He doesn’t know what he’s talking about, but he knows exactly what he’s doing, and that’s why he is so hard for traditional politicians to defeat.

Is she trolling that slow-footed oaf by living in Mobile?

If not a free market with no cap, why not a sliding scale where small market teams have even more to spend? Just increase the incentive until players choose Minnesota or Toronto over LA. There’s a number that’s big enough to get them to stay, it’s just more than the ~$40M they have now.

It just adds to his legend if he's dealing with that kind of pain and accomplishing all he does. Seems really well liked by teammates even in a short time in Toronto. What a story. You need to write this up for Deadspin! It's stuff you just don't  hear.

That would be really sad if he was being manipulated through this and not in control of his finances. Before this postseason he seemed on the spectrum. That aspect of his personality coupled with his single focus on basketball would leave him open to manipulation for sure. Where is his mom in this? NBA moms are…

So Toronto was the stalking horse for the Clippers negotiation. That is pretty smart and I imagine also common. Curious if you hear what Uncle Dennis asked for. Amazing the difference in how Durant and Kawhi are perceived after their FA decisions. Durant gets heat for appearing to do things Kawhi actually does. Durant…

There’s another big factor you are ignoring: the injury has to be late enough in the current contract that teams don’t get to see if he is recovered or not.

Yeah, Durant was in the ideal situation to take the risk and he knew it and I think a lot of us talked about that. Just pointing out the potential every play for a catastophic potentially career ending injury.

Thanks for the background. That’s crazy about Uncle Dennis and makes sense given Kawhi’s incredible chill/remote/withdrawn personality and how people react when gobs of money are involved.

Absolutely. It’s all life changing money. Of course, the owners make much more for doing much less. But, yeah, no NBA stars or their descendants are ever going hungry.

True. And I think he's playing it perfectly.

All they could say was how “classy” Cleveland was for having a contrived and weird mound visit, after having him throw out the first pitch, and before they do some lengthy farewell tour celebration.

Interesting. Can you say more? Uncle Dennis gets a lot of criticism and I always figured it was because he and Kawhi are not part of the NBA pr machine (and make it look stupid), and openly confronted the league’s longest standing dynasty (and won.) Its hard to look at Kawhi’s situation and say he has not maximized…

A guy who just saw Durant possibly lose years of max salaries due to injury could easily have decided not to gamble and take four years.

Has there ever been this much money voluntarily left on the table by a group of athletes? Baseball players can’t get signed and NBA players are routinely turning down $50M to control where they play and with what teammates. Good for them.

That line sort of jumped out as odd. Would it be that comforting to Mrs. Remy that he never tried to set the record straight?

After reading the comments.... damn. Just damn. Needs an

I get the distinction between assholery and lack of effort. I just thought if you didn’t grow up watching McEnroe and listened to that broadcast you would have little idea Mac had more in common with Krygios than just about anyone. But Mac prepared and competed more professionally, that’s definitely true.

Well, thank god they didn’t include any pioneering women athletes like Althea Gibson or Billie Jean King or freakin Babe Zaharias. That would have been so random and weird for Bleacher/Report.

Blue chip players going all out in meaningless summer games isn’t a good idea? Who knew???