NBA: ***Official 2019 NBA Playoffs Thread***
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Yeah, that is one thing LA has, other than being from there, super stars can avoid the attention and pestering of fans. One of the few cities where a player like Kawhi to fade into the background when in public.
If he goes to the Lakers, they are going to be the biggest spectacle in sports over the next year. It'll be headline news daily on every sports news media outlet in the country. I get what you're saying about LA as a town but the Lakers are an entirely different deal. I mean we heard about them daily this season when they were really never relevant. It'll be obnoxious next year.
Yeah, but he will be THE MAN on the Raptors and in Canada. They weren't following him with helicopters in LA. He would be 2nd or 3rd on a team full of stars.
Right. More so I was referring to his day to day life away from the team. He can go out to resturants, clubs, or even gym work outs (UCLA and Drew leagues) and not be hasseled. Half the NBA lives in LA during the off season for that reason.
@arye_abraham A source close to the situation has confirmed to me that free agent Kawhi Leonard will not be happy of the fanfare, along w/ all the leaks currently taking place in Toronto.
And no Helicopter tracking from airport to meetings.
No one is even sure when where or the Lakers made their pitch or results. I did see that the Clippers meeting was 2 nights ago but no location.
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Like that deal for Memphis. Jackson has been awful on and off the court but he's been in a pretty dysfunctional organization and he's still only 22 or 23. The Grizzlies get him this year and next (if they exercise a team option) on the relative cheap to see if they can fix him. And all it cost was a couple second rounders and two guys who were never going to play for them anyway.
That 2017 Draft is so interesting looking at it now. Fultz busted and traded. Lonzo already traded and hurt both seasons. Tatum a steal at 3. Jackson busted and traded. De'Aaron Fox a steal at 5, too bad he's in SAC.
Phoenix had to move on from Jackson. He had become an embarrassment to the franchise. It's kind of shocking how far he has fallen in just two years if this is the best offer they could get for him. A lot of league execs thought he might be the best player in the class prior to the 2017 draft.
Steal of that draft is Donovan Mitchell all the way down at 13. If they redraft that class it has to be him or Tatum off the board first now.
