Valuable-Average-865

81 | 3 hours ago

What about Ben Simmons on the Kangz though

Lets_Go_Blue__Jays

20 | 3 hours ago

Am I the only person excited for this?

Two man game with Sabonis will make for highlight moments.

Valuable-Average-865

25 | 3 hours ago

Yes.

No.

InstanceMoney

-1 | an hour ago

YnEoS

wistful_grace | TOR

4 | 3 hours ago

i’ve stockholmed myself into making the kings my team out west.

i’m excited :)

Minute-Spinach-5563 | PHI

2 | 3 hours ago

Asking the real ?’s here

BoujeeAdam | LAL

2 | 3 hours ago

Gives me a reason to watch that sorry team 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😍

Im_a_Knob | WAS

2 | an hour ago

i cant believe that the kings went from light the beam then back to kangz.

zazenbr | TOR

2 | 3 hours ago

Perfect fit.

taxiviaalfa

52 | 3 hours ago

I’m a Raptors fan. This is insane. Nothing about this feels real. At all. Kawhi came to Canada a quiet and pissed off guy 8 years ago. He won a championship, dipped, and now 8 years later comes back - and looks HAPPY to be here? Dame was a nice story and kinda predictable since he didnt look like he wanted to be in Milwaukee anyway but I honestly never thought I would see the day Kawhi would come back to Toronto

GUNTHVGK | TOR

9 | 3 hours ago

I was graduating from HS at the ceremony like days before Kawhi won it all for us, living only an hour and a bit from Toronto and the streets were still so live

jhwyung | TOR

5 | 2 hours ago

I’m absolutely positive that his new PR team is making be more outgoing. Compare his media day from 2019 to today, it’s like he’s a different person.

I remember in 2020 when he signed w the clips he did this one tv promo to cross promote the new terminator movie and he was just dull and even after editing you got the impression he didn’t want to be there. Shit even his New Balance commercials were dull.

This is a completely different guy. I like it but I think it’s forced and he’s trying hard to rehab his image

Vegetable-Tooth8463 | CHA

1 | 7 minutes ago

Was he actually pissed off lol?

linesandrules

1 | an hour ago

Happy to have him back but clearly he’s not prime kawhi anymore so it’s a bit like better late than never, but never late woulda been better

Bowiescorvat2 | TOR

37 | 3 hours ago

I haven’t been this excited for a season since that year. Raptors vs 76ers is gonna feed families

onionnurve | PHI

9 | 3 hours ago

Kawhi came back to the raptors so we had to get LeBronto lol

taxiviaalfa

10 | 3 hours ago

What about 2020? The season after? I was pretty damn hyped for that year. And it turned out to be a great season too. Too bad the Bubble happened and Siakam went months without playing basketball, or else that Raptors team was going back to the Finals 100%. Those were some special groups we got to watch. I never realized how spoiled we were to watch those guys

ihatedougford | TOR

7 | 3 hours ago

All the casual fans left with Kawhi

taxiviaalfa

1 | 2 hours ago

I left during the Tampa year, but then I was back. That season was just unwatchable. Awful basketball. I cant watch a team that doesnt play its home games in Toronto

jhwyung | TOR

1 | 2 hours ago

Naw man, I think a lot of them stayed. The raps sub still had some really dumb takes from fans who just started watching ball. It was until the after Tampa tank that the sub started to get back to normal.

I’m just bracing myself for some dumbass opinions this season, the sub is gonna explode with new fans

dementiaLim

5 | 3 hours ago

That regular season was so good. Just finding ways to win, and such great off-court content. Probably the most entertained I’ve been during a basketball season

energytaker | TOR

2 | 3 hours ago

That was definitely the most entertaining squad. Felt like we would win every time we were down

M1ctlan

1 | 3 hours ago

They were a very well rounded team but everyone knows it’s pretty much impossible to win unless you have a superstar. Only teams that have are the 14 Spurs and 04 Pistons.

