Few_Alternative_6372

170 | a day ago

Yes, he can keep getting away with it

Insightful21

32 | a day ago

What it do baybeeeeee

welmoe

2 | 17 hours ago

https://streamable.com/ydotl

LameAfro

46 | a day ago

Bro just wiped his hands clean and said im leaving the country lol

Lukexxxi

117 | a day ago

Threw multiple grenades into the clippers franchise, Then walked into 60m a year again.

Must be nice to be that good at basketball.

MddlingAges

-2 | 21 hours ago

HOMEWRWCKER!

I’m trying to think of comparables? Deshaun Watson, obvs. Bradley Beal on a smaller scale. Lakers Westbrook on a much smaller scale, and I don’t like to include the genuinely washed. Hinkie with the Sixers? Pacers Artest. Marbury Knicks, Eddy Curry.

More parallels than I thought, but nothing on Kawhi’s level.

Holiday-Yard9368

211 | a day ago

Board man gets paid

moon_dos

42 | a day ago

Mr. Fun Guy back in the 6

Insightful21

21 | a day ago

Uhh haha haaaaaah

torn8tv

14 | a day ago

Written sentences you can hear

welmoe

1 | 17 hours ago

https://streamable.com/ezp19

ShatHammer

13 | a day ago

Daktronics man

PewpyDewpdyPantz

8 | a day ago

*Scoreboard man gets paid.

ImUrFatherFigureBud

2 | a day ago

Paid man gets paid*

sghydf

2 | 17 hours ago

Fun guy!

Krillin113

2 | a day ago

Agent man gets paid lmao. Freeest commission ever.

Wazflame

1 | a day ago

Mr. Bag Collector

Aesir_Auditor

91 | a day ago

Can’t wait to see his additional comp in a few years when Pablo reports it again.

He’ll get a lucrative maple syrup sponsorship and never be photographed eating a pancake or waffle. Or even fried chicken and waffles.

Flanninpud

32 | a day ago

What’s funny about him being with Toronto is I specifically remember MLSE, who owns both the raps and the leafs, courting a big hockey free agent named Steven stamkos like a decade ago. As a part of their pitch, they had like an exec from Canadian tires at their free agency meeting literally talking about how they’d make him a big part of their marketing. I’ve got no idea why that was legal, but maybe rules are just different in the nhl

KnicksGhost2497

27 | a day ago

I could be wrong but isn’t the difference that KL was not part of any marketing campaigns, but he was still being paid as if he was? The Daktronics deal was a major flag in that regard because that company has no real need for commercial marketing since they mostly do B2B sales, so why would they need a “brand ambassador”?

thoroughbeans

17 | a day ago

The problem is that the money they were paying KL came directly from the Clippers. Daktronics was just a middle man to pay KL outside the cap. If the Clippers never paid anything to Daktronics, they could choose to give their own money KL even if he doesn’t do any actual work for them.

knitwoolf

3 | a day ago

Nah both are illegal. People would know this if they read the report. Teams can’t organize sponsorships for players even if they end up doing actual sponsorship work. That’s why the clippers got fined for the DeAndre Jordan Lexus deal in 2016. Teams are only allowed to pass on contact info for a player/agent if a sponsor specifically initiates a request for it. They can’t arrange or initiate or be involved in any other way than to pass on the contact info.

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New-Bowler-8915

-2 | a day ago

Illegal as in against the law? I don’t think that’s correct.

kylemclaren7

8 | a day ago

You have a misunderstanding of what happened. The team gave the company money; who then “hired” Kawhi as a sponsor. A team organizing sponsorships is normal and happens everywhere.

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Gavin1453

1 | a day ago

I am curious about that too and how it is CBA compliant. But to the NHLs credit, they are much more severe about even the idea of cap circumvention. All those cheap owners and Bettman would love to pounce on any cap circumvention at all.

ImUrFatherFigureBud

3 | a day ago

Canadian based companies religiously put Raptor players in commercials,

I’ve seen Lowry, OG, Ibaka, Serge, Gradey Dick, Scottie Barnes, Quickley, Olylnyk, Bargnani etc. on commercials over the last 15 years as a Toronto native

Gradey Dick was advertising potato chips lol

we’ll know if those sponsors are bullshit

This_Excitement_5191

9 | a day ago

Gradey dick was on national tv with Tmac for like 3 years straight. That Gillette commercial was constant.

He probably made more off that than his nba contract lol

ArenSteele

2 | a day ago

And Grady Dick was probably paid like $50k for those ads, not $40 million

Shr3kk_Wpg

4 | a day ago

Pablo’s gonna find out that Kawhi gets a cut from every poutine sold in Canada

IanicRR

2 | a day ago

“How is it that Kawhi accepted a maple syrup sponsorship when medical records provided to Pablo Torre Finds Out clearly state that Kawhi is a type 1 diabetic?”

