They are in win now mindset. Kawhi just had the best season of his career on 65 games. If he stays healthy they can make a good run in the east. Kawhi had 28ppg on near 50/40/90 splits he still got it when he plays.

He averaged 28pts last season.

BI contract is awful

Trying to recapture that magical night with your ex, only to find that she’s just as crazy as before only with more baggage.

we gave up 2 first round picks for kawhi. Ingram and dick are negative value. We only lose if those picks become an all star. LFG

2nd team All - NBA

The picks could easily turn into nothing

Even if one of them turn into a starter I’m sleeping easy

People swore the Jak trade was “disastrous” but the 2024 FRP turned into a guy who’s been traded twice as a pick and on his 2nd team as a player

Unprotected 7 years later is absolutely crazy

We got completely bent over oh my god

The absence of Masai is glaring

Literally me in my group chat when everyone was all doom and gloom after the announcement:

“Idk guys! Maybe the 1st are heavily protected picks in 2027 and 2029 or something!!”

Welcome to hell

Guys who gives a fuck its kawhi lets have some fun

Yeah bro. This should have been a fire sale.  Ballmer needs to move Kawhi to get the cheating stink off him. 

What did he say?

Only low IQ believe believe Siegel is legit. My grandmother has more legit NBA sources than him.

Desperation

He’s a top 6-8 player in the league when healthy. Coming off his best season of his career.

The risk is significant with injuries but if healthy that is a title contender with Kawhi, Barnes, RJ, IQ, CMB, Poetl and Snead.

Top 3 defense with that front court and wings, passing with IQ, Snead and Barnes, Shooting with IQ, RJ and Kawhi.

Huge risk but Kawhi genuinely looked like a top 5 guy again for a massive stretch of this season.

He ended his best season as a 28/6/4/2 guy with low TO’s on 51/39/89 - 63% TS with elite defense as the only main scorer and no.1 target for every defense most of the season.

Scottie ain’t getting younger and the East keeps getting better.

Because you could win over the next few years or you can sit around and be mediocre for the full decade.

But the alternative isn’t really better. We aren’t good enough with just Ingram, who’s also injury prone. I’d rather 4 years of Kawhi than 4 years of Ingram.

Getting post Kawhi picks is crazy

I was told the pick protections were totally gonna make this a fair deal!

Rare Clippers W

Raptors paid more for 35 year old injury prone load management Kawhi than they did for him at his fucking physical prime 10 years ago lol.

Just goes to show how absurdly badly he nuked his trade value from fucking ORBIT with the Spurs.

Unbelievable basketball talent. Total fucking snake.

This is like the opposite of the OKC trade. Balance is restored.

I don’t know how our FO doesn’t understand this, I learned about the importance of using protection in high school

Looks like they decided to bet everything on Barnes’ prime. They kept the picks no so they could get him help every year but they just said “screw post Kawhi + Barnes, we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it”.

Unprotected and without lube

Straight back to Toronto

Kawhi gonna go around to all the restaurants and ask: remember when you said I could eat free for life?

Got to get them back door deals.

Silver wont do anything about it, which means every team should do the same as the Clippers did

Did Buss ever pay back that PPP loan?

I’m confused. What leverage do the clips have?

Nothing. People acting like it could be 1984 or 2003 but it’s more likely it’ll be 2000 or 2013.

That the Raptors will probably be Kawhi-less at that point

I feel like it’s more about the fact it’s the furthest picks possible in the future, and with the new lottery odds that unpredictability of their value could give them more power to be flippable than we take granted for today

Seriously, go do a random lottery simulator. It’s absurd the variance compared to what we’re used to.

Tbf they still have a fairly good young core

Scottie is the timeline, not Kawhi

Guessing they’re banking on convincing Shai to go play for his hometown team when he’s due for an extension lol

Barnes will likely be 27-28 at this time and just entering his prime. After learning from a player who is the perfect blueprint for himself (assuming kawhi speaks to him)

Is this what OKC was feeling like in 2019?

Seriously it’s like that family guy scene with the boat and the mystery box. You could have Kawhi now or these mystery boxes in the 2030’s… they could even be Kawhi! I’ll take Kawhi all day. I wanna see his jersey in the rafters at Scotiabank. This feels so right.

Stole Kawhi back in 2020 and now rewarded for it. GG I guess clippers

Y’all played hardball and it worked. Our GM is stupid as fuck

You guys got more for a 35 year Kawhi than the Mavs did for 25 year old Luka.

Yea I like it slightly less but fuck it. Teams should go for it when they can and live with the results

Yeah this thread is crazy

Obviously those might be very valuable firsts but they’re going for it. In terms of pure player capital it’s nothing.

Absolutely the best offseason the league has had in years. Feels like summer 2019 all over again.

IM LOVIN IT

What leverage did they have over Toronto???

clips got max value for harden and kawhi tbh. The first harden trade was a huge L though.

Kawhi is 3 times the player Jaylen Brown will ever be, even at 35.

they are desperate and going for it, but if kawhi manages to stay healthy they certainly have a path to the finals.