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NBA Off-Season Discussion

Khris Middleton staying put:

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Ex-Raptor Jonas Valenciunas  re-signs with Grizzlies.
 
Re:  Kevin Durant

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Reports indicated that Durant felt ?misled? by the Warriors organization concerning his re-injury.

...does Durant feel the Warriors misled him or pressured him in any way to return? The Bleacher Report story indicated that might be the case.

Bleacher Report recently noted that the Los Angeles Clippers and Philadelphia 76ers are wary of signing Durant because of his injury. It appears the New York Knicks and Brooklyn Nets are more than willing to sign Durant to a four-year, $164 million max deal.


https://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-tns-bc-bkn-wilkins-durant-sportsplus-20190626-story.html

 
So Durant snubbed both Warriors and Curry?  Read on.

https://clutchpoints.com/warriors-rumors-golden-state-upset-kevin-durant-making-free-agency-decision-while-stephen-curry-was-on-flight-to-meet-him/
 
Wednesday July 3rd.  Remember the day.  #KawhiWarch

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https://www.thestar.com/sports/raptors/2019/07/04/never-stalk-your-crush-with-helicopter-surveillance-what-the-us-media-said-about-us-after-kawhi-leonard-landed-in-toronto.html
 
Cris Carter of Fox Sports1 has been right all along about Kawhi news. He says that an announcement is coming today.
 
Michael said:
Cris Carter of Fox Sports1 has been right all along about Kawhi news. He says that an announcement is coming today.
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What Kawhi news has there even been to be right about?
 
Nik the Trik said:
Michael said:
Cris Carter of Fox Sports1 has been right all along about Kawhi news. He says that an announcement is coming today.
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What Kawhi news has there even been to be right about?
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He's signing with the Lakers...I mean the Clippers....I mean the Raptors....I mean the Lakers....I mean the Lakers are obviously the right choice because he grew up a Lakers fan.

According to Raptors announcer Eric Smith, Leonard said that while members of his family were Los Angeles Lakers fans, he leaned in a different direction: "I liked Allen Iverson. I was an A.I. fan. I didn't like the Lakers."
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The media have been spewing garbage non-stop on Kawhi and it's really silly how desperate they are to insist that he leaves Canada.  If he goes to LA he does it for his reasons but man is it a joke how absurd the media gets over this.
 
L K said:
Nik the Trik said:
Michael said:
Cris Carter of Fox Sports1 has been right all along about Kawhi news. He says that an announcement is coming today.
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What Kawhi news has there even been to be right about?
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He's signing with the Lakers...I mean the Clippers....I mean the Raptors....I mean the Lakers....I mean the Lakers are obviously the right choice because he grew up a Lakers fan.

According to Raptors announcer Eric Smith, Leonard said that while members of his family were Los Angeles Lakers fans, he leaned in a different direction: "I liked Allen Iverson. I was an A.I. fan. I didn't like the Lakers."
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The media have been spewing garbage non-stop on Kawhi and it's really silly how desperate they are to insist that he leaves Canada.  If he goes to LA he does it for his reasons but man is it a joke how absurd the media gets over this.
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Any media with some sort of vested interest in Kawhi is desperate and insane about this whole thing. I mean, we followed him in a helicopter!!
 
?Bye, bye Kawhi...

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Leonard was determined to get a second star with him to the Clippers, and Jerry West managed to do so by trading for Paul George late Friday evening PST. To land George, Los Angeles gave the Oklahoma City Thunder four future unprotected first-round picks, two pick swaps, Danilo Gallinari, and Shai Gilgeous Alexander.
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https://clutchpoints.com/clippers-news-kawhi-leonard-agrees-to-sign-with-los-angeles/
 
Good thing I'm not a basketball fan or I'd be devastated today. Still, would have been great for Toronto if he stayed, made such an impact and even non basketball guys like me were into it. NBA is such a cutthroat league.
 
This ?super team? approach to basketball sucks. I am glad the Raptors won without using this approach. The Raptors could not of possibly done more to keep him. It feels like the Raptors hot girlfriend just dumped them for some douchebag with a nice car.
 
While it would have been great to get Kawhi back, realistically all this does is fast track a rebuild that was coming anyway. 

For now though Lowry, Van Vleet, Siakam, Anunoby, Ibaka and Gasol are still the core of a team that should make the playoffs next year and will have a ton of cap space next off-season.

And, you know, they won a championship. I'm not devastated. Everything after a title is gravy.
 
Interestingly it's now looking less like Kawhi choosing the Clippers over the Raptors and more like the Raptors being unwilling to match the Thunder's price for Paul George that determined things.

I'm less happy about that but I suppose it's the same thing in the end.
 
Nik the Trik said:
Interestingly it's now looking less like Kawhi choosing the Clippers over the Raptors and more like the Raptors being unwilling to match the Thunder's price for Paul George that determined things.

I'm less happy about that but I suppose it's the same thing in the end.
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What are you seeing? Or where? I?d be surprised Paul agreeing to come to the Raps or the Raptors even coming up with a compensation package that was remotely as good as the Clips gave OKC. I don?t know how they would have fit Paul under the caps as well.
 
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