jabari young
Spurs front office probably won't trade him but they should. As soon as Pop or RC come out and say publicly "we just want to clear the air and let everyone know that we aren't trading DeMar". Things are going to get a little boring for the fans. The offseason will officially be over and for the most part (assuming no injuries) we generally know how the regular season and playoffs (hopefully) will go.
Why should RC and Pop care about clearing the air? These rumors have come from nowhere and are meaningless. The team doesn't care if the offseason is boring.
you assumed just the offseason. boring = season (and playoffs if we can get a 7 or 8 seed, but need everyone to stay healthy for this). like I stated in the 2nd half of the sentence.
Obviously they don't have to say anything. But maybe they aren't because they are still seeing what options are out there. That is also possible.
I will just say between little things I have heard + all the logical reasons why it makes sense, I definitely believe DeRozan trades are being discussed.
Does not mean I would peg it as extremely likely or anything, but it’s not just baseless rumors even if things never really progress past initial conversations.
Blake would be a perfect fit for the Spurs and the new NBA. He’s an excellent passer and would be the best distributor on the team. His offensive skill set is elite and it’s avposition of need for the Spurs so if there is an opportunity to get him, it’s a no-brainer.
they should not even trade kawhi for derozan. I was hoping spurs make a trade with lakers but they asked for too much. I think that ingram/ball/hart and a pick in this year draft was the deal that could be done. Much better than this with toronto. Everybody who knows kawhi knew that he aint wanna play with lebron so this would be a steal.
You never trade your best player to your compe ion bruh. You send him as far away so not to directly compete with you. Kiwi just got lucky in Toronto. PATFO’s hands were tied and it was the best offer after dip torpedoed Spurs chance of fair trade. Easier to say after the fact. But at the time it was the least of the poison to take.
Nah..there was the LA Clippers offer, (which is where he was going from the get go) of Harris/Bradley and the 13/14th pick which they took Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and that offer was way better than DD...cuckovich and the fo were vindictive and wouldn't trtade kl to where he wanted to which would have been a much better return than what we got from Toronto...so yeah, you do trade with your compe ion...every team in the NBA is compe ion and it happens every year, see Hou/OKC, the most important thing was to ship kl off to the eastern conference and that totally bit them in the ass..he got his ring and got to go home....the Spurs lost out big time and it will go down as one of the most lopsided horrible trades in nba history...the fo has definitely lost their mojo.
That offer was never in the table. Magic said so on TV this summer. The offer was like Hart and Blood Clots and one pick, which would have been . For the second summer, the Fakers decided that they could offer because the player would be free the next summer. Both of those players are now playing across town.
Magic/Lakers were trying to lowball the Spurs because both 1) they overvalued their assets, and 2) they thought Kawhi's team was doing a good job of forcing him to the Lakers. It didn't work.
Didn't work, really, again for two reasons, 1) the Spurs weren't gonna ever let Kawhi force himself to the Lakers, and 2) the Lakers' players were trash.
Agree. Basketball ain’t chess. You make the best deal possible to improve your team. Period.
But in the end lakers and clips improved and spurs are now deciding what happens long term with derozan
I find it hard to believe that the Spurs couldn't do better than DD, Turdle, and ONE measly late first rounder for Kawhi.
Exactly
Don't forget RC throwing in an extra 5mil in cuck money
Talk about insult to injury....they actually paid Toronto to take him and got bent over in the process.Don't forget RC throwing in an extra 5mil in cuck money
I think that Clippers deal is much worse.
Spurs should've got the Raptors 2020 pick as well in the deal knowing nephew would leave them and they will be a much worse team. It wasn't rocket science to predict that
What has Ingram ever done? For all the people claiming DeRozan is empty numbers, WTF is Ingram then? Plus he's a china doll. Plus he has a career threatening condition just like what ended Chris Bosh's career. Ball is even worse. The only remarkable thing he has ever done is shoot sub-42% from the free throw line. Hart is a good bench player at best. On a team with LeBron + Kawhi that first round pick wouldn't have been any better than the one the Spurs got from Toronto.
Yeah no way Ujiri was going for that.
exactly, i think that spurs management just overthinks. They could get some young potential players and/or picks for kawhi(the best trade asset they ever have) and dont give a if kawhi goes to east or west bc doing this move we could increase our chances to build a contender team in near future. Instead of this we have what we have... 1st or 2nd round.. but its now YEAH!!
if this is true, spurs are more stupid than i thought
I'm not sure the Clippers' trade was ever real. But let's slow our roll on SGA. I'm not impressed by the development of Kentucky players anyway. The Spurs weren't going to draft another point guard regardless, they just would have taken Lonnie earlier. Harris is pretty overrated.
The Spurs weren't going to accede to Kwahi's insane backstabbing demands and put him in LA. And they weren't going to start tanking. With LMA, they wanted to put another capable player beside him and went for DDR.
I share your opinion and have a sense that your reason is the same one for the Spurs not being in a hurry to trade him despite knowing in their hearts of hearts that the relationship isn't long term. There's value in having him in the team this year if they want to compete (their aim all along after the Nephew schtick)... Only way he's traded is it someone makes real sense for them long term.
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