SMTBSI wrote:Fidel Sarcasmo wrote:ddb wrote:Kawhi not wanting to play and sign in Boston is not true. His preference is to play in LA for the Lakers. If the Lakers cannot get a deal done with San Antonio, and Kawhi has a choice of staying in San Antonio, or going to Boston in a trade with assurance that he will sign an extension, Kawhi is at a point where he would prefer Boston. Especially, with LeBron out of the East. Boston equals a great chance to compete in the finals every year, endorsements, etc. His camp is still very much so in the LA-state of mind and trying to figure out a way to get him there. But it's not even close to being a guarantee....
Woj thinks he's still set on wanting LA as of yesterday. You're hearing different? What's up with Phili's package? that's sounds like hot air to get LA to pick up their offer more. I've all but given up hope we'll get Leonard.
My issue is that Kawhi has to know we'd be a seriously powerful team with him in the fold. Irving/Hayward/Leonard/Horford is pretty nuts, before you even add whatever youth we keep on top of that. So it's not like if we traded for him, and did really well next year, that he'd be all surprised and suddenly won over.
For some combination of reasons, perhaps some that have very little to do with basketball and competitive opportunity, he really specifically wants LA.
Forget for a second that it's our team. Try to divorce yourself from our rooting biases. Imagine that Chicago was stacked with Irving/Brown/Hayward/Tatum/Horford, and were in prime position to land Leonard, and we saw that he was expressing zero interest in going there. That would be really weird. That's exactly the kind of team players are trying to shoot their way to in this super team era.
It just tells me that it's less about basketball than it probably should be. For that reason, I'm very much not confident in our ability to resign him, even after a great year. I just don't think this is a normal situation. If we acquire him, I think he'll just view it as having his cake and eating it to: getting away from SAS and getting to compete in the upcoming season, before ultimately winding up exactly where he wants to be anyway.
Quality post mate, agree wholeheartedly.
If I could springboard from this to my own tangent for a second, we drafted Brown and Tatum, they’re OURS. Pure green, they know NOTHING else, and that carries plenty of weight in my book, especially in today’s travel guide to the NBA.
Lets get real here, San Antonio seem to have ****** this thing up nicely. They knew all of this was right around the corner, and imo consciously invested more into coach Pop and the current regime, rather than preparing well in advance to hand the keys over to Kawhi.
Over recent years we’ve often been referred to as the Spurs East. Quite honestly, that sounds more of an insult today than a compliment. What are the chances of Danny after having drafted Kawhi, watching him walk away at the peak of his powers? Zilch.
Think of how you would’ve described Kawhi to someone if asked a year or so ago, compared to today. Two totally different people.
As of right now I’d be far more confident in LeBron, KD, Cousins, literally ANYONE re-signing after spending a season as a Celtic, than I would be in Leonard.
On behalf of the Boston Celtics I VEHEMENTLY decline any deal involving Brown for potentially one year of Kawhi. GAGF mate.
If he convinces Danny of his intent to re-sign after ‘19, then as always it’s all on our GM’s shoulders. God I’d love to know how Ainge goes about questioning / evaluating him.
“So, Kawhi. Who the **** are you, and in your own words, would you like to explain the last 12 months or so?”
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go ahead lol. 