It is a discount deal considering Kawhi usually gets hundreds of millions on the side

No big discounts for kawhi unless you give him free money on the side

I’d rather pay Kawhi 56 mill a year than Ingram and Grady dick 50 mill between them

I’m sore being a Clippers fan, but Kawhi fits perfectly on pretty any much any team, especially one as defensively minded and lacking in scoring as the Raptors. People forget they were good last year with practically no offense.

Kawhi is gonna be making more money at 37 than Luka will be at 28–29.

Toronto tax. Kawhi is 3 years younger than KD and took the same deal Jimmy Butler did

I didn’t realize we had the option to get Durant for $25M less /s

C’mon now, what is this punditry? You pay the players you have.

Kawhi was better than Kevin Durant last season, and his most recent season was the one in which he played 60+ games. It makes sense in context, even though he is a grifty boy.

Anytime you can get a max player on a 2 year deal it is very good.

KD wasn’t a top 10 player last year

And K2 LLC will get how much on top of this?

I’m convinced Kawhi sits out regular season games unless money is at play.

His best seasons, where he plays the most games are always in a contract season.

There are emails between Uncle Dennis and the Clippers showing demands for payment and payment being made. Soon after the under the table payments were made, Kawhi started playing again.

If he wanted to, he could play 75 games a season and get 1st team all-nba nearly every season.

There were no trees available to plant in Toronto

Makes me wonder if Curry and other athletes are getting under the table money through their shoe deal with Li-Ning.

I mean unless you’re a raptors fan who gives a shit what they do with their money? Lol

the nine year number is real and the most recent season is one of the three. 65 games, 27.9 a night. toronto isn’t paying the nine year average, they’re paying the last one and betting it repeats

Kawhi Leonard is less of a detriment to the locker room than Kevin Durant is & has the luxury of having won here already. Kawhi is pretty much stamped in Toronto & unless a drastic drop in form it’s a very sound deal.

welcome to toronto, a team no superstar will ever ask to play for or will be willing to be traded to. a team with a great market but terrible player destination. a team that has to take these kind of risks to try to contend and give their franchise player some support.

welcome to toronto!

The rockets are crazy good at contract negotiations for some reason. Like they aren’t anything special in most other things front office wise but the best in contracts by far

Talking heads complaining a player getting a huge deal that the team is willing to pay. Sounds like jealousy on his part.

Bus driver deserves more money than a rider.

Based on how horrible espns Kawhi reporting is I’m expecting back to back Toronto chips now

espn with a further attempt at a smear campaign against kawhi after he exposed their shoddy journalism

When you factor in everything they gave up to get him PLUS giving him this deal with a player option, it’s a massive bet

They’re paying him for that championship he won in 2019.

Generally, Kawhi can kick rocks all the way to his uncle’s house.

But I’m not mad at him for getting paid. Kevin Durant has never led the Houston Rockets anywhere.

Dude’s gonna average out to \(1M+ per game over the 2 years, which is within the range of his last couple of years (102G, \)100.3M)

KD is gonna be playing at age 38, Kawhi at 35. Kawhi was 7th in mvp voting, this is what that costs.

KD isn’t a player that turns teams into champions. Kawhi atleast has that going for him.

He’s absolutely correct. There is no way he makes it through a Finals run if that was ever a possibility.

The funniest outcome would be us sign and trading him and I would forever love bobby just for the chaos.

After the Clippers debacle there was no way the Raps could try to get a deep “discount” in an extension.

Bro doesn’t know who Alex McKechnie is.

Obviously its a high risk high reward type of deal but the potential gives us a huge upgrade. Would u rather pay 50 Million to Dick and BI or just 56 Million to Kawhi. Dick and BI were huge defensive liabilities and East conference has so many upgrades with 76ers, Heat and stars recovering from injuries unlike last season.

Also we are with Kawhi for 2 years instead of potential 4 year deals. Raptors did a phenominal job of making sure he was ready for 2019 Playoffs in the past and we can probably do it again.

Also we don’t need Kawhi to play 78 games and carry through January, last years Raptors team made it to the first round against the Cavs to 7 games without a complete healthy roster missing IQ, broken back Poetle, and missing BI for some games. Cavs later went on to beat other teams but we were really close.

Kawhi is a great finishing piece, and keep the man happy! Happy (slight discount) Paid Kawhi would play better then Fully (over and beyond) paid Kawhi from the clippers that delivered no results.

Thats why we are such a Dark Horse team for this year. Im so hyped for this years Raptors.

Kawhi left 7.5m from the trade kicker, plus 11m. Almost 18.5m in cap flexibility he saved.

He was a top 10 player last year.

He outperformed kd and younger than him. This was the market price. Miami, Timberwolves, pistons were ready to pay the man the full 126m.

When multiple teams were interested in paying the max, it tells you a lot.

Board man gets paid

They are going to be shilling on Kawhi after taking such a blow to their reputation. These guys cant take their own responsibility of blatantly lying to all NBA fans.

Board man gets paid

115 for 3 years is cheaper AAV wise compared to 2 for 90 though.

He’s really a silent asshole, but honestly I’ll always have love for Kawhi because he ended the atrocious Superteam era. He could’ve ended it in 2016 but you know, Fuck Zaza.

You do you man.

Kawhi is who Trump thinks he is.

ESPN, irrelevant.

What going on with his freeloading uncle Shams?

The Raptors willingness to bail out both Kawhi and the Clippers is baffling. There has to be more to the story than just being dumb.

KD and Kawhi weren’t really at the same level of play last year. Kawhi was a fair bit better.

Guy won their only finals ring and brought Canada a championship. It’s more of giving their greatest player ever a reason to retire there.

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