{"id":433339,"date":"2018-04-16T11:46:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=433339"},"modified":"2018-04-16T11:46:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:46:58","slug":"kawhi-and-his-people-need-to-earn-that-19-million-paycheck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/kawhi-and-his-people-need-to-earn-that-19-million-paycheck\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawhi and his people need to earn that $19 million paycheck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/TIghtenUp041618.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-433343\" src=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/TIghtenUp041618-1024x384.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nobody expects Kawhi Leonard to play in the NBA playoffs if he\u2019s not healthy.<br \/>\nBut for $19 million a year it\u2019s not too much to ask for him to be on the bench to coach, counsel, encourage or simply hand a water bottle to his teammates.<\/p>\n<p>But as the San Antonio Spurs were being hammered by the Golden State Warriors to open the playoffs, Leonard was in New York, about as far away as he could be without leaving the country.<br \/>\nThe former two-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year played in only nine games this season because of a quadricep injury. The Spurs\u2019 medical staff has cleared Leonard to play, but according to coach Gregg Popovich \u201cKawhi and his people\u201d have decided that he\u2019s not ready.<\/p>\n<p>Even veteran star Tony Parker said he himself returned from the same injury, but saying that his was 100 times worse than Leonard\u2019s.<br \/>\nI don\u2019t know if Leonard should be playing in these playoffs. What I do know is he has an obligation to be part of the team in any capacity that is helpful to the organization. He\u2019s clearly not doing that. He needs to Tighten Up.<\/p>\n<p>Who do you think needs to Tighten Up? Call in and the best and most entertaining suggestion will win a $25 gift card to Buck\u2019s Pizza on Dauphin Street in downtown Mobile.<br \/>\nFor Threaded Fasteners, I\u2019m Randy Kennedy with Tighten Up.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-433339-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/TightenUp041618.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/TightenUp041618.mp3\">http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/TightenUp041618.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Nobody expects Kawhi Leonard to play in the NBA playoffs if he\u2019s not healthy. But for $19 million a year it\u2019s not too much to <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/kawhi-and-his-people-need-to-earn-that-19-million-paycheck\/\" title=\"Kawhi and his people need to earn that $19 million paycheck\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4489,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,106,176],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-433339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nuts-and-bolts","7":"category-on-the-air","8":"category-top"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433346,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433339\/revisions\/433346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}