***OFFICIAL KAWHI RELATED NEWS Thread***

[GusT15]

My guess is that it's something contract-related, I can't really picture anything else..

Either they were reluctant on the supermax due to injury concerns, maybe wanted him to prove his health on a shorter deal, maybe they wanted him to take less to help the team's future, something of that nature..

I really hope that isn't the case, though..the team that bid against themselves for Patty Mills at 12:01 and got finessed by Pau Gasol should have offered Kawhi all the money and all the years, including giving Uncle Dennis an ownership stake..

Thanks HH for saying what every single one of us is thinking...

Yes to all three of those hypotheses that you listed in your second paragraph btw.It doesn't have to be an "either/or" situation.

Trying to get a discount on a dude that drove a '97 Chevy Tahoe as a millionaire NBA player ffs.Smh

him either way though.He still could've gotten his without ing the team.

[r0drig0lac]

Its weird. Marco Bellineli the only current spur that gave kawhi props for his shot. Everyone seem silent.

Dejounte

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Thanks HH for saying what every single one of us is thinking...

Yes to all three of those hypotheses that you listed in your second paragraph btw.It doesn't have to be an "either/or" situation.

Trying to get a discount on a dude that drove a '97 Chevy Tahoe as a millionaire NBA player ffs.Smh

him either way though.He still could've gotten his without ing the team.

Speak for yourself, homie.

Ownership stake for uncle...

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Probably not. He didn't like playing next to Lillard and left the Blazers in free agency as soon as possible. He joined the Spurs in 2015 thinking he'd be the alpha and was upset that Leonard's ascent into supers om pushed him into sidekick status. Didn't enjoy being 2nd option to Kawhi and asked to be traded.

You can't be serious? First and foremost, he came to play for Coach Pop. Then to play back in Texas and with Timmy who he had been training with in the offseason before. Then it was to win a championship with what EVERYONE knew was the team's Alpha.

I mean seriously, wtf have you guys been watching and reading, because it's not Spursbasketball.

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Instead, they put him in corny HEB commercials making him look like a re .



Why should anybody give a about Rudy Gay's opinion? He's a career loser. He thinks highly of choke-artist/cancer Demar Derozan. That says enough about his evaluation of other players. Seems to love inefficient chuckers like himself. Maybe they can wrangle Carmelo on the team and make San Antonio the home of every unwanted player in the league.

You think Rudy was the only one to harbor those feelings? Watch the video. It's clear as day they both are crystal clear on the way the GUYS in the locker room felt about the episode that led to the moniker, Kawhitter.

[Twisted_Dawg]

Speak for yourself, homie.

Ownership stake for uncle...

Let's see....give the Unc a 1% share of the team....1% of $1.5 billion is $15 million. Yeah, don't see that happening. Every super in the league would be demanding a 1% for some worthless family member.

[TDMVPDPOY]

if kawhi ask for 1% ownership for his uncle, u too would trade him monkeyass...

fck the uncle can go eat a

[GusT15]

Speak for yourself, homie.

Ownership stake for uncle...

Dude i was commenting and highlighting the bolded part about the contract.

I didn't imply about Uncle Dennis.

I didn't even like those cringy hugs with the Raptors FO after game 7.If that's what he was after,yeah,he wasn't getting that here and rightfully so.

[spursparker9]

[loveforthegame]

Its weird. Marco Bellineli the only current spur that gave kawhi props for his shot. Everyone seem silent.

[spursparker9]

[TDMVPDPOY]

will lol if belli gets traded just for that tweet....

if he does, then it pretty much sums up about patfo autocratic style dictatorship team management

[look_at_g_shred]

You guys don't see? The murray and beli tweets? Robinson's recently statement about kawhi, it's all part of the #Kawhiback2SA campaign.

[ECOV]

with the spurs = his pathway on pace to be goat, maybe top10 when its all sad and done

with another team = still on pace for top15 or higher depending what team he leads to their first championship with multiple awards and stats ac ulated

as for the spurs = one of the stupidest deals they ever done in their team history setting them back further...

knowing lma, ddr are choke artists, which team is going to trade for them besides getting rid of cap

Shhhhhhhhhhh

[RD2191]

You guys don't see? The murray and beli tweets? Robinson's recently statement about kawhi, it's all part of the #Kawhiback2SA campaign.

[look_at_g_shred]

man! Where did it ing go wrong?

[RD2191]

man! Where did it ing go wrong?

Tbh.

[steak n eggs]

If he goes to LA, will there be closure?

[exstatic]

If he goes to LA, will there be closure?

Likely for most people. It will have proved that we would have gotten NOTHING for him if we kept him last summer. If he goes to LA, he was always going to go to LA, and the trade, although pennies on the dollar, was the right thing.

[Johojowhite]

The guys to the right of Uncle Dennis are billionaires in some kind of private Jet business. Uncle Dennis and Kawhi have been seen at their tail parties in downtown Toronto. Dennis has also been on vacation with one of them. He has formed a bond with these Toronto businessmen.

[Johojowhite]

This was from a couple months earlier. Uncle Dennis with the younger guy from the first picture.

[TXstbobcat]

Likely for most people. It will have proved that we would have gotten NOTHING for him if we kept him last summer. If he goes to LA, he was always going to go to LA, and the trade, although pennies on the dollar, was the right thing.

I felt like there was closure after the Toronto game here in SA this past season.

[Spurs fever]

I think he'll stay in Toronto.

[TheSpurglar]

lol fan base hates a player

but doesnt hate patfo for their repe ive dumb roster moves every season

It's pretty simple to understand why... PATFO is still a part of the team. They do good things (recent drafts, including Kawhi). They do bad things (recent signings, re-signings). You can dislike some of the moves they make without disliking them as a whole, since they're (presumably)trying to help the Spurs win.

Kawhi is no longer a part of the Spurs, and (presumably)screwed the team over on the way out the door. Hate is a strong word. Just don't want to see him thrive because he screwed the Spurs. Stay in Canada or go to LA, play basketball, never win anything of any real consequence and we good.

[TheSpurglar]

This is factual tbh. Its crazy how people continue to hate on Kawhi. Ever since TIMVP confirmed that Kawhi was indeed a victim, i am slowly but surely starting to enjoy my ex favourite player.

I dont think ill ever like leonard the same way now that he's an ex-spur, but it just crazy to think the Spurs PATFO wasnt partly to blame

But did the Spurs actively harm Kawhi? That's what I want to know. Because if Kawhi (or his group) requested that trade and let it be known they'd sign nowhere but LA, then they did actively harm the Spurs by limiting Kawhi's trade value. Whether PATFO is partly to blame or not, unless they did something genuinely harmful to Kawhi then it's nephew and his group who are in the wrong.