The Superteam That Can't Win: LA Clippers Exposed

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[@hardwood_yt]

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[@ramboluib2752]

Who would have thought that Toronto's 1 year rental of Kawhi is more memorable than the last 5 years of him as a Clippers lol

[@CorePathway]

FIVE?!? Good lord😂Lol

[@woo_shynen8805]

Lol

[@Nfnf889]

I think about this every year come playoff time 😂. Raptor fan here. Glad I got to see a championship run in my lifetime LOL

[@CorePathway]

@@Nfnf889 one of the most amazing and iconic shots ever!

[@SneakyVito]

@@CorePathway not even close nobody cares about the raptors

[@NoahLinden]

When your best player is never available in the postseason, your team isn't winning anything. It's not complicated.

[@marcellusbalmores9713]

He always get hurt, with all them load management they doing to him. He still gets injured for some random reason. Lol.

[@qdakid7776]

@@marcellusbalmores9713every player not meant to have a 20 year career kawhi just like kyrie you lucky if you get a full season from them

[@BigPurp9]

They can’t even use it as an excuse. When you choose to make the most injury prone player in the league your star man you live with the consequences

[@RichardHomolka]

@@qdakid7776for us chicagoans - Gale Sayers. Magic on the turf. And that shredded his knees way early

[@kingovharts]

The guys body is breaking down as he ages and its happened earlier than other athletes. Its unfortunate but all his injuries are self inflicted with him just running the floor. Thats a horrendous sign for a player.

[@MNSportsJunkie101]

After making the Conference Finals in 2021, the Atlanta Hawks, Milwaukee Bucks, Phoenix Suns and Los Angeles Clippers all find themselves in terrible situations three disappointing seasons later.

[@jayanthsambaraju6562]

At least the bucks (giannis specifically) got a ring out of it so I’m cool

[@therealjaystone2344]

@@jayanthsambaraju6562and watch he’ll leave Milwaukee in the future

[@emiliorodarte4408]

The talk should more for the season post-bubble

[@nathanwhyte9048]

@@jayanthsambaraju6562hospital ring

[@matthewhenningervonada9914]

At the least the hawks and bucks have championships. (despite the hawks being dusty.), and the Suns have multiple NBA finals apperances. The clippers have done nothing.

[@PublicNuisance2K24]

Kawhi is past his prime, PG13 is past his prime, and the clippers have no depth.

[@drmidge]

i feel like other than pg and kawhi, correct me if i’m wrong, that they don’t have great defence?

[@rickysampson8759]

@@drmidgebro they had harden block his own teammate shooting.

[@reach7333]

@@rickysampson8759it was during a game that wasnt really important, winning and losing didnt really matter, they were up, harden did it as a joke but regardless it was still stupid of him to do that.

[@supasmits]

​@@reach7333 he was under mk ultra mind control

[@draftmagicagain1000]

3 words. Run It Back. 😂

[@nimaiiikun]

Kawaii's knees were done after Toronto. he used the last of his health to win that championship. They should have rebuild around Shai.

[@richborn6700]

Imagine if they just flipped SGA home to Canada for Kawhi instead of selling the farm for Paul fucking George.

[@alanespejel465]

@@richborn6700maybe im misunderstanding your comment but Kawhi to LA doesn’t happen without the PG deal

[@henrymlim]

As time goes by, my pain as a Spurs fan has changed to gladness. Glad that the Spurs got Victor Wembanyama to develop as a franchise player instead of getting stuck with a Kawhi Leonard who plays intermittently.

[@nimaiiikun]

@@henrymlim I wonder though, if Zaza Pachulia didn't take out Kawhi's knees.. would he still be healthy? would he stay on the spurs?

[@DESOUSAB]

@@nimaiiikun Zaza took out Kawhi - true. But he didn't create the well-documented degenerative condition that Kawhi suffers from. Kawhi's biggest issue is the guy is literally a dummy and he is controlled by his thirsty uncle. No hate, just facts...

