Vindication For The Spurs? What Kawhi Leonard's Signing With The Clippers Means For San Antonio

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This proves that a team can do everything right and Kawhi will still leave -- repeat after me, it's not your fault [Toronto].

All the media reporting the Spurs drove Kawhi away (because they didn't handle him correctly like Toronto) need to turn in their klaws.

In fact, Kawhi may be the only player to win finals MVP with two different teams and not have his jersey retired by either one. Think about that.

(Heck, Kawhi may end up being one of the few sure-fire Hall-of-Famers not to have his jersey retired by any NBA team.)

[Dejounte]

How do you know the Spurs did everything right? Re-signing Mills and Gasol is not doing everything right. I agree with a lot of what you said, but those were re ed signings, and if I was Kawhi, you can bet your ass I would have taken exception to it and been all over the front office if they didn't ask me about it beforehand. Do you guys think Kawhi signed off on those signings 100%?

Kawhi is a player. Not a front office player. He needs to stay in his lane. Kawhi isnt bigger than the organization. Have some pride. You expect this front office to bend over. Youre made just like Kawhi.

[Marcus Bryant]

Kawhi choked just as hard as LA in that Thunder series.

[Legacy]

Kawhi is a player. Not a front office player. He needs to stay in his lane. Kawhi isnt bigger than the organization. Have some pride. You expect this front office to bend over. Youre made just like Kawhi.

[tbdog]

If only Spurs 'knew' after Zaza happened. The guy was the best player in the playoffs. I am sure the Spurs get what they want within reason from either LA team. But a year of hiding and on an expiring contract, meant the value was very low. And I was totally against Harris and those useless picks. I still am holding out the Spurs will do more this off season or by trade deadline. We have expiring contracts, we got youth prospects. We need a 2 for 1.

[Ice009]

Kawhi is a player. Not a front office player. He needs to stay in his lane. Kawhi isnt bigger than the organization. Have some pride. You expect this front office to bend over. Youre made just like Kawhi.

That's how the NBA works these days, and that would be my at ude. If you want to end up looking like a , then do what the Spurs did, because IMO they don't look so good right now stuck with Derozan when the guy you tried to trade to an NBA Siberia out of the country just won them their first Championship, still left to go to where he wanted to go, and also teamed up with another star player.

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If spurs would have kept him, build around him an LOB mentality team while offering the supermax he would have choose to stay

It must be awesome to go through life like a mumbling idiot. .

I choose to take facts into my world and let it inform my views. But keep up with the Simple Jack character

[DPG21920]

While the Lakers stuff had me legit nervous (it still would have proven LA was the city) and while there was a ton of noise, Kawhi to the Clippers proved everything. All the Kawhi defenders have zero legs to stand on. But Kawhi won’t get any crap from the media since they won a le and he didn’t go to Lakers. They played it beautifully.

Kawhi is a power broker; who would have ever guessed

[pgardn]

The West just got wilder.

[JADG79]

The Spurs were vindicated without multiples picks.

[Marcus Bryant]

If only Spurs 'knew' after Zaza happened. The guy was the best player in the playoffs. I am sure the Spurs get what they want within reason from either LA team. But a year of hiding and on an expiring contract, meant the value was very low. And I was totally against Harris and those useless picks. I still am holding out the Spurs will do more this off season or by trade deadline. We have expiring contracts, we got youth prospects. We need a 2 for 1.

The summer isn't over.

[Hoops Czar]

The West just got wilder.

Yes, But the EPL is still on lockdown.

[Harry Callahan]

If only Spurs 'knew' after Zaza happened. The guy was the best player in the playoffs. I am sure the Spurs get what they want within reason from either LA team. But a year of hiding and on an expiring contract, meant the value was very low. And I was totally against Harris and those useless picks. I still am holding out the Spurs will do more this off season or by trade deadline. We have expiring contracts, we got youth prospects. We need a 2 for 1.

One of those "great" picks for the Clippers from last year has already been traded to OKC for Paul George. Tobias Harris ain't that great.

[HarlemHeat37]

Definitely vindicates the Spurs, he was always going to LA..it's a relief that he didn't stay with the Raptors, would have been a bad look..

It's funny that Kawhi has become a power broker just like LeBron, but also has quitting on a team on his resume, yet is loved by the media a product of being a Black man who doesn't dare speak on social issues and just shuts up and dribbles..

