...which we're not getting.
If we don't then we keep it moving; and if we do, then we'd know that a trade could make sense.
In 2014 many of us said Kevin Love would never give assurances to the Cavs, and why would he? Turns out, he was working with LeBron the entire time, and had a handshake agreement to sign a 5-year contract in Cleveland. So we had assurances that trading Wiggins meant at least 5-6 years of Kevin Love. Had Love never given those assurances, the Cavs would've assuredly kept Wiggins.
The same was true of LeBron and Paul George just last season, where George angled his way out of Indiana, but the trade leaked and Indiana balked at the last minute refusing to trade him to the Cavs a potential conference rival. That worked out for Indiana in the end, but at the time, Love looked like the better deal.
We've seen players do these kinds of things regularly, in the past two seasons, you also had Draymond with Durant and Harden with CP3.
So the point is that it's simply too early to know what information we may or may not get.
Kawhi is telling the whole planet that he's playing for the Lakers next year. He's not leaving a world-class organization like the Spurs just to commit to a toxic landfill like the Cavs, so I don't even think we can file this under "wishful thinking" status.
You might want to catch up on why Kawhi wants out of the Spurs...
I don't think Kawhi would agree, nor would his "group," with your assessment of the Spurs franchise. I think that'd likely go for a few current and former Spurs players. Hell, I don't think the Spurs beat writer would agree with the framing of the Spurs as a
"world-class organization" as it relates to their current top two players and how
they feel about the Spurs.
Suffice to say, Kawhi Leonard, the so-called Anti-LeBron, is requesting a trade. He's lowering his trade value by singling out the Lakers. He might be posturing, he might not be. We do not know. We
won't know for some time.
But it's hardly "wishful thinking" to talk about a player who has requested a trade while we sit on an All-Star, a lottery pick, and two young very good prospects in Cedi and Nance along with a massive expiring contract in Hill to boot.
Not many teams would or should risk trading for Kawhi, for multiple reasons; however the Cavs
might make sense, so it's definitely worth discussing.