Raptors trade for Kawhi

allpurpleallgold said:

And it’s a thud.

Kawhi and Danny Green for DeRozan, Poeltl and a highly protected pick.

I think Pop has earned the right to not rebuild. If he wants to go out winning 45 games that’s fine. San Antonio is no longer the gold standard for organizations. They’ve been making bad moves for a few years now and blowing it with a top 5 player makes it official.

The Raptors are now the favorite in the east if Kawhi is healthy.

DeRozans a loser. I wouldn’t do that deal.

ThomasFremont said:

allpurpleallgold said:

dnc said:

allpurpleallgold said:

And it’s a thud.

Kawhi and Danny Green for DeRozan, Poeltl and a highly protected pick.

I think Pop has earned the right to not rebuild. If he wants to go out winning 45 games that’s fine. San Antonio is no longer the gold standard for organizations. They’ve been making bad moves for a few years now and blowing it with a top 5 player makes it official.

The Raptors are now the favorite in the east if Kawhi is healthy.

Totally disagree, this might put them above Philly for #2 but Boston is not at all scared by this move.

Healthy Kawhi is the second best player in the league. Boston should be, at least, a little scared. The Raptors won 59 games last year. Yeah, they got their annual playoff ass whooping but the difference between Kawhi and DeRozan is the most important thing in the playoffs.

I really don’t get the love fest for Kawhi. Second best in the league? He’s not in my top 5. And being healthy is kind of a big asterisk to casually waive aside.

Durant is undoubtedly second best in league -and if he keeps adding titles and playoff MVPs he moves up to 1A.

Kawhi is a really nice player - but Durant schools him every which way to Sunday.

Healthy (including not having a fucked up mindset influenced by his uncle) Kawhi is top 5. But no way he is ahead of Durant. There's not a GM in the league who would trade Durant straight up for Kawhi.

Smart trade by the Raps. They know that they weren't going to be an ECF contender, even with LeBron leaving the East. Make this play now and hope you can convince Kawhi to stay. If not, you get the rebuild going sooner. The Spurs were fucked either way. At least Derozan is under contract for three more seasons if they want to try to contend for a 7/8 seed in the west.

Pop being a stubborn old fart ran Kawhi off with how he handled this situation. Putting Parker and Ginobli in front of the media as his henchmen to call out Kawhi was about the shittiest move he could've made.

Boston was/is going to run the Eastern Conference either way (Philly is not close to their level), and Kawhi is going to sign in LA next summer. Meaningless trade in the long-run, but more evidence that off-season is best season in the NBA.

NEsnake12 said:

The Raptors only got the #1 seed because they had the best/deepest bench in the league. Easy to win regular season games when you can insert try hard bench players while the other team is playing 3/4 speed because it’s an 82 game regular season.

This move doesn’t make the Raptors anywhere close to ready to challenge the Celtics. 76ers are fucked though... their whole offense runs through Simmons, who won’t be able to do shit with Kawhi guarding him

Fultz just became a lot more important

PurpleThrobber said:

dnc said:

NEsnake12 said:

The Raptors only got the #1 seed because they had the best/deepest bench in the league. Easy to win regular season games when you can insert try hard bench players while the other team is playing 3/4 speed because it’s an 82 game regular season.

This move doesn’t make the Raptors anywhere close to ready to challenge the Celtics. 76ers are fucked though... their whole offense runs through Simmons, who won’t be able to do shit with Kawhi guarding him

FultzFurkan Korkmaz just became a lot more important

Fultz cain't shoot.

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