***OFFICIAL KAWHI RELATED NEWS Thread***

[LkrFan]

How many straight seasons has it been since you last had a playoff team, again?

Am I including tanking seasons?


BTW, when was the last time your team repeated as championship?

[ezau]

It's still pretty crazy to think how people here are salty about the whole Kawhi saga. All you have to do is to change your perspective by thinking that the Spurs traded George Hill to win a championship in 2014. It's sort of a rental and the lease is done. Kawhi is still a great player, but he would leave sooner or later because he simply doesn't want to stay here anymore.

[LkrFan]

All the more reason why Kawhi needs to leave that team. He carries these scrubs with LeGOAT-like performances and they insult him for it by comparing him to role players.

[gilmor2002]

Kawhi is going to leave no matter Supermax is offered or not..

He can't stand being coached by a wise old man like Popovich..

He wants to start anew with a less experienced coach and he call all the shots he wanted..

With Pop, he feels that he will be coerced into a role that he won't develop as a player

[BillMc]

To be fair, Fox came in not knowing how to shoot, to being very good in a year

True

[TDMVPDPOY]

kawhi with load management, still playing alot of minutes with raps

kawhi on spurs with minute restriction, with hot hand...pop takes him out of the game...

[exstatic]

How many straight seasons has it been since you last had a playoff team, again?

And how are De Russell and Julius doin? Hilarious to see Lakertrash in here tryna start when their dumpster is clearly on fire...

[exstatic]

Am I including tanking seasons?


BTW, when was the last time your team repeated as championship?

What good is it tanking when AIDS just gives it all away?

[offset formation]

Am I including tanking seasons?


BTW, when was the last time your team repeated as championship?

Does Season 1 of LeBron count?

Does 5 over 15 count?

[exstatic]

Does Season 1 of LeBron count?

Does 5 over 15 count?

Does the fact that the Spurs have missed the playoffs few times in their history (4 times in 44 NBA seasons) than the current, active Lakers streak of 6 count?

And are they really counting three seasons of Kobe and one of LeBron as "tanking"?

[RC_Drunkford]

Thread is a lot quieter than it was 2 days ago

PATFO traded the best player of his generation for DE MAR DEROZAN. PERIOD.

Air would've been a better return

[RC_Drunkford]

Am I including tanking seasons?


BTW, when was the last time your team repeated as championship?

when's the last time your team been in the playoffs?

[LkrFan]

Does the fact that the Spurs have missed the playoffs few times in their history (4 times in 44 NBA seasons) than the current, active Lakers streak of 6 count?

And are they really counting three seasons of Kobe and one of LeBron as "tanking"?

Oh we comparing histories now?

[LkrFan]

[LkrFan]

when's the last time your team been in the playoffs?

I know you don't want me to repeat my question. We all know Spurs don't do repeats

[Harry Callahan]

The Spurs didnt offer the supermax.

I've heard that they did offer it. I don't know what to believe because no one really talks who has direct knowledge. It's all second hand into.

[RC_Drunkford]

I know you don't want me to repeat my question. We all know Spurs don't do repeats

we don't do AIDS neither

[Harry Callahan]

Genuine question. Is Kawhi more effective now or in the 2017 playoffs? Obviously he's otherworldy offensively now, but coasting on d compared to when he was was wreaking havoc in 2017. If you compare the playoff runs in PER, TS%, Win Shares, VORP, BPM, everything is very close.

In all honesty (yes I'm biased) the small sample of sitting and watching him play I don't see him fighting through screens anymore. He poaches passing lanes less frequently. That may be design so he doesn't take shots to the quads like he did in SA. Trying to preserve what's left of his legs now.

[Harry Callahan]

Agree

Windhorst (take the source with a grain of salt) wrote that the Spurs DID offer him the supermax at the very end.

Windhorst - OK - well the Spurs knew #2 and tried to work it out. Too much bad blood by the group prevented a reconcilation. Unfortunate, but I would wonder how much gas is in the tank when you drop $40-45MM per year the next four or five years.

I don't think his shelf life is much beyond two years. We'll see.

[RC_Drunkford]

at least DeRozan is depressed as well watching the Raptors win games without him

[Play Boban]

Genuine question. Is Kawhi more effective now or in the 2017 playoffs? Obviously he's otherworldy offensively now, but coasting on d compared to when he was was wreaking havoc in 2017. If you compare the playoff runs in PER, TS%, Win Shares, VORP, BPM, everything is very close.

Well, he wasn’t very effective in the 2017 WCF, was he?

[loveforthegame]

[exstatic]

I know you don't want me to repeat my question. We all know Spurs don't do repeats

Yeah, but we do playoffs at a 91% rate.

[loveforthegame]

[TheSpurglar]

Huh?? Do u even watch the Spurs? Parker, Ginobili, AND Pop have been taking shots at Kawhi to the media the entire time! No one has ever seen or heard Kawhi nor affiliated persons say anything... All they went by was media saying stuff... U really think Kawhi wants to play with lebron?? LMFAO

Reading comprehension, do you have it? I've stated one thing Kawhi allegedly did, which was backed up by multiple sources in the media and came to fruition when Kawhi was ultimately traded for pennies on the dollar. This actually happened, and was actively harmful to the Spurs.

As to "shots the entire time", Parker said his injury was "1,000 times worse". Pop said "you'd have to ask his group". Manu said "we need to move on and stop letting the media make us believe he's coming back." This also happened, but was not actively harmful to Kawhi.

So in my opinion, Kawhi is more in the wrong for actively harming the Spurs with the trade request because of, according to you, some "shots" the Spurs took in the media.