Yesterday I was asked if I was over the Kawhi thing, and if I would be cool if he came back. I’m embarrassed to say that I hesitated and thought about it for a split second… but luckily I remembered this whole thing…
by kazkeb
@San Antonio Spurs
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I’m over it. I’m not bitter any more. I can forgive and forget what he did to the Spurs and the fans, but I’ll never get over what he did to this dude. LMA took a 25% paycut to go to the Spurs in the hopes of getting his first ring, and getting one more for TP and Manu before they retired.
What I also thought about was the fact that I couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t try to at least give the guy a low key heads up that I might not be around. I thought of how I could do that…
At first, I thought that I’d try to do it through my agent, and have him contact his agent, and have a little bit of an ambiguous, and hopefully confidential, conversation that I might not be there longer… Then I remembered who his agent was.
Then, I thought that I’d try to see if we had any mutual friends, and maybe get a hold of one of them to pass on a bit of a warning… Then I remembered that Kawhi pretty much doesn’t have any friends in the NBA. Gosh, I wonder why…
You? Who are you?
Na, fuck kawhi baby
I’m still split on this whole thing. A part of me would welcome him back with open arms (Kawhi and Wemby on defense? That’s a dream come true), but at the same time, it just didn’t go right. Sits out 90% of the final season with us and then he magically gets healed and wins a ring? Nah man, there’s something off there. But then again, in an alternate reality, Tony didn’t get hurt and Zaza doesn’t intentionally hurt Kawhi, we beat the Warriors in 6, and then go on to beat the Cavs in 4 or 5 easily. Tony and Manu retire champions, Kawhi gets another and LA finally gets his. At least that’s what I wish had happened. Oh well.
Kawhi is dead cap for like 70% of a season man fuck that guy wembys my hero now
I’ve never held any ill will towards Kawhi, shit happens. But as a player, I really don’t know what team should sign him or what sort of contract he should get. When he’s fine, he delivers extreme value, and he absolutely looks like a max player. But the man has a degenerative condition and he’ll never really be fine long term.
So while I’d welcome him back as I’ve never stopped liking him, completely dispassionately I just have no earthly idea what to do with him as a basketball player