Kawhi Leonard's beef with the Spurs was the feud nobody expected | Part One
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- It’s incredible how much Kawhi Leonard fit the San Antonio Spurs' ethos. A reclusive team-first superstar, who rarely showed emotions and only cared about hooping. San Antonio is a model franchise that’s often been called bland, boring, or as I like to say - sauceless but whatever you wanna call them, their success on the court has spoken volumes.
On paper, Kawhi and the Spurs were a match made in heaven who appeared to be locked in with each other until the end of time. Except, the relationship that seemed to be unbreakable from the outside ultimately deteriorated behind the scenes, resulting in a messy divorce. But to truly appreciate the tenderness of this beef you have to understand that it’s arguably the most improbable feud that occurred in NBA history.
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The fact that Kawhi has beef with the Spurs was heartbreaking. He was the next man up after Duncan, and it shattered the line of succession in San Antonio.
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Fr man. At least our future is looking bright, wish we didn’t lose Primo tho
And now he's ruining another team.
The one guy who didn't like playing for Pop. That says a lot in my opinion. I don't know what Kawhi's about any more than the rest but I'm glad he was never on a team I cared for. I just don't like the vibes, something is off with the dude.
@@2500spartan is he Mordaforker or you just jealous?
Can we please get a Michael Jordan vs. Isiah Thomas beef history? They still hate each other's guts to this day.
That episodes needs to have Magic in there too. Bird should also be involved. Not to mention everybody else on the Bulls, Celtics and Lakers.
@@hjluke4807 so isiah vs everybody?
There is no beef for MJ. He does not care.
@@Blastback8 kinda. I'm not adding Knicks fans to that list even though I really can.
@@thedragontactic MJ holds grudges against random fans and ballboys, u know he still holds one against Isiah lol
His laugh shook the nation.
*Nations.
which one?
Just Canada !!
"Kawhi Leonard's 2018 Raptors Introduction Press Conference Deserves a Rewind"
"the nation" standard american
You know this cut of beef is huge when this is just Part One... 👀
The roast beef is buy one get one free.
Split into two parts for load management
I could hear Kawhi's laugh somewhere. 🤣
I genuinely believe had Zaza not have stepped under Kawhi's landing and caused his injury, the Spurs could have made the Finals that year. The Spurs were on fire that season and they seemed to match up very well against the Warriors even with their three headed monster of KD, Klay and Steph. They had a 2-1 record over the Warriors during the regular season that included two blowout wins and that first game of the WCF seemed to be another big win until Zaza changed fate. A real shame honestly, I genuinely believed that season would be the start of the Spurs' championship era with Kawhi as the superstar.
I’m a dubs fan. I was watching this game at work. I agree. The spurs were the team I thought had the best chance to beat the dubs.
I remember watching that game. The Warriors had probably the most talented team in the history of the NBA in 2017 with the addition of Kevin Durant, and the best player on the floor up until Zha Zha’s foot happened, was clearly Kawai Leonard. I was so pissed seeing those front running Warriors get back into the game without the Spurs clear best player. That should have been a 6-7 game series with a healthy Kawai.
That has to be the most extrapolated 28 minute sample size in the history of the NBA. Yeah the Spurs had them beat… for one game. But it’s a best of 7 series. The regular season and Playoffs are different but even if you want to use that, one of those wins was with their first game ever with KD. And one of the regular season matches, KD was injured. So can we please add some context?
@@goldenstatewarriors9418 It's honestly not much different than how Warriors fans extrapolate KD's 10 minutes of playtime in the finals vs the Raptors.
Not only that the Raptors swept the Warriors in the regular season even with KD! So you guys cant have it both ways.
Kawhi was a killer in that series and we will never know what the result would have been if he and Tony Parker had not been injured.
@@paperhag that’s not true they’re not similar at all. Spurs fans and third party fans think “hey the Spurs owned them all year and matched up well it could’ve gone the distance.” Warriors fans just outright refuse to accept the possibility that they lose to Toronto.