Bowiescorvat2 | TOR

1 | 3 hours ago

Covid happened that year and i cut off my cable. Did not watch alot of games personally spent alot of time outdoors

ygog45 | NYK

1 | 2 hours ago

So many eastern conference matchups in general will feed families too

Fullmetalx117

9 | 3 hours ago

Kawhi was able to pull off a master heist and getaway, it really is quite unreal. Future movies need to take note

Dreamlion_Inc | WAS

16 | 3 hours ago

Honestly I’m kinda jealous. Like imagine a top 15 guy having a solid history with your team and eventually coming back to it

Must be fucking nice

Lets_Go_Blue__Jays

9 | 3 hours ago

Hey mate, no need to be jealous.

Imagine Beal comes back and the Wizards win a chip?

Dreamlion_Inc | WAS

5 | 3 hours ago

I know it’s not but this feels like an insult lol

EvanImmobley

3 | 2 hours ago

Didnt yall get Trump back /s

KirbzTheWord

1 | 3 hours ago

Well the Wizards got Jordan for a couple seasons !

Thin-Donkey945

1 | 3 hours ago

that was just weird. sold some tix. 🤷🏻‍♂️

CertainDoubts

6 | 3 hours ago

7 years?!?!?!

Marzipan_Dream_7389

3 | 3 hours ago

I’m a Raps fan and I’m far more surprised about his attitude this time around. Last time he made it clear to everyone that he didn’t want to be there and he was running on mercenary mode.

Now he’s like, actually genuinely excited to be here. And that’s saying something, because Kawhi is stoic even at the best of times.

I’m still wary, though. I don’t like how he fucked us over in 2019 free agency and tried to pressure us into cheating. I also don’t like how he basically phoned in almost his entire Clippers tenure once he got his bag. At first I thought this was just a cover/clever way to engineer his own mitigating factors to try and lessen his sentence from the league, but now the punishment has been handed down.

Let’s see how/if he plays now that he’s got no more possible ulterior motivations compelling him to play…

SambaPapi1 | TOR

1 | an hour ago

He’s genuinely excited to have escaped an explosion (of his making).

Marzipan_Dream_7389

1 | 25 minutes ago

There’s truth to that, but if that were all, he could have just done what he did last time, and just clock in and clock out. There’s just something different about him this time around, and if it were just about the investigation, then why is he still keeping up the act even though he’s now avoided the worst of it?

Idk. Maybe this is just wishful thinking.

shreks_burner | NYK

3 | 3 hours ago

Are you really being honest tho?

SaNMaN-9

1 | 3 hours ago

Really excited for this season! So many storylines…LeBron, Kawhi, Hali etc

Ok_Zookeepergame3521 | TOR

1 | 3 hours ago

i still can’t believe this is my life

jarrough | CLE

1 | an hour ago

It’s going to be quite a season, so many big moves happened I care barely keep track

Valentine975

1 | 43 minutes ago

Already have the 2027 tattoo designed. Destiny called

Don-Goyo-lab-freak

1 | 3 hours ago

Would really be surreal if he was back on the Spurs. Spurs are way smarter than that.

thy_armageddon | NYK

0 | 3 hours ago

Surreal would be if like, he was a lemon.

AccomplishedBake8351

4 | 3 hours ago

Not that big of a deal tbh

IonHazzikostasIsGod | TOR

2 | 3 hours ago

?..

When else does a team’s best player ever come back way down the line for a 2nd title window? It’s basically just LeBron

AccomplishedBake8351

2 | 3 hours ago

Kyle Lowry came back on a 1 day retirement contract 🤷

But idk kawhi if you set the over/under for number of playoff games kawhi will play over the course of his 3 year contract at 9.5 I’d prolly take the under

Global_Addendum_6200 | NYK

2 | 3 hours ago

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills when the nba and fans talk about kawhi. He literally hasn’t done shit in 6 years but they still talk about him like it’s 2018.

Faptors

4 | 2 hours ago

Guess you didnt watch last season?

Global_Addendum_6200 | NYK

-1 | 2 hours ago

I did but there was something wrong with my cable. I couldn’t find any of the clippers playoff games.

GodZillion

4 | an hour ago

Literally had his best season stats wise last year. Ease off the crazy pills man.

russfan0987 | ORL

3 | an hour ago

Watch the sport

It is honestly so surreal that Kawhi Leonard is back on the Raptors