Toggle sidebar

NBA 2025 NBA Playoffs

Fantomas said:
53-19 without Kawhi. They'd destroy everyone.
Click to expand...
Toronto made that trade knowing full well it was just a one year rental. Everybody knew he was going to LA the next year. Otherwise some other teams (the Sixers for one) would probably have gotten in on the bidding.

It's just silly to blame Kawhi for doing something that everyone knew he would do fully a year in advance.
 
Jack Straw said:
Toronto made that trade knowing full well it was just a one year rental. Everybody knew he was going to LA the next year.
Click to expand...

That's not true.

This was a likelihood. But the Raptors still worked hard to persuade Kawhi to stay and I remember the discourse about whether Kawhi would stay or go and it was an open question. Ultimately he made his choice and he chose poorly. The smart thing to do would have been a one-year extension with Toronto. Instead he conspired with a declining and overrated Paul George to team up with the Clippers and together they formed one of the most fradulent "contenders" in league history.
 
Fantomas said:
That's not true.

This was a likelihood. But the Raptors still worked hard to persuade Kawhi to stay and I remember the discourse about whether Kawhi would stay or go and it was an open question. Ultimately he made his choice and he chose poorly. The smart thing to do would have been a one-year extension with Toronto. Instead he conspired with a declining and overrated Paul George to team up with the Clippers and together they formed one of the most fradulent "contenders" in league history.
Click to expand...
Paul George had just finished 3rd in MVP voting for that season. Hardly a declining and overrated player.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Jack Straw
Kawhi might have had more team success had he stayed in Toronto but his personal life would have taken a hit and in the end that what it all about.

Big game 7 tonight, do the Warriors have one more in them?
 
Fantomas said:
That's not true.

This was a likelihood. But the Raptors still worked hard to persuade Kawhi to stay and I remember the discourse about whether Kawhi would stay or go and it was an open question. Ultimately he made his choice and he chose poorly. The smart thing to do would have been a one-year extension with Toronto. Instead he conspired with a declining and overrated Paul George to team up with the Clippers and together they formed one of the most fradulent "contenders" in league history.
Click to expand...
Ok, let me re-phrase...

Toronto made that trade knowing full well it was most likely a one year rental. Everybody knew he was probably going to LA the next year.

Better?
 
  • Like
Reactions: Stylizer1
Fantomas said:
Yeah? What happened since then?
Click to expand...
To Kawhi or PG? Pretty much the same thing for both. In the same 5 years Kawhi has played a few more regular season games and a few less playoff games. But at the time it looked like the Clippers were going to be a superteam, especially with GS losing KD and Klay.
 
would kawhi have stayed in toronto if the clips hadn't been able to acquire PG or another star?

he wasn't going to play 3rd fiddle on the lakers behind lebron and AD
 
Terry Yake said:
would kawhi have stayed in toronto if the clips hadn't been able to acquire PG or another star?

he wasn't going to play 3rd fiddle on the lakers behind lebron and AD
Click to expand...

Kawhi was gone no matter what, he got the Raps the chip then he dipped.
Always felt he was the hired assassin to get them over the hump, which he did.
 
Terry Yake said:
would kawhi have stayed in toronto if the clips hadn't been able to acquire PG or another star?
Click to expand...
Hell no. He was the most sought after commodity in all of basketball, his only shot in his career at being in that position, he was never going to use that chip to stay in frakking Toronto.

He almost ended up in LA with Lebron. His first two choices were linking up with either Jimmy and KD but both had their sights on other things. The Clippers finagled the Paul George deal at the last minute to get him on their team.
 
Fantomas said:
That's not true.

This was a likelihood. But the Raptors still worked hard to persuade Kawhi to stay and I remember the discourse about whether Kawhi would stay or go and it was an open question. Ultimately he made his choice and he chose poorly. The smart thing to do would have been a one-year extension with Toronto. Instead he conspired with a declining and overrated Paul George to team up with the Clippers and together they formed one of the most fradulent "contenders" in league history.
Click to expand...
The media ran with the narrative would he stay or would he go but everybody knew he was going to the Clippers. The smart thing for an injury plagued play is never sign a 1 year contract.

The Smart move would have been the Clippers keep all the draft picks, Keep Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, and be a Championship caliber team for years to come.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Users who are viewing this thread

  • ... and 1 more.
    • Total: 6 (members: 4, guests: 2)

    Latest posts

    Ad

    Ad

    Top Bottom