As a man from Toronto, I am not going to complain about this particular beef.
Was scrolling for this exact comment 😂
LOOOL
Be grateful that the Spurs traded Kawhi to y’all without him that 2019 championship doesn’t happen
@@LokNex915 as a huge Raps fan, you are absolutely correct. Why do you say it like it’s a negative thing though? Masai made the move knowing that was our franchise’s best chance at winning our first championship. Lo and behold, we won in ‘19.
Ya hope that 1 hit wonder was Worth it
The Zaza incident was very very understated in this video seeing how blatantly intentional it was and how Zazas name became synonymous for dirty players in the league.
I don't care about Zaza, but you must be a conspirator worse than JFK's death to think Zaza could assassinate Kawhi's foot with that precision
@@kaz7690 doesn't take a ton of precision to undercut someone and get all up in their landing space... I don't think it's as clear-cut as Thomas does, but that last little shuffle he does to really get underneath Kawhi does look pretty bad.
@@llamalitanyalso when that happened once before, it throws off your shooting motion when you have to worry if you have landing space
Part 2 better be all about how Uncle Dennis was the cause of this whole beef. This WHOLE situation start when Leonard hired his Uncle as his agent. And hopefully they bring up Uncle Dennis extremely shady past and his attempts to use Leonards name for his own profit.
@Shaikoh not quite, the media can twist alot of things but a past set in stone like Dennis can't be denied
As a Spurs fan, I will never forgive Uncle Dennis for what he did. There is just no way that the Spurs, the team that pioneered load management, would ever mismanage the injury of their star player
I always thought pop was WAY too good of a coach to potentially ruin his next superstar by rushing him back from an injury. That’s just not what he does.
Damn Im impressed you can type with all that dickriding your partaking in
This a bad idea because her we are 3 years later and he still having some issues with said leg. Whatever happen seems to have started in with the spurs regardless of how good there track record is🤷🏾♂️
@@assassin923ck45 Then explain why their medical staff messed up the diagnoses of Danny Green AND Pau Gasol.
They misdiagnosed Danny Green’s groin injury.
And they also misdiagnosed Pau’s stress fracture as simply a sore foot.
You can separate the Spurs from their medical team. Their medical team wasn’t perfect like everyone thinks.
He and Zaza are to blame. Zaza is a coward and rather than lose with dignity, he chose to injure someone and win in a dirty manner.
He really did seem like he was a fit for them. Even his cheap car matched the spurs aesthetic
He was perfect for San Antonio. Uncle Dennis ruined it all.
Yeah Duncan had to basically drive him to the Porsche dealership and cajole him into buying a 911.
Miss beef history so much. Keep on making em!
I rewatch this channels catalogue to help me fall asleep at night.. never miss a Secret Base upload
Imagine if Kawhi came along like 3 years earlier than he did. Tim might have had more rings than Jordan
Would of been insane honestly jesus christ
Man this takes me back into the dark years of 2008-2011 timeline and the many events and situations which wasted 4 precious years of Duncan's & Ginobili's prime and Tony Parker's peak. Firstly, starting with the veteran role players like Bruce Bowen (3 and D), Rob Horry (stretch 4), Finley etc. being washed up / finished after the 2007 title run, and it was hard to find replacements for them with the salary structure of the Spurs and always picking very late in the draft due to their continued success for a decade. The Spurs tried to get past this hurdle by investing in Euro stars Luis Scola and Tiago Splitter as they had done in the past. Unfortunately due to the Euro contract complications for Scola, they had to let go of him which was such a huge disappointment seeing how awesome Scola still in his prime had been for the Rockets in the following seasons (as he had been in International basketball for Argentina and in Europe). Similarly contract release issues resulted in the young, talented Splitter unable to come over from Europe for 3 seasons - finally making it in 2012. So all this resulted in Duncan (who was himself suffering from knee issues in 2008 after a decade of continuously deep post-season runs) being left without much support down low and the team without a defensive perimeter stopper like prime Bowen.
