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    The whole "I'm just here to play basketball" thing is rather disingenuous, though. Every player that accepts a team USA invite knows they will have to deal with the media at some point. Pop and Tim have learned to just live with it.
    Exactly. Playing to represent your country, but didn't think anyone would expect to TALK to you. It is tolerated because not everyone does it. Had everyone on the team had the same at ude, there would be a problem. Could you imagine the whole team taking such a stance? It would be pretty awkward and absurd. He wants to be an odd-duck, it's ok. Rest of guys pick up the slack. Don't you just love these types around the workplace? Oh, Kawhi? He special. He don't do media.

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    i hope Melo DOES make it over Kawhi. the Olympics. We have les to win...

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    Exactly. Playing to represent your country, but didn't think anyone would expect to TALK to you. It is tolerated because not everyone does it. Had everyone on the team had the same at ude, there would be a problem. Could you imagine the whole team taking such a stance? It would be pretty awkward and absurd. He wants to be an odd-duck, it's ok. Rest of guys pick up the slack. Don't you just love these types around the workplace? Oh, Kawhi? He special. He don't do media.
    some spursfan truth right there

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    Good the media

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    The only thing that bothers me about this whole ordeal is ego.

    Sam Smith making this public had everything to do with Sam Smiths' ego.

    He could have taken the high road and called Kawhi to explain his concern like a mature adult would.
    Yup, this way he could've earned an exclusive interview down the road couple years from now. I doubt it anyways but...

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    Lol what do they expect?

    No way Kawhi answers their generic, vanilla questions.
    You're getting paid $20M/yr to play a game and have been given an opportunity to represent your country in the upcoming Olympics and you can't take the time do a few interviews?

    Take the sand out of your pussy already and deal with it.

    These fanboys and their excuses...

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    You're getting paid $20M/yr to play a game and have been given an opportunity to represent your country in the upcoming Olympics and you can't take the time do a few interviews?

    Take the sand out of your pussy already and deal with it.

    These fanboys and their excuses...
    Lebeta.

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    These Belieber fanboys out in full force defending Kiwi's honor.
    Last edited by Hoops Czar; 08-17-2015 at 01:40 PM.

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    It would disappoint me IF the media completely ignored Kawhi, asked everybody but him...well, at least they tried.

    They know better. Next time he'd be on the press conference table, nobody would ask him anything, and he'll look like a nobody (damn it, he's a Spur ), a non en y and everything will be alright.

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    I really hope Kawhi doesn't make the team. We need him concentrating on important things like the SPurs and not a ing gay team USA bull .

    please please let Kawhi come back home. And Lamar

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    SS is a little , in

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    I really hope Kawhi doesn't make the team. We need him concentrating on important things like the SPurs and not a ing gay team USA bull .

    please please let Kawhi come back home. And Lamar

    team USA
    Especially Lamar, he needs to comeback. He's going to have to deal with higher caliber players than matt barnes gnome sayin'

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    Does this get more than one page if it doesn't happen in August, during the worst stretch of no basketball for a Spurs fan?

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    Does this get more than one page if it doesn't happen in August, during the worst stretch of no basketball for a Spurs fan?
    No. Probably not. Definitely a product of the paucity of news/events/games.

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    You're getting paid $20M/yr to play a game and have been given an opportunity to represent your country in the upcoming Olympics and you can't take the time do a few interviews?

    Take the sand out of your pussy already and deal with it.

    These fanboys and their excuses...
    Except Kawhi has been that way ever since he came into the league. What do they expect? Sam Smith calling him miserable and insulting isn't overboard?

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    You really gonna compare this attention seeking guy^ to shy ass Kawhi?
    He shows up to practice. He shows up in games. He's one of the best in a dying football position who gets the job done well.

    They know why he's there, so what the do they need to talk about anyway? They should interview somebody off the wall. Go shine a light on the O-line coach or something.

    Likewise, do s really think Kawhi is going to say something interesting? He just wants to hoop, not bother anybody and go home.

    Let these s be ball players and go talk to the people that want to be spokesmen. That's how I look at it.

    Besides that, we literally "know why they're there". The interviews are fluff.

    That's why 7 times out of ten, Pop is like "I'm not about to take this seriously."

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    I really hope Kawhi doesn't make the team. We need him concentrating on important things like the SPurs and not a ing gay team USA bull .

    please please let Kawhi come back home. And Lamar

    team USA
    Seriously. I don't want any Spurs players competing in this anyway.

    I'd just send Calipari's annual one-year squad and be done with it.

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    Kawhi should be able to answer a few questions, even begrudgingly.

    With that said, Sam Smith comes off like a whiney .

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    Exactly. Playing to represent your country, but didn't think anyone would expect to TALK to you. It is tolerated because not everyone does it. Had everyone on the team had the same at ude, there would be a problem. Could you imagine the whole team taking such a stance? It would be pretty awkward and absurd. He wants to be an odd-duck, it's ok. Rest of guys pick up the slack. Don't you just love these types around the workplace? Oh, Kawhi? He special. He don't do media.
    Right when I was taking you seriously. You just come off as a drama queen about all this. @ quoting some butthurt reporter. Don't be a sheep.
    Btw the guy that at the workplace that busts ass and works hard and doesnt waste time sociallizing is a badass. Only the lazy don't appreciate those guys.

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    Right when I was taking you seriously. You just come off as a drama queen about all this. @ quoting some butthurt reporter. Don't be a sheep.
    Btw the guy that at the workplace that busts ass and works hard and doesnt waste time sociallizing is a badass. Only the lazy don't appreciate those guys.
    No, of course you misunderstand. The guy that refuses to do certain tasks he doesn't like to do, hold meetings, attend meetings, thinks he's special. Doing the pressers isn't socializing, dumbass.

    Stating the obvious isn't being a drama queen. And, you Kawhi knobgobblers always blow the criticisms of him out of proportion, forgetting I was the first one in the thread making fun of Sam Smith. Guys like you that are so fragile uou get your butt hurt when any little negative thing is said about your boy, even by his fans, like me, are drama queens.

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    LOL, Sam Smith went the Social Media path to be miserable and insulting.

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    I totally agree with u. Plus if Kawhi doesn't make it, u know how pissed off he would be come regular season. WoooNellie!

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    The only thing that bothers me about this whole ordeal is ego.

    Sam Smith making this public had everything to do with Sam Smiths' ego.

    He could have taken the high road and called Kawhi to explain his concern like a mature adult would.
    It's not about Kawhi not wanting to talk, it's about Smith and Berman taking out the hatchets to position Jimmy Butler and Melo to make the team. There's nothing on the up and up about this at all, just pure agenda.

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    The whole "I'm just here to play basketball" thing is rather disingenuous, though. Every player that accepts a team USA invite knows they will have to deal with the media at some point. Pop and Tim have learned to just live with it.
    disingenuous. If he says he's just there to play basketball, he's just there to play basketball. He gets to decide that. I'm sure there's a lot of other he could be doing, if they can't accept that. A lot of you have some weird ing idea that these people belong to you or something. You don't think there are some guys who wouldn't mind playing ball, but really don't want to have to deal with a bunch of questions, and reporters trying to get them to say something controversial?

    Maybe this is part of the reason why Timmy said, "I'm not interested in that" when he got asked to play FIBA ball a second time. That and the fact that FIBA sucks.

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    Has anyone heard SAExpress writer Mike Monroe's questions? The very definition of ing miserable. Stuttering, muttering hack.

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