Jalen Rose: Kawhi Wants out of SA

[Arcadian]

It's our fault. His uncle took one look at this forum and thought, "I don't want these gots supporting my nephew."

[.G.]

Kawhi ain’t going nowheres mayne. He stayin in SA cuz wedabestmayne. Lol cliffitycliffjumpjump

[Dex]

again not sure why anybody would take Jalen ing Rose seriously tbh...

As I said probably some tensions between Kawhi staff / crew and FO over injury treatment and rehab and maybe some of his crew complaining here and there about Spurs not getting sufficient help for Kawhi. It is nevertheless very unlikely that those rumors come from Kawhi, dude is imho entirely focused on his rehad and try to not freak out about a possible grant hill ... you think he would throw under the bus the organization when he was not able to play 10 games this season ? also very doubtful when you know a bit his personality.

On First Take no less...the most sensationalized show on a sensationalized network. Their MO is to throw at the wall and see what sticks.

[Dre_7]

Neymar's uncle was stringing Barca along for that loyalty bonus. He was trying to avoid confirmation until August 1st.

[r0drig0lac]

Neymar's uncle was stringing Barca along for that loyalty bonus. He was trying to avoid confirmation until August 1st.

exact, anything other than that, it's just a lack of knowledge about the situation

[daledondale]

lots of for nothing

This.

It's our fault. His uncle took one look at this forum and thought, "I don't want these gots supporting my nephew."

[bklynspursfan]

[r0drig0lac]

It's our fault. His uncle took one look at this forum and thought, "I don't want these gots supporting my nephew."

lmao you can not blame him for this

[Amuseddaysleeper]

It's true man! Neymar even tried suing Barca for that loyalty bonus after he signed with PSG, the deal was if he was still a Barca player by August 1st he and his dad would get a huge chunk of money but Barca refused to pay.

[Budkin]

CROFL Jalen Rose??

[NASpurs]

Take this with a grain of salt, if you want to believe it.

https://www.si.com/sports-illustrate...anuary-23-2018

Quote:

Jared Zwerling: "I had a phone conversation yesterday with Dennis Robertson, Kawhi's uncle and business manager, who is based in New Jersey. Dennis called me and we had a nice chat. Before Dennis called me he said he had a conversation with RC Buford, GM of the Spurs, and said they had a great conversation. Overall, here's the consensus: the story is farthest from the truth. That was a quote from Dennis. We talked about the situation. Really, there's no issue between Kawhi and the Spurs. Kawhi has the utmost respect for Popovich and Buford. It's not about any issues internally. This is about not having any more setbacks. There's no re-injury right now. The focus is strengthening that left quad. It's really important because the quad is an injury that can come back and bite you. It's an injury you can get again and re-injure a lot easily, so it's about strengthening that quad and keeping Kawhi focused on getting back to that strength to help him into the NBA situations. That's the focus right now."

Same guy who wrote the October piece and people were questioning his credibility. Funny how that works when it fits agendas.

[Amuseddaysleeper]

It's our fault. His uncle took one look at this forum and thought, "I don't want these gots supporting my nephew."

[Dre_7]

i told you guys he wanted out but Apo

It's the boy who cried wolf. Every time his contract was up, he was able to extend, or we got close to the trade deadline you said he was leaving. IF you are actually right about it for once then you have to understand why people don't take you seriously.

[r0drig0lac]

It's true man! Neymar even tried suing Barca for that loyalty bonus after he signed with PSG, the deal was if he was still a Barca player by August 1st he and his dad would get a huge chunk of money but Barca refused to pay.

this is common knowledge in Brazil, Neymar's father is one of the most greedy guys in the world of football, in less than two years Neymar will be in Madrid

[Darius Bieber]

Same guy who wrote the October piece and people were questioning his credibility. Funny how that works when it fits agendas.

When bad news goes to a group of people, those people will flock to anyone who gives them hope/good news. See: Hitler and Post World War I Germany.

Hence why I said take it with a grain of salt. Of course Kawhi's uncle isn't gonna say " yeah, he wants out that ". It's just damage control until we hear it straight from Kawhi.

[Dre_7]

It's true man! Neymar even tried suing Barca for that loyalty bonus after he signed with PSG, the deal was if he was still a Barca player by August 1st he and his dad would get a huge chunk of money but Barca refused to pay.