[@EjinPagh]

PG is a passive-aggressive player. U can't rely on him. Harden is a season player. Westbrook is not the man he used to be. He's not even good as 6th man (he's effective when he has the ball & controlling the pace). Kawhi gets hurt during playoffs. All of these issues = Clippers curse 😂😂

[@richborn6700]

I know it's two different things and he can do what he wants off court but when he's podcasting during the playoffs he feels more like a retired analyst than an active player in a playoff series

[@EAlc-f9t]

Balmer really thinks the answer is to just pay a bunch of washed stars. Dudes not a great basketball owner.

[@jammiebooker6489]

​@@EAlc-f9the's a big part of the curse

[@alexjones7043]

It’s because the players they’ve picked have bad attitudes or injury problems. No leadership. No accountability. No ring.

[@TheHuskyK9]

Clips fans been saying the Clippers run LA since the Lob City era yet in that span, the only thing they have to show for it is one WCF appearance. Meanwhile, the Lakers have rebuilt and won another ring in that same timespan. Clippers will never “run LA”

[@bussterdouglas]

They somehow managed to gather all the most washed up group of former allstars in the league on one team😭

[@Jjohnny642]

Holy duck. I did not know the trade was that bad. SGA and 5 1st picks for PG(30 points on a shit Indiana team to build legacy)? OKC’s gm should be in a hall of fame

[@radityapoerwanto7018]

Spurs and Thunder would agree with you.

[@arguseyed9982]

That wasnt for Indiana PG. The one they paid for was a 29 year old star fresh off his career season with 3rd in MVP voting, 3rd in DPOY, All NBA 1st, All Def 1st. And the trade wasnt just for him, they paired up that guy with probably the best player in the league at that moment.

[@dominiquejones3805]

OKC is gonna have a bright future. CP3 time out there n OKC taught SGA a lot

[@jdwilmoth]

You know what they say there's a sucker born every minute

[@Schracid]

No matter how Lakers suck, they will always be Mario to Clippers Luigi.

[@johnpineda8478]

That's why the lakers have a title since the so called super team clippers have nothing to show for it

[@MarcoRoberto1]

Yeah. 17-0.

[@rlbproduction792]

Suck? Kid you suck

[@Delaretro_]

Luigi’s Mansion alone deserves more respect than the Clippers 😂

[@mymy8258]

clippers is more like toad

[@rbrlbisland]

As a Raptors fan this is bitter sweet. When Kawhi was on our team I remember the Clippers front office stalking him the entire season. They eventually offered him the keys to the franchise allowing him to play the role of GM if he’d sign with them. Because of him they traded away their entire future, SGA and 5 first rounders. They laughed at us when they pried him away. But who’s laughing now?! The reality is that their window to a championship has pretty much closed. They will soon be christening a new arena with aging, injury-prone stars on their roster, and no future in the draft. And the team that they traded their future to, the OKC Thunder, now have the brightest future in the NBA thanks to Kawhi. The Clippers and their fans will be looking at the Thunder for years to come knowing what their team could have looked like. Who’s laughing now?! 😂

[@tofutoph]

Spurs fans here. Also bittersweet for us. The way Kawhi quit on us and jeopardize our future only for us to get Wemby in the end while the Clippers are stuck with a broken down Kawhi. Casual fans won't understand why Spurs fans have a strong disdain for Kawhi just because Popovich had to go on the mic about fans booing Kawhi and be out of touch.

[@Jeez001]

He is known to be super arrogant and his high ego the clippers staff hates him because he treats people like dirt..

[@luislemus5442]

As a Clippers fan we got f up bad

[@stuffstoconsider3516]

@@Jeez001 Is he really that arrogant? Some people say that!

[@stuffstoconsider3516]

@@luislemus5442 Yeah i feel for Clippers fan as a Maverick fan myself.

[@DJReyzor357]

There's no such thing as a Clippers fan but individuals that couldn't afford Los Angeles Lakers tickets

[@Orliz-dl4dq]

Cheers from Canada Kawhi! Hope you are happy with your decision to go home! 🤣🤣

[@arguseyed9982]

I dont get you Raptors fans, would it make you happier if he was sitting on your injury list?

[@ztekz]

@@arguseyed9982no but he could’ve won another championship had he stayed as the year he left, raps still made the playoffs when the bubble happened! Just proves you can’t buy championships so karma to LAC!

