***OFFICIAL KAWHI RELATED NEWS Thread***

[loveforthegame]

Savage.

[spursparker9]

Savage.

[weeks]

Savage.

[r0drig0lac]

I'm willing to give Pop and the franchise the benefit of the doubt given we have been the winningest franchise in the last 20 years. Sure you can say we lucked into it by getting Duncan if you want but there has been great players in the past that haven't had the same success as the Spurs. Nevertheless, despite everything, I think we are in good shape and I'm sure Pop and RC learned a lot of lessons during this saga and regret their role in losing a franchise talent. I'm highly optimistic about our young guys and believe we will be contending in the near future.

this is a fact

[r0drig0lac]

Savage.

[dbreiden83080]

Maybe in the future. But currently, KD is still ahead even if Nephew win the ring for Raptors

Ahead how? KD winning for the Warriors he just did what about 5 or 6 other current players would have done on that team.

[Genovaswitness]

Savage.

he stole that from a stupid ass reddit post. spurs will recover

[Capt Bringdown]

[loveforthegame]

[Rusty]

btw this is with an injured knee, quad or whatever the he's dealing with

[UZER]

We have a real leader, Patty.

[RD2191]

We have a real leader, Patty.

[timvp]

If the two scenarios are:

1) Kawhi wins the championship. The Spurs go down on the wrong end of the most lopsided trade in sporting history.

2) Durant comes back, leads the Warriors to three straight wins and is crowned a hero who retroactively is proved right about NEEDING to go to the Warriors to take the hardest road.




I might have to suddenly root for Toronto

History letting Durant off the hook might be worse than the alternative...

[TDomination]

These playoffs can’t be over soon enough

[slick'81]

These playoffs can’t be over soon enough

This season tbh

[BillMc]

If the two scenarios are:

1) Kawhi wins the championship. The Spurs go down on the wrong end of the most lopsided trade in sporting history.

2) Durant comes back, leads the Warriors to three straight wins and is crowned a hero who retroactively is proved right about NEEDING to go to the Warriors to take the hardest road.




I might have to suddenly root for Toronto

History letting Durant off the hook might be worse than the alternative...

3) I wake up and this was all a bad dream.

[gambit1990]

the warriors and kd, go raps.

[HarlemHeat37]

What's interesting about Kawhi is that he has become beloved by fans and media, despite:

- Quitting on a team and getting paid for it..sports fans and especially sports media usually hate that, especially caucasians

- Getting Harden-like treatment from the refs..I've been cheering for the Raptors, it's even more noticeable on that side

I'm always confused by the process of who the fans and media like vs. who they hate obviously it makes sense why he's loved here, but I guess the hatred of the Warriors and the underdog story of the Raps is driving it in America..

[timvp]

3) I wake up and this was all a bad dream.

Tbh.

[BillMc]

Tbh.

[gambit1990]

i remember when people on here thought nba fans would vilify kawhi like they did with lebron when he joined the heat

[Genovaswitness]

hey remember when DePression had 32 points his season opener

kawhi is averaging that in the finals PATFO

[FkLA]

If the two scenarios are:

1) Kawhi wins the championship. The Spurs go down on the wrong end of the most lopsided trade in sporting history.

2) Durant comes back, leads the Warriors to three straight wins and is crowned a hero who retroactively is proved right about NEEDING to go to the Warriors to take the hardest road.




I might have to suddenly root for Toronto

History letting Durant off the hook might be worse than the alternative...

I don't think it'll let him off the hook. If anything the Warriors' vulnerability without him has proven that he himself could've probably taken them out if he had just run it back with the Thunder. I've always said he was good enough to take them out, he just pussied out.

Let's Go Warriors

[TD 21]

This league and it's revisionist history. Now the media is pretending S bag is some dynasty slayer, as if the Heat were a dynasty or his souped up Bowen ass was anything close to a superstar back then. First is was the genius who received the majority of the credit for that, now suddenly it's him. Never the biggest 3.

The Warriors don't even deserve the dynasty distinction. They've yet to win a legit championship (the Raptors will join them in the ranks of asterisk champions), have only been on this run for 5 years and are more than likely a game away from capping this run at 3 in 5, aka the best the Spurs ever managed. Funny how the media was split on whether they were a dynasty following that, but didn't hesitate to anoint the Warriors prematurely.

If the two scenarios are:

1) Kawhi wins the championship. The Spurs go down on the wrong end of the most lopsided trade in sporting history.

2) Durant comes back, leads the Warriors to three straight wins and is crowned a hero who retroactively is proved right about NEEDING to go to the Warriors to take the hardest road.




I might have to suddenly root for Toronto

History letting Durant off the hook might be worse than the alternative...

Not even close.

I don't get this narrative that if Durant comes back and they win the championship, it'll prove they needed him all along.

The '19 Warriors aren't the same as the previous iterations. This one is banged up beyond him, fatigued, paper thin and in some cases, in decline. This team needs him to beat the Raptors (probably would have for the Bucks and even Rockets, full series).

If we reverse engineer this though, the other iterations probably wouldn't have. That's not to say they'd have automatically won the previous 2 championships or this one anyway, but they were at least capable of beating any other team during those seasons and likely would have been favored too.

[timvp]

I don't think it'll let him off the hook. If anything the Warriors' vulnerability without him has proven that he himself could've probably taken them out if he had just run it back with the Thunder. I've always said he was good enough to take them out, he just pussied out.

I don't know, man. The criticism has mostly been that Durant joined a team that didn't really need him and bandwagoned his way to championships. If he comes back and leads the Warriors to three straight wins, the narrative will be that Durant was responsible for three championships and the Durant-less Warriors won only because Kyrie and KLove were injured.

Let's Go Warriors

I hopped on the Warriors bandwagon right after the Spurs were eliminated by now I might have to hop off. Seeing Durant's asterisks and criticisms vanish might be worse than Nephew winning, especially because Danny Green gets some justified shine in the latter scenario.