Darko Rajaković vs Kawhi Leonard 1v1
I really hope Darko is the coach if we win a second title
Kawhi probably likes him more than nurse. Darko seems really humble and just fun uncle vibes. Kawhi doesn’t care about coaching strategists lol, gtfo out of our way and let us play
Darko is not a gtfo the way and play coach, the team if anything plays a very specific brand of basketball that we’ve actively built towards with every move.
I mean, the wall on Giannis and box-and-1 on Steph really helped sealed the championship
He’s a very very good person and his coaching has been nice! He goes out of his way to really build these relationships too with the guys
Love to see it
Kawhi doesnt really have a record of being a coach killer so we might be good
Bro is really having fun and living his best life while the Clippers burn lmao
If I got paid all that money, ruined a franchise for years to come, and pay a few million in fines to escape all charges AND flee the country to get paid another fat contract, I’ll be doing that too
They ruined themselves, lets be real about that.
The targeted Kawhi, when two other teams said no to Unc Dennis the Clippers and Ballmer said “Hell yes!”
The shipped out Shai, picks, etc. to bring in the guy Kawhi wanted.
They fucked themselves.
I understand Kawhi has blame as well but it is so weird to me that there’s people on this sub who act like Kawhi held the Clippers at gunpoint and forced them to break the rules.
There’s so much vitriol for Kawhi on X and Reddit. This is like 95% cuz of a poverty franchise doing things to bend the rules and get ahead cuz the owner is one of the richest people in the world. Lakers and Raptors reported that shit to the league right away. You don’t even see other players talking about it, and I bet it’s for obvious reasons. This probably happens way more than people realize and they don’t want to get caught in the line of fire. Even Draymond said there’s no ill will towards Kawhi and the NBAPA even shields him, but fans can’t admit the Clippers did this to themselves. Like fuck, Lawrence Frank and a Clippers exec were at Raptors games for an entire year straight, lmao. They weren’t exactly being subtle. Dumb asses saying “fleet the country,” bruh he’s a public figure on a work visa, if he was charged for a crime, it’s a simple extradition + he also works in the US like half the time, smh..
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Kawhi is the keyser soze of the NBA
well the clippers decided to break the rules for him sooo
The clippers and Kawhi agreed to the CBA. Then both parties conspired to break the CBA rules together.
okay and kawhi settled with the NBA and the NBPA. the clippers are the ones who decided to obstruct and lie to the NBA and break actual laws to bend over backwards for kawhi. he can ask for all he wants and im sure a lot of players do. im pretty sure that baseball guy from pablo’s podcast said as much. but they do it above board and the clippers did not
Yeah people snitch for lighter sentences all of the time. Doesn’t mean they’re innocent.
Not when the Clippers did it to themselves. They probed him in the first place
He’ll get his karma, and I can’t wait for it
Tbf, being an all-time great that can’t perform consistently because chronic injuries is his karma.
I think that’s pretty good karma all things considered.
That started happening before he got to the clippers. So that’s not really karma for what he did.
Sadly he’s had that degenerative knee issue his whole career. He’s lucky that he’s made it this far, let alone 20 years.
Well I need that trend to keep continuing
1st ballot HOF and probably ½ billion in lifetime earnings seems pretty good karma all things considered.
Or are you hoping the guy gets the 2Pac sendoff?
Thank you for supporting a 2nd Raptors title
lol at believing in karma now Adays
How you live is what the results of your life will be. It doesn’t have to be some cosmic force that governs life. Open your mind
Karma definitely exists. However in a basketball context, there’s no way Kawhi gets karma.
“Karma definitely exists”
Why do you think that lol
Pablo is still digging. Kawhi will know his name eventually
I’ve seen more off-season Kawhi in the past few months than the previous 14 seasons combined.
first time on the sub when the raptors are relevant? We swarm
There was that time in 2019
Lmao facts
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Pop woulda scored on him
This made me spit out my water well done
And call him trash to his face.
Kawhi is the better player
Raptors owners bet Kawhi 20M he couldn’t beat Darko 1 on 1
And kawhi cheating with illegal hand checking
Like taking candy from a baby 😭
Even if they don’t have a deep playoff run, this will be a fun season. The vibes are up
SVG still got the best handles of all coaches
The vibes are immaculate
Ooh no, this year they are maculate, lol
Can’t wait for the season to start
Just Klaw things
Me too. The Raptors 2019 championship run was the most fun I’ve had watching as a neutral. I still think about the Kawhactus often.
It’s a housewarming gift for Kawhi.
Toronto is one of those teams like NY and LA that people really get hype for in the final. Toronto has its media market issues, but global hype generated when they make the final is almost unparalleled. The USA vs CAN angle makes the matchup interesting regardless, and the Raptors tend to become a stand in for european fans to root for.
Totally forgot about the Kawhactus! Thanks for the memories.
So wholesome
Is he playing tmo night?
I’m wondering how the community will feel if Leonard has an incredible season.
