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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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 😂😂

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

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

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?! 😂

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

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

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

Clippers have been cursed since they left Buffalo

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

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

2019 finals gassed up Kawhi to no end

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”

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Leonard is the most brittle guy in NBA history.

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

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

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

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.

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’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

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…

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Great content man!

They should hang the ‘21 Conference Finalist banner 😂

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

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.

commenting before I watch. Whatever you dish out to the clippers they deserve it!

skip bayless is a clown.

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.

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

Doc Rivers working his magic 😂

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

Kawhi is Always Inquired

Thank You Mar B …….. Thunder Future is massively bright indeed 💪👌👌

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

The tale of Pandemic P & Kawhi ACLeonard.

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

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.

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

For a moment I thought john c. Reily was talking

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

Really thought they were gonna make a push this year

"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...

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

Kawhi's knees are peanut butter atp.

Danggg its really been 5 years with no ring 🤣🤣

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.

That stadium gonna be beautiful

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.

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.

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

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.

Still believe the load management was actually more harmful than good Leonard never could get in proper game shape

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

I said it before Toronto and it stands after. You cant win with kawahi as the leader. Dudes a #2

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

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.

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.

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

*49M's for PG is a big yikes, he's gotta pack his bags* 💃

I do feel bad for Steve Ballmer though. Dude seems like a really good owner who cares a lot about this team

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.

Shai and 5 1st picks for PG...wow

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

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

Tobias didn’t leave via free agency

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.

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

Senior citizen roster! Trade for Rudy Gobert you'll have a better chance. What other options do you have, it's a young man's league now lol

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

The ceo of the clippers is just unbearable....

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

Kawhi has 2 planets in Aquarius and 3 in Leo which are all NEGATIVE to Taurus. Thats why hes having problems in the last 5 yrs. It will get better. Next season shouldnt be too bad, depending on his asc.

Yes, they get their new stadium, and may not want to rebuild. However, I don’t think they’re actually in a position to make a choice between rebuild or not. They got NOTHING in terms of picks until 2064 and despite maybe George, who would trade for their other aging, overpaid and injury-prone superstars? They’re stuck with what they got, and their only hope is thay everyone will be healthy next post-season and that other younger west-teams (OKC, Wolves) don’t take another step in their improvement.

Leonard should’ve ran it back with Toronto hes been failing ever since. 🤷🏼‍♂️