Secondly, the Lakers ridiculous mid-season trade for All-Star Pau Gasol in his prime in 2008 (never seen a more blatantly one-sided trade than this one) swung the season the Lakers' way and nobody was prepared for it. Several teams complained to the NBA including Popovich about the Memphis GM's 'gift' to the Lakers for essentially a bag of chips (nobody knew what Marc Gasol would become at that time, which is often brought up as an excuse for that trade) mid-season and essentially created a huge frontline in Gasol, Bynum and Odom which no other teams except young NO Hornets (with Chandler & West) were prepared for as around this time teams were beginning to copy the Phoenix Suns playstyle and starting to go with small-ball lineups. Duncan was left to contend with this monster Lakers lineup on his own in the WCF with a hobbled knee (after a bruising 7 game semi-finals against the young Hornets duo of Chandler & West), an injured Manu Ginobili and washed up veteran role players. Man if only he had Luis Scola with him, I have no doubt Spurs would have challenged the Boston Celtics that year. Also that Marc Gasol pick to Memphis came back to haunt the Spurs in 2011.
Thirdly, what followed in 2009-2011 was Duncan essentially playing on one good knee and the keys to the offense was given to Manu and Tony. However Ginobili's body was breaking down repeatedly (due to him refusing to stop playing for Argentina in the off-season and thereby getting injured due to lack of rest combined with his relentless playstyle), the veteran roleplayers had retired and Spurs FO could come up with no better replacement than the likes of 6-5 ft ACL-less Dejuan Blair to partner Duncan down low, while having to go up against the huge, monster or athletic frontlines of Lakers, Hornets, Mavericks, young OKC and Grizzlies in the West. Duncan was advised to shed weight (losing 20 lb from 260 lb) to relieve the pain on his one good knee yet he couldn't because of these afore-mentioned huge lineups of the playoff teams in the West or even Boston Celtics with their bangers in the East. It seemed the Spurs were about to fade away after a decade of tremendous success, yet still had Tim in his prime and Tony hitting his peak.
Finally 2011 offseason changed everything. Pop's crew came up with the much-celebrated 'The Beautiful Game' motion-offense, which allowed Duncan to finally shed about 20 lb, made him far more springy and agile and turned back the clock to his pre-2008 days. Also Spurs FO finally landed Tiago Splitter to help Duncan down low, got the awesomely versatile Boris Diaw and hard-nosed Captain Jack from the NBA backwater teams they were being wasted at. And finally got defensive 3 and D specialists that they had been lacking for 4 years by trading for young Danny Green and yet again hoodwinking the draft by landing Kawhi Leonard.
That 2012 team was amazing, yet there was a small wrinkle in that Spurs coaches messed around with the shooting form of Tiago Splitter (who was a good FT shooter in Europe) resulting in him losing confidence which eventually came back to bite the Spurs in the WCF against the young OKC, when down 0-2 OKC coach gave Pop a taste of his own medicine by 'hack-a-Splitter', which resulted in him being taken out of the game and Duncan yet again left alone to contend with the hugely athletic OKC frontline of Ibaka, Perkins and Durant. Also people ignore this but the Game 6 of the WCF was probably one of the worst officiated games that I've seen in 25 years next only to the Lakers-Kings Game 6 in 2002. The league just like in 2002 wanted a Durant and his big-3 OKC vs Lebron's big-3 Miami Heat in the Finals. That 2012 Spurs team was in a 20 game winning streak right until being 2-0 up in the WCF and thereafter lost 4 straight. People might remember the infamous Skip Bayliss rant after the 2012 WCF about how his Spurs were cheated against by the league's officials.
