Banchero DiVicenzo

🇬🇾🇮🇹 | Environmental Professional | 🏀 Junkie

[Banchero DiVicenzo @MistahSankar]

Catch ya boi in the back raising the roof!👐👐 im amped

[Toronto Raptors @Raptors]

High IQ OG play

[Damien Peters @DamienPetersNBA]

Kawhi Leonard’s legacy with the Los Angeles Clippers:

- Demanded the front office trade for Paul George, forcing them to part with every asset they had including a young Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
- Missed 243 games in 7 seasons (equivalent of nearly 3 seasons)
- 2019-2020: Blew a 3-1 lead in Western Conference Semi-Finals
- 2020-2021: Clippers reach Western Conference Finals without him
- 2021-2022: Missed playoffs
- 2022-2023: Eliminated in the first round and didn’t finish the series
- 2023-2024: Eliminated in the first round
- 2024-2025: Eliminated in the first round
- 2025-2026: Missed the playoffs, locked up by Draymond Green with the season on the line
- Played just 35 playoff games
- No championships
- No personal Conference Finals appearances
- Demanded the front office continue retooling around him, causing them to trade for James Harden and depart with even more draft capital
- Collected nearly $350 million in salary
- Circumvented the salary cap
- Cost the Clippers a further 5 first round picks
- Inflicted a $30 million fine
- Inflicted suspensions on ownership and front office with no pay
- A personal $700,000 fine
- Had his uncle Dennis banned for life

Possibly the worst free agent signing in league history.

[Tomer Azarly @TomerAzarly]

So in pursuing and landing Kawhi Leonard, the LA Clippers will have lost Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and 10 1st round picks...

- Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
- Danilo Gallinari
- 2021 1st round pick [unprotected MIA pick]
- 2022 1st round pick [unprotected LAC pick]
- 2023 1st round pick [top-14 protected MIA pick]
- 2024 1st round pick [unprotected LAC pick]
- 2026 1st round pick [unprotected LAC pick]
- 2029 1st around pick [forfeit]
- 2030 1st around pick [forfeit]
- 2031 1st around pick [forfeit]
- 2032 1st around pick [forfeit]
- 2033 1st around pick [forfeit]

Not to mention the 2 pick swaps:

- 2023 1st round pick [right to swap]
- 2025 1st round pick [right to swap]

[🧊🧊Whi2Ximes @Whi2Ximes]

Kawhi dancing to “2 Hard 4 The Radio” by Drake 😭😭

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

LeBron will make $4M a year from the Sixers. Living in Manhattan and helicoptering to Philadelphia could cost him over $1M of it. He'd be spending a quarter of his salary to avoid living in the city he plays for.

Run the numbers. Shams says the flight is 45 minutes from Manhattan. Twin-engine charter rates run $3,000 to $5,000 an hour, so call it $8,000 a round trip. With 41 home games plus practices, that's 100+ commuting days. $800K a season, minimum.

Then taxes. A New York City resident pays up to 14.8% combined state and city income tax. Pennsylvania is a 3.07% flat tax. On a $4M salary, choosing Manhattan over Philly adds $300K+ a year, and New York taxes residents on everything they earn everywhere.

So why does a man who just took a $48M pay cut spend seven figures on a commute? Because the paycheck stopped mattering years ago. LeBron earns roughly $80M a year off the court. His entire Sixers salary equals about 18 days of being LeBron.

The vet minimum was a gift of cap room to the front office so Embiid, Maxey, and Jaylen Brown get surrounded with actual depth. And when your day job pays 5% of your income, you arrange the day job around your life. His family, his media company, and his business all run better out of the biggest market in America.

Kobe ran this exact math two decades ago, flying from Newport Beach to Staples every day. What he was actually purchasing was hours with his daughters. LeBron at 41, on possibly his last contract, is buying the same thing.

[LeBron James @KingJames]

I thought I was done when the season ended. I wasn't ready to announce it, and I knew I needed some time to really decide, but I was pretty sure I played my last game. I was honest at that last press conference when I said I needed to look at myself and deicide if I still love

[Banchero DiVicenzo @MistahSankar]

Bron and Coach Nurse it's over

[Underdog NBA @UnderdogNBA]

LeBron James to sign with the Sixers.

[NBACentral @TheDunkCentral]

Drake’s close friends don’t want DeMar DeRozan back in Toronto 😬

(h/t @big_business_ )

[Night Owls @NightOwlsHQx]

Chubbs and Preme comment on a 6ixBuzzTV post about DeMar DeRozan potentially returning to the Toronto Raptors.

“ 👎🏾”
“No LA teams want him?”

[Banchero DiVicenzo @MistahSankar]

@Raptors only reunion left that matters.

[Underdog NBA @UnderdogNBA]

Jonas Valanciunas to be waived by the Nuggets, per @MikeAScotto.

[Banchero DiVicenzo @MistahSankar]

Fuck

[Underdog NBA @UnderdogNBA]

Stein: Garrett Temple joining Mavs coaching staff.

[Banchero DiVicenzo @MistahSankar]

Sayword

[Underdog NBA @UnderdogNBA]

Shams: Kyle Anderson to sign a 1-year, $3.9M deal with the Raptors.

[Ahmed/The Ears/IG: BigBizTheGod 🇸🇴 @big_business_]

Kawhi Leonard going back to Toronto on the eve of Canada Day is something out of a Disney movie

[Esfandiar Baraheni @JustEsBaraheni]

For what it's worth, all indications are that Kyle Lowry is set to sign a 1-day deal and retire as a Raptor this season.

Kawhi being there for the Raptors, retiring his jersey, will be an awesome moment.

[Josh Lewenberg @JLew1050]

Sure, the Raptors paid more for a 35-year-old Kawhi Leonard than they did for a 28-year-old Kawhi... but they've now acquired him TWICE for fewer first-round picks than it cost to land the following players once: Paul George, Mikal Bridges, Rudy Gobert, James Harden, Kevin Durant

[Banchero DiVicenzo @MistahSankar]

The first time ever a Superstar has chosen US. 🇨🇦🏀👑

[Underdog NBA @UnderdogNBA]

Shams: Kawhi Leonard views this as an opportunity to retire in Toronto.

[Underdog NBA @UnderdogNBA]

Kawhi Leonard with Raptors in 2019:

NBA Champion
Finals MVP
All-Star
Second Team All-NBA
Second Team All-Defense

Averaged 30.5 PPG in playoffs en route to the first title in franchise history.

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

BREAKING: The Los Angeles Clippers are nearing deal sending Kawhi Leonard to the Toronto Raptors for Brandon Ingram, Gradey Dick, 2 first-round picks, 1 pick swap and 2 second-rounders, sources tell ESPN. A return to Canada for the Raptors champion and two-time Finals MVP.

[LeBron James @KingJames]

No, THANK YOU! Truly a honor to wear the 💜💛 while trying to continuing the greatness & legacies that came before me! Hope I made a few proud during my stint. 🙏🏾🫡👑

[a - p o x @apox6ix]

“Because you always made your career off of switchin' teams up” 😂😂

Everyday the bars on ICEMAN just get better and better man 🧊