[@arguseyed9982]

@@ztekz Buying the best players worked out just fine for the Lakers that year.

[@GiantAndShaman]

He won another chip and yall are currently trash and have no chance of ever touching the finals anytime soon 😭. Yall stuck in 2019

[@Shantiomari]

@@GiantAndShamanguarantee the raptors win a ring before Kawhi and the clippers. Also the raptors did better then the clippers the season after Kawhi left. Just unlucky that the whole roster left/got old

[@dejamike88]

KL is awesome when he is on the court, but we all know he sat out/injured all the time. I saw it some where that since he joined the Clippers, he only played like 4 out of 19 playoffs games. I don’t care how rich the owner is, but it’s absurd to give soneone a huge contract that plays less than 50% of the time.

[@arguseyed9982]

"Trust me bro"? How you even come up with that stat? Clippers played 43 playoff games since Kawhi got there and he played in 28 of those

[@pauls6677]

Clippers have been cursed since they left Buffalo

[@jokerofmorocco]

The Buffalo curse still lingers

[@matthewhenningervonada9914]

San Diego actually.

[@NoahLinden]

Nobody has ever cared about Buffalo. Half the nation has never heard of this obscure city.

[@JerichoCastille]

The Braves were one of the most entertaining teams back then.

[@MosMoney187]

Bob Mcadoo was tough but you don't know basketball

[@simplykite7038]

2019 finals gassed up Kawhi to no end

[@Sleepyboiwonder]

It’s crazy when I think about Kawhi, I always picture him on the bench. I don’t even picture him playing ball lol

[@johnferrughelli6607]

LOL.

[@liquidemotionzz3232]

Clippers are KINGS of Choking! They've been doing this for there entire existence. Literally nothing new!

[@genxtasy9914]

Toronto had a great record after he left. If he stayed one more year I can see them at least making the finals

[@radityapoerwanto7018]

I don't know man. Bubble heat is quite special.

[@jasonma5931]

Beat the lebum and chokers to win second title 90% chance :) in the bubble

[@chadwellington2524]

@@radityapoerwanto7018 lmao, they got destroyed by a weak lakers team... that raptors team with kawhi beats heat in 5 and lakers in 6

[@kiddchillzzz5021]

⁠@@chadwellington2524well it didn’t happen soooo 🤷🏽‍♂️🤣

[@danielfrancisco0826]

KAWHI LEONARD IS THE TRUE HALF MAN, HALF A SEASON... GETTING PAID WHILE SITTING ON THE BENCH.

[@kimannepark4709]

I mean, OKC had 3 MVPs - KD, Harden and Westbrook and can't get a ring. The only successful superteam is the Warriors, maybe the Cavs as well

[@awc6007]

Big 3 Celtics and Heat too tho only Miami and Warriors won 2 rings as a superteam

[@123mikey1000]

They could of got a ring if okc kept the team

[@Josue-411]

As a Spurs fan, I’m glad Kawhi left. He was never healthy going back to his college days and it was a miracle he stayed healthy for the Raptors Championship run.

[@Chilltown95]

Lol

[@Avocado11]

The tale of Pandemic P & Kawhi ACLeonard.

[@VK-el3of]

Leonard is the most brittle guy in NBA history.

[@sinatrez9932]

AD???

[@onepiece6529]

He use to be a cyborg too

[@NoahLinden]

There have been players that were even more injury-prone, but they never got paid like Kawhi.

[@marcellusbalmores9713]

@@sinatrez9932i mean AD played more games than Kawhi this season.

[@deandrenicholas2545]

They done with the 90's... but players from the 90's weren't a bunch of overpaid, butter soft bitch types.😂😂

[@tims4502]

Suns fan here - the Clippers aren’t the worst super team ever. We take that honor! Kidding, well only sort of. I don’t know who has a worse 5 year outlook - Clippers or Suns. I expect to be underwhelmed again the next couple of years, then both teams will be bad, like really bad, 3-5 years from now

[@hardwood_yt]

Haha I regret to inform you I made a suns video exactly like this right before this one. Watch it under your own risk

[@obizzlesportsandfitness]

Imagine this team in 2016. Kawhi PG, Westbrook and Harden.

