They aren't going to get much though because teams can get him as a free agent next year.I wouldn't put it past PATFO to have started this whole thing themselves. Maybe they know Kawhi is damaged goods and would rather just sell a lemon to the highest bidder. The Spurs avoid the albatross contract while getting young and talented pieces for a guy that's about to go Bandon Roy. CIA Pop.
No only one can. It's a risky route to miss a top 5 talent if you are not the lakers. Think of cp3 and durant. Both those guys went to teams that had wink wink deals set up. Team's know if they have such deals in place. If you don't you make an offer for the right to offer the higher salary. It's a tough choice but the offer of a trade is risk free up to the actual trade time.
His new shtick is talking out of his ass about politics. The entire organization started a downward spiral when he started focusing more on stuff outside of basketball.
People say Kawhi has all the power I just don’t buy it. If we don’t offer him a contract or trade him he goes into next year with just one year under contract. Can he sit out a whole year I don't think so and if he does play and gets a major injury he is ed.
As far as trades the internet is on fire lots of pressure from fans and owners will be applied to GM’s to make something happen. I am actually stocked to see what our team is going to look like it’s time for major change. This is the time to let Tony and Green go and get rid of all these G League players Joffrey, Forbes, Paul.
David Griffin said none of this means anything until he sits down and looks pop and rc in the eye and says he wants out.
This. I remember 2011 they where saying Tony Parker trade speculation actually saw George Hill being traded....... let’s just wait and see what’s next.
Correction. Only one team can get him as a free agent next year, and the team he is with at the end of this year has the best chance at keeping him.
While Jabari may have used this ploy to get onto the national sports radar to be the next Windhorst, Windhorst is praying somehow this all gets resolved and Lebron joins Kawhi in San Antonio so he can move there and stuff himself with Whataburger, TexMex, Churros and BBQ.
Windhorst will die eating if he comes to San Antonio
Jabari said on nbatv kawhi got the quad injury playing for the spurs. Thats bs right? He just injured himself during his summer workouts, took 19 million, his camp denied rifts and all that , then right before a sitdown demands a trade? Maybe this just is a ploy to get the supermax but maybe he still doesn’t feel right and never will.
The downward spiral coincided with the departure of Tim Duncan and the subsequent long term injuries of Kawhi Leonard and Tony Parker. Cause vs correlation is in play.
So basically there’s this article posted on ESPN saying that Kawhi hasn’t changed as a person through this whole process, it’s the people who are speaking for him. So yeah the more I’m thinking about it, it’s more his people causing this whole show.
Who are the sources for that claim? Spurs folks or Kawhi folks. Would almost have to be Spurs sources? And if so, that's a very damning comment about the origin of all this mess. It says, without saying it, that Kawhi is being led astray by people without his best interest at front and center.
He's really going all in on this Kawhi-gravy train. Wow. I believe the injury in its current iteration surfaced over the summer. His sister mentioned on Instagram that he was fine when he went to China for his marketing tour. What Jabari might be talking about is Kawhi's camp's contention that this is an old injury that was never properly diagnosed/healed. Here is the relevant passage from the infamous ESPN article:
"Leonard's camp believes his condition is the result of a series of contusions to the quadriceps that began with one very deep bruise in March 2016 that caused him to miss three games. Leonard was again listed with a "quad contusion" on the Feb. 6, 2017, injury report, when he was a late scratch before a game. But it wasn't until the end of last season when the severity of the injury became apparent.According to multiple sources, Leonard's camp has come to believe the issue has more to do with an ossification, or hardening, in the area where the muscle has been repeatedly bruised, and then an atrophy, which in turn affected the tendons connecting the muscle to the knee.
The Spurs have always called the injury quadriceps tendinopathy, which is a disease of the tendon that has a degenerative effect on the muscle by keeping it in a constant state of exhaustion."
If they decline all options, they'd have $34.5 million committed to Hart, Kuzma, Deng, Ingrim and Lonzo. Roster charges for 8 open spots are $830k a pop= $6.64 million
that would give them $ 104.9 million. That's a long-winded way of saying you are right
I expect them to offer up Deng+ Lonzo and a couple of future first's to Cleveland for Lebron if he decides to head to L.A. It would give the Lakers $81.1 million (with PG-13 already factored in) so they could use the other $20 million on one player or probably on two other players. I would think bringing back Isiah Thomas and going after Dedmon would be smart moves at PG and C and they probably wouldn't even take up all $20 million.
Not if he doesn't want to be there. Which is why the teams would want a commitment before giving up any real value.
We're not gonna get anything major for just the opportunity at a small chance of keeping him beyond next year.
Could this be the possible face to face meeting?
Dude, that's how he always looks.
Thanx for posting
Cobra Kai, never dies
Both are right, tbh. Probably knew he'd be exposed, and started his bull .
The only way we regain any power in this situation is if we give him the supermax though, right? Then we can trade him to whoever is willing to give us the best package.
Photoshop.
Didn't actually expect them to meet. Beyond that, on a one on one. They both look how they normally look, tbh.
If Pop doesn't win him over after this meeting; nobody will. It would mean the guy is a lost cause and it is better to just let go.
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