So will Toronto trade KL to the Lakers?

[mo7888]

Leonard will be a FA next summer. Teams don't need to do anything but clear cap space. Which is why the Lakers did all those 1 year deals. And they might not even have to stretch Deng since that asinine contract he has would be set to expire after 2019. Catnip to teams trying to clear cap space the next season.

It could be a PG situation but I doubt it. I don't see Leonard bonding with Lowery, Toronto or Canadian taxes.

Yes and no... he can be a free agent but, he also has an opt in clause for the following season. There could be a Chris Paul type situation there. Let's say the Lakers can package deng+ingram+w agner for a kawhi if he'd agree to exercise his option then that could leave them with the cap space to sign another max player. Or maybe he decides he wants to be in Philly or BY, then the same woyld apply there.

[Allan Rowe vs Wade]

What a relief this headache is over with, I honestly don't GAF what happens with that punk now; good riddance!

Wgaf, not our problem anymore

I don’t give a and Kawhi and his group are no longer our problem.

The Spurs couldn't deal him to Siberia so...

If he ends up in Los Township good luck to him. But who cares now. Spurs said ‘we not trading you in the West’ and they were good to their word.

Too bad they couldn't trade him to Tijuana.

ka-bye tbh

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Leonard will be a FA next summer. Teams don't need to do anything but clear cap space. Which is why the Lakers did all those 1 year deals. And they might not even have to stretch Deng since that asinine contract he has would be set to expire after 2019. Catnip to teams trying to clear cap space the next season.

It could be a PG situation but I doubt it. I don't see Leonard bonding with Lowery, Toronto or Canadian taxes.

No. It expires after the 2019-2020 season. It's the landmine gift from Mitch Kupchak that keeps on giving.

Kupchak for President!

[sasaint]

If he ends up in Los Township good luck to him. But who cares now. Spurs said ‘we not trading you in the West’ and they were good to their word.

If we are being honest, most of us do still care. We want to see Kawhi wither in some other basketball system and then crash and burn under the bright lights of big market media scrutiny.

[exstatic]

If Kawhi doesn't work out, how does anyone expect them to rebuild?

Just because you have cap space doesn't mean you're gonna attract free agents

Did you not watch Philly at all? OKC, when their players were still on rookie deals? FAs are only one way to use cap space. Like Philly, you can 'rent' it. We'll take your bad two year contract. The price is that you have to send us an unprotected, or minimally protected lottery pick. Do that enough times, and it accelerates your rebuild faster than just your own lottery picks.

[Blake]

Did you not watch Philly at all? OKC, when their players were still on rookie deals? FAs are only one way to use cap space. Like Philly, you can 'rent' it. We'll take your bad two year contract. The price is that you have to send us an unprotected, or minimally protected lottery pick. Do that enough times, and it accelerates your rebuild faster than just your own lottery picks.

That's strange for a team that just won 60 games to do.

[DieHardSpursFan1537]

I don’t give a and Kawhi and his group are no longer our problem.

[exstatic]

That's strange for a team that just won 60 games to do.

Philly made the second round in 2011. They had a bad following season, and one year after being in the ECSFs, burned it to the ground. It's not strange when your team has hit it's ceiling. The Spurs aren't doing it for two reasons: Pop, and they want to let their bad contracts roll off so that they CAN do it. I think they will do whatever they need to in 2020, including a full rebuild, with 2-3 players already a couple of years into the development track.