[@NoNameWillBeGiven778]

No cause thats not happening smooth brain

[@AfricanH3ro]

I'll be surprised if Kawhi ever has a year as healthy as this past season

[@garretterickson6474]

skip bayless is a clown.

[@charlottecorday8494]

Leonard deserves it all for what he did to the Spurs.

[@Conada1002]

Kawhi Karma Never should of bolted from TO always got run it back for a title defence

[@fouronesix8294]

As a franchise long Raptors fan this is an absolute win in every way lol thanks for the ring Kahwi 👍

[@reck1224]

I’ve been watching a lot of these super teams videos lately. What I have learned is that the media doesn’t know shit and are badwagoners without an original take whatsoever. First they all hyped the Clippers. Then the Nets and then Suns. All wrong, Jesus

[@hardwood_yt]

Thing is that clippers team was unbelievable in 2021. Kawhi just cannot stay healthy man. But yeah I am a firm believer the superteam era is dead

[@NoahLinden]

​@@hardwood_yt It's good that the superteam era is dead, if you ask me. It's much better if teams with intelligently constructed rosters, wholesome culture and brilliant coaching dominate the league. It allows small market teams with less money to actually have a chance. Nobody wants to see the Lakers, Celtics, Knicks and Warriors win every single title.

[@arguseyed9982]

@@hardwood_yt Superteam era aint dead though. Celtics about to win, the Lakers were kinda superteam and the Cavs, GSW, Heat before that. If Celtics do win its gonna be 7 of the last 13 championships won by superteams.

[@hubertsumlin9697]

I'm quite sure he wouldn't care what i think, but i personally find Kawhi to be just about the most unlikable (star) player in the league. He makes zero effort as a team leader and treats his health status like a classified KGB operation. Hard to believe the Spurs wound up "winning" that trade, but i guess they did. DeRozen played 48 minutes for every 1 Kawhi played for the next several seasons (not literally, but you get it). Anyhow, fuck that guy i always say... EDIT- i did enjoy this video, very nice work my brother.

[@WaveRider1989]

Raptors got best luck possible with Kwaihi. I mean 1 year, franchise never won and won the trophy. Super lucky lol 😆

[@jasonma5931]

@@WaveRider1989ywahhh lucky. We as toronto got that championship where Kawhii used all his energy before choking out in clippers. Should he had stayed one more year , he got one more ring and Toronto second championship, it’s Toronto will alway be bigger franchise than Grizzles in Vancouver sad to say the only one Canadian team :/

[@chadwellington2524]

ya i like kawhi's style of basketball but hes an egotistic arrogant dude.. lowry tried to celebrate with him when they won and kawhi just kinda brushes him off... people like to say "hes just introverted" but sometimes its more than that and people like that are just very egocentric and dont have a single care for others

[@asare240]

They wont win anything till they move outta LA and stop trying to compete with the Lakers.

[@bowtieguy377]

Teams like the Suns and Clippers will continue to win some games when they put in the effort, which will be good enough to make it into the playoffs but to not likely go beyond the 1st round, perhaps get to a second round here and there if they draw the right matchup. That is about it in terms of what the expectations should realistically be. They certainly will not be cellar dwellers for the next few seasons but when this runs its course, that is then a strong possibility.

[@brandoncarson8621]

Then in Canada had chance to repeat but kawhi Leonard wanted to go to California

[@MosMoney187]

I find it funny that Paul George said he couldn't focus like that in the bubble but yet Kawhi average 32.5 against Dallas and won, they were up 3-1 against Denver than lost. That man and his excuses is ridiculous smmfh.

[@NoNameWillBeGiven778]

Bubbles arent a real playoffs guy

[@emineo3252]

To think kawhi was supposed to be a MVP guy and ever since that weird season in San Antonio he hasn’t healthy enough to show us his true form IMO. Not saying he hasn’t been great but I think we all expected him to have a MVP, and a few more DPOY, and perhaps a scoring title. With the injuries and his age he will most likely never hit the peak that most people envisioned…

[@platinumjason]

Clippers screwed themselves with that Kawhi extension, $150 million tied up for 3 more years and probably couldn't recoup anything in trade value. PG can be good but lacks any sort urgency or grit in the playoffs. Russ is a bum that needs to retire. Harden is alright but doubt he's coming back unless he's getting a pretty penny and he won't get you a championship. Clippers are stuck running it back without much room to add improvements being strapped for draft capital.

