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Just relocate the team to Seattle and let them be the Supersonics again. Not a good rebuild idea. However, I hope the Spurs don't do something incredibly stupid this offseason by doubling down and overpaying some trash players.
I am really curious to see what offseason moves don't happen with the SPURS.. With serious salary cap restrictions on them, not sure who they really can get maybe bring over a player or 2 from overseas.
Next yr we could see a lineup that looks like this..
LMA
KL
DG
TP/DM
PG
Just relocate the team to Seattle and let them be the Supersonics again. Not a good rebuild idea. However, I hope the Spurs don't do something incredibly stupid this offseason by doubling down and overpaying some trash players.
We're a players away from being a championship team. You don't rebuild that. Money is about to free up too
Yes! Figure out a way to cut out some dead weight. Find a steal somewhere. They're close.
I don't think blowing up a team which just made it to the Western Conference Finals is a good idea tbh.
You're right - things are not as bleak as that. But I am not sure they are as rosy as you think. It is true that Pop had the Spurs poised on the brink before disaster (aka Zaza) struck. This was despite the fact that by advanced metrics and the eyeball test both condemned LMA and Gasol. It is hard to imagine, though, that that we could get as far again with that front court.
My eye test tells me that, without a bold move or two, the Spurs will fall back to the pack in the West.
Last edited by sasaint; 05-23-2017 at 10:20 AM.
If the Spurs were willing to do that, Ainge would be on the phone the second the Celtics got eliminated. Ainge would probably still try to screw the Spurs out of the 2nd Brooklyn 1st but yea.
y'all are dumb as if you think drafting some players guarantees anything...look at the Wolves/Sixers who have been for years. getting top picks doesn't necessarily mean anything especially if you're trading an established MVP/DPOY perennial candidate
+1
I knew I would find some stupid threads on here today, and the OP did not disappoint.
Getting rid of Kawhi Leonard? off you senile got and never post on here again
Stupidest ing thing ive seen maybe ever.
So OP wants to trade a top 2 player in the league who is reaching his prime to gamble on Lottery picks????
No thanks.
wtf
Not a popular idea. Well now that the Spurs have pretty much the off season bed, have to pray Murray developed a shot and are counting on landing that big FA in 2018 that the Spurs never lan. How does the likelihood of keeping Kawhi in 2019 look?
In retrospect maybe trading for Boston's Brooklyn 2017 and 2018 first round picks wouldn't have been such a bad idea. Fultz and a couple of high lottery picks Brooklyn's and a tanked Spurs' in a high quality 2018 draft. Guess people would rather have Kawhi and a crap team hoping for a playoff first round loss and a going away party for Leonard.
It is a scary real possibility Kawhi walks in two years. Especially if noone wants to come here. Spurs are still a playoff team but its still a wait & see deal with the new loaded Timberwolves/Thunder/Rockets roster moves. We still have the same peices that won 60 games. We'll still beat OKC. The other 2 teams are scary now. Still need to see what comes with possible LaMarcus and Danny Green trades
I think there is a 95 percent chance he will stay. Star players that have left their teams tend to be attention s who seek the spotlight ala Lebron,Durant, George. Kawhi is a highly introverted person and those types of people are not into going out and partying. I think that also factors in why I don't see him going to a big market like LA granted he did grow up there but I don't think it has the same type of allure for him that it has for PG due to his personality. I think now he's gotten use to being the number 1 guy that I can't see him going to another team and taking a lesser role which could be the case if he decides to leave. You have to factor in that Kawhi is not a vocal guy and that guys on a new team can challenge his status as the go to guy where in the spurs locker room due to POP's presence and Kawhi's history with the franchise it makes it impossible to challenge his status. Keep in mind when Lebron went back to Cleveland there was friction between Kyrie and him at the beginning on whose team it was. I doubt Kawhi would be able to handle that type of situation well and I feel Kawhi probably knows that which is another reason why I don't see him leaving. Introverts love stable environments and despise being in unstable environments. Like I have said before Kawhi is an introvert and I don't see him leaving unless the spurs become super unstable such as Pop leaving and replacing him with an inexperienced young coach or having a roster filled with a bunch of young talent less immature guys that have no character.
They are two other things the Spurs have going for them on why I think Kawhi will stay. The first thing they have is that Kawhi has already won a championship with them. Stars that have usually left their teams left because they had never won a le before and didn't want to possibly go their entire career without a ring. There is a strong possibility the spurs will be able to offer Kawhi the Super Max. Unless Kawhi get's injured it's safe to say he will make the All-NBA team and thus qualifying the Spurs to offer him the super max. I'm convince the Super Max is very powerful in getting players to stay with their teams. Just look at how Demarcus Cousins and his agent begged the Kings not to trade him simply because they didn't want to lose the Super Max. Demarcus hated playing for the Kings but wasn't willing to leave due to the money.
TBH bc the Spurs didn't bottom out, they won't have low lottery picks to build a team around Kawhi. So they need to have cap space and create assets. They will have cap space next year, most likely. But they need to develop the young players they have and either turn them into a legit supporting class or get them good enough to be assets to trade for a big time complement to Kawhi.
And the premise of the thread is pure idiocy. You don't trade a coming into his prime Kawhi unless he demands it.
I'm not in favor of losing one of the few true top-tier players in the league. There aren't enough to go around, and if you have one you do everything possible to keep him.
The Chris Paul decision is a big concern, though. Pop is supposed to be the best coach in the league, and the Spurs are supposed to be one of the best organizations. Paul is supposed to have great respect for Pop. The Spurs would have had two All Defensive first teamers, plus an All Defensive second teamer. And all that wasn't enough?
For one thing, it says that no only is the league favoring offense over defense, so are the players. A lot of these guys only make a portion of their income from their team salary. Exciting sells, and there sure as isn't anything exciting going on in SA right now. Defense isn't exciting - except to Spurs fans. When even a guy on the All Defensive first team doesn't want to go to a defensive-minded team, it pretty much tells you that the Spurs don't have any other way to build except what they're doing.
Premise of the thread is that take away Kawhi and the Spurs have one of the tiest rosters in the NBA and based on past history, solely living off the talents of Duncan, Ginobili and Parker, no clear likely path to improving it. Maybe you're all in on 12 to 20 position draft picks and hoping to make the playoffs. I think I'll pass on that and look for a creative way to be a contender again.
Trading Kawhi in no scenario gets you closer to a contender again vs having Kawhi. None.
Fultz, Murray, White, and two of 2018 Porter, Doncic, Ayton, plus a ton of cap space. I could live with that.
Otherwise die.
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