Coach Becky Hammon: Keldon Johnson "could be steal of the draft"

[Marcus Bryant]

[Pavlov]

It's dumb Trumper who're too embarrassed to admit their hero-god is a pedophile traitor who is sticking kids into kennels in concentration camps and the only thing he's done is make himself rich.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

It's dumb Trumper who're too embarrassed to admit their hero-god is a pedophile traitor who is sticking kids into kennels in concentration camps and the only thing he's done is make himself rich.

Na, lots of issues with Trump, but this isn't the political forum last I checked.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

So you're a cop, cool

Not a cop, work with a non-profit in the area of criminal justice reform.

[FkLA]

So ahead he lost the greatest player in the league because he wouldn't bend the knee to dear uncle and unleashed Tony on him in the press.

Canada bent the knee and spread their cheeks for the group. How'd that turn out for them?

[Atl Spur]

I think the question was rhetorical.

lol........ I think you are right!

[Atl Spur]

I can’t wait to see how the great Nick Nurse does this year

[phxspurfan]

Spurs could win the championship too

[GreekSpursfan]

Nothing wrong with what she said...he does have “upside”...Don’t forget PATFO we’re calling 2 THE FUTURE FACE OF THE FRANCHISE “ before he did anything

It was obvious there and they did it after we won in 2014, here i see nothing even close to that.

[exstatic]

I work in the legal community, about half of it with youths on the wrong side of the law. So, school associated stereotypes aside, I'd like to say I'm more educated than most on the problems going on in this country on that side of things. When Pop whines about it hard to be AA in "Trump's America", he's trotting out typical elitist political tropes without really understanding the true issues and problems in our country. Even moreso when he cheapens it with trying to tie it to Trump.

Sorry that some folks can't step back and look at the fact Pop's clashed with every baller type (Jax, Simmons, Dedmond, etc.), basically anyone that shows a spine or at ude on the court. He prefers a certain style of player and personality (which is certainly his right), but don't act like you do with your players and their personalities and then turn around and complain about racial problems in America. It's hypocritical. Especially when your employees are all millionaires (or close to it).

I'm not trying to tie Kawhi to that situation, as Leonard and his uncle were/are assholes. But it's a player's league now, something guys like Nurse, Kerr, and others seem to have adopted to, but still appears to escape Pop's authoritarian nature. But carry on with the circle jerk about Becky. For the record, I like her, like how she coaches and adjusts in summer league, but when the time comes to replace Pop, I want it to go to the best qualified person to take up the reigns and coach our Spurs. Becky might be that person, but it also might be that Pop wants to break that barrier when there's other more qualified individuals out there.

Both lost All NBA caliber players this offseason. Just sayin'.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

Both lost All NBA caliber players this offseason. Just sayin'.

I agree. I look at Kerr, he took over the Warriors after an authoritarian type coach in Jackson. Nurse, I just have a lot of respect for the way he's worked his way up through the coaching ranks. Dude's a tape room junkie and has been for a long time, and appears to have good interpersonal skills with his players and is good at adjusting.

[Marcus Bryant]

So, that Keldon Johnson, he might be good.

[tesseractive]

So, that Keldon Johnson, he might be good.

So is his ceiling being a great 3 and D player who is great to have playing off the ball, or does he have the potential to expand his game beyond that?

[ceperez]

I work in the legal community, about half of it with youths on the wrong side of the law. So, school associated stereotypes aside, I'd like to say I'm more educated than most on the problems going on in this country on that side of things. When Pop whines about it hard to be AA in "Trump's America", he's trotting out typical elitist political tropes without really understanding the true issues and problems in our country. Even moreso when he cheapens it with trying to tie it to Trump.

Sorry that some folks can't step back and look at the fact Pop's clashed with every baller type (Jax, Simmons, Dedmond, etc.), basically anyone that shows a spine or at ude on the court. He prefers a certain style of player and personality (which is certainly his right), but don't act like you do with your players and their personalities and then turn around and complain about racial problems in America. It's hypocritical. Especially when your employees are all millionaires (or close to it).

I'm not trying to tie Kawhi to that situation, as Leonard and his uncle were/are assholes. But it's a player's league now, something guys like Nurse, Kerr, and others seem to have adopted to, but still appears to escape Pop's authoritarian nature. But carry on with the circle jerk about Becky. For the record, I like her, like how she coaches and adjusts in summer league, but when the time comes to replace Pop, I want it to go to the best qualified person to take up the reigns and coach our Spurs. Becky might be that person, but it also might be that Pop wants to break that barrier when there's other more qualified individuals out there.

Total BS narrative.

PATFO did sign up Jax (for the 2nd time), Simmons and Dedmon. Something that Jax did had him kicked out of the team before the playoffs. Simmons and Dedmon signed elsewhere for salaries that PATFO could not afford. To make it like a narrative that these guys were undesireables is total BS. If they were undesireable, then why were they signed in the first place?