[@NoahLinden]

The Clippers and the Suns have both royally screwed themselves. Maybe teams will learn from their debacles and not trade away so much draft capital.

[@platinumjason]

@@NoahLinden They're a mess too. The Beal trade will sink them. Over 50 mil a year for the next 3 years and his contract has a no trade clause so if he don't like where he's going he can shut that trade down. They at minimum should have tried to scrounge up a point guard instead of leaving it up to those 3 to do their own play making. Really don't get the logic in anything going on over there.

[@gnielsen07]

If only the clippers had kept Shai

[@Unablebad4]

​@@gnielsen07"muh shai" what broke them is trading gazillion draft for pg

[@slader350]

ngl feel for steve balmer, he made all the right choices but gets screwed over on things out of his control

[@XandateOfHeaven]

I think his problem is he thinks he can throw money at players after they've proven themselves instead of seeing potential in new ones. It means he pays the peak price for guys who have passed their peak performance.

[@slader350]

@@XandateOfHeaven i think thats because of how fans react about the clippers in general, the clippers are by far the most disrespected franchise and get clowned on repeatedly, Steve Balmer wanted to win now rather than later so he can prove the clippers are a serious franchise

[@simeonroberts2004]

I actually feel bad for the clippers team and front office unlike the suns. The Suns had a young core that was only going to get better and they blew it up. The Clippers got two superstars who were able to make the team great. I fully believe that if Kawhi wouldn’t have gotten hurt they would have won the finals in 2021. The injury fully changed the outcome of the team. The injuries were something that people didn’t see coming.

[@rsg145]

they were fully healthy in 2020 and still lost. One thing that everyone forgets about the Clippers. Is that they have 3 of the all-time chokers in the NBA. 1. Pandemic P 2. Mr. Dribbler 3. Westbrick. No matter how good they look in the regular season, they will always shrink on the biggest games.

[@pfneuman]

If your best player can’t/won’t play during playoffs there is no way your team can win. Per Reggie Miller this is the 3rd straight year that Kawhi has not been able to play in the playoffs, and don’t forget those games he couldn’t/wouldn’t play while he was in SA. Supposedly injured but went into hiding in NY with his medical team and refused to let the SA medical team examine him. Clippers are banking on wishful thinking.

[@theedgyjesus]

This hurt to watch as a clippers fan 🥲😂

[@melanioma5499]

The future of the Clippers is as bleak as that of the LAL’s (Los Angeles LeBrons).

[@michaeltamares7974]

Perhaps....but the lakers are the most followed and beloved team,, regardless of record.....fact

[@ajjjay9583]

Clippers gave up SGA and 5 picks that will probably be stars too. Clippers curse

[@bussterdouglas]

Why does everybody treat Westbrick like the disabled kid on a high school basketball team? He’s been awful for years yet everybody makes every excuse in the book for him

[@richborn6700]

His career is gonna end as sadly as Dwight Howards

[@JDawg6ix9ine]

@@richborn6700lol Dwight actually contributed to winning a championship

[@deandrenicholas2545]

​@JDawg6ix9ine right!!! And Dwight had about a 3 to 5 year stretch where he was one of the 10 best players in the league and was by a WIDE margin the best big man in the game at the time. (His time in Orlando, obviously) Westbrook has never been anything more than a stat stuffing, man-catfish hybrid lookin jackass. He's never been worth the trouble ANYWHERE he's played.

[@veerchasm1]

Clippers went all in on Kawhi ignoring what the Spurs had gone through. What Kawhi did was a fluke: he stepped onto 2 teams that were built for playoff success. He’s a very good player but he is no franchise player

[@williamrosado-id2vr]

The clippers will never win as long as kawhi is there number 1 option

[@johnferrughelli6607]

Who would have thought Kahwi "I play every 5 years" Leonard and Paul "I can't win a playoff series" George wouldn't even sniff a championship.

[@joesakic91]

Not just winning it all, the Clippers are one of five NBA franchises that have yet to make an NBA Finals appearance. The other four? Timberwolves, Hornets, Grizzlies, and Pelicans.

