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Old 07-10-2019, 08:01 PM   #241
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After hearing about the terms of the deal, The Kawhi situation is really starting to reek. The clippers completely mortgage the foreseeable future for 2 years of Kawhi and Paul George. All to satisfy Kawhi’s desires. Big gamble for a team that realistically could miss the playoffs. Then Kawhi most definitely will bolt for greener pastures. All the talk about Kawhi being the anti-star during the season sure didn’t stand the test of time. He’s entitled like the rest of them. He quit on the Spurs. He bailed on the Raptors after they gave him a championship and bent over backwards for him. The NBA has a real problem with this era of stars and that needs to be addressed.
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Old 07-10-2019, 08:05 PM   #242
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After hearing about the terms of the deal, The Kawhi situation is really starting to reek. The clippers completely mortgage the foreseeable future for 2 years of Kawhi and Paul George. All to satisfy Kawhi’s desires. Big gamble for a team that realistically could miss the playoffs. Then Kawhi most definitely will bolt for greener pastures. All the talk about Kawhi being the anti-star during the season sure didn’t stand the test of time. He’s entitled like the rest of them. He quit on the Spurs. He bailed on the Raptors after they gave him a championship and bent over backwards for him. The NBA has a real problem with this era of stars and that needs to be addressed.

You mean Kawhi gave the Raps a championship. He owes nobody nothing, as a free agent hes entitled to go wherever he likes.
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Old 07-10-2019, 08:35 PM   #243
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Well, I refuse to look at the season in a negative light as this is what we've hoped we'd see in our lifetime, a championship.

The Kawhi thing feels weirder and less special as time goes on and will definitely make the festive feeling next season when he comes back feel a little less so. A few things stand out now that times has passed and you start to put things together.

1) Kawhi reportedly had moved his stuff from Toronto before the free agent week, I think a lot of people looked past that as we hoped and prayed he'd sign here

2) Looks more and more like not only did Toronto not have a chance but that he actually may have played that whole hoopla day in Toronto up in a shrewd tactic to force the Clippers to get who he wanted before he signed

That stings if true (and it certainly looks like it), but I guess you have to respect that he owed Toronto nothing and gave us a championship, and ultimately if you're signing in LA, it makes sense to force them into being a contender rather than the Clippers knowing you're signing and not going all in.

So yeah, we were likely a pawn in free agency week and that stings after everything the city and country gave him, like true adoration with murals and memories that will last a lifetime. And yes he looks different than the casual, quiet guy who didn't want any hoopla around him.

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Old 07-10-2019, 08:43 PM   #244
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At the end of the day, though NBA players by and large don't want to play in Canada because it's foreign and cold and they want warm and being in the NBA spotlight, and NHL players don't want to play in Canada because it's cold and despite being home to so many they want out of the spotlight where NBA players want in it, lol.

So basically Canada will never be somewhere that attracts rich athletes and our sports will always mostly suck because of that. We're a place that attracts immigrants and born Canadians stay here because we focus on providing a country where the lower class can live with some dignity and move up and those that can't help themselves are helped, while immigrants come in, get jobs and live the life they could only dream of back home, and I'm comfortable and happy with that.

Rich athletes can go play in the entertainment capital of the world, a country set up as a playground for the rich and famous while everything crumbles around them. I don't see a reason to envy those "great" cities. There's a price for how fun it is down there, imo.

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Old 07-10-2019, 09:26 PM   #245
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After hearing about the terms of the deal, The Kawhi situation is really starting to reek. The clippers completely mortgage the foreseeable future for 2 years of Kawhi and Paul George. All to satisfy Kawhi’s desires. Big gamble for a team that realistically could miss the playoffs. Then Kawhi most definitely will bolt for greener pastures. All the talk about Kawhi being the anti-star during the season sure didn’t stand the test of time. He’s entitled like the rest of them. He quit on the Spurs. He bailed on the Raptors after they gave him a championship and bent over backwards for him. The NBA has a real problem with this era of stars and that needs to be addressed.
I mean they made the playoffs and took two games from a fully healthy Warriors team at Oracle without Kawhi and Paul George, so no, it's not realistic for them to miss the playoffs. It would take a massive amount of injuries or a staggering fall off a cliff from multiple players. And as has been mentioned throughout the process, and was viewed as the realistic way the Raps could keep Kawhi (with the 1+1), getting to the 10 years of service opens up another level of max for Kawhi. And this is what player do now to pressure the front office to keep a team competitive. The Clippers are now compelled to keep a strong team together if they wanna keep Kawhi long term. LeBron started this with Cleveland, and it pretty much worked.

