[Kenney] Kerr said Kevon Looney has become the “morale compass of our team.” Says he was a key player in helping the team move on. “I’ll ride with Loon forever, this is a special man.”
Kerr said Kevon Looney has become the "morale compass of our team." Says he was a key player in helping the team move on.
"I'll ride with Loon forever, this is a special man."
— Madeline Kenney (@madkenney) October 12, 2022
by NokCha_
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Peacemaker Loon is my favorite Loon
LoonBodhisattva
LoonDog <3
Build Looney a statue too
Gotta love Looney. He just seems like the chillest guy.
Loon is such a š
I gotta get his jersey
I’ll ride with Loon forever too, coach
Love to hear it.. that’s a special man..
He’s Loongod for a reason
So thankful that we have Looney on this team
Love seeing Loon get his due
Loongod might be my favorite Warrior. I hope he retires with this organization.
Loongod jersey is long overdue. I need that asap.
They know he nice with the Katana
They gotta hang the 5 when heās done. If Tony Allen got his jersey retired with the Grizzlies then Loon more than deserves it.
this was honestly the most surprising part of the press conference to me. He singled Loon out much harder than I woulda expected. Very very cool.
The new vocal leader.
I would not have believed you if you told me in 2017 that Kevon Looney would be crucial to our dynasty
Richmond district’s finest.
Look will retire a warrior
Just like Steve Kerr, I too will ride with Kevon Looney forever. As a fan of this team since Run TMC, Kevon Looney is special, if those Chris Mullin teams had a big man like Loons, man….
I noticed it in his third season when he first started to play. He wasn’t that quick, or that athletic, but for some reason, every time I watched the game, he was in the right spot, exactly where he was supposed to be, every damn time. At first, I thought it was luck, then I noticed it was happening too often to be luck.
In my view, having watched sports for as long as I have, one the hardest things for an athlete to do, at any level, is to have more self-awareness than ego. Guys like Kevon Looney rarely make it, because when you have that hip injury and then barely play your first two years, unless you are a sky high draft pick, the organization will almost always write you off as a bust, and draft the next guy to take your spot. It’s why I feel so awful for players like James Wiseman and Trey Lance: missing so much time your first two full years due to injury is incredibly difficult to bounce back from. Most people never become productive pros after that kind of set-back. Looney is even more impressive, because he did it despite being a low draft pick; a #2 overall pick gets more chances than a #30 overall pick.
Kevon Looney was Mr. Basketball in the state of Wisconsin. He was a high school super-star. He was a freaking McDonald’s All-American. He had a terrific Freshman season at UCLA. I felt he was a lottery pick going into his college season, and nothing he did at UCLA swayed me that he wasn’t a lottery pick. People forget just how good Looney was regarded as a prospect before his hip injuries; he was a lottery type talent. If his medicals had been clean, he would have been a lottery pick in the 2015 draft, no question in my mind. The warriors took him as a high risk/high reward play at the 30th pick.
It is ridiculously hard for an athlete who has been so successful every single step of the way to deal with being hurt for two full years. It’s harder still for an athlete who has been the star of his high school and college team to have that moment where he realizes he can’t do that at the NBA level, and he needs to completely change his game in order to have a career.
The self-awareness to be able to do that is not something common in athletes in general, but is wholly uncommon in NBA players in particular. It has to hurt a man’s pride, and it has to hurt the ego, but the question at the end of the day is: do you want to be an NBA player or not? If you do, doing what Kevon Looney does is what it takes.
Everyone says Kevon Looney is the most professional person on the team; he’s never late, he never complains. Kawhi Leonard rammed him in the shoulder so hard it dislocated, and there was no call, and Loons didn’t complain; Loons played with that broken shoulder.
His professionalism has 100% cost him money: what he does is invaluable to the warriors, but it’s not nearly as valuable to another team. He could have turned down the role the coaches asked of him, he could have done what was best for his career. It’s a two-way street, obviously: you’re much more willing to sacrifice your earnings if you’re confident your employer will do the right thing by you at the end of the day. That’s what the warriors have that very few other teams have, that’s why ownership matters.
I hope his number is lifted to the rafters of Chase Center someday. Not for what he did, but for how he did it.
Me too steve, looner for life
Looney is an angel on earth <3
man i fuckin love looney. it was so gratifying to see him get recognition this past playoffs. hearing his character get praised is even better.
LOOOOONGOD! LOOOOONGOOOOOD!
āIāll ride with Loon foreverā is an absolutely incredible quote