Post#1107 » by Fencer reregistered » Fri Jul 6, 2018 3:24 pm
There's a lot of spin to the general effect that the problems in the Spurs/Leonard relationship are caused by the middlemen, and specifically that things are fine when Kawhi talks to Popovich or Buford or whoever, but that such conversations are bizarrely rare. This goes back to the old Popovich quotes to the effect that he didn't know anything, because Kawhi's people were controlling info.
I take all this as the Spurs trying to communicate with Kawhi via the media and telling him his advisers aren't acting in his best interest.
And by the way -- from the few numbers that have been thrown around, getting a higher salary is likely to do just as much for Kawhi's bank account as would raising his endorsement profile, especially within the constraints of him being a media-shy kind of person.
What I don't have any clue about is whether this is a Lavar Ball kind of situation, in which the family gets a much bigger cut of any shoe money or whatever than it does of actual salary.
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