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Do you think Kahwi Leonard comes to Boston?

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Re: Kawhi Leonard (Merged Threads)
« Reply #450 on: June 19, 2018, 11:08:34 PM »

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Scary thought

Sacramento Kings smoke something special and trade #2 and a few young players for Leonard =T

They would still manage to lose a ton of games. Leonard would play half-assed if he even plays, and the chemistry on that team would be awful.

doubt it.  The guy doesn't play basketball that way

Re: Kawhi Leonard (Merged Threads)
« Reply #451 on: June 19, 2018, 11:12:41 PM »

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Scary thought

Sacramento Kings smoke something special and trade #2 and a few young players for Leonard =T

And then Kawhi Leonard bolts for the Lakers. What a scary thought indeed.

In the meantime our 2019 pick tanks

I was listening to the Lowe Post and one of the draft express guys was on there and he reckons 2019 draft is looking pretty terrible anyway.

Re: Kawhi Leonard (Merged Threads)
« Reply #452 on: June 19, 2018, 11:16:30 PM »

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ESPN reporting with @ramonashelburne: San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich is traveling to Southern California with the intention of meeting with franchise star Kawhi Leonard prior to Thursday’s NBA Draft. Story soon on site.

Re: Kawhi Leonard (Merged Threads)
« Reply #453 on: June 19, 2018, 11:26:31 PM »

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Spurs' Kawhi Leonard and Gregg Popovich met on Tuesday in San Diego, league sources tell Yahoo.

Re: Kawhi Leonard (Merged Threads)
« Reply #454 on: June 19, 2018, 11:39:47 PM »

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Sounds like spurs want some clarity by the draft

Re: Kawhi Leonard (Merged Threads)
« Reply #455 on: June 19, 2018, 11:43:54 PM »

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Spurs' Kawhi Leonard and Gregg Popovich met on Tuesday in San Diego, league sources tell Yahoo.

Like, omg! ::) Are they meeting for lunch/dinner and which restaurant will they choose? If just the right special isn't available that day, will Kawhi simply get up and leave, and who pays for everything? Will they arrive in separate cars and/or enter together? Will Pop want to reserve a private dining room at the Olive Garden but Leonard prefers Longhorn Steakhouse, and will everything ultimately be sabotaged by Kawhi's uncle wanting to go to Chuck E. Cheese, followed by Kawhi taking Pop on a shopping spree at DSW because shoes?

SO. MANY. QUESTIONS ::) ;D.

Re: Kawhi Leonard (Merged Threads)
« Reply #456 on: June 19, 2018, 11:48:43 PM »

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Spurs' Kawhi Leonard and Gregg Popovich met on Tuesday in San Diego, league sources tell Yahoo.

Like, omg! ::) Are they meeting for lunch/dinner and which restaurant will they choose? If just the right special isn't available that day, will Kawhi simply get up and leave, and who pays for everything? Will they arrive in separate cars and/or enter together? Will Pop want to reserve a private dining room at the Olive Garden but Leonard prefers Longhorn Steakhouse, and will everything ultimately be sabotaged by Kawhi's uncle wanting to go to Chuck E. Cheese, followed by Kawhi taking Pop on a shopping spree at DSW because shoes?

SO. MANY. QUESTIONS ::) ;D.
Can see Kawhi after the meeting, looking skyward, rubbing his beard thinking:

I would rather have gone to Chipotle

Re: Kawhi Leonard (Merged Threads)
« Reply #457 on: June 19, 2018, 11:57:11 PM »

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No thanks. Time to move on. Per Wojo:

Leonard wants a trade to Los Angeles, preferably the Lakers over the Clippers, league sources said. He has privately maintained that he no longer wants to play in San Antonio, and will eventually alert rival teams considering trades for him that his intentions are to sign in Los Angeles -- preferably with the Lakers -- when he can become a free agent in 2019, league sources said.

Re: Kawhi Leonard (Merged Threads)
« Reply #458 on: June 19, 2018, 11:59:13 PM »

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Spurs' Kawhi Leonard and Gregg Popovich met on Tuesday in San Diego, league sources tell Yahoo.

San Diego. That's all we need to know. A major California city closest to Los Angeles.


#JTJB (Just Trade Jaylen Brown)
#JFJM (Just Fire Joe Mazzulla)

Re: Kawhi Leonard (Merged Threads)
« Reply #459 on: June 20, 2018, 12:03:16 AM »

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No thanks. Time to move on. Per Wojo:

Leonard wants a trade to Los Angeles, preferably the Lakers over the Clippers, league sources said. He has privately maintained that he no longer wants to play in San Antonio, and will eventually alert rival teams considering trades for him that his intentions are to sign in Los Angeles -- preferably with the Lakers -- when he can become a free agent in 2019, league sources said.