Man when you think about it, Duncan came so close to adding to his 5 rings in 2004 (0.4 Fisher Game 5), 2006 (Manu fouling Dirk Game 7), 2012 (rigged Game 6), 2013 (Ray Allen Game 6) and even 2015 (when I felt both the Clippers and the Spurs were better than eventual finalists Warriors and Cavaliers, yet had to ridiculous face each other in that amazing 7 game 1st round series). If you think about it, Duncan and the Spurs could have had like atleast 8-10 rings with a bit of luck. I am pretty sure it will take decades for the Spurs to win another ring if ever. I miss Duncan's Spurs who were a constant in my life from 1997-2017, I haven't followed the NBA regular season since Durant landed in GSW in 2017 and Kawhi left us for the lights of LA, although I'm happy for Toronto that Pop sent him to Raptors for a season to get their lone chip.
@@vikranthmelanathur6505 hell of an article
Go Spurs! The role model of the NBA.
But not the FMVP & 3 peat FMVP. It’s not just about the rings. MJ also won 4 season MVPs, & 6 scoring titles, in the same seasons he won FMVP.
@@vikranthmelanathur6505 Could've just wrote a book. That would've been shorter 😂.
4 years later and Kawhi is still load managing even more so.
What’s your point?
@@rickyrobby8133 he made it. Stop defending Kawhi’s load management nonsense.
@@39872adnan he didn’t make a point at all actually. And San Antonio INVENTED load management.
The injury never healed properly, Spurs mismanaged it somehow
@@rickyrobby8133 talking bout you Ricky Booo….errrr Robby. Shake n’ Bake!
I still hate Zaza for this crap. Kawhi being shipped off to Toronto and winning a chip there was bittersweet. Demar was a cool guy on the team and had some nice playmaking but the team didn't have much playoff success after that. There's a pretty good podcast called The Fall of Spurs Dynasty and covering this part as well.
Demar defrozen
@@andresdelportillo9917 lol I used to say "DeChosen"
All my homies hate Zaza . F**k him.
Zaza just reminding y’all of Bruce Bowen
Yeah Zaza knew what he was doing. These athletes are some of the most coordinated people on Earth. He stuck his foot 1 meter under Kawhii's landing spot, there's no way he wasn't aware of that.
Basically Zaza single handedly (or footedly...) ended the Spurs
Bruce Bowen ended the spurs way before that. Lmfao karma
and Zaza won a championship for Toronto.
@@malcorub
He won a championship for himself first Bud
Really waiting for this for a long time from you guys. Finally.
Thank you!
So excited to see the rest of the series unfold!
As a mavs fan I never imagined things would go down like they did between Kawhi and San Antonio. I thought the dude would be in a Spurs Jersey the rest of his career.
I’m a new fan and have wanted to know this story from you guys. Didn’t disappoint.
Love that they’re covering fresh beef too, puts the whole story in perspective
U guys need make more videos like this, I’ve literally watched everything.
love these. Secret Base does great work. Flood of memories ensue .
I've been waiting on this one especially with what's going on with kawhi Leonard right now this man has been protected from the media long enough 😂😂😂😂 in all seriousness let's go beef history you guys are my favorites
He had surgery on his knee and first year back and you say the media is protecting him. The media is protecting him because he doesn't talk and offend people. He minds his own business and doesn't look for fights. He isn't an exhibitionist. People including the media don't like people with big mouths.
@@jlolopez9623 I know I was only joking when I said that he's really unproblematic and that's part of the reason the media hates him they want to make something out of nothing always
Very true. Although there’s no real reason to hate on Kawhi, I think a fair share of criticism goes a long way. Then again, I don’t think Kawhi cares. Bro is playing pro ball more part-time than Kyrie 😂
@@sohhyuna kawhi is chilling 😂😂
@@bangaamen501 Yes,he is.The Clippers were dumb enough to let him-SLIDE-that's on them.
I can't wait to see the other parts.
This might be the best vid SB has dropped yet, great stuff
Can’t wait for the next part!
Another infuriating aspect of this beef (from a Spurs fan perspective) was that when SA *tried* to say ok you know what? You're hurt, let's put you on IR for the season, Kawhi's camp strung them along. They'd give the Spurs dates for his return, then blow past them and just kinda shrug. That's the context of Manu saying "we fell for it a week ago again" (12:00 mark). The team/his teammates were desperately trying to hold down the fort for a playoff seed and hoping Leonard's return would bring the relief/contention, but Leonard's camp was playing the Spurs' organization the whole time. SA tried to take him at his word and shut him down, but Kawhi didn't want that, either, just wanted to keep everyone in limbo and drag SA med staff's name through the mud in the process. Him and his uncle are shady dudes.
