**NBA FINALS THREAD - RAPTORS DEFY GRAVITY**

[howdythere]

You should be a gm. Then when things didn't smooth over and he bounced for nothing...and other free agents don't want to come because you don't know how to take care of your players even when the love is gone..you'd lose your job and hopefully never work in hoops again...and also forget your NT login.

I would never have traded for Demar, I would have waited for a better package, like what the Lakers offered, Anthony Davis, or draft picks. Dumb, dumb decision. If all else failed and he left then we could start over and rebuild. My main philosophy would be long term success of the franchise, if I got fired for that then so be it. Eat **** lol

 

[howdythere]

Remember when Kobe wanted to get traded but the Lakers were like nah famb... They got gasol and won 2 chips a few years later... Don't see how the Spurs couldn't do the same thing

Exactly This x 1000! If they traded Kobe they would’ve gotten a lesser player and it would have set back the franchise. There’s only a small handful of superstars in the league that are game changers, if you’re lucky enough to have one then hang on to them for dear life. You don’t trade them for mediocre pieces that won’t bring you jack squat.

 

[freeze]

Remember when Kobe wanted to get traded but the Lakers were like nah famb... They got gasol and won 2 chips a few years later... Don't see how the Spurs couldn't do the same thing

Lol LA ain't San Antonio. Kobe a fame type of dude. He wanted that. He didn't want to leave. He wanted the FO to get off their *** and make changes. Kawhi didn't want to bounce because of the roster. He wanted to bounce because all the guys he played with were disloyal lil bishes. They all question his health and his motives and Pop ain't have his back. There's no coming back to that

 

[picasso swerve]

No way y'all gonna make this a US vs Canada thing like the Raps aren't the ONLY team outside of the US in the NBA

Wut.

 

[vidiviciun]

#DubsIn4

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[you go boy]

My point is both players wanted to get traded... Spurs messed up by not taking kawhi injury seriously and he felt disrespected and asked for a trade... Instead of apologizing and making things right they rushed to trade him.... Obviously Kobe wanted to get traded for roster reasons but Lakers were like no we not trading you...but Spurs messed up twice one for disrespecting kawhi and the second time for trading him

 

[3god]

Y’all know what time it is

 

[3god]

Who’s more delusional!? Rockets fans or Knicks fans thinking they getting KD?

 

[freeze]

My point is both players wanted to get traded... Spurs messed up by not taking kawhi injury seriously and he felt disrespected and asked for a trade... Instead of apologizing and making things right they rushed to trade him.... Obviously Kobe wanted to get traded for roster reasons but Lakers were like no we not trading you...but Spurs messed up twice one for disrespecting kawhi and the second time for trading him

Lol Kobe had a no trade clause. They were gonna trade him. But he had a small list of where he wanted. And Kobe valuable as hell. You have to gut a team to get the right price. The asking price was nuts. He almost got traded to the pistons at one point.

 

[MVP]

This kinda feels like the 2001 Sixers Lakers series. Probably gonna go the exact same way too.

Think it's more likely to go 04 Pistons-Lakers

 

[freeze]

Think it's more likely to go 04 Pistons-Lakers

Who is washed *** Gary Payton and washed *** Karl Malone tryna get on Ayesha? Who beefed out like Kobe n Shaq to kill whatever little chemistry they had left?

 

[Naruto]

Hopefully we see the other side of the story. I don't think uncle Dennis is sharing every detail. The spurs let kawhi seek his own medical advice in the fall and then he stopped communicating with the team. Hence the "idk if kawhi is playing you'll have to ask his camp". Remember when pop begged kawhi to let him declare kawhi out for the season

Pops wife just died and kawhi was hiding in New York in the same building. Just tell the dude your intentions. You did it anyways when pop went to California to find you in the summer.

I still believe they were hesitant to offer the supermax because kawhi was out and that started the disagreement. Everything went funky after kawhi went back from China. Uncle Dennis probably saw how real stars are treated and demanded the spurs bend over

 

[Mike dunleavy]

Wasn't there bad blood between Aldridge and Kawhi before the 2017 playoffs?

 

[abubakr shaheed]

lol gsw would've beat the breaks off the 04 pistons teams. It would've been a bloodbath. Curry would obliterate chauncey, and Ben and Rasheed whenever the switch came. Rip would be trading his pull up 2s for klay's pull up 3s. draymond would've been all over tayshawn. Ben wallace couldn't score. Kevin durant would make Sheed look like Anthony Randolph.

I hate that this might be accurate. But can’t stand for any Sheed slander.

 

[MVP]

Wasn't there bad blood between Aldridge and Kawhi before the 2017 playoffs?

Yup Pop was trying to cater to LMA and make it his team to make up for alienating him in 2016.

 

[CDFTDOT]

I'm predicting the Raptors in 6, assuming KD doesn't play.
Most likely, it'll be Warriors in 5 or 6.

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

Spurs also locked themselves into some questionable contracts around the time Kawhi went off the grid. Team was going nowhere and I think that played a part in his antics

 

[InTheHallway]

I look at this series very simply ...

Are the Raptors better than the Blazers? Yes.

Warriors in 5 ...

 

[Naruto]

Spurs also locked themselves into some questionable contracts around the time Kawhi went off the grid. Team was going nowhere and I think that played a part in his antics

Kawhi wanted his buddies dedmon and Simmons, instead they shipped them out and gave mills and gasol the bag

 

[jumpmanpro97]

 

[abubakr shaheed]

Raptors in 7 @elpablo21

leave iggy and draymond open for 3 as many times as it takes if you can consistently contest Steph and klay. i hope kawhi is close to 100 and does his thing

 

[you go boy]

What I don't understand about the finals is why it takes so long? Are they trying to build up the suspense with all the days that pass to play the next game? I like the every other day game so we can watch the finals continuously instead of the breaks in between

 

[abubakr shaheed]

I think for logistics more than anything they have to schedule it in advance ..the amount of media and people traveling, accommodations, tv dealings etc.

As much as it sucks to wait this long, still gonna be hyped for game 1

 

[you go boy]

Ya but the series is 2-2-1-1-1 so the first two games are at one teams location and same goes for the other team 2 games there after... It should be every other day like the other playoff series... I'm a watch regardless but damb its every 2 days for no reason SMH

 

[bonafide101]

Also I don't think they want games the same time as the Stanley Cup Finals..