous.

And who the fuck is voting Kawhi Leonard to the 3rd team? Fucking moron.

Otherwise, I generally approve.

Edit: Oh yeah, someone mentioned it should be Hayward > Green, and I agree. Even Paul George > Green. The only award Gaymond should be winning is "best lips for sucking cock."

[coachmac87]

He had the same sidekicks that Frauden took all the way to the 2nd round of the playoffs + Jrue Holiday + now Boogie.

He has a 1st round sweep to show after 5 seasons in the league....


Well according to the votes your opinion is in the minority lol

[Seventyniner]

The teams need to become 3 frontcourt/2 backcourt like the All-Star starting lineups. Or even 2 frontcourt, 2 backcourt, 1 wildcard (any position).

As for Kawhi's extension, this might cause the Spurs to just run it back next year and conserve cap space for 2018. Then try to get a 4-year FA signing before Kawhi's monster contract kicks in and perhaps pay the tax in 2019 and 2020 before having to (maybe) blow everything up.

It also depends on if the punitive luxury tax clauses stick around. The idea of having the max go up like this is to prevent teams like the Warriors and Cavs from being formed as they are. If the DPE existed for Curry the Warriors would have to dump at least one of Green and Thompson to afford him and Durant.

[TD 21]

I forgot to criticize some of the selections . . .

- Paul played 61 games and as usual, was a clear cut top 10 player in those games, yet he loses out to a clearly inferior player, in DeRozan, because too many of these idiots in the media still rely heavily on points per game.

- With him as the Clippers representative, they likely wouldn't have felt compelled to hand Jordan, the clear third best player on the team, a selection over the clearly superior Towns, who should have been given the same benefit of the doubt that Davis was.



I doubt it.

They have to re-sign Curry in this next offseason with just one year left in KD contract...Also, Livingston, Iguodala, Clark, Pachulia, McGee, will be FA's.

In next years, they will have to choose between KD...Klay...decent role players...

Durant will opt out this off season and they'll lock both Curry and him up to long term contracts. They'll find a way to keep Iguodala too and the rest are irrelevant. Unlike the Cavaliers, they have three decent prospects, in Looney, McCaw and Jones, the first two of which could be ready for full time rotation spots. Whichever of the others you listed aren't back, a similar cast will replace them, replete with ring chasing veterans making the minimum.

[apalisoc_9]

I forgot to criticize some of the selections . . .

- Paul played 61 games and as usual, was a clear cut top 10 player in those games, yet he loses out to a clearly inferior player, in DeRozan, because too many of these idiots in the media still rely heavily on points per game.

- With him as the Clippers representative, they likely wouldn't have felt compelled to hand Jordan, the clear third best player on the team, a selection over the clearly superior Towns, who should have been given the same benefit of the doubt that Davis was.




Durant will opt out this off season and they'll lock both Curry and him up to long term contracts. They'll find a way to keep Iguodala too and the rest are irrelevant. Unlike the Cavaliers, they have three decent prospects, in Looney, McCaw and Jones, the first two of which could be ready for full time rotation spots. Whichever of the others you listed aren't back, a similar cast will replace them, replete with ring chasing veterans making the minimum.

What I find totally hypocritical about the Paul non-selection is that, Durant made second team playing for A team that went on to demolish every 45+ win team for 13 straight ( the most dominanint Regular season run this year). He played 62 games.

People who do their homework gets critisized heavily. I blame twitter. Casual fans have too much power nowadys with social media.

[100%duncan]

Pay Kawhi, fuck what chinook says. This team is paying Aldridge 20, Gasol 15, Manu 14. Fuck the team fuck the cap.

[Russo21]

How was Hardon the turnover machine and someone who is allergic to playing defense the only unanimous player voted as 1st team? The fuck?

Who gave Curry a 1st place vote? The fuck?

NBA should consider a different system in voting for the major awards and all nba team selections. To many weird random votes.

What clown put Kawhi as 3rd team? Seriously?

Which Golden state homer voters gave Durant 3 1st team voted and Green 4 1st place votes? At forward, ahead of either Leonard or LeBron. The fuck? How did aldridge get 1 vote? No all nba selection for towns?

[TheDoctor]

Pay Kawhi, fuck what chinook says. This team is paying Aldridge 20, Gasol 15, Manu 14. Fuck the team fuck the cap.
:lol

[SilverSpur]

Great job Kawhi, well deserved.

[HarlemHeat37]

Surprisingly good selections, tbh..only objections are Derozan and Jordan, but I understand why they made it, both are popular with old heads that haven't evolved and adapted to the way NBA effectiveness should be assessed..

Very nice to see Hayward and George left off, neither had any business being on an All-NBA team..the latter struggled for a large portion of the season, while the former is just a good player(far from great) being overhyped for obvious reasons..