Where did you get this source?
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Re: Kawhi Leonard (Merged Threads)
« Reply #460 on: June 20, 2018, 12:05:37 AM »

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No thanks. Time to move on. Per Wojo:

Leonard wants a trade to Los Angeles, preferably the Lakers over the Clippers, league sources said. He has privately maintained that he no longer wants to play in San Antonio, and will eventually alert rival teams considering trades for him that his intentions are to sign in Los Angeles -- preferably with the Lakers -- when he can become a free agent in 2019, league sources said.

By then, Lakers probably won’t have any cap space, and the Clippers will probably suck/not have any cap space (pending LeBron/PG and Jordan/Williams).

I’m not convinced the Spurs feel any pressure here. Pop has a silver tongue, and both Parker and Ginobili are probably gone this offseason (Parker to FA and Ginobili to retirement if Pop requests it to make amends with Kawhi). Kawhi won’t be able to sit out of the first half of the season, and winning cures a lot. And, as I said, it is not super likely the Lakers or Clippers will have cap space.

EDIT: for what it’s worth, Shams has a much different characterization of the meeting:

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The meeting between the two faces of the Spurs’ franchise was done professionally and confidentially, league sources said.

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The Spurs’ front office and Leonard’s representatives had been in communication since the season ended, and Leonard has been in contact with coach Gregg Popovich, league sources said. Leonard spent most of the second half of the season rehabbing his injury in New York, where his medical team was based and where he trained with Spurs staffers. He has returned close to full health from the lingering quad injury.

https://sports.yahoo.com/sources-disgruntled-spurs-star-kawhi-leonard-gregg-popovich-met-tuesday-san-diego-033855625.html

Woj and Ramona are writing with a lot of speculation and “sources” who aren’t connected to the Spurs at all. This could very well be some more ESPN sensationalism.
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Re: Kawhi Leonard (Merged Threads)
« Reply #461 on: June 20, 2018, 12:05:53 AM »

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No thanks. Time to move on. Per Wojo:

Leonard wants a trade to Los Angeles, preferably the Lakers over the Clippers, league sources said. He has privately maintained that he no longer wants to play in San Antonio, and will eventually alert rival teams considering trades for him that his intentions are to sign in Los Angeles -- preferably with the Lakers -- when he can become a free agent in 2019, league sources said.

Where did you get this source?

ESPN.

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/23846966/gregg-popovich-flying-california-attempt-meet-kawhi-leonard

Re: Kawhi Leonard (Merged Threads)
« Reply #462 on: June 20, 2018, 12:10:15 AM »

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as Others have mentioned, he is now 100% going to LA by 2019, and will be a rental if he's on another team.

[Wojnarowski/Shelburne] "(Leonard) will eventually alert rival teams considering trades for him that his intentions are to sign in Los Angeles -- preferably with the Lakers -- when he can become a free agent in 2019, league sources said."

Re: Kawhi Leonard (Merged Threads)
« Reply #463 on: June 20, 2018, 12:15:57 AM »

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I'm seriously not trusting Woj on this anymore.

I was following his tweets and it's up and down. A hour ago, he mentioned that the meeting had begun, but Shams reported it ended with a good conversation. 30 minutes later, woj updates a few minutes later that the meeting had already ended a hour ago.

He's been conflicting in most of his tweets. So my assumption is that either Kawhi's camp is talking to woj, or something fishy is going on.

Either way, Pop can stand pat regardless. He can wait for the best offer. If LeBron goes to the Lakers, it would really be almost impossible to bring in Kawhi, unless the Spurs agree to take on Deng's contract, or LeBron doesn't take the max at all.
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Re: Kawhi Leonard (Merged Threads)
« Reply #464 on: June 20, 2018, 12:20:17 AM »

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I'm seriously not trusting Woj on this anymore.

I was following his tweets and it's up and down. A hour ago, he mentioned that the meeting had begun, but Shams reported it ended with a good conversation. 30 minutes later, woj updates a few minutes later that the meeting had already ended a hour ago.

He's been conflicting in most of his tweets. So my assumption is that either Kawhi's camp is talking to woj, or something fishy is going on.

Either way, Pop can stand pat regardless. He can wait for the best offer. If LeBron goes to the Lakers, it would really be almost impossible to bring in Kawhi, unless the Spurs agree to take on Deng's contract, or LeBron doesn't take the max at all.
there is no best offer. Kawhi has certified he will go nowhere except the lakers or clips. No other team will separate from themselves anything of value for a rental

You think woj completely fabricated this! Wow. What a conspiracy theory. Why would he ruin his name and rep? He doesn’t care about La