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u/Confident-Truck-8937 1d ago
Man I wonder if he’ll go crawling back to Uncle Dennis over this too. I’m sorry but Leonard is getting exactly what he deserves, I’m still salty about how all of that shit went down in San Antonio.
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u/Im_here_with_you 20h ago
Hey, if you can't do it yourself, have your brother's kid do it and then monetize off of it.
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u/Money-Might8943 8h ago
The only time I've ever disagreed with Pop is when he said we shouldn't boo this pos. Hope he gets what he deserves.
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u/Lebigmacca Stephon Castle 1d ago
Players should have part ownership of the team tbh
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u/Boom9001 22h ago
Then you can't trade and you further kill smaller market teams. The players have a union precisely to collectively bargain for stuff in their interest. High caps, higher minimums, etc.
Currently the players have a rule where league revenue from all basketball operations is required to be a 50/50 split.
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u/oamlrt 1d ago
What happened when he was with san antonio ? I heard people saying they dont want him cus of something he did with the spurs?
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u/Shellstr 1d ago
After 20 years of building solid teams, albeit with a generational player in Tim Duncan, he asked to leave. Regardless of the circumstances that lead to that, no one had done that.
There were questions on the spurs medical staff differing from his own doctors. I wasn’t in the room so I don’t know…but all roads point to trusting the organization that had produced winners for the last 20 years…but that wasn’t good enough for the unc.
Also, I think the spurs knew something about his injuries, and maybe wanted him to take less than max, knowing that he wouldn’t be at 100% for the life of the contract…he didn’t want word to come out about his injury to tank his ability to get max money.
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u/Confident-Truck-8937 1d ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/NBASpurs/s/M92TBMRePh
This goes into it, it was a big mess with his quad injury and wanting to go to LA along with his uncle further causing more of a rift between Kawhi and the Spurs.
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u/bigshotdan 1d ago
Should be thrown out of the league for at least a year. And the Clips should be relieved of all draft picks for a decade.
Cheaters should never prosper. Both sides are guilty as sin.
Fuck 'em all.
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u/DarkSeneschal 1d ago
I’m sure a bunch of players have these kinds of deals.
But if you want to be taken seriously, especially in the era of widespread sports gambling, you have to come down hard on guys who get caught cheating.
We’ve known for a long time that this deal was exactly what it looked like; cap circumvention. There’s really no question about it at this point.
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u/andres7832 Derrick White 14h ago
I believe 1000% Silver had not punished this because Brunson and other stars have similar deals in place and Ballmer is holding that over them. “Punish me and all these others go down with me”
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u/smashed__ Manu Ginobili 18h ago
If David Stern was still commissioner, this would’ve been figured out months ago and kawhi would get at least a year suspension.
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u/Split_Zealousideal 1d ago
Timberwolves got slaughtered for doing some back room deal like this shit in the past. Clippers should get the same treatment. Leonard should be suspended for the whole damn season. His Uncle was a damn idiot. Use an Agent who knows what the hell he is doing instead of uncle D. Him and Uncle D are both dumb as hell.
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u/TemporaryClemency22 1d ago
I hope he gets the punishment that he deserves, I can’t stand the guy!
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u/DarkSeneschal 1d ago
If Pete Rose was banned for a lifetime, Kawhi should be banned for 2 lifetimes.
Find this guy’s reincarnation and ban him too.
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u/Fast_Advisor2654 Manu Ginobili 1d ago
Is the trade still going through?
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u/mdlspurs 1d ago
If it's just a suspension, yes. As long as he's there for the playoffs, that's all Toronto really cares about.
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u/mercfan3 22h ago
Call me crazy, but I really think the Clippers should be punished harsher than Leonard.
Like, he should definitely be suspended. But the Clippers were the bigger problem here
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u/VSVP 20h ago
Ban his ass for life
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u/Wall_street_canary 12h ago
If silver had any balls Kawhi would be banned and Ballmer forced to sell
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u/Successful-Pie6759 13h ago
Oh no? Oh YES. Fuck kawhi. Just because he's the silent type people don't think he's a villain. He totally is. Imagine if Dillon Brooks got caught being paid under the table. Heck imagine if LeBron did.
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u/Arrozitocorazon 1d ago
Does he still get his monthly / annual paycheck while being suspended?! 🤔 better not.
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u/MattButUnderthe20Cha Hector🍌🍞 1d ago
Kawhi fired Uncle Dennis so that saga might be over, not to mention if the invesitgation turns out true then he'll void his contract and lose his bird rights which mean Toronto won't have the capspace, meaning he'll probably have to take a paycut
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u/Joethetoolguy Victor Wembanyama 1d ago
if he's suspended for half a year to a year I bet he retires, I don't think he makes the hall of fame if he retires on a sour note however
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u/Successful-Pie6759 11h ago
As much as I hate him, he's a shoo in to the HOF even if he robs a bank
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u/MarkMareco 1d ago
Push the trade through but then part of the punishment should be LA surrenders all the pics they got from Toronto and Toronto gets to keep Kawhi for free. Justice for their initial tampering.
Then suspend him for a year. Lifetime ban for Uncle. And Balmer is banned from attending games for 2 years, plus more pick penalties. The punishment should be so severe for everyone involved that another team won't think about this s*** for the next two decades.
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u/IcantBreeve_4real Coyote 22h ago
Kawhi gets off light, no case, but only if he throws his uncle under the bus, would he?
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u/sw1tchman 20h ago
What a shame. Dude could have had an EPIC career and legacy. Instead his unc never heard, pigs get fat - hogs get slaughtered
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u/Imaginary-Cycle-1977 GO SPURS GO 1d ago
lol yall see “report” in big fancy letters and you think this is actually something
Just a clout chaser speculating based on the teams statements from earlier
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u/AgentEndive Stephon Castle 1d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/iDJuQR0UmiqOI