What’s worse, being a woman beater, a gambling-hawker, or having shady deals with a billionaire that screws the billionaire? 🤷
Youre in the wrong sub if you expect a good answer here lol
Hey, tbf, the Pistons fan here had the right answer locked and loaded :P
The NBA justice warriors here think rapist Kobe is a better human being than billionaire scamming Kawhi
My GOAT wealth redistributor
Why do we have to pick one?
Woman beater
The Browns fans are cheering for Deshaun Watson again just because they won 3 games in a row and what he did is much worse than Kawhi, so I’m sure NBA fans will be fine cheering for Kawhi if he’s fun to watch.
well let’s see. we got kobe being a rapist and bagging his girl while she was underage. we got multiple wife beaters. we got a few pedophiles like malone. we got guys shilling out and investing in IDF drone companies that kill kids. imo kawhi is a great dude
Not to mention stake holders and endorsers of Kalshi and poly market
Kawhi is my favourite white collar criminal
I mean it would be nothing new he carried the clippers hard last season
Damn, if the 2019 Sixers had Darko guarding the baseline three it would have been a whole different timeline…
To this day I still don’t understand why Ben Simmons stopped running and guarding him. Brain dead player.
At 18 seconds Darko jukes the person recording.
À Québec???
Yeah, they are playing a preseason match at Centre Vidéotron tomorrow against the Heat.
I just hope we win a chip with Darko as the coach, great guy
I have said some harsh things in the past about Darko. But I want it to work out for him because he is a great culture setter and the vibe around the team has been incredible since the beginning of last season.
Scottie about to be robbed of first team all D again. By his own coach.
That dunk just cost the Raptors their season..
Shhhhhaddddddd up
If my coach can’t even beat me 1v1, why do I need to listen to him?!
Honestly a very ignorant comment, there are plenty of coaches that wouldn’t be able to beat half of their players 1 on 1.
Coaches earn the right to be coaches not from their ability to beat NBA players 1v1, but for who they know, who they’re friends with and also their coaching ability sometimes.
Kawhi can beat any coach in the world 1v1 does that mean he doesnt need a coach? So Giannis shouldn’t listen to coach Spo cos he can beat him 1v1? 🤦
Guess I should’ve added a sarcasm tag…
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Wait Laval ?? Where was this
Ngl, I could beat Darko too.
As a raptors fan, I’m torn. On the one hand Kawhi is a huge POS, getting money that was supposed to go to building low income housing in Rhode Island. On the other, he’s coming off as endearing and will probably be a top 10 player this season.
Eh, that’s a stretch and a half. The billionaire building the soccer stadium got the low income housing money, completely unrelated to Kawhi being given shares in said soccer company as a co-owner.
That shady shit would have happened without Kawhi, so fuck off with that shit.
At least keep the focus on who he really stole money from….Balmer and the Clippers
So him getting money from Rhode Island FC means nothing for you? Fuck off with YOUR shit. Dick riding.
Balmer bought him those shares. He funnelled money into the project so Kawhi and Dennis could get part of their “demands” of owning a team.
Kawhi did not make the fucked up stadium deal happen no matter how much you want that to be true.
You seem extra butt hurt and desperate to add lies to the narrative to what? Make yourself feel better?
What Kawhi and Dennis did is plenty fucked up enough without being a bitch drama queen and acting like everything these companies did was his fault.
He just asked for money.
The criminals gave it to him…and they probably didn’t even need to
Theres not even any evidence balmer bought those. Kawhi bought shares into the team as a minority shareholder who does not make any decisions regarding what happened with the housing money.
Are there any raptors fans that feel bad about having a fraudster on their team?
If I get the opportunity to take millions of dollars from Steve Balmer and then ruin his basketball team I’m doing that shit twice
Haha. That’s funny. I don’t blame you.
Ehh we have no woman beaters, or rapists on our team. I call that a win.
Why would they feel bad? He took money from a billionaire. lol it’s not like they got Deshaun Watson or some shit.
I never said that. And I don’t care if he’s taking money from a billionaire. I care that he’s affecting the integrity of the league and sport that I follow.
I think it’s highly unlikely that he’s the first. It’s ok for big market teams like the Knicks to give Brunson a team friendly deal but supplement his income through endorsements. I don’t think pocket watchin is necessary to enjoy basketball but players taking endorsement deals from gambling shit like kalshi is 100% putting the leagues integrity into question.
He took money from a billionaire and tried to become a slumlord in Rhode Island. I’m not feeling bad but this ain’t a feeling good situation either
Of all the moral lines to draw in the nba financial isn’t one that really fucks with me
I think it probably should, especially as a small market team. If teams in larger markets are giving out under the table payments to players to boost salaries it’s going to be difficult to compete.
Yeah and it got caught and punished, we got lucky that Kawhi didn’t and now we’re here. So no, I’m not mad
I don’t blame you. I’m just asking a question.
Sure but it’s not like the Raptors are getting top free agents either way
I’m talking about a broader issue that would affect the league as a whole but yeah I see what you’re saying.
Raptors aren’t a small market team at all for the record
True, but they are not a desired market for players and therefore have some of the same limitations. Not to mention higher taxes which matters when you’re making millions.
Ever since i saw the picks taken away, i’ve been satisfied with the punishment.
