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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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 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...
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 😂😂
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
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?! 😂
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.
@@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!
@@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
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
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.
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.
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”
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 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.
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.
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 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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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 :/
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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…
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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 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.
The Clippers are clearly done at this point. None of the big 3 are going to make an impact going forward. With or without them the Clippers are going to start tanking out the remainder of the 2020's. It was always championship or bust- now it's clearly a spectacular bust.
"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...
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.
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.
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.
I would say the Utah jazz had the most depressing history. Look at the draft. Never had the number one pick. The only time they made it to the finals is when Michael Jordan was around.
@@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
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.
@@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.
Their best chance was the bubble and they blew it in spectacular fashion. That was the healthiest Kawhi was going to be for the rest of his career, and they blew a 3-1 lead. They had a chance. They still would've lost to the Lakers, but at least they would've had a chance and we would've gotten the much hyped Battle of LA.
Honestly I didn't think SGA would be good it's like Jalen Brunson on the knicks but if im steve ballmer I would let these guys go. Under no circumstances should PG get a max deal for a guy that cannot get push his team to the second round
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
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.
I will give him props for leading the Clippers to the Western Conference Finals for the 1st Time since that’s never happened before but yeah this is a Super Team that Can’t Win
I will say this about the clippers, they haven’t won because they just never had the right players, like if Shaq and Kobe were on the clippers they would of had championships, some franchises just get more lucky than others…
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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
FIVE?!? Good lord😂Lol
Lol
I think about this every year come playoff time 😂. Raptor fan here. Glad I got to see a championship run in my lifetime LOL
@@Nfnf889 one of the most amazing and iconic shots ever!
@@CorePathway not even close nobody cares about the raptors
When your best player is never available in the postseason, your team isn't winning anything. It's not complicated.
He always get hurt, with all them load management they doing to him. He still gets injured for some random reason. Lol.
@@marcellusbalmores9713every player not meant to have a 20 year career kawhi just like kyrie you lucky if you get a full season from them
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
@@qdakid7776for us chicagoans - Gale Sayers. Magic on the turf. And that shredded his knees way early
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.
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.
At least the bucks (giannis specifically) got a ring out of it so I’m cool
@@jayanthsambaraju6562and watch he’ll leave Milwaukee in the future
The talk should more for the season post-bubble
@@jayanthsambaraju6562hospital ring
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.
Kawhi is past his prime, PG13 is past his prime, and the clippers have no depth.
i feel like other than pg and kawhi, correct me if i’m wrong, that they don’t have great defence?
@@drmidgebro they had harden block his own teammate shooting.
@@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.
@@reach7333 he was under mk ultra mind control
Kawaii's knees were done after Toronto. he used the last of his health to win that championship. They should have rebuild around Shai.
Imagine if they just flipped SGA home to Canada for Kawhi instead of selling the farm for Paul fucking George.
@@richborn6700maybe im misunderstanding your comment but Kawhi to LA doesn’t happen without the PG deal
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.
@@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?
@@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...
No matter how Lakers suck, they will always be Mario to Clippers Luigi.
That's why the lakers have a title since the so called super team clippers have nothing to show for it
Yeah. 17-0.
Suck? Kid you suck
Luigi’s Mansion alone deserves more respect than the Clippers 😂
clippers is more like toad
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 😂😂
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
Balmer really thinks the answer is to just pay a bunch of washed stars. Dudes not a great basketball owner.
They somehow managed to gather all the most washed up group of former allstars in the league on one team😭
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?! 😂
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.
He is known to be super arrogant and his high ego the clippers staff hates him because he treats people like dirt..
As a Clippers fan we got f up bad
@@Jeez001 Is he really that arrogant? Some people say that!
@@luislemus5442 Yeah i feel for Clippers fan as a Maverick fan myself.
Cheers from Canada Kawhi! Hope you are happy with your decision to go home! 🤣🤣
I dont get you Raptors fans, would it make you happier if he was sitting on your injury list?
@@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!
@@ztekz Buying the best players worked out just fine for the Lakers that year.
He won another chip and yall are currently trash and have no chance of ever touching the finals anytime soon 😭. Yall stuck in 2019
@@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
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
Spurs and Thunder would agree with you.
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.
OKC is gonna have a bright future. CP3 time out there n OKC taught SGA a lot
Clippers have been cursed since they left Buffalo
The Buffalo curse still lingers
San Diego actually.
Nobody has ever cared about Buffalo. Half the nation has never heard of this obscure city.
The Braves were one of the most entertaining teams back then.
Bob Mcadoo was tough but you don't know basketball
2019 finals gassed up Kawhi to no end
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.
"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
It’s crazy when I think about Kawhi, I always picture him on the bench. I don’t even picture him playing ball lol
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”
It’s because the players they’ve picked have bad attitudes or injury problems. No leadership. No accountability. No ring.
KAWHI LEONARD IS THE TRUE HALF MAN, HALF A SEASON...
GETTING PAID WHILE SITTING ON THE BENCH.
Leonard deserves it all for what he did to the Spurs.
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.
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.
@@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.
If only the clippers had kept Shai
Toronto had a great record after he left. If he stayed one more year I can see them at least making the finals
I don't know man. Bubble heat is quite special.
Beat the lebum and chokers to win second title 90% chance :) in the bubble
@@radityapoerwanto7018 lmao, they got destroyed by a weak lakers team... that raptors team with kawhi beats heat in 5 and lakers in 6
@@chadwellington2524well it didn’t happen soooo 🤷🏽♂️🤣
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.
Lol
ngl feel for steve balmer, he made all the right choices but gets screwed over on things out of his control
Clippers are KINGS of Choking! They've been doing this for there entire existence. Literally nothing new!