I'm with you.
Thanks for the chutzpah bringing this up.
Hes a traitor
I remember when Derrick Rose was going through his injury and some people were questioning his toughness and I remember this entire time of Leonard's injury. Here is the thing about injuries and why teammates or media members should keep quiet unless they know more, our bodies don't respond the same way every time. Just because Parker had the same injury doesn't mean Leonard's body would respond the same way, our bodies are incredibly complicated, just because the vast majority of bodies may respond to a certain injury one way means very little for any specific person. Parker showing once again as a teammate, he wasn't exactly Bill Russell.
Well said.
Totally agree, Parker being a smaller guy i would think he would recover a lot better than a guy who is much more built and taller. Not to mention some people process nutrients a lot better than others.
Wrong. Parker only spoke because pop told him to.
Parker was the gunman, pop hired the hit.
And Kawhi deserved it. He quit on the team long before this comment. He was being shady because he was leaving. He quit on the team and he is a scumbag traitor.
That's it. Leonard is 100% to blame for this. Him and his uncle Dennis
@@maurygoldblat8982cry more. Kawhi isn’t a traitor there’s no allegiance to the spurs😂. And kawhi won it in the end going to the raptors winning a title and going home to l.a like he wanted. Spurs on the other hand faded into obscurity and stayed there. Even now with the # 1 pick generational talent they’re a mess and wouldn’t surprise me if he leaves when his rookie contract is coming up
Another beautiful job, Secret Base.
I was waiting patiently for this Video.
As a Spurs fan I’m just heartbroken how we and Kawhi handled the damn situation and now we are in our rebuilding phase without him which sucks
We're better off without him- look at the way he's treated the Raptors and Clippers. He's shown his true colors- he wears the number 2 because he's a p.o.s.
Kawhi got you a title and 2 finals almost 2 titles..it is what it is
@@razkablehe didn’t “get” us a title. He helped as a teammate. Dont forget that Spurs never won without its franchise player Tim Duncan
If Vince Carter vs Toronto can be over a half hour long, I need Part 2 *ASAP!!!!!*
I mean...there better be. Nothing was addressed related to the beef. This one was borderline clickbait to be honest...
@@brianfitzsimmons6074 exactly.
You teased this and idk why but i was anticipating this heavy
Great video, as always.
Kawhi in Toronto showed how great he was. At one point raptors were down 0-2 to sixers and kawhi was banged up. All I remember thinking is that kawhi has them right where he wants them
You mean the Bucks?
Raptors were behind 2-1 against the 76ers. It's the Bucks they were behind 0-2 against.
you;re kinda forgetting that the warriors were in bad shape with Klay and KD injured.
He showed how great he was woth the spurs too its just that nobody outside of San antonio watches spurs games lol.
@@stackhat8624 so? 3rd highest scoring playoff run in nba history. Thats greatness no matter how you look at it.
"Part one"
Dayum this a whole ass rack of ribs
Glad to see more vids from y'all. Keep it up please!
Great video!
This beef has to be so spicy to warrant 2 parts at least. It's going to be fun.
I feel like Zaza deserve part of the blame as for why all of this has to happen to San Antonio imo.
Thank you VERY much Kofi, finally!
You, Thinking Basketball and Jxmmy are my favorite basketball related channels.
He was next after Duncan left. This was sad.
Man my skepticism on the legitimacy of this beef was so strong that I made a $50 bet that nothing was going to happen 2 days before he got traded to my team. It was bittersweet since Derozan is my favourite player and it ws tough seeing him dealt like that.
2019 raptors championship run was glorious though. totally worth it
Need part two!
Well done. One of the better beef history’s I’ve seen.
