Spurs still hoping to offer Leonard Super Max contract (SA Express)

[hater]

Sad but true that best thing for this team is still to resign Mute Cancer to a Cancerous max deal

Tbqh

No other superstar is even going to considering coming to this team qnd city imo

[baseline bum]

50 games and watching your team play in the playoffs isn’t meaningless...watching your team lose 50 games is.

As a Spur fan getting in the playoffs so frequently you should know anything can happen...you play to win the game.

Rebuilding in a small market is literally the hardest thing in sports...

If you came out and said you’d welcome the challenge of rebuilding and would like to see how the FO would handle it...maybe I can buy that..

But picking taking over “compe ive ball” as a Spurs fan is asinine

So your gf tells you she's getting ready to other guys and your response is baby you can still stay at my apartment for another couple of months.

[tholdren]

Sad but true that best thing for this team is still to resign Mute Cancer to a Cancerous max deal

Tbqh

No other superstar is even going to considering coming to this team qnd city imo

Cry more

[ceds]

Give this guy the supermax and lets go to war

[coachmac87]

So your gf tells you she's getting ready to other guys and your response is baby you can still stay at my apartment for another couple of months.

Uh what?

That’s how you compare tanking for 50 losses to competing for 50 wins?

[sasaint]

Maybe they hope to offer it if Kawhl can prove he's healthy and all-in being the face of the franchise. If either of those are not the case, they probably won't be willing to pony up the full Supermax.

Kawhi will never be the face of a franchise. That's a part of the Spurs' conundrum. "Face-of-the-franchise" players (up till now) have always commanded a franchise's biggest investment. But the Spurs have to figure out how to make that investment in Kawhi and still get another "face-of-the-franchise" player while maintaining some kind of fiscal responsibility in a small market. It requires a new paradigm. The league has never seen a completely reclusive, reticent superstar before.

[baseline bum]

Uh what?

That’s how you compare tanking for 50 losses to competing for 50 wins?

That's how I compare holding onto Leonard for another year if he wants out. It's re ed to give him the supermax and a ticket out of town in a year.

[BillMc]

Kawhi will never be the face of a franchise. That's a part of the Spurs' conundrum. "Face-of-the-franchise" players (up till now) have always commanded a franchise's biggest investment. But the Spurs have to figure out how to make that investment in Kawhi and still get another "face-of-the-franchise" player while maintaining some kind of fiscal responsibility in a small market. It requires a new paradigm. The league has never seen a completely reclusive, reticent superstar before.

Don't disagree with you but Kareem and to a lesser extent our own Timmy were hardly extroverts, Of course, they had Magic and Manu/Tony to do the PR stuff. Not sure that's what you meant though....

[tholdren]

Kawhi will never be the face of a franchise. That's a part of the Spurs' conundrum. "Face-of-the-franchise" players (up till now) have always commanded a franchise's biggest investment. But the Spurs have to figure out how to make that investment in Kawhi and still get another "face-of-the-franchise" player while maintaining some kind of fiscal responsibility in a small market. It requires a new paradigm. The league has never seen a completely reclusive, reticent superstar before.

That has nothing to do with it. Youre confusing marketing with loyalty. Spurs just need to dump leonard, danny, murray. Theyre losing culture.

[spurraider21]

cant believe this guy straight up lost his age 26 season coming off an mvp caliber year

[ceds]

That has nothing to do with it. Youre confusing marketing with loyalty. Spurs just need to dump leonard, danny, murray. Theyre losing culture.

i know you want a trump kkk culture for the team.

Go join a jazz board tbh

[cd98]

i know you want a trump kkk culture for the team.

Go join a jazz board tbh

Don’t go on the Jazz like that. Utah was one of the few states where Trump was unpopular and Hillary thought she could win.

[coachmac87]

That's how I compare holding onto Leonard for another year if he wants out. It's re ed to give him the supermax and a ticket out of town in a year.

So what. You’re sour and basing emotions on your argument...

Giving Kawhi the super max will also give the Spurs most in return if they trade...which will help them do your “rebuild”? Or getting a good return which will allow them to compete? Not sure since you want them to just “rebuild”

[ceds]

Don’t go on the Jazz like that. Utah was one of the few states where Trump was unpopular and Hillary thought she could win.

Im guessing she didn't win @ Utah though...too much throlden redneck mormon culture

either way trading him to a jazz board would do wonders for this forum

[ElNono]

Maybe he just needs a heart to heart with Poop

[phxspurfan]

Spurs are going to offer the Supermax

Probably at 12:01 tbh on Sunday, July 1st.

https://www.hoopsrumors.com/2018/04/...deadlines.html

[ElNono]

Lock his ass up in a contract then trade him to HIV in 2-3 years or less if his health/athleticism starts declining tbh.

