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Manu has more balls than anyone on that team.. he's no quitter.
This is now just transcends business and sport; it is about basic human relations..
It simply defies credulity how this guy has managed to hide all this cancerousness, selfishness and utter cowardice for all these years.
Not even the most dedicated Kawhi skeptics could have imagined he is going to engage in this open charade and carry it to its disgraceful end.
Unless it emerges that this guy was mentally-challenged in some respect; there is no sympathy for him but he should go down as one of the biggest frauds to have ever set a foot in a professional sport.
It is a hard lesson to be learned: never ever judge people from the outside looking.
And no, the Spurs should not take it on the chin. This has been a willful and gratuitous attempt to destroy them and drag their unassailable reputation through the mud.
This is indeed one of the instances when it is truly "not just about basketball" as Pop famous motto goes. Their prudence and class should know a limit as they play the endgame..
Even if this piece of cowers and get reeled in, it will never be the same again with him.
Manu has more balls than anyone on that team.. he's no quitter.
No one outside San Antonio will care. Rodman sabotaged a WCF but is now held up as a prime example of a winning player because he got les in the right market.
It really sounds to me like he allowed his uncle to completely get into his head and turn him against being in San Antonio anymore and that he has to leave for Los Angeles. Furthermore he can’t even meet with his head coach without his uncle sitting right next to him. He sounds like an incredibly weak minded individual. And I don’t care that he is from California and obviously likes living there, I don’t believe for one second he is going to be happy playing for the Lakers. There is more pressure and more drama around that team than any team in the history of the league. And if they land some of these free agents in the off-season the expectations will be skyhigh. As soon as he doesn’t perform or live up to standards he is going to get buried by the media out there. When the Lakers have high expectations going into a season, they are expected to win a championship. End of conversation. This is not someone that can stand up to criticism. Boy he sure has shown that this past season.
Rodman suited up for games; this disgrace literally got the out of dodge to never bee seen again for months and is sanctioning his illiterate dumb Uncle to tarnish the reputation of the successful organization in the NBA.
They are literally engaging in a public humiliation of Pop, arguably the most respected and caring person (in private) in the NBA..Never seen s bags of this level involved in this league.
Exactly. Rodman straight up lies to journalists about what happened in SA and nobody cares enough to correct the record, let alone call him out for it. It's disgusting.
The second Kawhi is traded, that's when the media will decide that he's the best player in the league.
They are all trade scenarios now, get this deal, get that deal, salvage the situation. But when the deal is done, it'll be non-stop "the Spurs got fleeced / steal of the century"
Rodman purposefully got himself benched in a must win Game 2 of the WCF by jacking up a bunch of bad threes in the first quarter and then tried to force Bob Hill to bench him in Game 5 by showing up really late to practice after the Spurs had just won two in Houston to even up the series. No Spurs fan should ever forget how much of a chicken Rodman was.
I think this is the part that's going to affect him the most--although even this won't be all that much. Pop and RC are respected throughout the league. They may not be universally liked, but (pretty close to) universally respected for what they've done. And then there's the fact that so much of the league is populated with someone who's either worked with or for Pop and/or RC. I'm sure everyone in the league knows exactly what's going on with Kawhi's camp and what they're doing to Pop and RC--and this will affect Kawhi and his camp in some unforeseen way down the line (if there is such thing as karma).
Personally, their treatment of Pop makes me upset more than anything else they've pulled. The guy really doesn't deserve that kind of treatment, not after how he groomed the kid all these years.
That's what gets me too. I've railed on Pop for his coaching decisions over the years, but neither he nor the franchise deserve this.
It's character assassination.
All the good things the Spurs have done for their players medically and training wise is buried in the mud, all anyone will ever talk about from now on is how the Spurs and their medical staff were so incompetent they drove an MVP right out of town.
ESPN and their heads like Shelbourne won't report about how the Spurs sent Kawhi to outside places like P3 to get treatment and training. No, it's all about how the Spurs refused to let players get second opinions, which is bull .
