Kawhi is trending and NBA twitter is ripping him into shreds

[SAGirl]

It's a Pop sin if he doesn't tell the truth.

If a player traveled with team' staff to rehab in other city, if the player has said he talks with the coach almost every day, the coach can't say he doesn't know a about..."Ask his group" when he already knows what's going on...

I don't think Pop has lied in what he said about the situation. It's difficult to answer questions about a situation he doesn't know. Does he know when Kiwi will be back? No. And he's getting tired of getting asked about it. It shows.

Unlike Kiwi he has to face the media and answer questions. He cannot hide in his office or elsewhere and avoid the press although he looks like he'd rather not have to answer anything. What do you expect? For him to lie and say it's not up to Kiwi and his medical team to say when he's ready?

[tbdog]

Seriously bro. You need to quit your . I was on KL side initially but just abandoning your teammates like that says a lot about the guy's character. If you're hurt and can't play so be it...but damn be there for the guys in that locker room. At the very least you can show that you're willing to go down with the ship with them..

As pop explained, he is in ny rehabbing, trying to get healthy so he can play. You can't blame him for that. The problem is that at first we though rehab was resting, and we were like rest behind the bench and cheer. Curry is resting his injury and rehabbing with the team. Leonard has specialist in a different city than where the spurs are playing.

[tholdren]

I don't think Pop has lied in what he said about the situation. It's difficult to answer questions about a situation he doesn't know. Does he know when Kiwi will be back? No. And he's getting tired of getting asked about it. It shows.

Unlike Kiwi he has to face the media and answer questions. He cannot hide in his office or elsewhere and avoid the press although he looks like he'd rather not have to answer anything. What do you expect? For him to lie and say it's not up to Kiwi and his medical team to say when he's ready?

Good post. Anderson still sucks

[SAGirl]

I think we've got certain expectations of these guys, myself included. I agree him coming out would have clarified things, but he did speak out and give that interview last month and say he wanted to remain a Spur.

The problem is when rumorville starts from social media/ESPN and we're hearing all these things. I mean that's kinda new territory for us, and Kawhi is even more closed off then TD was, so there's no assurance.

I just am at the point where im assuming he'll remain a Spur until I hear from his group or Woj, /Shams etc... That he no longer wants to, and try and ignore the other noise

I am at that point too. I also give a lot more weight to official sources. Things aren't going all that well but it's all tied to his injury and we shall just see what happens with that and as a result him.

[Twisted_Dawg]

Isn't it odd with the way this story has blown up, there have been no Kawhi sightings in NY? You would think with a blood thirsty news media, some hack would be stalking him to his rehab facility, catching him eating somewhere, getting in a cab, etc. But nothing. Where is this guy living in NY? Who is he spending off time with? Very odd he is so under the radar in NY with all the attention he is getting.

[weebo]

As pop explained, he is in ny rehabbing, trying to get healthy so he can play. You can't blame him for that. The problem is that at first we though rehab was resting, and we were like rest behind the bench and cheer. Curry is resting his injury and rehabbing with the team. Leonard has specialist in a different city than where the spurs are playing.

The guy hasn't played since Jan and now he's going to play?? He's done for the year no matter what his doctors say--he's not going to come back now.

[CGD]

Think the Spurs would want Fultz, Saric and Covington. Think the 76ers would only give up one of Saric or Covington, preferably the latter. Think Spurs would prefer the former, then counter with Luwawu-Cabarrot and another asset or two in place of Covington. Fultz would have to be in it, but he's a significant risk. If his broken jumper/mental block persists, this package most likely wouldn't return a future star (unless they strike gold with a pick).

The more I think about it though, with Brown and Tatum rapidly developing, the Celtics' stinginess and the prospect of 4 massive contracts, if push comes to shove, the 76ers might be the most likely destination. In addition to their assets and being out of conference, as you alluded to, they've also got the cap space to absorb an unwanted contract. Unfortunately, Spurs would probably retain Mills. However misguided, they'd likely see his culture carrying as even more important after this fiasco and with the team trending younger.

Philly would be interesting. I don’t know enough about their young guys to say whether something less than a package built around fultz is a no go (excluding Simmons and Embid).

I forgot they also have Pasecnicks & Jonah Bolden stashed. Mills there would fit next to Simmons like a glove.

[YGWHI]

Cousins actually has an injury.

Kawhi, too.

[Play Boban]

I'm saying it doesn't matter. LMA nearly signed with Phoenix when they were a repeated catastrophe and had players bad mouth the organization that very year on their way out.

People like to imagine that how organizations treat players matters greatly but it doesn't.

If it did, there wouldn't be any issues with Kawhi, now would there?

They've done everything for him. Pop talked him up as the future years before even a majority of Spurs fans did. He talked him up and celebrated him. Durant was calling him a system player, all the talking heads were downplaying him, but the Spurs had his back. Pop even talked him up as THE best player in the car whole league. What did it get the Spurs?

When he sprained his ankle in game 5, despite the criticism', Pop held him out to protect Kawhi's health. What did it get the Spurs?

