Going to china and calling it Team Rocket? 🚀

It’s a no-show deal, so they book an appointment where you’re your own technician and fix it yourself

I had no idea that’s why he left fior Clippers after winning Finals for Raptors. Would he have stayed then if Raptors would have paid under table to third parties like Clippers did?

Uncle Dennis side requests =/= facilitating extra cash under the table via 3rd parties.

he is stupid but lucky, he got reported by two other teams and got off without punishment then tried it again with the clippers and all he had to do was a sponsored tweet/plant trees but couldn’t even do that, and got himself and the team in trouble, only the player association saved him from harsher punishment

Not stupid, greedy

He made an extra 100+ million dollars and got away with a very small fine. If he does it again, and they catch him again, what are they going to do? Suspend him a year? Still worth it.

I wonder if Pablo investigated that CargoJet endorsement Kawhi picked up right before he left Toronto.

Kawhi is better on both sides of the court and is 3 yrs younger, of course he would get more money.

Durant was on the Suns the season before and they were floundering. All Kawhi did was return to the Clippers in a huge hole and dragged them to the playoffs. There is a difference between the two and, when healthy, Kawhi is currently the better, more impactful player.

He absolutely was

He was definitely better. Kawhi went on a generational heater for like two months and was arguably the best player in the league during that stretch.

They both have some chemistry issues, but only one has a GC with randoms slandering teammates.

Only one of them turns into Michael Jordan in the playoffs. Ask Draymond and Joel, they’ve said it before too.

Being healthy is another question though but teams evidently are willing to take these risks.

The lakers turned down the offer to pay him under the table and reported his request to the league like they’re supposed to otherwise you can get in trouble.

Only reason he didn’t play for the lakers is Jeanie is too by the book

Both things can be true

His missed games for the pelicans don’t mean much. He played 16 more games than Kawhi did last season

Why are we now shitting on Ingram after trading him away? Not a fan of Ingram as most people in the NBA aren’t but just seems odd that Raptors are now doing a complete 180. (not sure of your personal history on BI, i more just mean in general)

All fade aways

Also needs to be said, BI has a hard time dealing with physical teams. Kawhi can handle those situations better

Dick is inconsistent and Ingram has shown his best, it was not enough. Happy with the deal

you’re lying if you think BI can win a championship as the #1

kawhi has shown that.. multiple times

Yes, but he also signed with the Lakers for less than he could if he waited a couple months. Kinda like Brunson, but without all the ties and reasons to take a pay cut like that.

Hopes aside, do you guys think he’ll return to the Mavs after his contract with the Lakers is up?

What do trophies from 7+ years ago have to do with what Kawhi gets paid next year?

I thought we measured things in potatoes now. Luka is small potatoes stuff. Whereas Kawhi is focusing on big potatoes stuff.

What the hell? He was the third best guy on that team and their best guy for most of the playoffs?

I get that Kawhi is public enemy number one these days, but people are talking crazy about him and his career now.

I’ll take the dpoy fisherman who’s won 2 chips

Lakers fans should honestly stop tempting the fates and wait til Luka accomplishes a single thing as a laker to talk this much shit

Luka has been in the league 8 years.

By Kawhi’s 8th year he had 3 finals runs, 2 wcf, 1 semis, 1 first round exit, and 1 missed playoffs. Earning 2 championships, 2 FMVPs, 2 DPOYs, 8 All-NBA/All-Def teams. Averaging 72 games played a season, and playing 111 playoff games.

Luka has 1 finals, 1 wcf, 4 first round exits, and 2 missed playoffs. 6 All-NBA/All-D teams. Averaging 71 games a season, and playing 55 playoff games.

Luka has not accomplished even close to what Kawhi did at the same age and has played less games up to the same point in their careers.

Last couple years Luka is trending in a bad direction similar to kawhi’s injury downfall just without the actual success. Everyone knows playoff intensity minutes accumulate more wear and tear on players. Luka has played less than half the playoff games Kawhi did at the same age, and still been dealing with reoccurring lower body injuries after only 2 deep playoff runs for the last 2 years now. It could very well go south for him health wise from this point on just like it did for Kawhi.

That’s the entire point, both butler and kawhi are injury prone.

And we can discuss bad contracts league wide regardless of fandom. I know the PG contract is bad lol

Celtics have signed some great deals over the years and are consistently one of the best contract evaluators in the league. Not sure what you are referring to.

This is just reality for injury prone players. Feels like people just gloss over availability nowadays when it clearly matters. Kawhi hasn’t gotten through 2 consecutive playoff series in 7 years. He couldn’t even get through one at times.

Of course

This is why you have to watch the games because he was much less impactful than you would expect putting up those numbers.

SGA, Luka, Brunson, Wemby, Jokic, Ant, Giannis is all I can say that are clearly better. Cade probably is? Not sure on that I could see both sides

So top 20 clearly and top 10 likely

The literal definition of top 10. Insane to contend that he wasn’t even top 20.

Julius Randle made two all-nba teams in three seasons but was very far from a top 15 player

Or in other words, a singular person cast a 3rd place vote for him.

People gotta stop saying this like it means anything - after 2nd or 3rd it’s just a crapshoot of who that voter wanted to fill their ticket with.

Dumb comment, since Kawhi Leonard received 1 fifth-place vote (totaling 1 voting point) for the 2026 NBA regular-season Most Valuable Player award, tying Donovan Mitchell who also received 1 fifth-place vote.

One 5th place vote was all it took. And he was tied with Donovan Mitchell.

He has genuinely done nothing of note since winning in 2019. Quite literally the opposite of a “bus driver” lol.

His team missed the playoffs….

Davis only 33, he has an actual chance of putting together a healthy season. There is no chance that Kawhi could ever play 3 playoff series in a row. Plus I just like it better positionally. And his contract is shorter.

don’t get mad bitch

Shh don’t ruin it for ignorant American fans

The clippers underachieved with that roster highlighted by that 3-1 blown lead and kawhi never being available for the playoffs. Championship expectations and never really coming close sucks.