Wow really? Neymar had his uncle involved as well? That's hilarious actually.

[Budkin]

Pop and RC better ing fix this or there will be a fan revolt against them.

[Hoops Czar]

Same guy who wrote the October piece and people were questioning his credibility. Funny how that works when it fits agendas.

[SAGirl]

However, I will say that a possible reason why Kawhi is upset would be that PATFO haven't committed to giving him a supermax extension due to his injury issues. Anyone who's objectively looking at this situation can see it's a big risk. It doesn't help that it almost certainly won't be insurable unless signed much later (like this time next year), after Kawhi has had a long stretch of games while healthy. The team simply can't afford for him to be in a Rose situation. It could literally cause the franchise to fall apart. Wanting to wait makes sense, but from Kawhi's perspective, if he feels like this injury is Popigenic, then of course he's going to have no willingness to give a discount. They'd be asking him to make like $30-40 Million less than he could make all because they didn't do the right things medically. I'd tell them to send me to a team that isn't trying to screw me over.

Spurstalk is spinning this around the team composition agenda and complaints each poster individually has about this summer (and I have my own too...)... but the point has always been about the injury and the supermax... which is ultimately what talks louder than anything. If the injury is chronic it's a problem. There were rumors that he has degenerative disease, and it is going to affect him for his career. We don't know, but it doesn't look good right now. He's not playing after an extensive rehab and attempt at a comeback. He's going to be worried. Spurs are worried.

Kawhi has sought his own rehab and medical team so he's doing a lot on his own too, obviously there is going to be a "chilling" effect.

[phxspurfan]

That same uncle just went on record saying all is good.

That's exactly how you play this if you're Leonard's de-facto agent. You let the story leak (or feed it and state the terms of the leak) and then back off to preserve your own image. But the statement is made and well heard at this point. Spurs have to do something otherwise they will lose Leonard.

[Dre_7]

Pop and RC better ing fix this or there will be a fan revolt against them.

IF there is an issue, they will fix it. Or at least they will do whatever they can to try. Again, that is IF there is an issue.

[Budkin]

That's exactly how you play this if you're Leonard's de-facto agent. You let the story leak (or feed it and state the terms of the leak) and then back off to preserve your own image. But the statement is made and well heard at this point. Spurs have to do something otherwise they will lose Leonard.

Pretty sure you just nailed exactly what is going on.

[phxspurfan]

Pretty sure you just nailed exactly what is going on.

Also, if you factor in Leonard's personality, this is exactly the way it would happen if it were true. He's not going to go personally whine to the media a la Mah Touches. He's going to do it in stealth mode and rely on the people he trusts. In this case, his family.

[Dex]

No mention of this at all today on The Jump.

Funny how SAS is quoting Robertson as a source, but ESPN isn't reporting Robertson's direct quote which is denying their report.

[SAGirl]

Take this with a grain of salt, if you want to believe it.

https://www.si.com/sports-illustrate...anuary-23-2018

Quote:

Jared Zwerling: "I had a phone conversation yesterday with Dennis Robertson, Kawhi's uncle and business manager, who is based in New Jersey. Dennis called me and we had a nice chat. Before Dennis called me he said he had a conversation with RC Buford, GM of the Spurs, and said they had a great conversation. Overall, here's the consensus: the story is farthest from the truth. That was a quote from Dennis. We talked about the situation. Really, there's no issue between Kawhi and the Spurs. Kawhi has the utmost respect for Popovich and Buford. It's not about any issues internally. This is about not having any more setbacks. There's no re-injury right now. The focus is strengthening that left quad. It's really important because the quad is an injury that can come back and bite you. It's an injury you can get again and re-injure a lot easily, so it's about strengthening that quad and keeping Kawhi focused on getting back to that strength to help him into the NBA situations. That's the focus right now."

Thanks for sharing.

sounds to me like Kawhi is holding himself out. which goes right with what Pop said, that he didn't have confidence in his body to be playing and that he wasn't well enough.

That should silence the spurstalk fan mob that was arguing it was all a Pop shtick and that Kawhi ought to be playing bcczzzzzz...

In reality Kawhi hasn't been that well and he's looking to get better. but I know that will not end the trolling.