[J_Paco]

It doesn't matter what you or I think, I'm coming at it from the perspective of what I think Kawhi thought. If Kawhi thought those signings were terrible, and if he truly didn't think that the FO office was doing enough to surround him with a compe ive team, then that could have played a big part in him wanting to leave. Maybe he really did like Dedmon and Simmons a lot, and then when the Spurs let them go, that may have pissed him off. It doesn't matter what you and I thought about those decisions, it matters what Kawhi thought, or if he perceived it as a compe ive team. If the Spurs didn't bother asking him, or do as he wanted, then it's their fault they lost him. That is, if he didn't want out before then.

All this is still just what YOU think, so "it doesn't matter" (in your own words). Leonard never wanted to stay in San Antonio long - term, period.

Instead of waiting until his next opportunity in free agency, Quitter/his "group" decide to create chaos, excuses and harm the Spurs reputation to leave earlier.

Nothing more or less.

All your "they wasted money on blah, blah (which all NBA teams do)" made no difference at all.

[Ninja Roach]

This proves that a team can do everything right and Kawhi will still leave -- repeat after me, it's not your fault [Toronto].

All the media reporting the Spurs drove Kawhi away (because they didn't handle him correctly like Toronto) need to turn in their klaws.

In fact, Kawhi may be the only player to win finals MVP with two different teams and not have his jersey retired by either one. Think about that.

(Heck, Kawhi may end up being one of the few sure-fire Hall-of-Famers not to have his jersey retired by any NBA team.)

Nah, he'll be a God in Toronto despite this.

[tbdog]

One of those "great" picks for the Clippers from last year has already been traded to OKC for Paul George. Tobias Harris ain't that great.

You have to consider that the Paul George trade was also for Leonard. So Clippers over buying for George meant that got Leonard. That Gilgeous-Alexander guy seems like a good player and should have a good career. But the odds of him being better than DD is against him but possible. I still think the Spurs got the best offer considering their options. Paying Harris would be a disaster. I really don't like him. Magic fans know that. Same as Pistons and Clippers know that, and Sixer fans are starting to know it too.

[Marcus Bryant]

Nah, he'll be a God in Toronto despite this.

Because Canadians.

[pgardn]

Yes, But the EPL is still on lockdown.

Cant argue that.

[J_Paco]

Exactly, He wanted "partners" after Lamarcus MELTED against OKC with Duncan on the Team Leonard KNEW it wasn't him. He tried to recruit KD, and he lobbies for PG13, which proves he wanted QUALITY TALENT, not "characters" to be running with him. His rejecting a broken down LBJ and a never done AD also points to this.

A glorified cheerleader in Patty Mills and the WORSE Gasol is what PATFO thought he wanted.
me.

I guess there was an outside possibility they floated LMA for PG back then, and this leads to the whole Pop and LMA summit thing.

Why is so difficult for some of you idiots to get "it." Quitter never wanted to stay in SA and it didn't matter who you surround him with.

He NEVER WANTED TO BE IN SAN ANTONIO.

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Kawhi is a player. Not a front office player. He needs to stay in his lane. Kawhi isnt bigger than the organization. Have some pride. You expect this front office to bend over. Youre made just like Kawhi.

Couldn't have said it better. And he isnt the only one. Just on this page there are 3, including Drew Show.

I swear, there are some just miserable people on this site. Imagine coming on this board as a supposed Spurs fan to dog the out of the spurs for neph leaving this team in a ty, ty position and having his representatives trash PATFO, its players and the city. And still wasting your Sat morning acting like you're really a fan...lmao

[TDMVPDPOY]

all i can say is, kawhi open his mouth and gotten himself pg

i wonder why he never open his mouth when he sign his extension, also around the same time front office gave enrique an extension, fkn mills and gasol contracts...

[Marcus Bryant]

all i can say is, kawhi open his mouth and gotten himself pg

i wonder why he never open his mouth when he sign his extension, also around the same time front office gave enrique an extension, fkn mills and gasol contracts...

Probably because you are re ed.

[palangi]

What hurts us is our subculture (coffee club) inside the team. It is led by a guy who has no business being a leader on a team. It does create division. And when you leave out the superstar that gets around. Pop and his bull love affair with mills needs to end.

[heyheymymy]

Really just makes it seem like he was a piece of who couldnt get over himself and wanted to play in la all along and manufactured a conflict to create a favorable narrative for his exit and the problem with that is the spurs dont deserve that. It is unprofessional.

Good riddance then. I dont care how talented you are, if you cant get over yourself you are not spurs material.