Kawhi " I am a fun guy " Leonard
Kawhi "Ehuehuehuehuehue" Leonard
FINALLY THE YEARS WEVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS EXACT BEEF HISTORY
Beef History's, Collapses', and Rewinds' be dropping right on time
I NEED PRT 2 ASAP WHAT DAY DO THESE VIDS COME OUT??
People thought the Spurs were crazy…but look at what’s happening now with the Clippers.
Clipper fan here, he just came off one of the most brutal injury in sports. He's 31 years old and has a injury history. happy for him to take he's time and get the knee right.
@@youngspitty6001 😂
@@youngspitty6001 ain’t happening 😊
@@hombredetacos 🤨
Aye chill Kawhi is a alltime great 2 rings and finals mvps Kawhi is top 20-or so all time
Shoutout to the kreisler allegro in the background at the beginning, loved playing that piece
thank you for having subtitles on "yammed with ease"
It’s crazy how Pachuila altered the Spurs. I believe if Kawhi had never been injured, things would have been different for the spurs to this day.
Getting my Raptors a ring is why I happily enjoy this huge rack of beef.
whens part II coming out? can't wait
Raptors fan here. Great video!
Zaza 100% did it on purpose, I felt murderous when I watched it live
Bet. It was disgusting and, as a Spurs fan, I still haven't forgiven him.
@@islandvibes9076 kawhi winning that chip against golden state gave me everything I wanted
Despite being on one of the most talented teams ever, Zaza still felt the need to pull that. That’s as low you can get, especially that it worked.
Yea I broke my TV when that happened.
Bruce Bowen sends his regards sperm fans 😂
It was about the injury. Kawhi embellished it to work his way towards playing and living in Los Angeles full-time
This should be one video, I understand why you did it I just disagree can't wait for the next one you guys always have great content
Need part 2
Now
As a raptor fan we are so grateful to have had him on our team😁
Wow. I feel old this is the first one I can say I truly remember. A player beef against his own team.
LOL, this only happened 5 years ago.
@@malcorub still feels weird for me this being the first one of these I can truly recall.
Part One of the tasty meal of beef So Excited
Finally my wish was granted after SB featured about the feud between Vince Carter vs the Raptors. 😉
bro made a career out of being a part time nba player. god bless
His Uncle created that rift. I remember buying a Kawhi jersey right before he peaked. I knew he was going to be huge for the Spurs. Such a gut wrench the turmoil he caused with the team. Going to the games and not seeing him on the bench, yet he can attend baseball games just created more confusion for fans. He lost my respect totally after all that. Also, yes, I still have the jersey lol.
No he didn’t. It’s crazy that people will just ignore what people have actually said because they THINK something. Players have said for close to a DECADE that playing under Pop is really hard because of the way he talks to players. Treating them like they’re dumb.
They ALL say it was Duncan keeping them in line because he was okay with his coaching style, it was inevitable that it’d fall apart because the likelihood the next guy after Duncan would be okay with it was low.
You can’t treat NBA stars like they’re children and expect everyone to be okay with it. When you have an all-time great who is fine, then everyone will follow, if that isn’t there then people rebel.
@@rickyrobby8133tell us more of how you heard those exact things in the locker room… or was it just stephe Jackson on all the smoke telling u that? 😂
@@wutbitch420 HA and youre just a salty spurs fanboy so I wonder what your, not at all biased, perspective on the situation is going to be like 😂
@@wutbitch420 or just how he has talked to every media person ever for thirty years…
@@wutbitch420 muhamad stack is still ungrateful. The spurs gave him his only ring.
I still watched the entire 2hr last video and gonna watch this as well but you guys need to make the audio a little louder for us.
Secret base spoiling us with bangers of a content. I jusy finished the two-hr vid.
Good video, but I didn’t really get any info on “beef” with the spurs, more so, just confusion with kawhi’s injury. I was shocked the video ended so abruptly with no actual “beef” info. Maybe there will be a part 2 video?