Now the Spurs signed Marcus Morris... isn't he associated with assaulting someone? The Spurs sign players because they step up during the playoffs. Don't step up, then you get traded (see Bertans).

Kawhi however is that non-emotional all business all work type player the Spurs covet. It is just that his family wanted something different. They lost $80m by not getting max deals with the Spurs and with the Raptors. They had their own ideas. They didn't sign with the Lakers because they might have felts they couldn't influence the team. But, they signed with the Clippers after the Clippers got George. So there's some sanity in their method. It's a preference to play in LA. Just the same as Durant having a preference to play in the east coast. Most everybody has a preference to live somewhere else and are willing to take a pay-cut to do so. That's what Kawhi did and that's what Durant did.

You could say the same thing of a foreign player like Pau Gasol. Do you remember what his criteria was when he signed with the Bulls? He was looking for a good cultural scene which he couldn't find in San Antonio. Pau comes from a family of affluence where his parents were medical doctors. Same result... he didn't initially want to play for the Spurs.

All you have done is projected your view of the world into a world of professional high stakes basketball. It's an interesting perspective, but its validity is questionable. You have no idea how it is to be a millionaire or even a guy who makes six figures.

[wildbill2u]

I don't have any problem with some Spurs Talk expert making a critical comment of Pop on a play or missed opportunity on the court to play another player. If the expert can back it up with some good comments, that is part of what this site is all about.

However, all the talk about Pop being a bad coach or Patfo being incapable of putting a team together on a career basis is just drivel from someone wanting attention or someone who knows nothing about the general consensus in the NBA coaches, management and players about Pop and Spurs organization being wildly successful for a small market team.

[ceperez]

I don't have any problem with some Spurs Talk expert making a critical comment of Pop on a play or missed opportunity on the court to play another player. If the expert can back it up with some good comments, that is part of what this site is all about.

However, all the talk about Pop being a bad coach or Patfo being incapable of putting a team together on a career basis is just drivel from someone wanting attention or someone who knows nothing about the general consensus in the NBA coaches, management and players about Pop and Spurs organization being wildly successful for a small market team.

Yup. Spurs are a small market team that exceeds expectations. Sometimes you get bad luck (Kawhi quiting), but for the stuff they can control, they've done well.

The mere fact that Kawhi is a top 5 player in the league tells you something. He was drafted after the Morris twins!

[MannyIsGod]

I don't have any problem with some Spurs Talk expert making a critical comment of Pop on a play or missed opportunity on the court to play another player. If the expert can back it up with some good comments, that is part of what this site is all about.

However, all the talk about Pop being a bad coach or Patfo being incapable of putting a team together on a career basis is just drivel from someone wanting attention or someone who knows nothing about the general consensus in the NBA coaches, management and players about Pop and Spurs organization being wildly successful for a small market team.

[Marcus Bryant]

I don't have any problem with some Spurs Talk expert making a critical comment of Pop on a play or missed opportunity on the court to play another player. If the expert can back it up with some good comments, that is part of what this site is all about.

However, all the talk about Pop being a bad coach or Patfo being incapable of putting a team together on a career basis is just drivel from someone wanting attention or someone who knows nothing about the general consensus in the NBA coaches, management and players about Pop and Spurs organization being wildly successful for a small market team.

If the Spurs had been in NY, Boston, or LA since 1973 with the same history it'd be regarded as the greatest pro sports franchise of all time, or thereabouts. Only missed the playoffs 4 times in 46 seasons, 5 les. Then I log on here and see mofos cutting themselves or in a rage.

[Marcus Bryant]

Spurs fan whining about how horrible the team is run has to sound insane to the fans of many other franchises.

[james evans]

So thug= black in America?

to white folks yes, when in reality white people have committed the most heinous crimes in history.

[exstatic]

Spurs fan whining about how horrible the team is run has to sound insane to the fans of many other franchises.

I don't think a lot of them are Spurs fans. Lotta trollin' going on.

[ginobilized]

Keldon Johnson really gets some dialogue going here.
He might be the steal of the draft.

[tonight...you]

"Big Body" Keldon!

[LASToog36]

Weatherspoon is the steal > samanic and johnson

[tim_duncan_fan]

So ahead he lost the greatest player in the league because he wouldn't bend the knee to dear uncle and unleashed Tony on him in the press.

Can we quit acting like Pop is some savant? He doesn't tolerate thug culture at all on his teams, while complaining in the press about the plight of the black man in America. That's hardly what I would call ahead of the compe ion.

Pop is right. The plight of the black people in America is real, but those who want to be above it can be.

I'm black and I'm fine with a straight-laced culture. We won't win the le every year that way, but we'll win enough. It's enough to wait for the good guy who happens to be really talented.

This is the way the Spurs should continue to be.