CrushAlot wrote:Popper on the Bank Shot pod said that when he went to the nba combine every executive said Durant and another star coming to the Knicks was a done deal.

I’d only be ok with this if the other star was Kawhi.

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https://www.yahoo.com/sports/kyrie-irving-reportedly-refused-sign-140114749.html

In a recent piece by ESPN's Jackie MacMullan, she outlined a bizarre story about Irving refusing to sign balls that the team was planning on donating to their charitable partners.

At the completion of the regular season, the team set up 100 balls in a room for their charitable partners. Everyone signed the balls except Irving. When pressed to do it, say team sources, he was neither aggressive nor confrontational. He merely said, "No, I'm not interested in that."

GustavBahler wrote:What a guy.....Pass!

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/kyrie-irving-reportedly-refused-sign-140114749.html

In a recent piece by ESPN's Jackie MacMullan, she outlined a bizarre story about Irving refusing to sign balls that the team was planning on donating to their charitable partners.

At the completion of the regular season, the team set up 100 balls in a room for their charitable partners. Everyone signed the balls except Irving. When pressed to do it, say team sources, he was neither aggressive nor confrontational. He merely said, "No, I'm not interested in that."

I would not so easily believe it. This seems like since kyrie is leaving they are out to assassinate his character. Ainge was talking nice about Kyrie until it was obvious he was gone. If he was so bad why did they want him back?

GustavBahler wrote:What a guy.....Pass!

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/kyrie-irving-reportedly-refused-sign-140114749.html

In a recent piece by ESPN's Jackie MacMullan, she outlined a bizarre story about Irving refusing to sign balls that the team was planning on donating to their charitable partners.

At the completion of the regular season, the team set up 100 balls in a room for their charitable partners. Everyone signed the balls except Irving. When pressed to do it, say team sources, he was neither aggressive nor confrontational. He merely said, "No, I'm not interested in that."

It's a general rule of American professional sports that a parent franchise will try to monetize everything it can possibly squeeze for a dollar.

Irving might also have several deals in place limiting to how much he can sign and stay within the bounds of said contract with the non NBA business.

Not signing/refusing to sign is really not that uncommon.

Sports memorabilia is just a really ****ed up parts of the entire sports culture.

My general rule was I would always do it for kids. And always personalize it with their name ( Thus negating the possible resale value of it. Obviously I'm not Peyton Manning, so his situation or a profile like that, it's more complicated) But lots of shady people will recruit kids to get things signed for them.

Boston has a nasty habit of ****ting on outgoing sports icons there. I hate the ****ing Red Sox, but I can't lie and say I didn't feel bad for Terry Francona. The Sox ****ted on him real good on the way out. They dragged his personal medical history out on him to **** him over. Not saying some people don't deserve to get dragged over the coals (Aaron Hernandez...) But you have to take the local Boston media with a grain of salt.

The variables are much harder for higher profile athletes. It's much easier for a low level fringe player to negotiate much of the general problems with this kind of stuff.

At least Irving didn't do what Isaiah Thomas 2 did, which was do charitable stuff then throw that **** in everyone's face as to why he deserves a max deal. If you do stuff for charity, you don't do it with an expectation of some kind of return. That being said, every franchise will milk the **** out of you if you seem like you can be manipulated to make them even more side money.

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KD and Kawhi would be worth taking a chance on KD.

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Leonard and Durant are each planning discussions and meetings with several teams, but only the Clippers and Knicks are in alignment with salary-cap space and common interest to sign both players. Brooklyn could conceivably house both, but a more likely scenario would be Durant and point guard Kyrie Irving signing as free agents with the Nets. Brooklyn is firmly Irving's focus in free agency, league sources said.

Leonard is expected to meet with the Los Angeles Lakers, Clippers, Knicks and Toronto Raptors upon the opening of free agency. Durant is planning conversations with the Clippers, Knicks, Nets and Warriors, league sources told ESPN.

Sounds like they're going by the 2 teams they have in common in terms of visits. Add more players to the list, and look at who they're visiting, and you can make up other combinations, no?

Is there any info out there that Durant and Leonard have actually spoken to each other about potentially signing together?