Is he playing next year?
Kawhi Leonard has Signed With the Clippers 3 yrs/103 Million; Paul George Traded to Clippers as well
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murksiderock
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Y1, embarrassing blown 3-1 lead in the Semis. Have to watch as Lakers you hate so much, who you brought these guys in to compete directly against, win it all...
Y2, stumble in playoffs and make run to franchise first ever WCF only to watch your best player be unavailable in the biggest moments...
Y3, said best player misses all year, second best player misses 51 games, fail to even make the postseason with two games to advance...
Three years into it, have yet to cut into the Lakers relevancy that Ballmer oh so covets and spent for. Three years into it Lakers are a complete catastrophe and somehow have still won a championship while you've had this going...
Next year is Y4. They have to at least make the WCF. It doesn't matter who the competition is, the bar is high. If they can't at least get back to their high point, tear this whole shyt down. Doesn't matter who gets hurt. Next year at playoff time PG will be 33 and Kawhi will be almost 32. If those guys can't bring it home next year you may have to destroy and rebuild, get the old guys outta there...
And I love Ty Lue, he's an excellent coach, but Next year would be three years of this for him too. It took him half a year to win a title with Bron, made The Finals three straight years coaching Bron. These nikkas aren't LeBron and as unfair as it may be he's learning that the hard way and not having LeBron may cost him his job, it's a cloud that will follow the remainder of his career until he can validate his winning without him...
It followed Spoelstra for 6 years until he ran off a Finals run without LeBron...
Ty Lue has optimized this team as best he can and proved himself as an elite coach, I truly believe that. But it's the NBA, you don't wanna be the guy who optimizes subpar talent but can't win it big with superstars. 3 years of Lue + Kawhi and PG next year. If you can't even make The Finals in 3 years with them, let alone win it all, when can you? Those guys aren't getting younger and unfortunately the coach is gonna be part of the blame if it goes bad...
Y2, stumble in playoffs and make run to franchise first ever WCF only to watch your best player be unavailable in the biggest moments...
Y3, said best player misses all year, second best player misses 51 games, fail to even make the postseason with two games to advance...
Three years into it, have yet to cut into the Lakers relevancy that Ballmer oh so covets and spent for. Three years into it Lakers are a complete catastrophe and somehow have still won a championship while you've had this going...
Next year is Y4. They have to at least make the WCF. It doesn't matter who the competition is, the bar is high. If they can't at least get back to their high point, tear this whole shyt down. Doesn't matter who gets hurt. Next year at playoff time PG will be 33 and Kawhi will be almost 32. If those guys can't bring it home next year you may have to destroy and rebuild, get the old guys outta there...
And I love Ty Lue, he's an excellent coach, but Next year would be three years of this for him too. It took him half a year to win a title with Bron, made The Finals three straight years coaching Bron. These nikkas aren't LeBron and as unfair as it may be he's learning that the hard way and not having LeBron may cost him his job, it's a cloud that will follow the remainder of his career until he can validate his winning without him...
It followed Spoelstra for 6 years until he ran off a Finals run without LeBron...
Ty Lue has optimized this team as best he can and proved himself as an elite coach, I truly believe that. But it's the NBA, you don't wanna be the guy who optimizes subpar talent but can't win it big with superstars. 3 years of Lue + Kawhi and PG next year. If you can't even make The Finals in 3 years with them, let alone win it all, when can you? Those guys aren't getting younger and unfortunately the coach is gonna be part of the blame if it goes bad...
I'm not a huge Lue fan but both of the last two years have been nothing but positive for him. He could fukk up terribly next year and he will get a full pass, he deserves at least two chances to make something happen with a healthy lineup.
You can’t give someone heat that genuinely doesn’t care. Kawhi does whatever Kawhi wants and the media has been making a big deal of it more than once to no avail.
murksiderock
Superstar
This is fair. So if they are healthy and fail to make it to The Finals do you think he keeps his job?
Stop it.....Too many talented teams to just hand the Clippers the championship.
Yes, unless they just look ass all season long or are upset in the first round in ugly fashion. And even then there's a chance he'll get one more chance.
yeah but they didnt
That bubble bullshyt fake. But Kawhi injury cost them last yr n this yr title. They'll be favorites next yr. Him and PG both only 30-31 yrs old so they good. Kawhi injury is the only reason mfs can talk. Bc they know if he ain't get hurt what the result would be 
Try to get to a finals before calling other championships fakeThat bubble bullshyt fake. But Kawhi injury cost them last yr n this yr title. They'll be favorites next yr. Him and PG both only 30-31 yrs old so they good. Kawhi injury is the only reason mfs can talk. Bc they know if he ain't get hurt what the result would be
That’s the point I’m making. It’s hard to win a champ ship. People downplay it.
Dorian Breh
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Fixed