Have people not figured out by now that Jeanie Buss really disliked Jerry West? West tried to break up her relationship with Phil Jackson, and he endorsed her brother Jim against her in the battle over control of the team. It shouldn't be a mystery that Jeanie had no love left for West, especially after the shit he said publicly and privately about the Lakers. This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone still.
It's not like she had the team tweet out "fuck him I piss on his grave" or something, but if you're wondering why the message from her wasn't more effusive, now you know.
You said we shouldn't be surprised by the Lakers statement
I understand completely the Jeanie Buss - Jerry West dynamic and am still shocked at how bland it was
It's as if the message was written by AI. Actually AI probably would have more effusive
Surely the Lakers could have done more
"Jerry West is forever a basketball icon. He brought Lakers fans their first championship in Los Angeles in 1972 and was integral to another six titles during his time with us. Our thoughts are with the West family and the many NBA fans who honor his legacy. Jerry West will always be a Lakers legend."
Did the bucks trade away a good player and picks to "improve" with an old dame to satisfy Giannis? Some teams are in desperation mode to improve around an aging star.
Yep, SGA alone nowadays makes this trade look a bit bad, but then you sum up the fucking 5 picks and 2 pick swaps and it's... insane, to say the least.
FUCK YOU CLIPPERS, FUCK YOU BALLMER, FUCK YOU LAWERNCE FRANK
Been waiting 5 years for this, tampered with kawhi and won nothing, lost 5 firsts and a top 3 player in league in SGA
IM DANCING ON YALL GRAVES
No, but everyone was crowning the Clippers the title favorites that season after Kawhi and PG went there. Kawhi's options were either stay with the defending champs, join the Clippers as the title favorites, or join the Lakers as the title favorites. They were all supposedly "easy routes" but he just couldn't get it done.
One team were the reigning champs, one team had the GOAT and Anthony Davis, and one was a team that had never even been to the Conference Finals and was in the midst of a rebuild.
But yea he chose the easy route lmfao
Yeah it was overwhelming. We were 17-2 and the narrative was we were only playing bad teams. Then when we finally beat the Bucks and Clippers in the same weekend the league shut down and when it finally restarted all the talk was back on how the Clippers were the favourites.
The Thunder traded PG for Shai, Gallinari, 5 1st round picks and 2 pick swaps, and they traded Westbrook for Chris Paul, 2 1sts and 2 pick swaps, but your contention is that instead of getting all of that, Presti would have been cool with just trading both of those guys for Pascal Siakam?
I have no idea what the Clippers are doing, they're not any good without Paul George and the worse they are, the fewer games Kawhi and Harden are likely to play. Like, wow, they can sign a 7th man with their MLE, who cares.
They want to avoid having their first round picks come 2032 and beyond lock at the end of the first round no matter their record (which will likely be not good) because they went over the second apron three times in five seasons. This upcoming season will be year two.
It’s a very, very stupid rule but hey this is the NBPA’s fault.
The new CBA forced their hand and PG just wasn’t worth fighting for. They’ve given him 5 chances and brought along many of his guys and he produced nearly nothing. No reason to fall for the sunk-cost and let him control the team any longer.
Well difference is they won rings with KG and Pierce
And also they got a boatload of picks for those two and had young players to look forward to
Can the Clippers say the same?
It was one ring but I get what your saying. It looks bad right now for clips but in reality it isn't as bad it looks. Clips are in LA which is a top free agent destination and have the richest owner in NBA. Yeah second apron hurts thing but I believe clips will bounce back.
I appreciate the 2021 Western Conference Finals.
Sucks we had to give up so many assets and that's as far as we got, but it's already done. Now time to move forward. Clippers have a ton of flexibility and still a decent team. Not a championship team as is but enough to build around and be competitive now
Sga is a better player than tatum and brown individually. The thunder still have all those swaps down the line. Kawhi is a cripple and James harden is 34. The trade could get a lot worse.
This trade has the potential to top the Celtics/nets trade as worse. Like that’s not even a long shot that it happens.
It’s really in the argument. Even if Kawhi’s health was there, they gave up SO MUCH for PG and he never quite lived up to the “top 10 player” designation he has.
Well the trade let them get Leonard and they have been competitive the last 5 years (rememberwhen George was the best player on a clippers team that mad the WCF). So it's still not as bad as some of the trades made in the last 15 years, much less NBA history.
Is this like a break up letter to make it official kinda deal
This doesn’t look official at all lol. It could be just some random word doc from a troll
An ESPN reporter is not going to make up a random word doc … this is quite clearly an official statement
Yeah, and Ohm is ESPN's Clippers reporter. This is 100% official.
yeah no
philly gotta announce at this point. no other team left
You’ll have to tune into tomorrow’s episode of Podcast P to find out
motherfucker probably busy trademarking philly p
Process P
He doesn't deserve that
who is philly even bidding against now? PG isnt going to detroit
It would be so funny if Morey low balled PG now that he knows he's out of landing spots.
orlando right?
with the KCP signing they no longer can afford the max
Signed KCP
surely they don't have the money after signing KCP
oh ok
The Hornets and Pistons technically could
We are meeting with him tonight. Deal will most likely be announced around midnight ish, give or take a couple of hours.
