Based on what the Clippers did to Blake, I wouldn’t trust them to not trade me either.

They offered Harden more 😂

Dude has been a goat trade piece though. Got Indy Haliburton and OKC Shai.

Giving Kawhi $50m and turning around and offering PG $30m is a bad look.

I can understand why the Clippers didn’t bite but at the same time when you give up as much as they did to get him you can’t just let him walk. Should’ve gave him the 3-year extension mid season

Paul George got a fully guaranteed max deal at age 35 after one healthy season in his 30s on a super desperate team 😬 I can't really fault the Clippers for not wanting to give him that same deal. It's time for the Clippers to try something else and stop giving the 5 fans they have false hope.

The fact that they let pg go but gave kawhi 153 million when he’s been injured about 80% of the time shows you everything you need to know about this franchise

The clippers GM thought he was buying a used bike on Facebook Marketplace

The Clipper's owner is one of the richest people in the world and he tried to lowball PG. PG was often 1A on the Clippers because Kawhi was often injured. That offer was an insult.

Kinda makes sense now why the Clippers dropped from #1 seed to 6th seed around all star break… PG realizing the Clippers weren’t tryna budge and give him what he wanted prolly messed his groove and the teams chemistry. If the Clippers would’ve never dropped so hard and kept competing with OKC, Wolves and Nuggets for the top seeds, who knows how the playoffs would’ve played out

The reason they're not the same is because a healthy Kawhi=championship, a healthy PG=early vacation. Ijs. However, Kawhi will probably never be healthy again and PG needs to be a number 2 or 3 somewhere with a healthy player. So I'm not too sure how it will work considering he chose another unhealthy player to play with. Sometimes I think these mfs don't want to win but idk.

Ain't no way they offered Harden more than PG lol

The 2 years 60 millions is wild, his ego obviously got hurt , so he started adding stuff like no trade clause and a 4th year , i think after that initial offer he was outta there and he was trying to find reasons to leave and asked for things he knew they wouldn't give him

They should have gave the max to pg and did this to Leonard at least he dont rest half season

Tbh with how it all went down, PG’s demands were relatively understandable. Philly defo had the max on the table for him during all of this once free agency started, and I believe he wanted to stay a Clipper but also wanted some control of his career. The Clippers have heavily under performed and there’s a genuine possibility they split everything up in the next 3/4 years and players lose their opportunity to dictate their landing spots. On top of that, the blatant disrespect in January probably nailed it there and then.

Kawhi wanted George to come or he would have gone somewhere else. So you offer Harden more, and let George leave.... what?

Did Kawhi get a little over $150M? In any event, I can see why after months he wouldn't want the deal without the no-trade clause. If they say they want you there and you want to be there, why not add the no-trade clause so that he feels comfortable after it took months to get to that number. That would make one feel leery at that point. And as he said, if they decided to trade him during that time, he could be somewhere getting paid less than what he could have gotten and not in LA where he wanted to be. Hence, why he would accept that deal.

Shit is crazy how they offered Kawhi 3 years 153mil but dude barely plays

the clippers fumbled its simple

The Clippers are just a very cursed franchise in my opinion. 😬

Paul George talking out both sides of his mouth: "I just want what Kawhi got" "Actually٫ I want something more"

Clippers paid the wrong player 😂

If you offer an All NBA Player only 2 Years 60 Mil then you probably wanted him to leave anyway.

It's insane to me that 3 years 150 million is considered taking less. Nba contracts are insane!

The whole situation is funny, Clippers low balled on the first offer and PG has an Ego, so he got mad.

Bro what are these ai generated comments

Players have got to understand that a no-trade clause is basically death to their market value unless they're willing to take less money.

I really thought he was only using the sixers as leverage and in my opinion the sixers shld have gone for high level roleplayers

PG Greedy. Clippers signed literally every player he wanted, and gave him more control of the offense when he complained and then got Harden and Westbrook when PG complained it was annoying bringing the ball up all the time. They wnated him and Kawhi on the same timeline for contracts with 3 years. He greedy leaving all that for one more year

Their first offer was less than they paid harden… they definitely didn’t plan on him leaving. there’s no way they would choose this the first year they get their own arena.. forced them to pay harden more

His podcast was great, im not a sixers fan but when he talked about the pitch with dr j is where the nba fan in me was like damn

Thank you for seeing both sides here. He renegotiated two big factors about that Kawhi offer, that was NOT the same deal Kawhi got anymore 😅

As a Clippers fan, it upsets me we gave Kawhi the money instead of PG Talent wise, yes, Kawhi is better player. But PG has been out there more and was playing both last postseason and against the Suns in the WCF. Shouldn’t you reward the guy who plays instead of the guy who doesn’t?

yeah how the clippers gon say they not gon trade him but not give him a no trade clause

PG put his all into last season to secure that contract, I highly doubt we’ll ever see him play that many games again

PG thinks he’s worth the same as kawhi on a contending team??

