If Kawhi wins another title I won't be crying myself to sleep over it, don't get me wrong, but I will be happiest if he never wins another one, and I will take pleasure out of any time his team gets eliminated. Maybe that's petty and maybe this is a 2 year old rant, but I don't care. I never agreed with his decision to leave in the first place, but many other Canadians (sports radio hosts etc.... included) besides myself were forgiving about it. Too forgiving IMO. They were going with the old line "he just won us (Toronto/Canada) a title, he can do what he wants blah blah blah," but it p.issed me off because it was such a typically Canadian thing to say. To be forgiving and understanding it made me sick.
The guy left a perfect situation other than the fact that he had stomach playing in Toronto/Canada and a bit of snow and generally cold weather in the winter which he obviously couldn't do. Boo hoo.
He left the team that rehabilitated his body and his career that he just won a title with. He had a great supporting cast as mentioned above, as good as any in the league especially at the time, and he was playing in the weaker conference IMO. I would've had absolutely no problem with him leaving after a Conference Finals loss or something similar either, but to leave after winning a title is just disrespectful. At least try to repeat.
I wish I was wrong at the time, but I always knew he would leave because he's just another superstar basketball player born in the U.S. that doesn't want to play here. We've had VC and Lowry and Bosh sure, but Lowry is not a true superstar in the way Kawhi is, and VC and Bosh never had good enough teams around them. Maybe VC did that one year he clanked the rim against the 76'ers, but they would've lost to the Lakers back then anyway. And I'll say this about Carter. His exit was messy, but at least he was here for 6-7 years.
Kawhi had every reason to stay and one reason to leave and he chose the easy way out, sunshine and rainbows, and after dragging his decision out for months at that. So yes I will be exceedingly happy every time a Kawhi led team chokes it in the playoffs from now on. Sue me.
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