SPURS AND POP LITERALLY WANTED TO DECLARE HIM OUT FOR THE SEASON to protect him from the media... you really think a lifelong professional like Manu would throw a guy, a clear #1 in Kawhi, under the bus unless Kawhi was doing some shady that got on people's last nerve?
And he still can’t wipe.
why are we still on this?
TP talking and then PATFO not defending him is what led to his departure. His group whispering in his ear didn't help but I think TP's comments convinced him that the team didn't have his back.
It started long before that. It also wasn’t TP, it was LA. He was always going there, from the moment he started faking his injury extent, to when he ran away to NY. That was months before TP.
Haha. Left Toronto after a ring with his uncle asking for unreasonable and illegal but he went to LA because the team is good to him.
Wow you are really that re ed. He wanted to go to LA way before TP said anything. He had sat out for several months before TP opened his mouth with a bogus injury. He's a star player if he was truly offended by what TP said he could have gotten him traded and stayed but he didn't want to stay.
the fact that he left Toronto where they treated him like royalty and bent over backwards to give him special treatment after winning a ring should tell you all you need to know. Dude was always leaving SA, he just accelerated his departure
The spurs biggest mistake was not trading him immediately when he started pulling this stunt. They should have traded him around December of 2017 instead of wanting until the summer of '18 which gave him time to sabotage his value. They also should have done the rebuild immediately in the summer of '18 instead of committing the next several years to being a low playoff seed to borderline playoff team. They didn't do it because of Pop's massive ego of wanting to chase the all-time coaches win record but I have to say the last 4 years were a complete waste that could have gone into rebuilding.
Was TP's comments before or after Nephew hid from the team in NY?
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Leonard is living RENT FREE here
Actually it looks like it’s him who can’t move on, he’s the one who ted on the Spurs again.still hung up on the autist. move on already
It was after he hid in NY. It was in March 2018 when he made those comments.
Imagine, HOTS being responsible...
This will be an unpopular opinion, but so be it. The guy grew up in L.A., his childhood wasn't easy, his father was murdered, and he's almost certainly somewhere on the autism spectrum with Asperger's Syndrome... it's not all that shocking that he wanted to return to the familiarity of home. The fact that he didn't feel as close as some others did to an elderly white coach with a military background, a caustic wit, and an obsession with $2000 bottles of french red wine from the Bordeaux region just doesn't seem that hard to believe. Did he handle it well with deft diplomacy? No... most people with Asperger's don't handle social awkwardness well. It's kind of a given considering the specific cir stances.
Agreed I got over him leaving after the spring of 2021. I felt after he tore his ACL that he's already been embarrassed the last few years. Especially the choke job in the bubble against the Nuggets.
It stilllllll hurts.
I’m over Kawhi, I actually still enjoy watching him play when healthy. Big when, but still.
Maybe in time i’ll forgive PATFO for the next 4 years of ery that ensued after he went dip on us.
Who cares. He was always going to leave. And if he hadn't we would have had to supermax him. With his injury history we might be in even worse shape with him now. Imagine having a trash team AND you paying a guy who can't play back to back's 40 + million a year.
totally agree with that assessment
So knowing how close Duncan was to signing with Orlando, you would trade him prior to that? Because the odds of duncan bolting were as high as kawhi forgiving whatever happened and taking the supermax.
Stupid comparison. Duncan didn't sit out a year before free agency. He was rational and was willing to keep contact open. Kawhi wasn't willing to do that. He cut off contact the moment he went to NYC.
Correct he was on a plane to Orlando ready to play with Grant Hill. It was over for the spurs. Better to get a pick off duncan, for sake we let him play out the contract. Absolute clown front office. You can't play favorites as a small market team.
I'm obv joking, in real life duncan should ghosted that wife and feasted on Orlando pussy . Yeah grant hill sucked but Orlando gets enough free.agent support to get him to the HOF in the weaker east. Easily correct hindsight choice
I'm so tired of this excuse.
First, it's no longer referred to as "Asperger's Syndrome" as that was deemed offensive, so it's now just considered "on the spectrum".
Second, many with autism, particularly of the high functioning variety, aren't mentally deficient. On the contrary, they're often exceptionally intelligent in certain ways, they just see the world differently and can be socially awkward.
It's disparaging to those people to pretend that explains his actions.
This will be an unpopular opinion, but so be it. I hope he suffers a career ending injury which in this day and age virtually guarantees it being something that will affect his qualify of life going forward.
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