Hope you guys load managed enough to make it to the end of the video
if this beef requires multiple parts MJ vs IT or Kobe vs Shaq is gonna be a feature length movie
I like your channel
@@teen_laqueefa thanks
@@justmaxproductions no problem, thanks for your work
Never thought I'd hear prelude and allegro in a SB video!
I love your series, by any chance, could you do something about Senna and Prost beef in F1? I know it would be out of the sports you have covered, but racing beef is just pretty tasty
I left comments before in their community regarding possible videos on racing
There’s so much they could potentially dive in
Excellent video! I think Kawhi is the quintessential introvert and wanted/wants no part of being a leader for any team...anywhere...anytime. He wants to be the best he can be, for sure, but worrying about others and trying to lead them to greatness (a la Tim, Tony or Manu) was/is something he wanted no part of, no matter what the rest of the NBA world thought during his Spurs days, or thinks now. He's at his best when he can be himself, and should just be judged accordingly, rather than harshly simply because he did/does not try to live up to others' expectations.
I think when he’s on the court he leads by example and how to do things at a high level that his teammates follow on the court.
Damn yall seriously reopened my wounds again 😔😔
Finally I was waiting for this one
Part twoooooo
It's crazy his weakness in college was offense and now his bag is immense.
Kawhi Leonard's Press Conference Laugh deserves a Rewind.
You gotta do part 3 now since Aldridge spoke
Crazy how Kawhi in his prime gave a pretty heavy challenge to the warriors with the spurs but without him they got swept
Leonard is pretty much Golden States daddy.
It still hurts to this day…💔
But seeing how he hardly plays with the Clippers now makes me feel a lot better about the situation 😅
That's not how you should look at it. Respect the man's health
@@Henry-kv7zl bro, he’s getting paid SO much to sit on the bench season after season…. That’s not normal at any job lol
@@Blesscalade it's funny hating on someone to the degree you're glad he can't play due to health.
@@LeafyPeach no, I’m saying that he’s using his health as a front.
@@Blesscalade it's not a front. Man's got messed up legs.
I'll never get over how he left the Spurs. The team pretty much fell apart afterwards.
When stars of that magnitude leave teams, they generally do worse. Look at Cleveland post Bron. The Spurs were still a playoff team. They actually did pretty well all things considered.
@@brushylake4606 well, they added derozan who was an all star and all nba. They went from 2nd seed to like 8th. Cavs didn’t add anybody in LeBrons departure
great video, but the audio is mixed pretty low.
And then it says part 1? Oh yesssssssssss
I’ll never shake my belief that if the zaza didnt step on Kawhi foot they would have gone off to win that series and the finals . It’s crazy
always wondered about this
I can picture pop saying some smart ass remark and expecting Kawhi Leonard to laugh and him just walking away and tony parker fake laughing in the back lol
The more time goes on the more I sympathize with the spurs. Kawhi seems to always be playing less than he should
So he's not injured and just faking it? Yeah right. He's been faking it all the post spurs years.
I got to see Kawhi play in SA during that 9 game stretch, didn’t realize how lucky I was. I wish things didn’t get so beefy between him and the Spurs. Man the 2018-2019 Spurs would have been nuts with Kawhi :(
prince of Persia sprite?
when's part two dropping?
When is part 2 coming out
Looking at the thumbnail I 100% thought at Kawhi was beefing with a mascot
Nah I think the mascot is beefing a bat 🦇
13 minutes in...no beef ...3 interuptions for commercials...wtf??
For Spurs fans, that's the tragedy of it, it was a perfect match between team, player, culture and community. Kawhi was seemingly so like Timmy, even Manu said they could be father and son.
It’s too soon for this!!! 😭
Naa
You guys way padded out this video lol
Ya know, all in all, the Spurs handled the situation pretty well. I'm a Mavs fan and it pains me that I'm complimenting the Spurs... 🤮
As a spurs supporter and a basketball fan”…I would never forgive zaza pachulia for his dirty play on leonard , i really felt like san antonio could beat the warriors that year