Obviously Kawhi got off lighter than everyone expected, but my only gripe has ever been with the Clippers organization (after they stalked our arena for a year and then cheated)
The clippers are cheaters and got what they deserve. But Kawhi is shady af and got off with a slap on the wrist and then fled the country.
I applaud stealing money from billionaires.
That’s such a limited view. I don’t applaud it when it comes at the expense of the league that I follow.
why should we? This guy’s team asked the same thing from different teams and only ballmer said yeah, would you say no to all that money if a billionaire says aight lemme give you something extra
Ballmer offered something illegal and immoral, Kawhi accepted it. You shouldn’t commend that.
Stealing from billionaires isn’t immoral and he did nothing illegal.
I think you’re objectively wrong on two fronts.
Federal prosecutors are investigating. It’s illegal (or should be illegal) from whichever point you look at it.
Compromising the integrity of the whole league while signing a pact with a billionaire to be his fave playtoy isn’t immoral? Kawhi certainly didn’t steal anything from Ballmer lmao, he would gladly pay everyone under the table if it meant Clippers were competitive. It’s exactly playing into a billionaire’s game.
Because it’s illegal and it affects the integrity of the structure of the game.
i rather save my moral angst to wifebeaters and fools who promote gambling
Sure. That’s about the easiest position one could take.
blame balmer and the clips? lol
I do. And I blame Kawhi and his group as well.
It’s against the rules. It isn’t illegal.
That’s a bizarre position to take.
Also, it looks like it might have been illegal and the SEC was looking into.
maybe like 0.03% of the fanbase
Lol I would say for Raps fans no. At the end of the day what Kawhi did (while wrong) is not even on the list of “things that would make a team not want him” especially considering the fact the majority of this blame should be placed on the Clippers anyway. Said player (and uncle Dennis) can ask or make demands for whatever they want - but if an organization is bending like that (and they asked for stuff from the Raptors but the Raptors declined like an organization should) and get caught they should face the punishment as the Clippers are. Like I don’t think Kawhi needed to serve like a season suspension or something like that but I do think they should have made him pay back a certain amount of money because the fine he got was laughable. But I think that’s really all he deserved
Again, when it really comes down to it all he did was ask for stuff. It’s up to the organization to say no. Clippers were the ones circumventing the cap which is the real issue here and a huge no-no. You can argue about morals and ethics on Kawhis end but it just comes down to being money hungry. As a lot of us are; if the opportunity presents itself to get money for doing nothing… who’s going to say no? Lol
Asking for something that is illegal is immoral on its own ground. Also, it’s being investigated by the federal government so it may also be “illegal” as well.
Anyway, I would be wary of getting attached to a dude that is seemingly without morals or loyalty. I don’t really care how raptors fans feel, they can feel however they want. I was just asking a question that I think some people have considered.
I mean, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with getting attached to a player like this though because… I get what you’re saying and especially for you Spurs fans because it ended really badly in terms of just how he treated you guys. Because I’m of the opinion y’all didn’t do anything to him or wrong him in any way.
He was a part of doing really good things for your organization and at the end of the day is an incredible player who has brought both organization’s great success. I’m a raps fan myself and I love and appreciate him for what he did for Canadian Basketball and bringing a championship. That’s one of the most special moments the Raptors (and Canada) will ever have in terms of sports. That whole run was a miracle. So I separate him as a basketball player and who he is as a person because he does do some questionable things personally.
Even that being said I think he’s probably still a decent person lol. Although, correct if I’m wrong but did he not take a shot at Pop one time? That’s not very nice. Unless I’m wrong, maybe I’m wrong. He just doesn’t have a lot of morals when it comes to business and what not (cap stuff, how he treated your organization, his offseason dealings with Raps, etc)
Yeah I appreciate the perspective. I’m over all the Kawhi stuff, grateful for what he gave us and the rest is in the past.
I wish yall the best this season. I have nothing against raptors fans. Yall are good organization.
Nah man we’re just happy to be contenders again
Honestly dude I get that. Sucks not feeling like your team can compete.
Ayo Scottie Barnes and the klaw about to be a problem on defense. I think the east is going to be tough. Lots of solid teams.
Why would we? It’s almost like a sleeper agent, the clippers fucked with us, tampering on Kawhi all 2019. He went there, destroyed their franchise and now returns home a hero. I hope the clippers never win another game again. Ps. Fuck Lawrence Frank that hobgoblin motherfucker.
Considering the person he took money from is a billionaire, they shouldn’t feel bad no.
Nope, could care less
Yeah lot of rationalizing and hand waving going on. I get it, and I’d still cheer for the guy if he were on my team, but it wouldn’t feel great. I wouldn’t be in here talking about “actually what Kawhi did wasn’t that bad!”
That’s literally what I’m asking. Everyone getting pissed at me is funny when I think the question is pretty reasonable. I’d feel conflicted about supporting a dude like that.
“actually what Kawhi did wasn’t that bad!”
I’d take Ballmer’s money and be proud of it if I had the opportunity.
Do you wanna tell them Pablo?
Damn Darko is tall as fuck