Malcolm52 said:
I don't understand the rush to hate Kawhi. This story has been super strange from the get go, and everyone is operating off incomplete information at best and mostly just speculation. Perhaps he quit on the team, perhaps he is hurt, perhaps he hates San Antonio, perhaps he just is just figuring stuff out.
I will let the season and off season play out, as frustrating as they have been. Would love to have him back next year in the silver and black.
What little has been said about it by the Spurs and the way they've handled it has been odd. Kawhi could have come out publicly and quashed all rumors but he hasn't. Maybe it's just not his personality but the silence from him has been damaging to himself and the Spurs reputation.
What Manu, Tony, and Pop have said about it publicly has not helped either side look better.
Something is not right here. One party or the other needs to step up and cover for the other. But since neither side has done so, people naturally take sides. Some decide that the 5 time champion organization with the best reputation in all of sports is not to blame. Others decide that Pop and the Spurs have gotten a little pompous with age and that Kawhi isn't to blame.
But you can't ignore everything that has and hasn't happened and just say no one is in the wrong here.