And the NBA has addressed this by allowing teams to spend way over the cap on their own guys and to pay guys they have Bird's rights on an extra year and a higher average. So short of directly intervening to stop super teams (good luck with that), things are what they are. And say what you will about Kawhi, but he gave up more than $50 million by forgoing the supermax with the Spurs.

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Uhh, the same Clippers that had a representative at most of all the Raptors home games? The same Clippers who were fined for tampering during the season?

https://www.thestar.com/sports/rapto...i-leonard.html
Public tampering by commenting on a player isn't quite negotiating a contract with a guy before he even becomes a free agent. It's hard to believe that wasn't the case with almost every FA contract signed within the first 24 hours.
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Old 07-10-2019, 10:18 PM   #246
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It's actually really easy to stop super teams. Just have no max. If a player then wants to be on a super team, he has to take less than market value.
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Kawhi gets LA out of his system, he and Giannis sign with Raptors in 2021. E4

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It's actually really easy to stop super teams. Just have no max. If a player then wants to be on a super team, he has to take less than market value.
Actually if you want to stop super teams drop the individual player cap. If kawhi can only make 33 million a year he will go somewhere competitive. If the raps offered him 75 maybe he stays.

The San Antonio situation is a weird one. Somewhere the trust broke down and he looked out for his long term health. No fault there.
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Old 07-11-2019, 10:12 AM   #249
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Yes the individual Max is way too low. There are some pretty mediocre players on Max contracts these days. Fixing that would go a long way to smoothing some of these issues.
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They could also change Bird's rights again so that teams can offer basically unlimited term. Yes one extra year is a lot of money. Four extra years, guaranteed, is a lot harder to walk away from.
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Yes the individual Max is way too low. There are some pretty mediocre players on Max contracts these days. Fixing that would go a long way to smoothing some of these issues.
Tobias Harris makes as much as kawhi. That's insane.
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The Oklahoma City Thunder have agreed to trade Russell Westbrook to the Houston Rockets for Chris Paul, first-round picks in 2024 and 2026, pick swaps in 2021 and 2025,
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Old 07-11-2019, 07:17 PM   #253
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God damn the NBA is gonna be good next season.
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This seems like the rarest of trades where both teams lose. I guess slight win for the Thunder since they get picks, but two abysmal contracts swapped for each other. Russ is certainly the better player, but the Rockets need shooting off Harden, not a guy who is one of the worst shooting guards in the league.
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I was thinking the George trade was an anomaly but I guess now that drove up the price for skilled players. Houston looks good on paper but I really don't think Harden and Westbrook make anyone else better but themselves. In basketball that works but I'm not sure having two of those players on the same team is a good thing. Very odd how teams can completely mortgage their distant futures by dealing picks 8 years out, when their GM won't likely be around by then. It becomes someone else's mess to clean up by then. Anyway, crazy times in the NBA. The two LA teams look like the favorites at this point still.
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man the NBA offseason is wild.

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This seems like the rarest of trades where both teams lose. I guess slight win for the Thunder since they get picks, but two abysmal contracts swapped for each other. Russ is certainly the better player, but the Rockets need shooting off Harden, not a guy who is one of the worst shooting guards in the league.
I highly doubt Paul will be a Thunder by November. He can prob net them another 1st rounder.

I want the Raps to get Adams if OKC is doing a fire sale! and dump Gasol.
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I highly doubt Paul will be a Thunder by November. He can prob net them another 1st rounder.

I want the Raps to get Adams if OKC is doing a fire sale! and dump Gasol.
From who lol. Who wants to pay Chris Paul $43 million in three years? He's maybe a buyout candidate but I doubt he gives up the green. They'd have to tack on a first rounder to dump him, though they certainly have enough of those coming up.
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