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with a hat on?Kawhi press conference will be held on Friday and he will be in attendance..
Kawhi press conference will be held on Friday and he will be in attendance, apparently..
with a hat on?Kawhi press conference will be held on Friday and he will be in attendance..
Where did you see this?Kawhi press conference will be held on Friday and he will be in attendance, apparently..
Just saw it on Sportsnet in Toronto, one of the Raps reporters said it, not sure what time yet, but it's Friday .
Pretty much the same haul that the Pacers got for PG.
Kawhi being better than PG was offset by his toxic group and missing a full season.
Derozan = Oladipo (though i'd argue Oladipo's value was a lot lower than Derozan's last season, he's made up that ground last season to his credit)
Jakob = Sabonis
Danny = protected 1st round pick
Woj said Leonard will be in training camp and will play. It’s up to the Raps to recruit/pitch to Kawhi to stay because Leonard still wants LA next season. Still might attend USA mini camp too.
I’ll take his word over Sporting News who said Leonard will sit out.
Oladipo pre-Pacers was much worse than DeRozan..Current Oladipo is waaaay better, though
Chris Haynes and Woj both reporting that Kawhi is still upset, but will show up to camp and is warming up to the idea of playing on a contending team with Toronto..
Agreed on your first point.Oladipo pre-Pacers was much worse than DeRozan..Current Oladipo is waaaay better, though
Chris Haynes and Woj both reporting that Kawhi is still upset, but will show up to camp and is warming up to the idea of playing on a contending team with Toronto..
Philly if that's true. Kawhi/Simmons/Embiid runs the East if they had the ing balls to part with Saric/Covington/Fultz. I refused to believe that Pop/RC are in love with Derozan enough to pick the Raptors package over that....
he can be the face of the country if he wants itOladipo pre-Pacers was much worse than DeRozan..Current Oladipo is waaaay better, though
Chris Haynes and Woj both reporting that Kawhi is still upset, but will show up to camp and is warming up to the idea of playing on a contending team with Toronto..
will he they can offer him 5 years
he can take it personally that the sixers and boston wanted to give the spurs nothing and just kill those two teams
he could be like james and get to the finals alot
Not going to act like the Spurs won this deal because they took an albatross of a contract of a playoff choker and ended up getting zero significant young assets. Matt Moore, Zach Lowe and other writers have praised Masai and are just too nice to say the Spurs got the short end of the stick. Aside from contending, not sure why the Spurs wanted to make this deal and I hope there’s some other significant reason why they had to take this deal over the others. I was so prepared to have a redux of the beautiful game.
I really hope his first game back that the crowd chabts, "Uncle Dennis" loud over and over.
Mo, I owe you credit for calling this. You were right and I was wrong my man.
Now tell me the Spurs are cooking some other up and we're not stuck with this ass roster
We got destroyed in this trade, I can't see how you could spin it differently.
The only thing that will take the sting out of it is if turned out that Kawhi is damaged goods or will act like one the rest of his career. (I do think they suspect he is not mentally equipped to deal with this type injury from here on out).
still don't see how anyone thinks Spurs got raped. would have been nice to get OG but come on. everyone was low balling us. its not SA fault that Kawhitter decided to tank his value so the spurs couldnt get in return for him. spurs are lucky to have gotten an allstar in his prime. I think Pop will get the best out of DD. And y'all sleeping on Poeltl tbh...
we shall see.if anyone can turn poeltl into something it's pop
“The waters had started to dry up a bit,” one Western Conference executive said. “It’s hard to evaluate big picture, but they got an All-Star who is young, plus a young big and a draft pick. And now Toronto has to deal with the next Kawhi decision.
“For sure they met some of their objectives,” the executive added, “probably including sending (Leonard) where he didn’t want to go.”
It is unclear if Leonard will be willing to re-sign a long-term deal with the Raptors next summer. Ujiri has a year to convince him.
Couple tidbits from messaging Co worker back and forth, since this went down. Orlando's Dir of Ops is from Raptor organization and good friends with Ujiri, and other staff. Also new Raptor GM Bobby Webster got his start in Magic organization and still has friends here.... So lots of talking and congrats going out.
Toronto spoke to Kawhi group before finalizing deal and while not a 100% commitment, felt assured that he would show up and play.
Toronto wasn't doing trade without Danny Green (or starting caliber 3&D SG) as part of deal. If Kawhi bought in they wanted potential starting replacement for DDR and if Kawhi chose to be a problem that they could move OG into a starting SF slot, without roster becoming to thin at wing positions. A 3rd team was explored to fill this role (Spurs preferred to keep Green) but were willing to include DG if no viable option found.
Toronto FO is elated because they accomplished every goal they had going into negotiations. They got the best player, secured SG position replacement for DDR, and didn't give up OG. Raptors also wanted to be sure that if Kawhi chooses to try and force trade that they could still be compe ive in 2018-2019 and with getting Green without giving up OG, they felt they checked that box.
Toronto spoke to Kawhi group before finalizing deal and while not a 100% commitment, felt assured that he would show up and play.
if they did without spurs permission that is against the rules
I hope it works out for Kawhi in Toronto but the basic truth is Spurs were never going to get back the better player in the trade. They got an all-star player, a big man with potential and a possible 1st round pick and will be fine with just making the playoffs like always.
Kawhi and his camp threw a bag of at the Spurs and they are now cleaning up the mess.
Raptors essentially is dumping 3 years of DDR salary. Worse case scenario they trade KL to Laker or Clippers for additional bodies.
Spurs get an all star and a young center. Too bad they had to trade away Green, but if you look at roster, its too crowded at the wings.
Obviously I don't know exactly when this happen other than being late in the process.... I assume Toronto had Spurs permission at point contact happened
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