[@nooobiechild]

Steve Balmer paid the actress hundreds of millions of dollars. He got his wishes. To be in a big market like LA. He never wanted to play. He was always lazy. This is the same guy who lucked his way into San Antonio's system and his way into an undeserved FMVP in 2014. The same guy who betrayed the team that fixed his broken jump shot, and gave him all the time he needed when he was actually injured. He lucked his way past the 76ers, and still took six games to beat a Warriors team with only Steph Curry who's healthy. The guy is an actor. He's a joke of an athlete. He's literally making a fool of the fans who paid to watch him play, just to spit at them in the name of load management. Only to actually need time off to deal with injuries in the playoffs.

[@RLJ550]

“DON’T TALK TO US” “The prices just went up” Lmao

[@hardwood_yt]

Lmaoooo

[@hardwood_yt]

Iconic vid lol

[@Kanotoa]

Clippers are cursed.

[@MosMoney187]

Imagine giving all that up for Paul George @ 4:48 just to see SGA being better than everyone on that Clippers team now? Plus not letting Terance Mann develop into the star he should be is hurting them boys. He should be where Maxey is at right now on the Sixers.

[@TheeRomantic]

Can't even speak badly of the owner. That dude literally cares too much and I love his energy.

[@kestonprescott129]

Kawhi is Always Inquired

[@saiken811]

Doc Rivers working his magic 😂

[@teesweeezy263]

Your profile picture in your banner is dope. How did you make it?

[@harrisonshouldice5451]

Players whining their way to their preferred franchise with their preferred teammates/coach while said franchise gives up their entire future

[@lakerskid2013]

Then they’ll turn around and complain about having no help when they put themselves in that position

[@deandrenicholas2545]

That kinda shit is exactly why people clown so hard every year that LeBum and the Lakers don't win anything. That's what ownership gets for caving into that bullshit that THEY ALLOW those overpaid pussies to pull. Fuck em all.... Hopefully none of them succeed.

[@trex7115]

Steve Balmer is the luckiest top 20 billionaire on the planet. He left and the man succeeded him made him ultra mega rich in less than a decade. MS went from 240 billion to 3 trillion.

[@PinkCircleO8]

I'm not a Clippers fan at all, but here's my take. The quote on the just because the same happened the past 4 years doesn't mean it'll happen next year...what's the definition of insanity? The Clippers can't stay healthy. How the Clippers decided to give Kawhi that ridiculously huge contract for per year salary is beyond me. You shouldn't be giving someone that amount when you can't trust that they'll be healthy when it matters the most. Doesn't matter how good they are in the regular season. If they do resign Paul George and/or James Harden, it cannot be for that high of an annual salary that they were earning. If they want to get that same amount of money, then they can go somewhere else. You can't bow down to the needs of superstars all the time.

[@Vortexnicholas]

I’d try to trade everyone and rebuild . Steve balmer made a mistake giving kawhi that extension last year . Never give players that are extremely injury prone extensions.

[@kev-Kenyan]

Joel embiid ?? As a clippers fan I am so tired of what ifs with a fully healthy Kawhi in all the playoffs runs especially this last one. But he is the only exemption moving into a new arena. We have to keep him.

[@Vortexnicholas]

@@kev-Kenyan well i hope your happy next year when your a 7th seed in the first round and kawhi is on the bench again.

[@kev-Kenyan]

@@Vortexnicholas I accept our fate. A championship will take some strategic moves for another 2 to 3 seasons. Whatever happens to pg, harden and russ couldn't concern me less. But moving into a new building without an elite superstar like Kawhi is suicidal for steve ballmer busines wise.

[@MoniqueJSeneres]

Run it back. There's still adjustments to be made with the same roster. We are yet to see what Kai Jones can bring defensively. And, having our own stadium will make a difference.

[@erica8165]

Clippers will not win any championship as currently constructed. They're just a bad luck team. They went from injury prone Paul and Griffin to injury prone Kawhi and George.

