Your first thoughts on if Kawhi ends up a Faker? Mine:
😁. No doubt Lebron and Davis agent and LA media machine hard at work putting this stuff out there. They will get someone though with their cap space, just a matter of who.
I believe they will get someone but I would lose about 50% of my interest in the NBA if Leonard went to the Lakers.
Like in some respects it was crazy when the heat teamed up, but at that point none of them was a reigning champion.
Even when Durant went to the Warriors, nobody was coming off a championship (neither durant or the warriors)
If you win a championship where you don't have a fellow top 20 twenty player on your team and you go sign with two top 20 players (possibly top 10 players), it is just extremely bizarre for the league and a non-competitive. From Lebron's standup is anyone going to give him any kind of credit for winning a title with the reigning finals mvp and undisputed best player in the league and another top 5 player. I know we can get down a rabbit hole of the jordan and kobe comparisons or whatever, but that would be just ridiculous and nobody respect the title (even less than people are respecting durant's title and final's mvps). I also think this would hurt interest and attendance around the league. Like Toronto basketball just became much more popular for an entire country. If that team loses its' best player for a guy to go team up with Lebron, how interested are you in the NBA. I wouldn't even be involved in this as a fan and I would think it is pretty lame. For so many reasons I don't think this would ever happen, but I would lose all my respect for Leonard, and some of the respect Lebron has gained back from me if it did.