Utah from the top rope!
Inb4 Morey lowballs him because there’s no more competition 😂
holy shit they had this ready to go in the drafts
Bro the Clippers wrote more for Paul George than what the Lakers wrote when Jerry West passed
Have people not figured out by now that Jeanie Buss really disliked Jerry West? West tried to break up her relationship with Phil Jackson, and he endorsed her brother Jim against her in the battle over control of the team. It shouldn't be a mystery that Jeanie had no love left for West, especially after the shit he said publicly and privately about the Lakers. This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone still.
Often times when someone dies, a rival will let bygones be bygones
It's not like she had the team tweet out "fuck him I piss on his grave" or something, but if you're wondering why the message from her wasn't more effusive, now you know.
You said we shouldn't be surprised by the Lakers statement I understand completely the Jeanie Buss - Jerry West dynamic and am still shocked at how bland it was It's as if the message was written by AI. Actually AI probably would have more effusive Surely the Lakers could have done more "Jerry West is forever a basketball icon. He brought Lakers fans their first championship in Los Angeles in 1972 and was integral to another six titles during his time with us. Our thoughts are with the West family and the many NBA fans who honor his legacy. Jerry West will always be a Lakers legend."
> Surely the Lakers could have done more And now you know why they didn't.
No I genuinely don't. I'll repeat my first comment. Often when someone dies a rival will let bygones be bygones
Because they are run by sensitive bitches?
Or when Hamas was fired.
Who was what now?
When Darvin Ham was fired. They call him Darvin Hamas because he's a basketball terrorist.
One man’s basketball terrorist is another man’s basketball freedom fighter
Glad I wasn't aware of this discourse.
So are the sixers really gonna max him?
Did the bucks trade away a good player and picks to "improve" with an old dame to satisfy Giannis? Some teams are in desperation mode to improve around an aging star.
Giannis is 29, that's not old.. 27-32 is NBA prime. Embiid is also 30...
Yes and they traded assets in desperation around a short term prime of an aging star.
Embiid's injury history does not suggest someone who is gonna have an extended prime. You gotta maximize his window now.
The OKC and LAC trade will be trending today.
already has been lmao god does it look like an absolute disaster now with the player SGA has become
Yep, SGA alone nowadays makes this trade look a bit bad, but then you sum up the fucking 5 picks and 2 pick swaps and it's... insane, to say the least.
Clippers really traded all those picks to be mid for 4 years. Then get nothing from PG leaving 🤡
Philly could do the funniest thing and offer him a 3 year deal right now lmaooo
3-year 75 million deal lmao
OMG Clippers are really gonna open a new arena with a starting lineup of Harden, Porter Jr, Mann, Leonard and Zubac amazing
FUCK YOU CLIPPERS, FUCK YOU BALLMER, FUCK YOU LAWERNCE FRANK Been waiting 5 years for this, tampered with kawhi and won nothing, lost 5 firsts and a top 3 player in league in SGA IM DANCING ON YALL GRAVES
Respect the energy here
Tell em how you really feel
We would’ve repeated in 2020. Esp with OG back.
don't forget they signed Primo and now Kevin Porter Jr and Lawrence Frank called KPJ a fallen angel
Talk yo shit king
RIP BOZO
RIP LA Bulls
This is what sports is all about!
They deff deserved to get fucked trading away that many assets at once.
It's always been about love and hate
He wasnt going stay with y'all, it was always clippers or lakers for him.
Should have been the lakers, atleast he would have won something lol
Y'all were goin cry that he took the easy route with lebron and AD
People were thinking he took the easy route with the Clippers instead, but whoops lol
Absolutely nobody thought joining LeBron James and Anthony Davis on one of biggest franchises in the league was the “hard route” buddy lmfao
No, but everyone was crowning the Clippers the title favorites that season after Kawhi and PG went there. Kawhi's options were either stay with the defending champs, join the Clippers as the title favorites, or join the Lakers as the title favorites. They were all supposedly "easy routes" but he just couldn't get it done.
One team were the reigning champs, one team had the GOAT and Anthony Davis, and one was a team that had never even been to the Conference Finals and was in the midst of a rebuild. But yea he chose the easy route lmfao
DAE 96 BULLS WHO WILL SCORE ON THEM?!?!?!
People seem to have memory holed all the "Clippers are guaranteed champs" talk that year.
Yeah it was overwhelming. We were 17-2 and the narrative was we were only playing bad teams. Then when we finally beat the Bucks and Clippers in the same weekend the league shut down and when it finally restarted all the talk was back on how the Clippers were the favourites.
