Kawhi Leonard's beef with the Spurs was the feud nobody expected | Part One
It’s incredible how much Kawhi Leonard fit the San Antonio Spurs' ethos. A reclusive team-first superstar, who rarely showed emotions and only cared about hooping. San Antonio is a model franchise that’s often been called bland, boring, or as I like to say - sauceless but whatever you wanna call them, their success on the court has spoken volumes.
On paper, Kawhi and the Spurs were a match made in heaven who appeared to be locked in with each other until the end of time. Except, the relationship that seemed to be unbreakable from the outside ultimately deteriorated behind the scenes, resulting in a messy divorce. But to truly appreciate the tenderness of this beef you have to understand that it’s arguably the most improbable feud that occurred in NBA history.
Written and produced by: Joe Ali
Directed and edited by: Ryan Simmons
Art direction by: Michael Das
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Itching for some more Kawhi beef? Well lucky for you we like to keep our viewers well-fed, so make sure to check out part two of this tasty beef!
The fact that Kawhi has beef with the Spurs was heartbreaking. He was the next man up after Duncan, and it shattered the line of succession in San Antonio.
Can we please get a Michael Jordan vs. Isiah Thomas beef history? They still hate each other's guts to this day.
His laugh shook the nation.
You know this cut of beef is huge when this is just Part One... 👀
I genuinely believe had Zaza not have stepped under Kawhi's landing and caused his injury, the Spurs could have made the Finals that year. The Spurs were on fire that season and they seemed to match up very well against the Warriors even with their three headed monster of KD, Klay and Steph. They had a 2-1 record over the Warriors during the regular season that included two blowout wins and that first game of the WCF seemed to be another big win until Zaza changed fate. A real shame honestly, I genuinely believed that season would be the start of the Spurs' championship era with Kawhi as the superstar.
As a man from Toronto, I am not going to complain about this particular beef.
The Zaza incident was very very understated in this video seeing how blatantly intentional it was and how Zazas name became synonymous for dirty players in the league.
Part 2 better be all about how Uncle Dennis was the cause of this whole beef. This WHOLE situation start when Leonard hired his Uncle as his agent. And hopefully they bring up Uncle Dennis extremely shady past and his attempts to use Leonards name for his own profit.
He really did seem like he was a fit for them. Even his cheap car matched the spurs aesthetic
As a Spurs fan, I will never forgive Uncle Dennis for what he did. There is just no way that the Spurs, the team that pioneered load management, would ever mismanage the injury of their star player
Imagine if Kawhi came along like 3 years earlier than he did. Tim might have had more rings than Jordan
As a mavs fan I never imagined things would go down like they did between Kawhi and San Antonio. I thought the dude would be in a Spurs Jersey the rest of his career.
4 years later and Kawhi is still load managing even more so.
Basically Zaza single handedly (or footedly...) ended the Spurs
I still hate Zaza for this crap. Kawhi being shipped off to Toronto and winning a chip there was bittersweet. Demar was a cool guy on the team and had some nice playmaking but the team didn't have much playoff success after that. There's a pretty good podcast called The Fall of Spurs Dynasty and covering this part as well.
I rewatch this channels catalogue to help me fall asleep at night.. never miss a Secret Base upload
Miss beef history so much. Keep on making em!
As a Spurs fan I’m just heartbroken how we and Kawhi handled the damn situation and now we are in our rebuilding phase without him which sucks
I've been waiting on this one especially with what's going on with kawhi Leonard right now this man has been protected from the media long enough 😂😂😂😂 in all seriousness let's go beef history you guys are my favorites