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My assumption is they are going to try and trade a first with Faried and Arthur and sneak Barton in under the tax. Faried plus a first is a massive overpay for dumping salary, especily considering that Faried is still a rotation level player. If he was on the market this year, he would be getting paid at least the bi annual (roughly 4 million/yr) by somebody.
I would hope majority of Spurs fans would be supportive of Kawhi when he moves on. I get that it sucks, but this situation has a lot of strange stuff behind it that I am not sure we will ever truly know what happened. Hopefully they get good reimbursement for him and all sides can move on
I have it. Well aware.
If that is the case, I certainly feel for him.
I'd be surprised if Chandler isn't on the opening night roster. He's a decent player and the only guy on the roster who can credibly defend small forwards.
Plumlee
I'll never understand.
It seems crazy on its face, but maybe he really needs to be close to his family and his old friends to feel secure. And if there is some plan afoot for LeBron to go there with him, maybe the idea is that he won't have to deal with the limelight since he'll be in the shadow of a much bigger star. I know Skip Bayless thinks Kawhi has mentally crumbled under the pressure of being a "face of the franchise" type of player. Who knows, really. As a Spurs fan I just really hate the thought of the Lakers benefiting from this ####show.
I don't know if you can exceed, but as long as you match the offer, I think that you automatically have the player, so there's really no point to exceed.
yeah, right now i dont really care about the 8th-yr FA contract because i dont think you can win with a 40% player unless he's an unprecedented talent & maybe not even then. that 4-5mil or whatever it is between what hometeam & potential signers can offer RFAs is gonna be pretty big capwise (until they license gambling, anyway) UNLESS the RFA can get someone to offer him less than the max yrs so the match frees him early
Ya, I ran into Wiggins and Levine when they were rookies at a restaraunt in Dinkytown. My son (then in middle school) and his friend went up to ask him for a picture. If those two as rookies aren't safe in Dinkytown, no way Leonard walks around freely in SA without attracting attention.
then i'd think you'd be more sympathetic to someone in your same shoes?
the only thing Skip Bayless thinks is "how can i say something that will get me clicks/attention". that's it.
I'm not not sympathetic. I was making an observation.then i'd think you'd be more sympathetic to someone in your same shoes?
also, he's FROM Los Angeles
In San Antonio he may be the most recognizable celebrity other than Pop. Maybe Parker and Manu, but they are on the decline. In LA there is a significantly larger population of famous athletes in all sports and a large number of entertainers as well. In addition to that, if LeBron also goes to LA he instantly tales the spotlight off Kawhi.
Then he dates a Kardashian and he's like the 12th most well known celebrity in that entourage. It's L.A.
In San Antonio we see Spurs around all the time in my part of town. Nobody bothers them beyond a wave or "hi Kawhi/Tim/David/Manu/Tony/Bruce". No pictures or autographs. None of it.
They don't go to those places unless they're prepared to deal with the masses. There's places for rich/famous people to go in and around L.A. so they don't have to deal with the riff raff.
This is also true, though again it is somewhat location dependent. You're going to get different treatment in Ontario than you will in Bel Air.
Of course people are stopping them for photos and autographs. You have to be the most naive person on the planet to think otherwise.
Never seen it happen in my 25 years here.
Ah they would be insane to trade for him. Would probably cost Gordon and Isaac and he’d be gone at the trade deadline. Completely stupid.
We need a 30 for 30 on this.
They essentially performed no different than last year - 47 wins vs 48 and a first round exit. Poking fun at the Melo 'upgrade' usually warrants a good chuckle, but as good as Oladipo has proven to become they still added Paul George. And were not any better. Is it a noteworthy achievement? Sure. Is it MVP worthy? Nope. Especially when weighted against Harden and what his team accomplished, the Superman act put on my LeBron, and Davis carrying his team after the Cousins injury. Numbers are a nice objective crutch to lean on to stay in the conversation, but subjectively there's nothing Westbrook did to put him in the same level as those 3 this year.