LittiHDarkKnight

2 | a day ago

Good thing they got AI now and they learn from thier mistakes. Also Raptors have a backbone of saying no to him before lol.

Mick_E_Bobby

1 | a day ago

You already mentioned waffles. Why did you mention it again with fried chicken?

Aesir_Auditor

3 | a day ago

Because I wanted a third thing to associate with maple syrup and have a terrible sore throat so greasy food sounds really good right now.

Leolorin

2 | a day ago

It’s funny because the maple syrup lobby actually has an ongoing marketing campaign in Canada where they show all the other things you can do with maple syrup (e.g. using it as an ingredient in salad dressings)

Mick_E_Bobby

1 | a day ago

Yeah, I’m hangry

WearyTranslator3338

80 | a day ago

Honestly, how has he gotten away with this.

The only person that can take him down is Judge Judy

blancs50

22 | a day ago

Going after him meant Going up against the union too and gave Ballmer an avenue to appeal is own punishment. The fight would’ve been a distraction for the league for years to come vs just hitting ballmer hard & deterring any future owners from doing the same in the future. They made the right move for the league.

AMadHammer

1 | 20 hours ago

Right move as long as you are not a clippers fan or a player who ends up playing for them. They might as well name them the bobcats.

StodgySponge

13 | a day ago

laughs in Kawhi

AgentMV2

9 | a day ago

Ah huh huh huh hue huh!

Icy_Steak8987

1 | 10 hours ago

He laughs the same way AI pronounces WWE.

Penske-Material78

34 | a day ago

I thought it would be 2 x 120. Nice

BayesBestFriend

48 | a day ago

Clippers fans watching him take less money after he nuked their franchise to squeeze for every penny

AshenSacrifice

13 | a day ago

Ballmer nuked it, Kawhi just asked nicely to have it nuked

lemonpoundcaker

13 | a day ago

Like right after you buy a new car and then the fuckers put it on sale with 10k off sticker for the same models lol

GetOffMyGradey

3 | a day ago

We know he got paid tens of millions under the table but if you’re just talking about his NBA salary, his last contract with LAC was for less than the max too. That’s why he’s going to get paid $50m in NBA salary with Toronto this season instead of $58m which would’ve been his max.

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This_Excitement_5191

2 | a day ago

It’s a 1+1, he’s just on an expiring

Bixby33

1 | a day ago

He can’t sign a 3-year extension due to his age. The $165m is his current year, the next year, and then his player option.

Expensive-Willow-933

0 | a day ago

nah its normal to have a player option in the final year, gives room for further extension or whatever the player wants. and he took a 9M discount so the player option was likely leverage given for that

mMounirM

9 | a day ago

126M/2 was the max so it’s a decent discount

ImUrFatherFigureBud

1 | a day ago

After signing the league approval, Adam silver glances down and notices something odd, a tiny piece of tape covering a section on the contract, he lifts the tape:

115m x 2>!0!< years

fepeee

1 | a day ago

He will get the other 5M once he plants 2 trees

CurrentRoster

11 | a day ago

he stay

Gavin1453

4 | a day ago

That brings a tear to my eye 🥹

beckychao

29 | a day ago

They will be contenders, they have a good team. The issue will be Leonard’s health, as usual. It’s not more complicated than that, at least to me. Leonard was 7th in MVP voting last season but the Clippers also didn’t make the playoffs. The Raptors aren’t getting 2019 Leonard due to his injury issues - it will depend on Barnes becoming the best player he can be for them to win it all, with Leonard playing second banana.

As for the contract, that player option me no likey. Otherwise the money seems fine for Toronto’s situation. Leonard was fabulous last season, but in your late 30s, the cliff comes at you fast.

runthepoint1

13 | a day ago

His game I think translates quite well to old age though, a lot of it is simple post up turn around fades and simple layups. Not a ton of fancy athletic stuff going on from what I can see

beckychao

6 | a day ago

I think he will be terrific for the duration of the contract, but being old and injury prone is a bad combination, so that player option gives me pause.

runthepoint1

2 | a day ago

Definitely bad from a Raptor’s fan perspective

BLAHBLAH1234BLAH1234

8 | a day ago

We will take it over Ingram. Getting a scorer of Kawhi’s caliber was never going to be easy or cheap.

Pimpdaddyfrogface

10 | a day ago

I know it’s tired at this point but modern NBA money is so insane to me. It doesn’t seem that long ago when I remember thinking Kobe was killing his team by having a contract that was over $20M a year.

CrossDeSolo

2 | 10 hours ago

Lebron wade bosh were only paid like 14mil each lol. The numbers today are crazy

mbucks334

13 | a day ago

Have the details for Uncle Dennis’ contract been revealed?

