Kawahi sitting on the Bench, meanwhile Embid playing with 1 leg and Half a Face

@joemagwood9130

Ай бұрын

Exactly !

@nolongerblocked6210

Ай бұрын

Embiid's a dam warrior!! I'd love to have a guy like that on my team

@daveclark8337

Ай бұрын

Kawhi already has 2 chips, a Finals MVP trophy and at least another $150 million guaranteed in his pocket. Ever since that dirty Zaza play, he's never been the same. Props to Joel for trying to play through his injuries but he's 30 and realizes he may never have another chance to win a chip.

@collllllll

Ай бұрын

The injuries are not the same

@fuzzbutthead8597

Ай бұрын

@@daveclark8337props to Kawhi, Glass Man gets paid

How did Leonard earn a spot on the Olympics team

@MrBakoso

Ай бұрын

He was mostly healthy during the regular season this year, the knee inflammation from what we know started a few weeks before the playoffs ...

@danieldaniel8883

Ай бұрын

As much time as Leonard has missed since joining the Clippers and now again injured going into the playoffs and missed a few of the games and the Clippers loss in the first round. I can't believe the front office is happy about him playing in the Olympics, something could happen, and he gets hurt or blows out a knee and he's out half the season or more.

@TheOtherMJ_76

Ай бұрын

He won’t play on the team. He’ll be hurt and rehabbing. That spot should go to someone else.

@Fotosynthesis858

29 күн бұрын

He’ll be sitting on the bench in street clothes 💯

@chrisschaeffer9661

29 күн бұрын

Los Angeles

Kawahi is the best finesse that’s ever lived . Dude work 1/4 of his contract 😂😂

@baldeagle4710

Ай бұрын

and ben simmons.

when adam silver made those load management rules. he was looking and pointing at the clippers as the prime example. load management has backfired on them so many times.

@gabemartin72

Ай бұрын

Adam silver didn’t make those rules, the Spurs conceptualized that.. Silver made penalties for such especially when it was a major televised game. Everyone else tried to do what spurs started and did it well mind you, and failed badly. Now it’s abused excuse saying we are resting our key players only for them to be hurt during playoffs.

@michaeljohnson7945

Ай бұрын

Resting injured or exhausted players who need a break has become conflated with individual players who abused the system by using the leverage of guaranteed contracts and large paydays. For example, Ben Simmons refused to play for the 76ers anymore and then tried to sue the team to pay his contract. Kyrie Irving took weeks off without informing the head coach, or some of his other antics when he was in Brooklyn. In Kawhi Leonard's case, it's been known that he has a degenerative right knee that has curtailed his career. He also had an ACL tear and a torn meniscus in the same knee. He obviously is going to be on a minutes/games restriction. That's a different situation from players like Simmons and Irving who were finding ways not to play basketball while getting paid.

@LonghornsLegend

Ай бұрын

It's not even load management he's got a degenerative knee condition he will never be available in the playoffs no matter what they do. This was known years ago.

Kwahi been there 5 years and missed little over 2 full seasons. NBA has to stop paying these guys who sit out.

@melvincreddle1370

Ай бұрын

What ever job you have in America of your not able to work when you get hurt on the job you still get paid weather it’s unemployment or disability. The nba is the same ..

@wesyoung9150

Ай бұрын

@@melvincreddle1370 that is true but we’re not under contract. Teams can stop paying him top dollar contracts he’s not worth it.

@michaeljohnson7945

Ай бұрын

@@wesyoung9150 At this point, the Clippers' front office is fully culpable for choosing to pay Kawhi Leonard max deals, knowing how many games he's missed because of injury/load management. No one is forcing owner Steve Ballmer or general manager Lawrence Frank to give Leonard a three-year, $150 million extension in January after seeing him miss large chunks of seasons for years. Just like no one forced Ballmer and Frank to give Leonard a four-year, $176.27 million extension months after he suffered an ACL injury. At this point, we have to look at front offices for not controlling their spending practices.

