Kawhi Leonard Discussion: “I’m A Snake Clipper Guy.”

Yes, whatchoo mean?

 

Man, the media, other gm's, fans and basicly every person not from LA hate is so damn beautiful. We suck for quite some time now and they're still SCARED.

 

ESPN should be glad we’re almost back to revelancy.

They NEED us. We’d because their biggest antagonist ever.

 

RE: Kawhi’s *Mysterious* Injury

Reading more and more about Kawhi from last season, there’s just so many red flags concerning his mystery injury.

Either San Antonio has a real incompetent medical staff (which isn’t the case since they’ve historically had the best staff since 2006), or Kawhi’s camp is trying to hide what how serious his real injury is.

https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/...rds-mysterious-injury-and-whats-next-for-him/

Seems like Kawhi’s camp has been trying to mask what his injury really is about, calling it a tendinopathy is a vague medical term that could almost mean anything and from the looks of it, it’s more serious than that term. Really, just read everything you can about his injury, it’s just too mysterious what’s been happening to Kawhi.

Even when he was finally cleared to play Kawhi has been struggling to get his motions right, like just running. The game against Utah, Kawhi was supposedly back to about 90% but he looked more like 50% because he couldn’t even stay in front of Rodney Hood. His camp is now saying Kawhi’s now about 95%... but is it more like 55% actually?

From listening to Woj, Haynes, and other insiders, they believed Kawhi’s group let out that Kawhi wants to be traded because they likely knew that Spurs were not going to offer him the supermax. Kawhi’s group, who’s sounding more shady by the articles, have seem to know that Kawhi wasn’t going to be guaranteed the supermax right around January, coincidentally around the same time we started hearing that Kawhi was unhappy in San Antonio.

https://www.si.com/nba/2018/04/19/kawhi-leonard-injury-timeline-news-spurs

It was smart for the Lakers to float out there that they are not desperate to trade for Kawhi immediately and have real concerns about his injury. Speaking of smart, the Spurs are a pretty smart organization, so you have to wonder all these moves they’re making around Kawhi too. Truth is, the Spurs have real legitimate concerns with his injury and are approaching this cautiously.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/la-sp-spurs-leonard-lakers-20180615-story.html

Btw @JabariJYoung is a good follow, he is a Spurs insider who has been covering Kawhi.

Lakers should definitely approach a Kawhi trade with caution just like the Spurs are doing right now. Hoping that Kawhi returns to his 2014 Finals MVP self is far from a guarantee at this point. Trading the whole farm without any insurance just yet might bite us in the quad, literally.

Whatever happens, hope the Lakers just make the right choice.

 

Everybody has sauces and can’t talk about them.



I guess we’ll know in a matter of weeks

 

He has to be traded, and as part of that he has to pass a physical. That is our insurance, but it would be a shame if he wasn’t ready to roll.

 

Go for it.

 

Wait, when and where did Woj say this?

 

Quad tendinopathy, if that's the term used back when this was first being reported, someone here sounding like they knew what they were talking about, in the quad area, would not get completely better. Or is very difficult to ever get over, given how much the quads are used.

Realdeal, what does your wife understand about whatever these terms are and what's being reported? Yourself? Doc Brown?

Can't think of it right now or for fun of it I would have included the east coast doctor back in the day on CL that finally wound up leaving over the Lamar Odom's worth to the Lakers battles as they got nasty, or was banned, before we got Pau and won a championship. Some south eastern college name as he'd been a player I think.

 

Leftmo?

 

True. Kawhi would definitely get a physical exam with the Lakers and past medical records, but he’s not required to provide more current x-ray exams and what not.

There’s only so much a physical can look into. Physicals are a specific structured test, and looking into past medical records is the most diagnosis you can get out of if. There are players who have passed physicals only to be sideline longer than expected like what happened with IT and the Cavs. Worst, Bynum and the Sixers.

Lakers need to just stay cautious about it like they’re apparently doing right now.

 

And how does due diligence all happen in the short time frame for the upcoming draft with deals needing to be made and FA right behind. LeBron and George and keep Randle and the kids. Would much rather be safe with that. Lonzo is gone unfortunately, but hopefully for a great deal or a runny Deng dump on top of LaVar's head to an east coast small market team. But again no one is eager to help the Lakers.

 

Not whom I'm thinking of but while I was doing that I did think of him but didn't remember if he was a doctor. But sure if he was.

 

I got your back.

 

yup c'mon Suns, this is a sure thing and you have the best medical team in the NBA