Imagine this team in 2016. Kawhi PG, Westbrook and Harden.
No cause thats not happening smooth brain
Leonard is the most brittle guy in NBA history.
AD???
He use to be a cyborg too
There have been players that were even more injury-prone, but they never got paid like Kawhi.
@@sinatrez9932i mean AD played more games than Kawhi this season.
They done with the 90's... but players from the 90's weren't a bunch of overpaid, butter soft bitch types.😂😂
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
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
@@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.
@@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.
This hurt to watch as a clippers fan 🥲😂
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.
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.
Your profile picture in your banner is dope. How did you make it?
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.
I hate Kawhi and therefore the Clippers too, so I don’t mind their plight at all.
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
Then in Canada had chance to repeat but kawhi Leonard wanted to go to California
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.
Raptors got best luck possible with Kwaihi. I mean 1 year, franchise never won and won the trophy. Super lucky lol 😆
@@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 :/
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
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.
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.
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.
They wont win anything till they move outta LA and stop trying to compete with the Lakers.
Kawhi is Always Inquired
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.
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
Haha I regret to inform you I made a suns video exactly like this right before this one. Watch it under your own risk
Steve Balmer can absolutely afford to rebuild in a new arena lol
“DON’T TALK TO US”
“The prices just went up”
Lmao
Lmaoooo
Iconic vid lol
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…
If i ever see Steve Ballmer being excited for his clippers , to win a playoffs and regular season .
His testicular might cramps when they loss.
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.
Clippers gave up SGA and 5 picks that will probably be stars too. Clippers curse
commenting before I watch. Whatever you dish out to the clippers they deserve it!
They should hang the ‘21 Conference Finalist banner 😂
Thank You Mar B …….. Thunder Future is massively bright indeed 💪👌👌
They haven't been a super team the whole time because Kawhi wasn't available to play the whole season or in the playoffs.
Kawhi Karma
Never should of bolted from TO
always got run it back for a title defence
Steve Balmer doesnt know shit about building a basketball team or growing a fan base.
You can add Lakers, Nets, Suns, and Bucks.
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
Danggg its really been 5 years with no ring 🤣🤣
Clippers are cursed.
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.
Bubbles arent a real playoffs guy
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
I do feel bad for Steve Ballmer though. Dude seems like a really good owner who cares a lot about this team
Feel bad for a billionaire? Lmfao
keep up the good work
Bru the beginning crazy ik he is red every year💀💀 mad as hell when they get eliminated
Still believe the load management was actually more harmful than good Leonard never could get in proper game shape
*49M's for PG is a big yikes, he's gotta pack his bags* 💃
The Clippers are clearly done at this point. None of the big 3 are going to make an impact going forward. With or without them the Clippers are going to start tanking out the remainder of the 2020's. It was always championship or bust- now it's clearly a spectacular bust.
I said it before Toronto and it stands after. You cant win with kawahi as the leader. Dudes a #2
Really thought they were gonna make a push this year
Westbrook, Harden, George and Leonard. Man if it was 2014, this team would steamroll.
They wouldnt be able to play together in 2014 smooth brain
@@NoNameWillBeGiven778 are you really this dense? It's a joke, smooth brain.
@@johnnylove2073 well you're not very good at making jokes then smooth brain
@@johnnylove2073 yeah you are very dense princess
As a franchise long Raptors fan this is an absolute win in every way lol thanks for the ring Kahwi 👍
"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...
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.
Decades later but im truly enjoying Ballmer's misery. Couldnt happen to nicer guy.
The future of the Clippers is as bleak as that of the LAL’s (Los Angeles LeBrons).
Steve Baldhead got the $ but he aint got the street smart to get the right prime bus driver lol 😂
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.
The clippers will never win as long as kawhi is there number 1 option
I'll be surprised if Kawhi ever has a year as healthy as this past season
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
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.
I would say the Utah jazz had the most depressing history. Look at the draft. Never had the number one pick. The only time they made it to the finals is when Michael Jordan was around.
Oh be quiet
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.
Luka will play through pain.
@@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
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.
@@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.
@@jackthezodiac6136 Luka is better than an injured kawhi, healthy fk no
Their best chance was the bubble and they blew it in spectacular fashion. That was the healthiest Kawhi was going to be for the rest of his career, and they blew a 3-1 lead.
They had a chance. They still would've lost to the Lakers, but at least they would've had a chance and we would've gotten the much hyped Battle of LA.
No one takes the bubble seriously smooth brain
For a moment I thought john c. Reily was talking
I think nobody will beat Joker 48 pick 😂😂😂
Honestly I didn't think SGA would be good it's like Jalen Brunson on the knicks but if im steve ballmer I would let these guys go. Under no circumstances should PG get a max deal for a guy that cannot get push his team to the second round
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
Bubbles arent a real playoffs
Ballmer might have money but he knows nothing about ball. Clown franchise 🤡
Hindsight is 20-20
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.
I will give him props for leading the Clippers to the Western Conference Finals for the 1st Time since that’s never happened before but yeah this is a Super Team that Can’t Win
Yawn
Leonard should’ve ran it back with Toronto hes been failing ever since. 🤷🏼♂️
Shai and 5 1st picks for PG...wow
The tale of Pandemic P & Kawhi ACLeonard.
Only the Clippers can’t succeed with FOUR superstars/All Stars/FHOF’ers 🤣
Add the lakers to this list too
Tobias didn’t leave via free agency
I will say this about the clippers, they haven’t won because they just never had the right players, like if Shaq and Kobe were on the clippers they would of had championships, some franchises just get more lucky than others…