@michaeljohnson7945

Ай бұрын

At this point, the Clippers' front office is fully culpable for choosing to pay Kawhi Leonard max deals, knowing how many games he's missed because of injury/load management. No one is forcing owner Steve Ballmer or general manager Lawrence Frank to give Leonard a three-year, $150 million after years of missing large chunks of the season. Just like no one forced Ballmer and Frank to give Leonard a four-year, $176.27 million extension months after he suffered an ACL injury. At this point, we have to look at front offices for not controlling their spending practices.

@wesyoung9150

Ай бұрын

@@michaeljohnson7945 exactly

No team with Westbrook and Harden is ever winning anything. Other than a few seasons in OKC…their entire careers have been a joke filled with stat padding and playoff choking. Why anyone keeps signing them is beyond me.

@Vortexnicholas

Ай бұрын

Exactly especially harden their both known for massive downgrades in the post season

@eduardoarancibia169

Ай бұрын

Well, Westbrook 's salary is like vet minimum, so it doesn't matter. The rest however....

@AntMcLeod

27 күн бұрын

Has nothing to do with Kawhi never playing huh? What did Kawhi win before Russ & James got to LA? LOL

He needs to retire end of season. This is enough

@baldeagle4710

Ай бұрын

kawhi is going to keep getting his money as long as he can. ballmer is foolish enough to keep giving him extensions, so why not?

@leir2005

Ай бұрын

Too much money left on the table if he retires. If you can get it, why not? Look how long Undonis Haslem stuck around on the Heat getting the vet minimum. He is in his early 30’s. He’s going to have to live off of those earnings for the next 30 to 40 years

@JayBelafonte

Ай бұрын

@@leir2005no one is going to pay him after this. He’s a terrible investment

Paul George sound like they already got eliminated.

@DaveReddy

Ай бұрын

Prophetic.

@user-tt1hx2nm4p

Ай бұрын

Pandemic P

@420villain

Ай бұрын

Podcast pete

@TyroneCash550

27 күн бұрын

PG knows, this series is over!!!👍🏿

Kawhi and Paul George both didn’t want to join the Lakers and I’m glad

@saejinlee6304

Ай бұрын

Remember when the Lakers were courting Kawhi and he was giving them the runaround? It looked like the Lakers had a real shot of getting him. Then, at the last minute, he gave them the slip. Lakers fans were pissed. Hindsight being 20/20, he did the Lakers a favor. Mr. Load Management can't even play a full season.

@Ericvsr

Ай бұрын

@@saejinlee6304 they lucked out

@anthonysabbs7919

Ай бұрын

One of them should definitely be a Laker. Bad career move by both guys. Neither guy is a leader and that’s the problem with the Clips. That sound bite of PG is cringe. Great way to say he’s not a leader without actually saying it As for who should’ve been a Laker, definitely PG. He would have a title right now, maybe two

@deevideo2012

Ай бұрын

I'm so glad lakers didn't get him . MR LOAD MGMT

@CarolCityCane305

Ай бұрын

@@saejinlee6304I have more respect for Kawhi then joining that bitch diva in lebron…Lebron feared Kawhi

Can not depend on lenoard, ever! Year after year after year! Can’t trade him, cause no sane person would want him! 45 million dollars are you kidding me! Clippers have tied up huge money on a undependable, rapidly depreciating liability. My business school taught me to put my money into appreciating assets, which lenard,harden, and George are not!! Time to rebuild with young appreciating assets!

He's on the bench, he shows up😅

Poor team construction! Good luck unloading those contracts!

Kawhi needs to retire.

Kawhi is an amazing player when healthy. He just isn't ever healthy enough. The cost per game per performance is just a huge net loss because he takes up a roster spot and huge portion of their salary cap. You can't afford him...

@kingvagar

Ай бұрын

🎯🎯🎯

@kevinira256

Ай бұрын

He plays enough games to get them to the playoffs and sells ticket. The flippers without Kawhi would be another lottery team so they should be thankful he is on their team

@mare8371

Ай бұрын

$150M guaranteed contract for three years. No incentive to do any better.