[@lakerskid2013]

Heck they finally broke through making a conference finals just to miss the playoffs the following year. I mean, they are the only team to blow a 3-1 lead twice which considering what happens to them I wouldn’t be surprised at all if they finally had that next breakthrough of making the Finals just to blow a 3-0 lead and then a 4th quarter 30 point lead (while leading by 40 at the half) in Game 7. That would be as much of a Clipper thing to happen to them as you could possibly get.

[@gbn-nvgee4067]

Bru the beginning crazy ik he is red every year💀💀 mad as hell when they get eliminated

[@wolfhunter9174]

Who’s here after PG signed with the Sixers?

[@toinengwyn3935]

PG has a player option and therefore cannot be traded without his consent. It’s unlikely that any team will give up anything substantial since he’s essentially a free agent.

[@ricardolagunas6420]

I won’t ever forget all the hype and billboards that the clippers payed for all over LA. 😂😂😂 LA OUR WAY 😂😂😂😂😂. Now Paul George is gone and the intuit is going to be empty on a daily basis after injury prone Kawhi finishes dismantling. If kawhi woulda joined AD and Bron they would be wrapping up the 3 peat right now, oh well what could have been

[@gustavoperez8740]

European basketball players currently have the mentality American basketball players used to have, which is humility combined with grit. Today’s American ballers are spoiled and entitled. Back in Bill Russell’s day, they played under conditions that made them rise above. That created a strong type of mentality. Today, ballers might be bigger, faster, and stronger but they take it all for granted. As a result, they play like the Clippers: so much potential, not enough results.

[@MarcoRoberto1]

Imagine how stupid the people who said Kawhi was better than Lebron seem now lol. People had the audacity to crown this team as the best without them having won anything. The media sucked this team like never before... what a joke. The one time they were healthy they were completely humiliated by Denver. Failures.

[@josephramos-calderon4305]

I feel bad for the owner. He is so passionate about his team. At the same time though, he gave kawai that extension, that's not a winning move

[@nicholaseaster58]

They should hang the ‘21 Conference Finalist banner 😂

[@DJReyzor357]

Rudy Gobert a elite defender?! Yeah right 😆 🤣 😂

[@bobopanget]

karma from toronto. how the clips didn't get fined for tampering is beyond me. i'm glad kawhi's last good and healthy season was with us. i'm not happy he's not healthy but i'm not unhappy he didn't win anything with that poverty franchise

[@hhtptai]

Kawhi's knees are peanut butter atp.

[@franciscomartinez3734]

Is being so disappointing from years and that’s when people always say Clippers Clippers when the team can be better but everything fall on the players not want to win

[@jackthezodiac6136]

Luka is better than Kawhi Leonard right now and it isn’t even close. KL can’t do anything in the NBA right now ngl.

[@periodicallyred8849]

Luka will play through pain.

[@jackthezodiac6136]

@@periodicallyred8849 he plays with big injury and still manages to get more than 20 points every game that’s the one of the definitions of a good player

[@kev-Kenyan]

That unhealthy sorry version of a superstar can't be mentioned in the same breath as Kawhi. Skill wise he is only a streaky shooter nothing more.And I dont know how dallas and Cuban pull off bias refs to carry them during the playoffs. Clippers were good enough to beat dallas without Kawhi, refs intervened with unfair calls to shift momentum , same thing they are doing in the OKC series.

[@jackthezodiac6136]

@@kev-Kenyan lmao 😆 refs are biased towards Mavs? The refs are much more biased towards SGA, anytime SGA slightly falls or slightly fumbles he gets a foul call. And Luka is way better than Kawhi, cope with it this is the fact.

[@etkadu2715]

@@jackthezodiac6136 Luka is better than an injured kawhi, healthy fk no

[@vlada]

Decades later but im truly enjoying Ballmer's misery. Couldnt happen to nicer guy.

[@XandateOfHeaven]

The Clippers are the peak of buy-high-sell-low. All stars in their mid to late career can demand higher salaries from their proven track record, even when they're on the downswing, and the Clippers keep picking them up.

[@tomcruze7898]

You can add Lakers, Nets, Suns, and Bucks.

[@MichaelMartin-qe5ye]

When you have no draft picks, you just have to hope your stars stay healthy, injuries happen to your opponents instead of you, and that you get some lucky breaks. It rarely works, but that's all they have.

