Nate Robinson: “Kawhi wants to leave SA over a sponsorship deal”

[cjw]

Send him to Milwaukee. He'll end up slinging snow tires and Old Style Beer.

Giannis and Kawhi wouldn’t be fair

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

This was re ed the first time it was posted. Now it's double- ing stupid.

[DJR210]

That ing fake ass Kevin Hart ain't , he's 10x worse than Jalen Rose

[Expert]

The only way this holds any truth is if the endorsement requires another player that won't come to San Antonio, a group endorsement deal like Nike has done in the past.

[Mikeanaro]

It will be a toilet paper/wheelchair combo sponsorship.

[SupremeGuy]

Does he have a no trade option? If he doesn't then screw him over and send him to a ty team who is willing to give up the most draft picks if all of this is true. Of course I don't necessarily believe all of this is true, but the front office knows more than we do.

But the culture and racism

[San Antonio Slayer]

I am ok with the "punishment" if we have Booker,Vucevic and Shroeder for Kawhi with anyone except Gay, Green, KA, LMA. I pray for Kawhi playing in the playoffs though.

[cd98]

I can believe that Kawhi's inner circle is dumb enough to keep him off the court in an effort to get him more marketable, but I can't see any sponsor saying they want to pay him more money, but they need him to skip an entire season to do it. You think the Spurs aren't nervous about giving this guy a super max contract? Well, you think corporate sponsors are assured that Kawhi will comeback next year with no issues? He'll be magically fixed and plan at an MVP level? Maybe he will, but why would they pay him more than what they paid him when he was that the last few years?

[boutons_deux]

Isn't KL building a house in SA for his mother?

[cd98]

Isn't KL building a house in SA for his mother?

That doesn't mean he wants to live anywhere near her.

[dbreiden83080]

A big bag. Are We supposed to have any idea what the he’s talking about?

[dbreiden83080]

Shoe deals at the top are huge. Harden has a $200m deal for 13 years. $15 million a year.

Lillard has a $100 million deal for 8 years, and that's in Portland of all places.

If Lillard can do $100 million in Portland, Kawhi has no one to blame but himself and his agent

Leonard does not have the type of personality that is ever going to net him a major shoe deal. He literally doesn’t speak. He has said what like 10 words all season long? Timmy was relatively quiet but my God he was a chatterbox compared to Leonard.

[MarCowMar]

Also it's weird that he'd be worried about a sponsorship deal and still drive the Tahoe?

[UZER]

Players also get royalties on shoes sold.

, Giannis in Milwaukee just got a new deal last year with a signature shoe with Nike.

Again, is a Greek guy in Milwaukee gets a big deal, Kawhi should blame the man in the mirror.

With charisma, you can get a shoe deal in a small market. Since he has 0, the big market makes up for it. That’s what his peeps are probably thinking.

[Killakobe81]

Nate Robinson is the worst in-game analyst I have ever heard. He makes these games unbearable man.

Agreed, he is horrible ...and not a credible source either.
Fisher is monotone and would be better in studio than in game ...what a God awful broadcast ...

[gambit1990]

not buying it.

[SAGirl]

Shoe deals at the top are huge. Harden has a $200m deal for 13 years. $15 million a year.

Lillard has a $100 million deal for 8 years, and that's in Portland of all places.

If Lillard can do $100 million in Portland, Kawhi has no one to blame but himself and his agent

This and

Players also get royalties on shoes sold.

, Giannis in Milwaukee just got a new deal last year with a signature shoe with Nike.

Again, is a Greek guy in Milwaukee gets a big deal, Kawhi should blame the man in the mirror.

This ^
He’s right to ask for more. What doesn’t help him is to have missed the entire season. These media talking heads gloss over that. Gloss over possible worries that he’s going to turn out like Rose after all and instead make it about San Antonio. Deflection 101... and a lie too.

[SAGirl]

His uncle has done a great job manipulating the media though. He’s appealed to race-tribalism apparently (I don’t get it but guys here say it’s a thing)... He has deflected to San Antonio, the medical team, teammates, Pop, even the city “no one wants to live there”... to obscure the fact that he has had a sore tendon all season and according to his own medical team can’t play...

[r0drig0lac]

Giannis and Kawhi wouldn’t be fair

exactly, this is the worst possible idea for the rest of the league in the near future

[rjv]

whatever, he ain't no mugsy bogues.

[spursfan09]

Lol. He’s like you stay here mom!!

[SpurPadre]

A big bag. Are We supposed to have any idea what the he’s talking about?

A big bag to carry around the maxi pads for his ass, tbh.

[Russ]

He was on a podcast 3 or 4 days ago: https://overcast.fm/+L6JVH_wcs


You can start listening from around 19:00 or for the exact moment of his quote, go to 20:50


"From what I heard, from a little birdie, what I heard that the reason why he doesn’t, not that he doesn’t want to play, is that he doesn’t want to be in San Antonio no more, is because that I heard a big bag was coming. But if he doesn’t leave San Antonio that bag is not coming.”

That sounds like possible tortious interference with an existing contract by the "big bag."

[daslicer]

Isn't KL building a house in SA for his mother?

Shaq's mom had a home in Orlando before Shaq left. Shaq's mom still has the house and resides in it today.

[objective]

Kawhi hasn't even taken the small local deals that are easy money and 2 hours work.

Everyone has a local car dealership deal but him. LaMarcus has an auto ad that must have been done in an hour with him reading his lines off a card like he was held hostage.

Duncan has done car ads. Sean hasn't played in 15 years and does car ads. , even Boban was in a car ad.

I'm sure they're not big money. What, 10k and a free car? 50k? 100k?

But Kawhi doesn't even take the free money off local deals except HEB. It's weird. But now he wants a huge deal.

He must have the worst, laziest agent in the world who has suckered him into believing there's no money in San Antonio.