One of my favorite slow plays by the Spurs. They actually got Morris in trade at the 2024 deadline for salary purposes. They kept him away from the team, and didn’t release him until the 29th of February, the last day for him to catch on for the playoffs, hopefully costing him good opportunities.
Add my tuppence to the thought. Hated him and his fake ass twin brother who deserved what he got from Jokic - a shoulder check that pushed him out of the NBA for good. Worst set of twins to play in the NBA ever.. I guess.
I was convinced Kawhi, dedmon and Simmons were the team’s future
Still hate him nonetheless
Always and forever tbh. But that season was fun until we got Zaza'd. The first time we'd had a legit MVP candidate since Timmy back in 2004.
Start carter bryant...Lets see how he does with the starting lineup.
Questionable is an upgrade for Dylan and Kornet from last game.
Fair. Here's hoping they suit up.
I'll accept heavy lifting from Fox too.
Kawhi finished 3rd in MVP race that season. So he wanst really close to win it. But i agree with you he was a legit MVP candidate that year.
Kawhi should've finished 2nd at worst. Westbrook's MVP on a 7-Seed team that year was the most fraudulent MVP in modern NBA history imo. His entire campaign was based on averaging a 30-point triple-double and surpassing Oscar Robinson for more triple-doubles in a season, as well as the whole "leading OKC to the Playoffs after KD abandoned them" narrative, but then you realize why/how he was getting those triple-doubles (playing zero perimeter defense so he could camp out in the paint to grab boards, literally telling his teammates not to grab rebounds so that he could grab them to pad his stats, passing up wide open looks to try and rack up assists, etc.) and you quickly realize the entire thing was a farce. It was the most shameless MVP award I've ever seen tbh. He was still extremely valuable to that OKC team obviously because the roster was mostly trash, but he wouldn't have won it without racking up all those triple-doubles and the PR campaign that came with it.
Please don't post that clown, he literally had Ben Simmons as a top5 player in the league after his rookie year.
Nash, Westbrook, SGA all these trash ass overrated guards getting these egregious charity MVPs
I agree Colin Cowturd is a dumbass and I never listen to him, but he's right on this one take tbh. Westbrook's MVP was the result of blatant and shameless stat-padding. He doesn't win it without that PR campaign.
Man, I must've had been in a coma that year. I don't remember Joel Anthony playing for the Spurs. Google said he did... huh.
With hindsight a lot of people now agree that Kawhi should have been the MVP. As BatManu pointed out, he and Harden were either averaging a 30 point triple double or were at the cusp of it and that's the only reason they were ahead, because of their stupid narrative which always plays a heavy role in MVP discussion. Modern media/voters now realize that stadpadding triple doubles is not that impressive. If that season happens in 2026, Kawhi is easily the favorite imo
Pretty sure he was a starter but then got injured early in the season which led to Kerr staring Green and the rest is history
Huh? Kawhi wasnt close to averaging 30pt triple double lmao. Westbrook won it because it was the first time since oscar robertson that a player averaged triple double in a whole season which is really insane that time. Jokic make it look like easy now.
