 Toronto could win the title and he still would probably go there like magic swung and missed on this This will go down as his first big mistake. I would stop trying to rely on Tigers heroic This morning the story comes out Yeah, he's kind of warming to the idea of playing in Toronto. It's overnight. He slept on it Had a nice steak last night baked potato woke up. I love Canada Really? This is a guy that wants a major shoe deal unless he's trying to get a snow shoe deal. He's not getting it in Toronto Okay, he doesn't love Toronto. Here's why that story is coming out Because Kawhi Leonard and he's right needs to protect his reputation. If Maasai just so much as gets an audience with Kawhi Leonard I think Kawhi will start coming around to Toronto and if Kawhi gives Toronto a chance I would give Toronto a 50-50 chance Maasai and Drake do not exclude Drake from this equation because he's very he you want to talk about powers of persuasion he is a Huge he's a much bigger star than Kawhi Leonard ever thought about being no And if he gets an audience with Kawhi or vice versa, it'll start to cook I believe he'll play I do not believe Kawhi would run the risk of sitting out But I do believe at some point in time He'll find his way out of Toronto by the trade deadline because I do not believe that he'll come back He'll be re-signing with Toronto. Now, I know The general manager Maasai Ujiri is gonna put the full-court press on We're gonna build the team around you. We love you the city You know Toronto gonna embrace you all that yada yada Kawhi heard that spirit if I'm Kawhi Leonard and if I love the game Then I yeah, I don't want to go to Toronto. I want to be in LA But you know what? I'm dying to play next year I've already sat out a year and even though I don't want to go to Toronto. I'm like, I'm going to the east I can show who I am. Everybody gave LeBron props of dominating the east I can dominate the east just as much as him We can win the east and take our chances in the fight like that should be his mentality I know for a fact no one is telling Kawhi to sit out the season People have said that all these rumors reports, but I talked to Kawhi's people and that's not even part of the conversation Him sitting out So I don't know why people are talking about it because typically people aren't informed So even that information is not coming from Kawhi's camp I believe Kawhi and his folks were trying to exert Maximum leverage to get what they wanted which was a trade to the city of Los Angeles But once that doesn't happen, then you have to have the conversation All right, how far are we actually going to take this? It's one thing to put out there. Hey, you can trade for me I might not show up. It's another thing to be traded for Kawhi needs to speak Kawhi needs to have a press conference Kawhi needs to do a sit-down interview He needs to stop say some letting his representatives whisper in the ear of reporters and put this stuff out there I think some of his representatives which include a family member are doing him kind of a disservice right now by creating this narrative Magic swung and missed on this This will go down as his first big mistake because you need to maximize The years that you have the quote-unquote best player on the planet LeBron James who will enter his 16th year He's not going to get any younger in his 16th year or 17th or his 18th. You might as well max it out You got he knocked on your door and said I want to finish as a Laker, right? Well, then then make it happen Magic say look that is depth if we get rid of these three guys that's three guys Okay, granted you brought Rondo you brought Stevenson and you brought Jovel McGee in but that's now you're only you down eight nine players Yep, you got to have 12 to fill out a roster if you're magic in that situation What are you willing to give up when you know I'm gonna get him in a few months now You could say if we get him now, maybe we can yeah Yeah, but how much you gonna give up see I think if you're magic the only way you give up some of those young guys Is if they don't play well if you say, you know what brandy Ingram hasn't played well next to LeBron He doesn't like the big stage Coos was not what we thought but then if you're Toronto Why do I want them at the trading deadline if if Toronto's in fourth place and you don't feel it You want to get nothing or something because this guy's a good drafter He was executive of the year in Denver and Brandon Ingram if you let Brandon Ingram have some space He's gonna give you 19 a game. Yep. I don't think a deal is going to be done I don't think it's gonna get close to being done because I think this for this season is going to work out Beautifully for Toronto. I think Toronto now with that Danny Green was thrown into the trade as an expiring contract He will be the starting two guard for the Raptors I think a lineup of Lowry green Kawai Abaka who I don't have a ton of faith in and balance units plus the fully formed bench unit that we talked about last year I think that is a dangerous team. They can kind of trick their fans to think. Yeah, we're still competing for a championship We can make that appearance in the final that we've never made but after this I mean they're gonna blow that thing up. They got other people coming off the books and everything for next year Yes, I think Kawai and his group still know the trade can be made They know there's a certain amount of time that has to pass before a trade can be made But yes a deal can still be done if I'm the Lakers and it looks like it's deteriorating in Toronto I would make a move I wouldn't put Brandon Ingram on the table in us in a half season type of deal because you would have Toronto's backs against the wall, but yes, I would go and make a move to try to get Kawhi Leonard all that being said I don't think the Raptors deal it I think they're all in on Kawhi Leonard this year and if it doesn't work out They'll do something that they've been thinking about doing since 2013 rip it down which is rip it down It's always reasonable for him to make the cut and everything. We can't take that for granted It's still an accomplishment to get to the weekend I think a top-ten finish because the way he's playing golf the way he's striking the ball Is he one of the best players in the world now? No, I wouldn't say he's one of the top ten players in the world But these types of golf course these types of tournaments a top-ten finish for him That would be a major accomplishment given what he's done this season also in in the majors Given how you've always said Tiger would tell you and has told anybody that that was close to him He still gets nervous for the first hole of every tournament much less major tournaments And we saw how his US Open started It was a triple bogey on the first hole of the tournament where he just it was a great tee shot And then you just made a mess of it after that a Tiger having being even par through the front nine I would say today could put him in position to be two or three under after the first round And I I mean I don't think that would be too far back. I would stop trying to rely on Tigers heroics I would stop trying to rely on him shooting a 63 64 to build a win these tournaments You need to consistently shoot 66 67 and you can't catch up with these young guys. There's too much power There's too many guys that can shoot scores under par and there's too many guys. They're not playing for par They're trying to make birdie. So you it's that's a long way to build a comeback in a major