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Buckets with Amir Blumenfeld

31: We Know Nothing About Kawhi (w/Billy Scafuri)

Buckets with Amir Blumenfeld

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Basketball, Nba, Pro Basketball, Amir Blumenfeld, Comedy, Sports

4.9907 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we discuss the existential drama that surrounds Kawhi Leonard's free agency -- and why he probably doesn't care. We also discuss other teams, I think.

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0:00.0

This is a headgum podcast.

0:03.4

Welcome to Buckets.

0:07.4

You know, basketball is not a democracy.

0:10.1

We cannot vote where somebody will sign.

0:12.0

If we could, Kevin Durant would have never gone to the warriors to begin with.

0:16.0

But he did, and the haters were upset.

0:18.8

Of course, haters can't vote where somebody will sign,

0:22.0

but they can still make their voices heard.

0:24.8

Why would you sign with a team that you almost beat?

0:27.2

Why would you join the greatest regular season team of all time?

0:30.7

You're soft, you're a snake, an asterisk on all your children turns out for the

0:35.7

world's most sensitive superstar words hurt as much as sticks and stones his

0:40.4

Achilles heel was his sensitivity and also his Achilles heel.

0:44.3

He thought he'd be happy if he won a title he won two.

0:47.5

He thought he'd be vindicated, lauded as valuable,

0:50.5

when he won a finals MVP, and he did that twice. But if you needle thin skin long enough,

0:56.1

you'll draw blood. Durant won, but he wasn't happy. He had the trophies he coveted but not the

1:01.7

respect he thought he deserved.

1:04.0

You can turn off comments on your Instagram, but that will only address the symptom and not the

1:08.3

disease.

1:09.3

So what did he do?

1:11.0

He left.

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