[K...]

Did anyone see this is based on no sources? Like not even a secret source, just, the spurs will unless they don't....

[baseline bum]

So what. You’re sour and basing emotions on your argument...

Giving Kawhi the super max will also give the Spurs most in return if they trade...which will help them do your “rebuild”? Or getting a good return which will allow them to compete? Not sure since you want them to just “rebuild”

You're just wasting a season letting Kawhi audition for a new team on top of rewarding him for it. All so you can match a $38 million 2019-20 salary in trade instead of the $20 million 2018-19 salary. It's the difference between only having to take Marcus Morris' affordable contract to make a Kawhi for Tatum + Brown trade go through vs having to take Horford's ridiculous albatross to make the deal happen next summer. You think winning teams are going to trade their superstar for our disgruntled ? New Orleans is going to burning up RC's phone line to send Anthony Davis? The Spurs are still going to lose bigtime in any trade they do. You never get equal value trading a superstar who wants out. Another cancerous year out of a Leonard who wants out sounds horrible. Only way it makes sense to have him play in a Spurs uniform next year is if it's because he plans to be here long term.

[coachmac87]

You're just wasting a season letting Kawhi audition for a new team on top of rewarding him for it. All so you can match a $38 million 2019-20 salary in trade instead of the $20 million 2018-19 salary. It's the difference between only having to take Marcus Morris' affordable contract to make a Kawhi for Tatum + Brown trade go through vs having to take Horford's ridiculous albatross to make the deal happen next summer. You think winning teams are going to trade their superstar for our disgruntled ? New Orleans is going to burning up RC's phone line to send Anthony Davis? The Spurs are still going to lose bigtime in any trade they do. You never get equal value trading a superstar who wants out. Another cancerous year out of a Leonard who wants out sounds horrible. Only way it makes sense to have him play in a Spurs uniform next year is if it's because he plans to be here long term.

Ok and how would you or the Spurs know that’s case without offering him the max??

You’re not making sense. You want to trade Leonard now at his lowest value and even admitted you’re making an emotion decision by not paying him cause it’s “rewarding” him. Focusing on ing over the player over the team...

And you don’t want to compete...you want to accelerate a rebuild..something you literally haven’t experienced in 20 years..

[baseline bum]

Ok and how would you or the Spurs know that’s case without offering him the max??

You’re not making sense. You want to trade Leonard now at his lowest value and even admitted you’re making an emotion decision by not paying him cause it’s “rewarding” him. Focusing on ing over the player over the team...

And you don’t want to compete...you want to accelerate a rebuild..something you literally haven’t experienced in 20 years..

Oh off with your emotional talk. You only offer him a supermax contract if you think he's committed to the franchise long term and if the team doctors are confident he's not the next Brandon Roy. Last thing the Spurs need is another cancerous year out of Leonard. I want to not put off an inevitable rebuild if he wants out and I don't want the Spurs taking more Gasol contracts if Leonard pouts and forces a trade next summer.

[exstatic]

Pretty sure the Spurs wouldn't be offering the supermax unless they felt reasonably confident he is (or can be) healthy. Obviously, they have no way of knowing for sure...but if they strongly suspected otherwise, they wouldn't throw nearly a quarter billion dollars at him.

If this report is accurate, then it's good news.

Did you even read the story? It some marketing guy who invented Go Spurs Go speculating that they will. He has all the cred of TSpence.

[sasaint]

Don't disagree with you but Kareem and to a lesser extent our own Timmy were hardly extroverts, Of course, they had Magic and Manu/Tony to do the PR stuff. Not sure that's what you meant though....

"Hardly extroverts" doesn't come close to describing Kawhi. He is Kareem/Tim on steroids. Moreover, you have identified the two nearest comparables that I could identify - and neither of those guys would have gone completely AWOL like Kawhi did this season.

[baseline bum]

Did you even read the story? It some marketing guy who invented Go Spurs Go speculating that they will. He has all the cred of TSpence.

[coachmac87]

Oh off with your emotional talk. You only offer him a supermax contract if you think he's committed to the franchise long term and if the team doctors are confident he's not the next Brandon Roy. Last thing the Spurs need is another cancerous year out of Leonard. I want to not put off an inevitable rebuild if he wants out and I don't want the Spurs taking more Gasol contracts if Leonard pouts and forces a trade next summer.

So you want to quit trying to compete for championships? Got it.