They shielded him from the media, he never had to take the big media star in he didn't want to. What did it get the Spurs?

Desperate to help the team, Pop debased himself before LMA to keep him engaged. Not for Pop's own benefit, for Kawhi to have his best chance. What did it get the Spurs?

If doing right by players, if treating Kawhi better and supporting him better than any other team could means so much ... Why is Kawhi doing everything a player could to screw a team over?

Not being with the team, leaving the city for months, getting his own medical team, refusing to talk, having people in his sphere talking trash to the media on his behalf.

If his goal was to screw the Spurs over by simultaneously tanking his value, dividing the team and destroying locker room chemistry, dissuading possible suitors from non-huge markets from even bidding with leaks, and ruining the reputation of a coach near retirement ... then Kawhi is doing a magnificent job!

I'd give him an A+ in franchise killing

This might just be the best post ever written on this forum tbh.

[YGWHI]

I don't think Pop has lied in what he said about the situation. It's difficult to answer questions about a situation he doesn't know. Does he know when Kiwi will be back? No. And he's getting tired of getting asked about it. It shows.

Unlike Kiwi he has to face the media and answer questions. He cannot hide in his office or elsewhere and avoid the press although he looks like he'd rather not have to answer anything. What do you expect? For him to lie and say it's not up to Kiwi and his medical team to say when he's ready?

Pop's guys are with Kawhi in NYC, he knows as much as Kawhi's camp knows.

Do you really think if Pop would want to fix a relationship problem, he wouldn't say what he already knows "Spurs guys in NYC telling me that Kawhi is working on his... whatever" instead of saying "ask his group" and calling his camp and doctors "group"...

I guess a decision was made about Kawhi's future and no one side wants to fix issues at this point.

[Play Boban]

Covington, Saric, Justin Anderson, the 10th and 26th picks and the draft rights Anzejs Pasecnicks & Jonah Bolden,

for Kawhi and Mills.

Math should work but would need to be completed before July 1st to take advantage of Covington's $16.7 million salary.


Spurs get the 10th, 26th, to go along with the 18th pick plus to quality prospects in Pasecnicks & Jonah Bolden- I especially like Pasecnicks but Bolden is very intriguing too. Anderson is a throw in to make the numbers works but not a bad player either and, of course, Saric is good too.

Getting Saric would make me wet. He’s going to be a borderline All-Star. Good player

[hater]

Kawhi, too.

Torn rectum and inability to wipe

[YGWHI]

Torn rectum and inability to wipe

This joke isn't getting old after what? Six months? Seven?

[Quiet Strength]

Cousins doing similar to Kawhi fwiw.

Confirmed Leonard and Cousins share uncles.

[spursistan]

Damn..

[testies]

Lol at the re thinking crater face is taking a shot at Kawhi.

[tim_duncan_fan]

Lol at the re thinking crater face is taking a shot at Kawhi.

He is.

It's over.

Time to deal with it.

Hopefully we can get a high pick and a young athlete that is tall for his position out of whatever deal happens.

[tbdog]

The guy hasn't played since Jan and now he's going to play?? He's done for the year no matter what his doctors say--he's not going to come back now.

So he should stop rehabbing, join the bench and cheer, then rehab after the season ends?

[Brazil]

Damn..

yeah... a lot talk about Tony jab on Kawhi but the more vocal on the subtles to Kawhi has been Pop.. he has been restless.. knowing Pop I find very difficult to imagine a good ending to this story.. Pop is taking this whole very personnally imho... I'm afraid it is over between Spurs and Kawhi

[Brazil]

Lol at the re thinking crater face is taking a shot at Kawhi.

if you don't see the shot, you need glasses tbh

[MoSpur02]

So he should stop rehabbing, join the bench and cheer, then rehab after the season ends?

Pretty obvious to me he isn't going to be ready to play or maybe he doesn't even want to so yeah forget rehab in NY and join the team.

However, from what I've been told the team (I'm not not all the players) don't want him on the bench.

[Ice009]

Pretty obvious to me he isn't going to be ready to play or maybe he doesn't even want to so yeah forget rehab in NY and join the team.

However, from what I've been told the team (I'm not not all the players) don't want him on the bench.

Why do they not want him around? I can think of two reasons 1. They feel distracted with him being there and don't play their best with him there so they'd rather he not be there or 2. They're mad at him. Which one of those two reasons would it be you think?

[MoSpur02]

Why do they not want him around? I can think of two reasons 1. They feel distracted with him being there and don't play their best with him there so they'd rather he not be there or 2. They're mad at him. Which one of those two reasons would it be you think?

The second one you mentioned.

[UZER]

Why do they not want him around? I can think of two reasons 1. They feel distracted with him being there and don't play their best with him there so they'd rather he not be there or 2. They're mad at him. Which one of those two reasons would it be you think?

Parker and Manu are mad because they tried to gravy train another year on the Spurs but got pantsed in front of everyone.

[Ice009]

The second one you mentioned.

Darn. You think there is any way going back from this. I still want Kawhi to stay.