LameAfro

2 | a day ago

I wonder how much Kawaii pays him for his loyalty and just being a family member lol

SHEEPLE24

6 | a day ago

They got him taking a pay cut. Pablo get to work.

boat-dog

6 | a day ago

HE STAY.

kemar7856

6 | a day ago

All it cost was a 700k fine I do this 10 times out of 10

heat_fan_

4 | a day ago

Got that Bradley Beal money

Hotdiggity11

4 | a day ago

Kawhi one of the true NBA icons at this point. Completely destroyed a franchise (Granted it’s historically one of the worst franchised anyways) and got off almost completely scott free.

I bet he was doing that awkward chuckle laugh out loud while signing that extension. He’s like Captain Kirk in the NFL. 😂

Iliveinatrashcann

10 | a day ago

How much of the Maple Leafs does he own now?

Bixby33

8 | a day ago

Same as when he was shut down the first time.

Powerglove2000

6 | a day ago

I imagine the player option helped with getting it below the max.

titusandroidus

3 | a day ago

The amount of rage he would stir if he recreated “Smiling through it all! Can’t believe this my life” would be monumental to announce this.

Dangerhunt57

3 | a day ago

That’s a lot of money to bet on a guy couldn’t help his team get past first round of playoff for the last 5 years. I gotta give props to Kawhi for getting paid big time once again I guess.

Murphy_York

5 | a day ago

And how much is he getting paid in obscure endorsement deals to play 35 games this upcoming season?

StandYourGroundhog

2 | a day ago

Toronto’s about to get a nice new forest

awesomesauce615

2 | a day ago

I think it would be hilarious if toronto did some sort of ceremonial tree planting with him.

Standard_Gap4944

2 | a day ago

Here we go again

John_Houbolt

2 | a day ago

What about the endorsements?

real_internets

2 | a day ago

Congrats! Well earned.

londonisblue22

2 | a day ago

As a raps fan I really don’t mind this number. 125Ms was too much

cmeinthecourt

2 | a day ago

Claw all that money together and give it to the klaw 🐐

KirbzTheWord

2 | a day ago

$57 million after tax

GeneralMajorWebelo_

2 | a day ago

Finesse the Clippers

Flee the scene of the crime

Secure another bag

Who’s doing it like Kawhi?! 🤝😭

Gristle__McThornbody

2 | a day ago

2 years because that’s the most he can ask for or just because?

_gastly

2 | a day ago

This man had his cake, ate it, then proceeded to shit it out all over the Clippers, wow

herseyhawkins33

2 | a day ago

Gotta be the most impressive grift in league history.

heybart

3 | a day ago

Pete Davidson : Hot women :: Kawhi : Rich owners

You don’t need to understand it, you just have to accept it

Life_Crossover

1 | a day ago

He must be a billionaire at this point

danjperlman

1 | a day ago

$114,300

The-Pharcyde

1 | a day ago

Let’s go 🐐. Can’t wait for the season 🍿

OriginalOutcome3689

1 | a day ago

Uncle Dennis gets a Key to the City and a Tim Horton’s black card

wing3d

1 | a day ago

I wonder what they are gonna yell at him during the Clippers home games.

flexingtonsteele

1 | a day ago

Uncle Dennis gets his clients paid

RicoLoveless

1 | 21 hours ago

Was Kawhi just a sleeper agent or something

ontherise88

1 | 19 hours ago

What a joke

andres7832

1 | 18 hours ago

Had to pay 700,000 fine but will gross 543 million in NBA money plus whatever under the table deals he’s made over the years…

likpoper

1 | 14 hours ago

Kawhi is seriously elite in getting what he wants

CorporalCoprolite

1 | a day ago

crazy amount of money for an old dude who has a low chance of staying healthy

CtrlAltDelightfull

0 | a day ago

This is a massive bet on Kawhi’s health and continued production. Gave up multiple picks and paying him a near max

Expensive-Willow-933

4 | a day ago

below max for the finals mvp who won with the team while extremely healthy due to the teams medical staff btw… 😭

thewrongnotes

1 | a day ago

7 years ago when he was in his prime, not when he was 35 like he is now

Beautiful_Ninja

0 | a day ago

He’s going to be able to play dinosaurs with Scottie Barnes for years now.

ChameleonWins

4 | a day ago

Two autistic kings

G1Spectrum

0 | a day ago

Wow maybe he will actually have to work

i_be_scrollin

-6 | a day ago

Kawhi should be banned from the NBA. This is ridiculous. And the Raptors are a trash org

ocram101

1 | a day ago

Why are the Raptors a trash organization?

inshamblesx

-2 | a day ago

and y’all glazed sliver for giving this guy a pass 😂

goknicks23

1 | 20 hours ago

All on the players union,pay attention

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1 | a day ago

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[Charania] Just in: Toronto Raptors All-NBA star Kawhi Leonard has agreed on a two-year, $115 million contract extension with the franchise, plus a player option for the 2028-29 season, his agent Harrison Gaines of SLASH Sports tells ESPN.