Kawhi will not be happy being LeBron’s sidekick on the Lakers – Bomani Jones | First Take
Bomani Jones does not see Kawhi Leonard being content with playing as the Los Angeles Lakers’ second or third option behind LeBron James and Anthony Davis, and Max Kellerman expects Kawhi to join the LA Clippers and win a championship next season, potentially with Jimmy Butler.
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He should stay in Toronto period
@LAKER NATION 4 LIFE! writing’s on the wall, i can give you 100 reasons/hints that he staying but you as Lakers fan will choose not to see that (same goes for the US media). i’ll name a few just for the sake of it. 1) You won a chip. 2) you made history with the team and know you have another shot with that same team. 3) not easy to walk out on a 2.5 million championship parade 4) you established a relationship with the organization and the medical team that you can’t guarantee you’d have the same somewhere else. 5) Gasol said he’ll only stay in Kawhi stays, Gasol re-signed. 6) He signed his daughter in a school here in Toronto (look up some of the footage). 7) Toronto is not what the media paints it to be, Kawhi witnessed this first hand. 8) Masai’s staying and has the last word when it’s all said and done. thinking that Toronto doesn’t have a pitch simply cause they won a chip is ridiculous.. the guy has a plan to further improve the team for next season. ofcourse i already know you’ll be disputing all that. One thing for sure though, he ain’t going to the Lakers to be a 3rd wheel, or to be on a team he was never a fan of to begin with.
@Petesilvo ok if that’s true… About the school thing..don’t you think that would have at least made headlines? (Which it didn’t ) you gave nothing but “Your reasons” why you think he should stay! So far you’ve only mentioned one thing that was relevant and that was marc gasol….otherwise its all speculation!…BUT…A BIG BUT! …I would rather him stay with the Raptors! Of course I want him on the lakers! Trust me! We aren’t the only ones who feel that way! But what ever he decides too do! The best would be between Raptors and the lakers!
@Young Man June 30th …. Lets see what he decides! Either way is cool with me
LAKER NATION 4 LIFE! Woah chill I’m just saying what she said
@helloyou807 here’s your … take up in the ass
Molly: Let me switch gears on you
Lavar: You can switch gears on me anytime
Mon Edwar
They did lol but then she remembered she was a feminist and had to get triggered
@Lavar Ball ???
Fuk this whooore Molly…LaVar is monkeyy but at least he makes me laugh like his retared injury prone BUSTS sons.
Peter Battaglia L
I was waiting for this comment. Thank you ?
How does he know Kawhi wouldn’t be happy ? Lmfaooo .. Ppl out here assuming ? Shit is Hilarious .
Steven Lankford lebron fans arguments is always stats stats stats
how about watch the damn game and see how he gets those points and assists
Cuz most people are unhappy with LeBaby.
Kawhigon Jinn ain’t nobody blind. If you watch his tapes it’s like a broken record (hhhhhe does the same thing)
Fr, its the other way around lebron would be Kawhi sidekick. Kawhi would be the Alpha of the Lakers.
Man do LeBron need every top super star on his team to win a championship the greatest player on the planet i mean what does this say about his greatness that he needs a whole lot of help to win now i mean what happened to being the best you have to be the best now it’s lets make our team so super that we’ll just win by default, and what does this say about leanord coming off a finals MVP and you go join forces with LeBron and ad just to have clear advantage over the rest of the league where are y’all competitive juices you like a bunch of slapnuts punks to me.u wouldn’t dare see Jordan trying to stack a team just to win a championship Jordan will say give me vital coach K and just give me the dam ball and I will take us there, now that’s what the greatest of all time would say not o i need shooters o i need a team of all Stars to win, y’all compared just chump to Jordan just stop he’s not even in the same stratosphere as Michael Jordan enough said period point blank
I hope Molly never comes back ! This show is so much better ☺️
Octavio Araujo you definitely fap off to the thought of her every night
Lol Octavio you trolling, stop ?. All she does is interrupt. Now if she was topless on the show, then I’m all for having molly on the show.
A H checking my videos out eh ??? they are old videos with my daughter. To have a child you need to have sex with a female…something your ugly ass doesn’t know about. You bust nuts all over yourself ???
It feels so good not hearing, “can i say one thing real quick”
@bradders344 hahhaa shiit wjy u done em like that?
This is just media tampering. Lakers are a great situation and why are we assuming Kawhi would be a sidekick? He’ll make his own decision without opinions from the peanut gallery.
@Giovanni Cardenas My point was that it would be too easy for them.
@craig brown winning a championship? I mean we all thought the same thing about the warriors but they didnt win this year, did they? Winning isnt easy
@Giovanni Cardenas The Warriors lost 2 of there 3 best players in the playoffs
the media trying to interfere on the Lakers getting kwahi. kwahi would know that the future of the lakers would be about kawhi and ad, thus great motivation for kwahi to sign with the Lakers.. include the championship aspect to that.
If I’m KD I def resign with the warriors if this happens
No shit.
Yo imma let yall finish but if Kawhi comes to LA with LeBron, AD, and Kuzma they are fucking up these lightskin niggas ON SIGHT. KD can do whatever tf he wants, and they still getting run off the damn court.
Draymond cannot guard AD one on one. That shit is NOT happening. The only reason they held him a little bit was because it was 1 vs 5. KD cannot guard LeBron one on one, the only reason they won is because they played LeBron 1 vs 5. The Warriors stayed picking on teams the last few years because they put 5 HOF on the court at one time, if LeBron gets Kawhi and AD, it’s gonna be OVER
Really you actually LeBron
U aint tha real lebron stop playing
So tired of hearing about who the Lakers are gonna get and where Kawhi is going to go.