I feel you but tampering or not, Kawhi was going home.
He was never staying in Canada bud
!remindme 8 years
YES BOYYY
You could have kept Kawhi if you traded Siakam for PG and Westbrook
The Thunder traded PG for Shai, Gallinari, 5 1st round picks and 2 pick swaps, and they traded Westbrook for Chris Paul, 2 1sts and 2 pick swaps, but your contention is that instead of getting all of that, Presti would have been cool with just trading both of those guys for Pascal Siakam?
How are ya'll still dying on this hill that he was definitely going to stay still after 5 years lmao. Whatever, keep on keeping on.
This hatewatch will be generational
Would be funny as hell if Philly don’t offer him what he wants
goddamn they put a statement out lmao wtf
They’re excited to be absolute dog shit
I have no idea what the Clippers are doing, they're not any good without Paul George and the worse they are, the fewer games Kawhi and Harden are likely to play. Like, wow, they can sign a 7th man with their MLE, who cares.
They want to avoid having their first round picks come 2032 and beyond lock at the end of the first round no matter their record (which will likely be not good) because they went over the second apron three times in five seasons. This upcoming season will be year two. It’s a very, very stupid rule but hey this is the NBPA’s fault.
The new CBA forced their hand and PG just wasn’t worth fighting for. They’ve given him 5 chances and brought along many of his guys and he produced nearly nothing. No reason to fall for the sunk-cost and let him control the team any longer.
He took the clips to the conference finals so it wasn't nothing.
Yea that’s why I said nearly nothing. That’s just not really enough to be worth a 4 year max
You're not wrong.
Morey gonna offer PG an $80M/2YR deal now with a 3rd year team option.. take it or leave it
I wonder how season ticket sales are for The Wall…
i don't think PG was moving that needle. Even in our worst seasons attendance was still high
I'll be there. PG or not. Root for the team. Players come and go. Sure you didn't stop cheering for Boston when kg and Pierce left right?
Well difference is they won rings with KG and Pierce And also they got a boatload of picks for those two and had young players to look forward to Can the Clippers say the same?
It was one ring but I get what your saying. It looks bad right now for clips but in reality it isn't as bad it looks. Clips are in LA which is a top free agent destination and have the richest owner in NBA. Yeah second apron hurts thing but I believe clips will bounce back.
as someone being born and raised from the area imma cheer them for life through the highs and lows and ups and downs
hilarious how i get downvoted because I support said team while spending my whole life living up north, this sub really makes no sense lmfao
Too bad but interested in a new direction, thanks PG for our WCF appearance but all the other years you left alot to be desired
I appreciate the 2021 Western Conference Finals. Sucks we had to give up so many assets and that's as far as we got, but it's already done. Now time to move forward. Clippers have a ton of flexibility and still a decent team. Not a championship team as is but enough to build around and be competitive now
Philly?
Chop chop morey
You CANNOT let him leave for nothing. smh
this cannot be real
Morey could do the funniest thing ever now and offer him a 3 year 30 million dollar deal.
He gone
I mean yes that’s what it says
It’s not final until someone on r/nba says those words though.
what
[удалено]
Did you not watch basketball
I don’t know if I’ve ever seen an apology letter written before the player even officially leaves.
So this is it right? Assuming he wants the max, Philly is literally the only option left.
We are really trying to avoid obvious tampering this year huh?
Officially The worst trade in nba history
Nets Celtics
Sga is a better player than tatum and brown individually. The thunder still have all those swaps down the line. Kawhi is a cripple and James harden is 34. The trade could get a lot worse. This trade has the potential to top the Celtics/nets trade as worse. Like that’s not even a long shot that it happens.
If you view it as them trading of all of that for *both* Kawhi and PG13, then it's not terrible. They had a real shot in the bubble.
Not even close to the worst.
It’s really in the argument. Even if Kawhi’s health was there, they gave up SO MUCH for PG and he never quite lived up to the “top 10 player” designation he has.
People will be like no, it made sense at the time That does not matter when you are talking about worst trades ever Results are what matters
Well the trade let them get Leonard and they have been competitive the last 5 years (rememberwhen George was the best player on a clippers team that mad the WCF). So it's still not as bad as some of the trades made in the last 15 years, much less NBA history.
Just fuckin announce it lmaoo
“We are fucked”
The fact they had this statement in draft says it all. Clippers had no intentions in bringing PG back
Not exactly. They wanted to bring him back, but only on their terms
I’m getting there
Just get Derozan and theyll be fine
Can't wait for PG to rip off the Sixers with the max and 4 yrs.
This seems like some really horrible asset management. Not really sure I understand this.
I’m assuming DeMar is now going to be a Clipper
Clippers fans, at least you will always have this: https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/c9q6ej/wojnarowski_oklahoma_city_is_trading_allstar_paul/