Basically he didn’t want to get Blake Griffin’ed

He also said he didn’t wanna leave the pacers I don’t trust him at all

when he wore the Philly kobes last season… he was trynna tell us

This what happened. Clippers offered 2/$30 mil as incentive for george to play as many games and they would renegotiate based on if he coould play games healthy. He did and they gave kawhi deal of 3 years not 4. Paul wanted 4, so agreed based on nonsensical no trade clause, thinking he could say ok take away no trade clause but give me 4 years. Clippers gave kawhi 3 not 4 on purpose so were against 4th year to george as well. George wanted 4th year..so he left..thats all that happened.

I don't think there's any point trying to rationalise what the Clippers FO are doing/thinking 😂 they seriously extended their best (but always injured) player without consulting their 2nd best on the figures AND THEN extend them together they just assumed he wouldn't leave at all or that he would even take less than what Kawhi took

It changed in the broadcast booth when Embiid walked in and said, "Hey come play in Philly"

The clippers didn’t fumble, they wanted George gone!

Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown are everything Kawhi and PG wanted to be

Honestly Paul George is very unprofessional with having a podcast n what he decides to talk about is always negative light where he was at or who he played with regardless it’s never his fault n he always tries to “expose” the people who messed it up for him.

Great reporting on this one! 🎉🎉

I can understand not wanting to pay that much for a group who will be at the end of the 30s when the deals end but it sort seems like the Clippers went into this not understanding that everyone, including PG, would know every detail of Kawhi'd deal. Even if it wasn't public they could have been talking privately.

He said he wanted about the same as Kawhi got, then he got offered that and didn’t take it cause he wanted a no trade clause, he has a ego

As an Orlando fan, this is the Clippers equivalent to the Magic and Shaq.

Mike Conley also has a no trade clause

No-trade clause is a poison-pill for the front office, especially given the Beal scenario. No one in their right mind would hand those out anymore, especially for a 35 y.o. who have already reached his max and likely on the decline. I understand that players gots to get theirs, but at the end of the day the team is looking out for the team, not to cater for a couple of players exclusively.

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It sounds like PG grew doubt from them saying no at first for so long just to turn around and say yes, so he probably looked at it as if I'm signing three years, I wanna be here for the three years, but if you wanna trade me down the line, at least I got my four years that I would have signed anyways.

Its very simple: 1) Paul George is not on the level of Kawhi, never has been 2) Paul George played last time in playoffs in 2021, beside 2024, so he is basically same injury prone like Kawhi. 3) You literally need to pay more to 2 time NBA champ and FMVP, not the historical choker, who George clearly is. 4) Maybe 35 a year is ok deal for the level of PG game atm, cause Harden was better player and he got 70/2 contract.

PG did great for himself. He gets $216 million for 4 years, Embiid, and Maxey as teammates and a better chance to win a championship. Good for him. I also think with that second apron thing the Clippers did the right thing. They wasn't winning the championship with him and they not without him, so why pay PG?

Soo... they were to cheap to pay both and now are paying for it... I guess you can take the Clippers out of Donald Sterling, but you can't take Sterling out of the Clippers

Wow I heard the narrator’s voice and thought is that flight Mike

I think part of his reasoning changing was just reflecting back on the season and the offers he’d been given. The Clippers notoriously signed Blake to the max and hung his jersey in the rafters just to trade him less than a year later. PG probably views himself as being in a similar situation. The org clearly favored Kawhi based on the negotiations so it was likely that George would get a lot of blame if the team continued underperforming and he’d be the one sent out the door to siberia or wherever he doesnt want to play for real. So he decided to do what was best for himself and go to the Sixers where it might not be a city he knows but the team is built to win and he gets all his money.

Clippers did the right thing. He's had years to prove what he's worth.

As a Sixers fan I agree with whatever 8 Ball Paul said

It certainly does not feel like Paul George really WANTS to be in Philly. He's not making any secret about having wanted to stay in LA, and his second choice was to play with Steph in Golden State. He's clearly only in Philly because they were basically the only team that could pay him, which makes me wonder about good of a fit it'll truly end up being. Kind of reminds me of Al Horford signing with the Sixers, but leaving his heart in Boston.

“I never wanna leave Indiana.” “I’ll never leave OKC” “I wanna stay in LA” Oh ok whatever man

The Clippers had valid reasons for not re-signing PG, but they are flaming hypocrites. They understandably didn't wanna give max money to an aging, injury-prone star... but that's exactly what they did with Kawhi. Speaking of Kawhi, I think that he should get more blame than he's getting for the Kawhi-PG era failing. PG is not worth $50 million a year at this point in his career, especially not with his playoff struggles, but it's not like Kawhi is a much better option at this point. I think the Clippers extended him based on what their team COULD be WHEN he is healthy, which is ALWAYS the problem: WHEN he's healthy. I feel like he's been getting passes over the last few years due to his stoic personality and his playoff success compared to PG, but his past successes have nothing to do with right now. PG may be gone now, but their issues are still there.

Paying PG was the best of the available options the Clippers had to choose from.

