2018 NBA OFFSEASON

unless i'm missing something the spurs don't have good filler salaries to send out. they need about $10M on top of kawhi to take back derozan, og, and siakam.

the kings traded for ben mclemore lol... i wonder if he'll just abscond to europe

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Send out Patty Mills

yeah...if i’m the raptors i’m not thrilled by that

if you're the spurs do you really want derozan back? i think you could make arguments for either side

if they got back derozan and OG and kept LMA they could prob fight for a 4th or 5th seed which is a pretty good option if you don't want to tear it down. but maybe you do wanna tear it down?

i am assuming they want to be respectable for pop’s last couple years.

the kings traded for ben mclemore lol... i wonder if he'll just abscond to europe

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, July 17, 2018 5:01 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha man poor guy

San Antonio and Toronto are engaged in serious talks on a trade centered on Kawhi Leonard and DeMar DeRozan, league sources tell Yahoo.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) July 18, 2018

hey now

Kawhi Leonard has no desire to play in Toronto, league source tells ESPN.

— Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) July 18, 2018

Me either

Well, what exactly does he want?

Cause not sure I entirely buy this Kawhi being meekly handled by overbearing family/agents sending out mixed messages to obscure their goals.

Leaking this Kawhi news at 3:00 AM eastern time is a fantastic troll move.

Raptors know the risks involved with potential Kawhi Leonard acquisition, given his preference for playing in L.A. But they have great faith in their young players going forward regardless of what Leonard decides to do in 2019.

— David Aldridge (@daldridgetnt) July 18, 2018

Someone doesn't seem pleased

DeMar's IG story right now 👀 pic.twitter.com/RQit4AUYwQ

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) July 18, 2018

Toronto has reached agreement in principle to acquire San Antonio's Kawhi Leonard for package that includes DeMar DeRozan, league sources tell ESPN. Trade is larger on both sides, and players are still being informed of their inclusion in the deal. Trade call with league today.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 18, 2018

WOJBOMB

Wonder if it's Green on the Spurs side?

team USA camp gonna be fascinating

spurs bailing Toronto out of that DeRozan contract is weird

maybe they think they can make him into a more complete player

Spurs have agree to trade Kawhi Leonard and Danny Green to Toronto for DeMar DeRozan, Jakob Poeltl and a protected 2019 first-round pick, league sources tell ESPN. Trade call with league office is starting shortly.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 18, 2018

We finally have a young, good centre!

kawhi waking up in the middle of the night and attempting to torpedo the trade is so beautiful and perfect

the kawhi mouthpieces in the media have been as blatant as anything i can remember

this deal seems to be a carbon copy of the PG trade where the raptors basically figure if kawhi walks they at worst are getting off the derozan contract... we’ll see if that thinking burns them the way it did OKC and oladipo (tho i guess OKC wouldn’t trade PG for oladipo so they’d prob disagree)

pretty interesting the spurs opted for this route. i think they’ll be pretty good and derozan will be placed in the best possible context there. don’t have much of an opinion about poertl. maybe it was the best offer out there.

i guess we don’t know what we’re getting out of kawhi but lowry-green-kawhi-OG-serge crunch time 5... not touching boston still but could easily be put no. 2 in the east over the sixers

kawhi cant risk missing any more games "injured" without seriously torpedoing his value

if he just wants to go to LA it still prob won’t matter. i don’t think the clippers are in a position to turn down kawhi cuz he sat out 2 years being a baby.

spurs def went short term with this one pop doesnt want to spend his twilight years in a rebuild but they prob cldve been in a long term higher upside situation if they took draft picks from the celtics or whoever, pretty great trade for toronto they got out from under that derozen contract that was taking them absolutely nowhere, now theyve got kawhi for a year a shot at retaining him for longer and if he leaves they can start their rebuild

apparently the clippers thing was bs and kawhi still wants to go to the lakers, lebron will be 35 by the end of the 2019-20 season btw

would have liked to see OG anunoby and danny getting shipped out is a bummer. altho i think danny can have a little bit of a resurgence in TO since he'll have some spacing

BUT demar is still v productive. it's a weird fit right now, but if he can improve his 3pt shooting to at least league average it wont be a total log jam in the midrange for lamarcus.

poeltl is v v v good and getting better. if you like advanced state, he had a 122 ORtg and a 104 DRtg, and almost 6 WS for a guy who played like not even 20 MPG.

congrats to the best player in the eastern conference, kawhi leonard

i’m so dead lol, bro threw a tantrum (basically) to go to LA...they finna send him to a whole other country

— Zay 🌹🤘🏽 (@ZayGxld) July 18, 2018

its funny how no nba players want to play in toronto which is a legitimately huge city thats easily better than like 75% of nba cities

yeah for real. it def adds an extra layer of annoyance to your life traveling in and out of canada so often and im sure for taxes and stuff but they all have ppl taking care of that anyway. it’s prob one of the top 5 NBA cities honestly tho i guess it’s super cold during the season.

It’s gonna cost Kawhi about 5% of his income in taxes to go from home games in Texas to home games in Toronto.

torontos like as cold as boston fwiw, slightly colder than ny

feel like any analysis of this trade should factor in how mad kawhi will be this year as a plus

idk will def be curious to see where his head is at

man I love this move by toronto

I love it for the Spurs

it's good for the spurs if kawhi had truly given up on the team. don't love it for Toronto, feel like they need to win the east now to justify it

no I think they realized they’re at a crossroads and need to shake things up. someone other than lebron is going to win the east for the first time in 9 years — they just traded for the best player in the east (assuming giannis doesn’t have an MVP season I guess) and gave themselves a legit shot at making the finals, regardless of what happens next summer. if he decides to stay, awesome. if he decides to leave, the process of blowing it up becomes a lot easier because now you’re out of derozan’s contract

actually I forgot avout the part where they're getting rid of the DeRozan contract, I like it for them because of that

tbh I would bet on giannis being the best player in the east

toronto doing this while keeping anunoby and siakam is pretty nice

Yeah Kawhi can't afford another lost season so I think that he'll give his 100% this year to be a Laker next season, if things go south for the Raptors, they do have a decent trade asset.

I'm going to miss DeRozan, he is huge part why I went from casually following basketball to being a fan and I'm wishing him the best at SA.

gimme some raptor news

maybe we’re in for a kawhi vengeance tour? I dunno I worry that he might just be broken

Pop gonna have to rewind the clock to the pre 3 pointer discovery era I guess

Or maybe demar x the god chip engellund = magic I dunno

I wonder if Kawhi will hold good on his threat of sitting out the year if he's not a Laker. Would be hilariously dumb so I kinda want to see it happen.

Good for Toronto tho they had to break up that core it just had a hex on it courtesy of bron and now they have a shot plus kept most of their best young dudes