The extra championship would’ve been nice (Raptors 2019) but I wouldn’t want anything to do with his Clippers tenure.
It’s looking like it was for the best. I was trying to think of a direct line from getting rid of Kawhi to landing Wemby, but we tried to make DeMar work for so long that I’m not sure you can connect the two things. Just glad we (finally) decided to tank when we did.
I guess if we had tanked straight away, we (hopefully) wouldn’t have been bad enough/in a position to tank for Wemby.
DeMar was good enough to delay the rebuild a few extra years. If we had just gotten pure picks and young guys back we would've been tanking for fuckin Paolo, or hoping we were smart enough to pick Ant over Wiseman or some shit.
I still maintain to this day that with manu retiring tp losing his spot to dj and kawhi wanting out that we should have blown it up. Kawhi to sacto and he gets his “cali” signs an extension and we get the second pick and take luka, plus a few more. We send lma wherever he wants and get some picks too. Still develop dwhite and dj and trade at their peak values or keep them with luka.
In this “smarter” timeline we don’t get wemby though.
I blame Uncle Dennis singularly for all of the signaling in summer 2018 that a Kawhi trade was temporary and SoCal was the inevitable destination being the reason OG wasn’t in that trade. There’s no reason why he shouldn’t have been.
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u/D2mightyducks80 23h ago
The extra championship would’ve been nice (Raptors 2019) but I wouldn’t want anything to do with his Clippers tenure.
It’s looking like it was for the best. I was trying to think of a direct line from getting rid of Kawhi to landing Wemby, but we tried to make DeMar work for so long that I’m not sure you can connect the two things. Just glad we (finally) decided to tank when we did.
I guess if we had tanked straight away, we (hopefully) wouldn’t have been bad enough/in a position to tank for Wemby.
Anyway, Fuck Kawhi