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

Basketball is boring? Do you think Kobe thought talking about basketball was boring? He has kinds of business opportunities now but he would want to know about on court stuff first. Kawhi himself says he lives and breaths basketball. Sure the marketing opportunities are important but he’s walked away from tons of money before. That along with his self proclaimed love of ball leads me to believe that’s what you lead with.

 

That could be literally anyone's Gmail.

 

Dude. What is the BS narrative?? Super teams have been the trend for a decade in the NBA and now the Lakers possibly putting theirs together is coming with all this nonsense attached to it? Seriously, where is this coming from all of a sudden?

I'm so not down for conspiracies, but this whole thing is starting to STINK to high heaven. Has Ballmer's fingerprints all over it, no matter how crazy that sounds.

 

Rachel Nichols thinks she’s hilarious, and it’s usually at the expense of us. It’s cool though, we’ll be the ones laughing when we win the title. I’m sure people laughed when it was suggested KD would join the Warriors too, but here we are.

 

People were laughing at LeBron coming to LA right around this time as well.

Meanwhile the Rockets want to ship off half their depth for Jimmy Butler and nobody blinks an eye at it.

 

Oh, is that funny, Scottie? Was it "taking a back seat" when you joined up with Hakeem & Barkley in Houston 20 years ago? Did KD take a back seat in Golden State?

Why is this kind of dismissal only directed at the Lakers all of a sudden?

How did Kawhi go from "focused on the Lakers" one year ago to the mere thought he'd consider being the best piece of arguably the best trio in NBA history in his hometown on the most prestigious basketball franchise on planet Earth being dismissed as laughable? Oh, the Clippers were a scrappy team who snuck into the 8th seed of the playoffs and have never even sniffed the Conference Finals, you say? OBVIOUS destination for Kawhi. HUH????????

I feel like I'm being gaslit here. What. Is. Happening?!?

 

I enjoy my personal conspiracy theory that whoever is at the top of ESPN, owner, boss, whatever the title, is from New England or New York or something and absolutely hates the Lakers our of jealousy. So whenever his employees mock or report negatively on the Lakers they get a pat on the back. It’s how I imagine I’d tell my employees to cover the C Bags if I ran ESPN. I mean they friggin added a SportsCenter headquarters in LA, the Jump and some other shows are done in LA, yet we’re still covered like they’re centered in Boston. Is this a likely scenario? No, but it’s fun and it makes me feel better. At the very least ESPN has a very strong east coast bias though, runs from pro sports all the way to college, has as long as I’ve been watching anyway.

 

I think the Ballmer paying media in LA conspiracy more palatable.

 

Well, sure, but this has been going on way before that. I remember when we won the back to back titles in ‘09/‘10 we didn’t get a fraction of the coverage the C Bags got in ‘08, they covered them all summer long. And even in our own state the Warriors are beloved by ESPN while Kobe and the Lakers were hated. Hell, ESPN even had that guy that invented a stat to knock Kobe down a peg, might have been Hollinger and PER. And outside of that in baseball it’s always been Yankees/Sox, and football the Giants and Jets get so much coverage even though they suck, I’d bet even the Browns get as much coverage as the Rams. In college it’s always been ACC this, Big East that, you wouldn’t even know the PAC 10 existed most of the time.