No one will care about their advances in resting players. Holding players out for their own safety.
No one will know about how much $$$ the Spurs have spent helping second rounders get treatment, guys who would never be Spurs. They won't know about how they saved Javokas's career, practically saving his life. They won't know about the treatment they provided to guys like Sanikidze or Dangubic.
All it will ever be is them alienating Kawhi and driving him away.
Forever.
Rodman never pretended to be a good guy; his reputation as headcase was well established before the Spurs. This snake and his uncle have blindsided everyone and are backstabbing us in cold blood.
If this is truly over, the Spurs can't play nice and classy in their sendoff. They just simply can't.
It's just indecent human behavior...the phrase "It's business" that players/teams trot out so often in this kind of situations absolutely do not cover this. BTW, kudos for the correct usage of "neither...nor" pair. It's so rare to see these days.
Kiwi is human, and from time to time they can let you down. Pick our selves out and move on.. We SPURS are bigger than any 1 player.
How great would it be if we make it too the playoffs again after we trade Kiwi and say make it to the west finals w/o him.. Would be perfect.
Or even better win the le. And then the next one too.
he may have wanted to always leave fat antonio to play in LA but PATFO didn't help matters by surrounding him with rancid AIDS infested dog .
at least i get to laugh at all the kiwi slurpers who put variations of "kawhi" in their usernames
he may have wanted to always leave fat antonio to play in LA but PATFO didn't help matters by surrounding him with rancid AIDS infested dog .
at least i get to laugh at all the kiwi slurpers who put variations of "kawhi" in their usernames..
Let's not assume this is all Kawhi's uncle. Kawhi is probably just as adamant about going to LA as his uncle. If Kawhi had some emotional ties to the Spurs, then he would have met or said something at some point. We need to stop blaming Kawhi's uncle. Kawhi is a man and should be held accountable.
him.. make him play next season
Kiwi to become the next Dwight Howard...
Might sound like a homer take, but just like Dwert I don't think he is ever coming back from this episode reputation-wise. If he is ever to redeem himself, it will have to be as a Spur..
Yes. Spurs had a chance to win a championship that year and Rodman's meltdown was a a big screw. And I have a lot of respect for Rodman in terms of what he could do on the court. He dominated Shaq when no one else could Bulls-Magic. If he would have showed up big in that series Spurs could have won. But ultimately a team has to have chemistry and David Robinson, SeanE, and Avery were all way straight arrows compared to a guy like Rodman. Someone like Jordan had a strong enough personality to keep him in check, but he didn't respect the Spurs.
Spurs were a 3 seed without kl. Youre dumbhe may have wanted to always leave fat antonio to play in LA but PATFO didn't help matters by surrounding him with rancid AIDS infested dog .
at least i get to laugh at all the kiwi slurpers who put variations of "kawhi" in their usernames
I think KL has been uncomfortable trying to be what he felt was a "spur" player. I think he would like to be a bit more demonstrative in games and show a little bit more swagger. I know it doesn't sound like him, but he did it in college. I'm betting Uncle Dennis would like to see more of that nature in order to market himself a bit more as well.. By no means am I justifying his actions. He has handled this poorly, but like so many youngsters today, he has no idea how to treat people and conduct himself. He seems to be of that mindset that everyone has to earn his respect rather than everyone deserves respect until they show different. This is where you can really dig yourself a hole. Like someone said before, the players like to throw out the "its business" crap. Well, yes it is, but you still have to conduct yourself in a respectful manner... otherwise you just burn bridges that you don't even know about yet.
Kawhi saved this franchise. Gtfo. Losing to 8 seeds before he got here. Ungrateful Spurm fans, no wonder Kawhi wants out from this hole.
I just don't comprehend why Kawhi has treated the organization so poorly. No relationship is perfect. Even if disagreements occur you work them out.
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