The Official Swing for the Fences and throw a max offer at Kawhi Leonard thread

[David Stern]

Yeah, this deserves its own thread. Kawhi is the PERFECT player to add to our current starting 5. We have the cap room to try to sign him, so we should swing for the fences. Obviously this deal would have to be extremely toxic to the Spurs in order to have a chance of them not matching. What could Lindsey do that would be allowed?

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Spurs match. A max is a max. How can you make it any more or less toxic?

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Spurs are going to match anything on Leonard. I will bet 1,000,000 on it.

 

[spycam1]

Spurs are going to match anything on Leonard. I will bet 1,000,000 on it.

Why didn't San Antonio max Leonard before the season started? Did they just want him to prove even more that he deserves it or what?

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Why didn't San Antonio max Leonard before the season started? Did they just want him to prove even more that he deserves it or what?

What if he gets a career altering injury? What's the benefit of signing him early when it's the same price as signing later? What if he somehow managed to play so badly this year that teams decided he wasnt worth the max any more? There just isn't any benefit, other than good will, to giving a max out anytime before you have to.

 

[spycam1]

What if he gets a career altering injury? What's the benefit of signing him early when it's the same price as signing later? What if he somehow managed to play so badly this year that teams decided he wasnt worth the max any more? There just isn't any benefit, other than good will, to giving a max out anytime before you have to.

Yet it's the standard (see: Cousins, Wall, George, etc.)

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Yet it's the standard (see: Cousins, Wall, George, etc.)

Teams be tarded.

 

[spycam1]

Teams be tarded.

Can you think of an example where a team was absolutely convinced a player was worth the max and they chose to wait for them to become an RFA instead of just extending them the max before the season started?

 

[zyzz]

Don't tie up all of our money just to wait for the Spurs to match.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Can you think of an example where a team was absolutely convinced a player was worth the max and they chose to wait for them to become an RFA instead of just extending them the max before the season started?

Kahwi Leonard, the dude just won Finals MVP and is clearly a top defender.

 

[spycam1]

Kahwi Leonard, the dude just won Finals MVP and is clearly a top defender.

So you can't?

 

[green]

No thanks to Leonard. I'd rather have Wes Matthews. Equal defender, better shooter. Leonard, Favors, Gobert = no spacing.