Funny how you clicked the link and watched the Video! Lol … you so wanna know!!!
Stop watching sports shows till free agency is over.
Stop watching then
@MsCamicam You are a ho, you don’t know ball. Make me a sandwich.
Hookers n’ Cocaine The BITCH who birthed you haven’t taught me yet! Tell that tramp to teach me first and then we both can make your punk ass a sandwich DEAL? ??!! Your mama already taught me how to be a ho so I’m grateful?
If Kawhi goes to the Lakers it’s over with for the rest of the league.
@The LA Guy that’s what I said “If healthy”. Problem is Lakers would only have the MLE for one player ($4.5M) and as many minimum exceptions as they need (<$1.5M depending on experience). Who are the Lakers going to get to play all those minutes and win games? Kawhi will likely play 62 games again. AD has had health issues. Lebron ain't getting any younger and seem to not play defence during the regular season. We all saw what happened in GS once Steph signed supermax. No money for decent reserves. Then stars have to do too much over 82 games + playoffs. If healthy sure, but I would bet the house on it.
Denis Bazinet
C Davis
PF Kuzma
SF LJ = Championship
SG Kawhi
PG potato
Denis Bazinet They could sign Patrick Beverly for 4.5 mil and then just say fuck it. With that starting 5 they would terrorize the league.
@Ba Lee Dat you could have Mario Chalmers at PG and you will still win atleast 2 chips
@Ba Lee Dat believe want you… None of the 3 can average 40 minutes a game
People in the media swear they been talking to kawhi personally everyday
GNB facts
GNB lmao word. Kawhi always said its team first… its not about him. He dont care if they call him a side kick or not a leader all he cares about is having fun.. leonard has no ego.. and dont give a fuck about what these media heads say.
Kawhi’s voice hahq
BREAKING: Lakers are apparently the only franchise in the NBA
Where have you been? Literally every free agent is linked to the Nets, knicks, or Clippers. Your blind lebron hatred is showing.
Fr fuck the lakers
The LA Guy Kawhi is also seating with the clippers but they only talking about the lakers
you simply responding is giving justification to their focus on los angeles.lamo
Augustine Choi we are just interested Kawhi the fact stands Kawhi is not only seating with the lakers
Have any of these Laker haters heard of Magic, Kareem, and Worthy?
Bird, McHale, Parish?
Supposed “analysts”.
@Nihle Igleca curry,klay and green were drafted by the warriors and they grew and became a all stars,kd was d only one who was brought in and D.Cousins was coming off injury when he joined the warriors,stop comparing the build of these super teams to the warriors,because the warriors won a ring before we thought they were a super team.
@Nihle Igleca not shocked by it though,to me the league has been this way from 2011,stars joining stars it’s a norm now,I happy for the laker fans though,I grew up a Kobe fan so yeah,Am happy for them.
Kareem was on the older side, worthy clearly wasn’t as good as Magic, it worked. LBJ, Kawhi and Davis is like putting Magic, Bird and Isiah together. Who’s team is it? Called chemistry, not just about talent
Smh the competition level is a disgrace now a days it’s cool to join up but damn I’m waiting for it to go back to one or 2 stars to a team lol role players ain’t shit now a days ???
Jay Sampson did you not watch the raptors at all this year lol? There’s one superstar and the rest are role players… can’t really call pascal a star yet. Marc is way past his prime. What are you even saying lol
What makes bomangji qualified to speak. Dude don’t know anything
Max got slick saying Jimmy Butler going to Clippers as well lol
All Bomani’s issues with Kwahi joining LAL are off the court, no actual basketball impact analysis.
Right. I mean look whatever happens it’s Kawhi choice. This man won 2 chips and was MVP he doesn’t owe anybody anything and no one know what he would be as a Lakers.
Nobody:
Kawhi:
“WHAT IT DO BABYYYYEEEEEE!!!”
Ibaka: “YOU ALREADY KNOW”
Damn who paying these ppl to speak on behalf of Kawhi? All I hear is disgruntled employees.???
I swear the media is soooo scared that Kwahi will actually join lebron ?? cause they’ll all look like fools!
facts
Facts
Lol the Raptors disrespect… Clippers squad isn’t any where NEAR as good as Raps without Kawhi.
Clippers got 8th last year…. Raptors have had an exceptional record for the last 5 years…
Kawhi:
“I know that the LA Lakers are a basketball team.”
Stephen A:
“My sources tell me the deal is almost done for Kawhi to be a Laker!”
Toronto is even a better team next year if Kawhi stays. Siakam, vanvleet, OG all coming back better with championship swagger.
Championship swagger doesn’t make a team better. Or at least it doesn’t overcome the additional challenge of everyone else gunning for you. Repeating is hard. The Spurs never even did it. LeBron almost didn’t do it.
Stephen Cheney The best comparison I can make for this Raptors team is the rockets with Hakeem Olajuwon, and they managed to repeat so I don’t see why this raptors team can’t.
Boy if you don’t stop it. The Raptors barely beat Philly on a game winner, and only won the chip because KD and Klay went down. They barely even got out the East. With my respect to Raptors fans, y’all got lucky as shit just like GSW in 2015.
Toronto is nothing compared to the Lakers. LeBron, AD, Kuzma, or Lowry, Siakum, Vanfleet? You decide. Except we both know Toronto would trade all three of those guys for LeBron or AD and not think about it twice
@Stephen Cheney experience and chemistry comes with that swagger, and a more comfortable Kawhi.
@NBA World why u play the game. Toronto stayed healthy, blame Embiid for always sick with something, blame GS medical staff.