How does someone who can afford the best nutrition and has time to get into peak shape get injured more than my grandmother? I don't get it. It seems like the dude doesn't want to play.

@Emong1987

Ай бұрын

Not to mention he has the best doctors, nutritionist, conditioning coach. And damn, millions of dollar contract to motivate him to play well or at least be reliable.

@Jareyes42

Ай бұрын

Best everything available to them to be at top shape.

@michaeljohnson7945

Ай бұрын

It's been known for years that Kawhi Leonard has at least one degenerative knee. The bigger question is why the Los Angeles Clippers keep signing him to big contract extensions, knowing he's likely to miss large chunks of seasons.

@baldeagle4710

Ай бұрын

@@michaeljohnson7945 ballmer is just a bad sports owner. he's going to give kawhi ANOTHER extension after this one elapses in 2027

@popnfresh2928

Ай бұрын

He’s boring to watch & no personality whatsoever on the floor….just retired & give the spot for someone who’s hungry to win….

Kahwi is Kahwi, teams have known what they're getting from him for quite awhile now and they still pay him. You think long and hard about Paul George, aside from this year he's been no better than Kahwi in terms of games played. You can't have two of those guys around.

@MrHnic95

Ай бұрын

Yep , PG ain't dependable either

@michaeljohnson7945

Ай бұрын

Paul George has played in 60 more games than Kawhi Leonard has in their time with the Clippers. He missed the bulk of his time with a torn UCL in his right elbow in 2021-22. Even if you remove the 2021-22 season for Kawhi Leonard because of the ACL injury, he's still missed 100 games (another season plus 20 games) since joining the Clippers.

Guaranteed contracts are a joke. Who commits to pay someone no matter whether they do their job or not?

@baldeagle4710

Ай бұрын

desperate owners who will do anything to have a superstar

Dan- It’s DON-chich and YO-kich. Keep working bud. They’ve only been around for years!

League should have rules to protect teams from this

The media working hard to try to move PG to the Lakers 😂😂😂😂

@yia22sacramento

Ай бұрын

He wont . He sucks

@marksucksmybird4456

Ай бұрын

We don't want him.

@TL2354

Ай бұрын

Why would the Lakers want him?

Paul George basically said as long as you train hard & play hard you could fail 😮😮😮

Is this group of players , playing for championships or just contract’s ?

@jerrrryy4503

Ай бұрын

Def contracts n retirement

@jerrrryy4503

Ай бұрын

Kawhi got 2 rings , finals mvps and he don’t care no more

@ebonylady

Ай бұрын

​@@jerrrryy4503That's why they need to pay and dump him. Eat the loss and move on.

No pressure, feel sorry for that owner with these pseudo stars, huge red flag about the commitment for the organization , disappointing for those fans that paid for those not cheap tickets, really disrespectful for those people

You know Paul George is going to play well?😂😂😂

@baldeagle4710

Ай бұрын

pandemic P had a few dud games in the mavs series

Harden has historically bad games when you need him the most.

Gawd damn, that was a good Balmer impression!

they keeping ty lue a one hit wonder like his mentor😂😂

0:29 that damn had me in tears

How is this even a question for LAC? Besides the money issue, Kawhii is a morale killer at this point. Addition by subtraction. And I'm a fan of Kawhi.

the story is not Kawhi, it's the other players suck in playoffs

Kawhi Leonard just needs to retire

I remember bozos were saying Kawhi was better than Lebron and the new king of LA 😂 They also said Kawhi would win a title for the Clippers before Lebron would win a championship for the Lakers

To win you gotta have a "GLUE" guy, which if you know about any sport, it's not always the studs. Tye can't be the glue guy...gotta be a player.

I would try to discuss a pay cut with him. He can show up for 40-50 games a year, take all the breaks he needs, see whatever doctor he wants, but he can’t hold the team hostage. One year contracts at a time.