I don't blame PG for leaving yet at the same time, I don't blame the franchise for not wanting to pay two injury prone players and a travelling machine the max with nothing to show for it

Clippers tried to call his bluff and lost. Too much time to think and it backfired on them. Congrats PG.

is there a option for like a 10- team not trade clause ? like in hockey ,, if there isnt that is something the player should try to get in the next cba ....its a good middle ground it doesn't toally handcuff the team and the player has some control where he doesn't go

Give a player in his mid 30s who was a no show in his final two playoff games a full max? Yeah no. I like how people want to say he deserves the money because of how he played during the regular season but yet when he was a Clipper, they brought up how bad he was in 2020 during that playoff run lol.

No trade wasn't going to happen, it was silly even to ask. It was a leverage play to try to get the 4th year and the Clippers were not going to do it either. So in the end it was either accepting the Kawhi deal or leaving, he chose to leave and it's not like Morey won't trade him either, but he got his 4th year.

I'm sure there is truth to what PG said but I don't think he's an entirely reliable narrator of events. Maybe he left because he wanted the full four year max. Moreover, Embiid is less of an injury risk than Kawhi and gives Paul a better chance at winning a championship.

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in 5 years, PG played 263 matches of regular season, and tbh to me that's worth 30 Mil in the cap space, except if you win every match you make a appearance in. And now he joins a franchise with absolutely no history of injuries for his stars.. oh wait.

Clips disrespected him when they didn’t want to give him that initial offer. So when they came back he said “yesterday’s price is not today’s price.” That’s why u gotta strike when the irons hot

I can't hate on Kawhi getting the bag. but lets be honest you can't blame the clippers. lets be really really honest. their mistake was not blowing this team up.

doesnt matter too much, its not like PG would have really put them in title contention based on lets see, the past 4 years

Kind of left out the Warriors part of this story

This is also probably why he rejected his option. He didnt want the clippers to dictate where hes gonna go. He got screwed, he screwed them back. Seems like an even trade

He's not a Clipper because the Sixers offered 4 years at 56 million per. No way he was going to turn that down.

Sign JT Thor

Probably more so that them not offering him the deal same time as Kawhi shows that his place there is not secure so he wanted added security. Seems fair enough to me

My boy PG got his bag. Wish him nothing but success in Philly. LAC let this man walk and kept Harden. Clippers are the most cursed team in NBA history

60 mil for two years is a good deal. He’s in his mid-30’s. I’m tired of theses mid and late thirty year olds asking for max level contracts. And I’m 36!!

To be honest, Kawhi destroyed the Clippers by asking for PG and then telling Toronto to also bid for PG. Clippers front office had SGA and 5 1st round picks. They were too desperate to become relevant and lost everything. They should have traded Podcast P when they realized that he was either not available in the postseason or choking.

George isn’t Kawhi, not even close. They are not the same.

Harden in Paul out

9:29 I was with you until you said the Clippers didn't think they would lose PG in free agency. They knew they were going to lose him. Made a decision to let him go and only time will tell if it was the right one. Paul isn't a spring chicken, and hasn't made an all-nba team since 2021. Will he be the missing piece in Philadelphia? Will he stay healthy? I guess we'll see.

Just what Philly needs, another star player that doesnt want to be there.

7:54 PG didn't want to be DeRozaned

in essence, the Sixers and Clippers traded Harden for George. The Clippers got Harden for less money than the Sixers would have had to pay him and for less years. The Clippers know they arent winning a championship if PG stayed or not, so why pay him all that money. they can use that money on other players to see what they can do.

Clippers didn’t want PG. They could have kept him and let Harden walk if they wanted to stay under the 2nd apron but they chose Harden because he was cheaper. Clippers need stars to sell tickets but are looking at a “rebrand” in the next couple years. They aren’t going to tank, instead they will be a fringe playoff team and have all their contracts expire at the same time and build a new team from scratch through free agency. It’s likely also the reason they turned down the Warriors. They didn’t want to be a 2nd apron team by matching salaries with the Warriors and probably didn’t feel like Kuminga was worth the contract he will likely be offered this next offseason.

That’s absolutely insane. LA legit paid the wrong dude. Glad I ain’t a Clippers fan I know they punchin air rn

LET PAUL GEORGE TALK !!!!!

I doubt his attention from the sixers made him ask for the no trade clause but I think it influenced him to want the max 4 yr

The CBA is the honest answer though. Teams cannot maintain two supermax players and expect to be competitive. They get one supermax two just under that and then everybody else gets a s***** contract. That's just the way it's going to be until a new CBA is negotiated 10 years from now or whenever the current one expires

I think they are just salty about trading sga for pg and unfairly took it out on Paul George

Kawhi is the better player but there is no way he deserves more money than Paul George. George actually plays the games.

The Clippers are gonna Clipper. Anyone noticed theyve never won a title? Hell, theyve NEVER been to the Finals. They have the richest owner in the league, their own stadium, are in a huge market, and they are still IRRELEVANT. PG doesnt realize it, but he was done a favor by the Clippers bumbling front office.

Paying Kahwi $50mil just so he can sit out half the season and get swept in the first round 😂 Dude did the smart thing.

Just saying, every story of Paul George that has come out in his career regarding how he interacts with the management, has made him seem like a reasonable guy. For him to walk on nothing, I wanna lean towards his story more

Look this may be on the clippers this time but PG has said he never wants to leave for every team hes been on lol