[@Steve_R418]

Clippers are old and slow. Super teams with guys no longer in their prime have never worked.

[@DaddiKyree]

That stadium gonna be beautiful

[@glolorun]

Hindsight is 20-20

[@27olo27]

"only a few weeks later when it was announced they would be trading for [...] Paul George ..." Bruh... that's not how it happened... We were all waiting on the edge of our seats to find out where tf Kawhi would sign between either LA teams and resign with Toronto to run it back. It was a nearly simultaneous signing of both Kawhi and PG. They traded for PG in order to sign Kawhi. It wasn't a matter of weeks after...

[@hardwood_yt]

It was legit the next day if I remember correctly. No clue why I said weeks. I don’t write scripts, I just go off the top based off some notes I write down/outline. My apologies.

[@thinlion01]

Steve Balmer can absolutely afford to rebuild in a new arena lol

[@kungfukenny9300]

As a PG fan he does not deserve the max contract he's waiting for. And the only bright spot the clips have is Bones Hyland. He needs to be considered an option to carry this cursed franchise.

[@RustyChevy]

Kawhi Leonard is a malingering fool. He quit on the spurs and thought he was going to be LeBron after that. He hasn't had a productive season after Toronto. He's done

[@DJReyzor357]

Kawhi Leonard second championship is thanks to Kevin Durant injury and later Klay Thompson.... 💯

[@bobbiedylan9758]

Kawhi doesn’t care about winning, if he did he would’ve stayed in Toronto.

[@mrcandycanemcc6686]

Or San Antonio

[@jasonma5931]

Naw he be more respectful in Toronto than yea maybe in spurs he already wants out suppose be in clippers first thing but lucky GM Masia snatch Kawhii and green before anyone does to get that championship of 2019 😂

[@timmyg831]

You can’t call it a super team when most of the superstars are old or getting old. They have to be in their prime to be a super team. It reminds of Barkley, Clyde and Olajuwon when they were together at older age. Clippers can’t expect much from Westbrook and Harden, they’re too old. Kawhi is injury prone. Paul and Harden are so inconsistent. As an owner I would never give up multiple 1st round picks for one superstar. That’s crazy. I might give up a few 2nd picks or maybe trade a player and a 1st & 2nd round players. But five 1st round picks for 1 guy??? No freaking way.

[@pewpewTN]

If you're going to trade 5 1st round picks for one player, it would have to be someone like Luka now, or maybe Giannis a few years ago. Someone that is young, proven Playoff Riser, willing to play through injuries.

[@bogoljubdjordjevic7528]

I don't understand how that work who and why pick first why can't have until 2030 that part of NBA is total mystery

[@hardwood_yt]

basically, the Clippers decided to trade away every other year's 1st round pick until 2030. The NBA doesn't allow trading back to back years of 1st round picks, so on the odd years (2025, 2027, 2029) they did "pick swaps". Meaning the team they traded with has the rights to swap 1st's with them if they end up being terrible and having a higher pick.

[@geefryherrera3261]

Clipper's have had only 4 healthy playoff series... 3-1 record with that loss being the choke job against nuggets. Ever since 2021, they haven't ONE healthy series

[@NoNameWillBeGiven778]

Bubbles arent a real playoffs

[@ImSkittzle]

This aged well 😂

[@BrandanTheBroker]

I don't think the owner gives a damn, the man just seems happy to own a team win or lose and he's putting his money behind it

[@johnnylove2073]

Westbrook, Harden, George and Leonard. Man if it was 2014, this team would steamroll.

[@NoNameWillBeGiven778]

They wouldnt be able to play together in 2014 smooth brain

[@johnnylove2073]

@@NoNameWillBeGiven778 are you really this dense? It's a joke, smooth brain.

[@NoNameWillBeGiven778]

@@johnnylove2073 well you're not very good at making jokes then smooth brain

[@NoNameWillBeGiven778]

@@johnnylove2073 yeah you are very dense princess

[@PeopleLoveShorts]

Steve Baldhead got the $ but he aint got the street smart to get the right prime bus driver lol 😂

[@ejkboxing]

They haven't been a super team the whole time because Kawhi wasn't available to play the whole season or in the playoffs.