@kevinira256

Ай бұрын

He is taking 10 mill paycut a year already. Making 50 mill instead of 60

@markosekulic119

Ай бұрын

​@@kevinira256thats not paycut for his minutes. He should play for 5m max

@kevinira256

Ай бұрын

@@markosekulic119 his impact is 100 mill a year. You have trash players like Jaylen brown on 300 mill contract lol

@markosekulic119

Ай бұрын

@@kevinira256 hell no. His impact should be noticed in playoffs currently. But since his Toronto year. He isnt healthy and get big money. Where is logic

@tigera6

Ай бұрын

NBA teams need to request for eliminating fully guaranteed contract, and go with incentive-based like the NFL in case like this.

If I had a circumspect leg, I'd go straight to the doctor.

Kahwi, if you need time to heal, find your way to that Celtic Green bench. JT, JB, Porzigas, White and Drew got everything you need. All aboard!

Kawhi has a perpetual injury in his knee that needs lots and lots and lots of load management. I say he will play only 41 games next year out of 82 scheduled games. That will be OK for Steve Balmer?

@baldeagle4710

Ай бұрын

ballmer will pay him $100 million a yeare just to stay in LA.

Kawhi chucklin' all da way to Cancun wid all dat cheese!

Kawhi is the biggest grifter ever, lol. Why do people keep paying him?

@baldeagle4710

Ай бұрын

because of what he did in 2019

Clippers, Lakers, Warriors, Suns - it’s rebuild time.

No one goes to the games!!! I went to game 1 and it was about 80% full. 10% wore clippers gear, and it got the loudest when they announced a free chicken sandwich if two free throws weee missed. I have no idea who would go down to Inglewood for the Clips. They only have attendance due to the lower tha Laker pricing and the fact that that they are in DTLA

Even if you wanted to get rid of Kawhi Leonard who are you going to get to replace him with? When he is healthy he's definitely more reliable than James Harden and Paul George who both have a long history of choking in the playoffs. I don't know why they call Paul George ”Playoff P” unless the P is for piss poor. Nobody's going to leave on their own because every NBA player wants to live in LA, NYC or Miami especially if they're being paid well. The Clipper's owner is not going to get rid of any of them because he needs superstar names to bring in the fans and pay for that new stadium.

Kawhi not playing hits two fold this series because Luka is playing on one knee himself

@camnielsen5498

Ай бұрын

Yes, but his issue isn't degenerative and he's 8 years younger :(

Its hard. Im a Knicks fan but i wanted to see how far the Clippers would go with a healthy team. I dont want to say Kawhi is done because i thought Nadal was done but then he won another Grandslam. But hes been hurt eversince he got to L.A. i will say get rid of Harden and run it back with PG, Kawhi and Westbrook.

Blow it up that extension was a major mistake

Clips need to only activate Kawhi in the playoffs.

Kawhi has it made. Already has the resume so he feels no pressure to accomplish anymore and someone was rich enough to still throw money at him knowing he was most likely not going to be much use in the post season.

The Clippers are the most stacked team in the NBA. If they fired all four “stars” and promoted the bench, they would probably have a better record next year. Guys like Terence Mann are in arrested development right now, going nowhere because their playing time is being stolen. And at this point in KL's career Norm Powell is probably a better player than KL.

If Kawhi pushed thru would his career have been done years ago?

Chich Dan Chich... your the ick my friend

@TL2354

Ай бұрын

You’re

Paul sounds like he gotten use to loosing. 😂I

PG disappeared like James Harden when elimination game/s

PG wwent for 4-13 and you call that playing well? move on... basketball ain't your thing

@collllllll

Ай бұрын

The media is already working on getting the next scapegoat for the Lakers. PG and Trae are the targets 😂😂😂

Kawhi is washed dude is always hurt his value as a super star is over he should retire give somebody who’s gonna play that money

Kawhi leaving T.O. an blessing in disguise

This steve Balmers thing. If he content with this then by all means.

He just has bad knees. It happened to Brandon Roy, Greg Oden, Grant Hill, Derrick Rose, Penny Hardaway, and Bernard King. It's sad, but that's the way it is.

As a Toronto fan, we had Kawhi at the height of his powers. We wanted him to stay and run it back but in hind sight I'm glad we aren't married to him. I tolerated him because of how great he was playing but I found him to be a kook - completely aloof. We had built the team to get to this point and we knew we had a shot - this would not have worked in any other situation - it was completely bizarre that Kawhi wouldn;t even be on the bench for the games he was load managing - Lowry, Siakam, Serg, Fred basically plugged their nose and did what needed to be done. I don't think he is a bad guy but he is strange - comes off a selfish. He has his uncle in his year and he is trying to protect a future that is never going to happen - he will never be healthy enough to make it through a long playoff run at this point - his knees are full on shot and I don't think he is a "play through it" type of guy. He's finished - anyone with a big portion of their money tied up on him is in trouble.

worst super star ever, injured in 4 straight playoffs. it's absolutely ridiculous. Just sit him out, he messes up the rotations moving forward anyway.

Release George, Leonard, Harden and Westbrook. Then start over.

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💯

K.LEONARD getting 52 MILLIONS next season and has a huge contract until he will be really old... THATS 55 millions every year..

What if we found out Kawhi is older than LeBron?

Clippers gonna clip

Yea.. its been what 4 years....breh needs to play already

They traded sga think about that?

Imagine getting pay $45 million to sit and watch games 😵‍💫

The guy is trying hard to sell that PG played well, while he was as bad as Harden.

Not that they are asking. But the Clippers are the last team I would want to play for. Harden, Kawhi, Paul George and Westbrook? Blah 🤮

@Ab-iz9uv

Ай бұрын

Who’s your team

Do what? They gave him 150 million 😂

Russell Westbrook Jr the Third!!! 😂😂

They flucked themselves with that extension.

lol lol lol dan!!

Why would anybody keep this guy if he never plays?

Who the hell is Luka DonciK? 😂

i'm not even sure Kawhi is even a draw anymore

Actually what if kwahi trying his best but his body is not helping him out at least kwhai trying

He missed 181 games and I am 182nd comment

Even Toronto he did 60 reg season games its just that he held up in playoffs. He played just enough to get that extension. Paul George comment is someone who is paid well and chip means nothing as his performance is not a leader.

Spurs dodged a bullet with this guy glad things worked out the way it did

they was stupid to resign him

Talk about the damn Mavs! Why are you talking about someone who isnt even playing? This dude is such a Dallas hater.

He special don't pressure him or his feelings get hurt

PG should go to the Sixers or Bucks

How hard is to pronounce Doncic for some of these guys? It's Don-chich. It's not that hard.

@markosekulic119

Ай бұрын

When you arent from the area where Luka was born, you cant get used to Yugoslavia lastname pronunciation soo thats why people make mistakes.

Trade PG13 bring Djounte Murray and Kevin huter... Simple coz u have Murray defensive but can go off... Offensively and shooter.. In shot he plays what kawhi does and they are familiar with themselves on court Or trade russ or James Harden

Trade him making it out of the 1st round once in 5 years is just sad

Man said still nothing like the Lakers don’t have a chip; stop talking like rings are easy to get. This decade is only 3 full years in; the lakers had the first ring of the decade.

Kawahi is hurt a lot. 45 million?

Dump all 4 “stars” for sign and trades for draft picks.

I never liked Kawhi ever since he sat out an entire season in San Antonio regardless of NOT being injured smh. The league should’ve fined him, suspended him & given him a pay cut. Hes a untrustworthy, temperamental diva smh. 💯

They have to cut/trade Kawhi, and Paul George goes to Philadelphia.

"That's not good"...thank you captain obvious HAHA.

Can’t trust Kawhi to be healthy. Got to let him go. This is the last straw. I know he can’t control injuries but it’s time to move on.

@andrewfanfan

Ай бұрын

They should also let James harden go

Why would Paul George want to leave? He’s making 50 million, close to his hometown, and can come up short and nothing happens. It’s perfect for a guy who can’t be help accountable by anyone and still get a ton of money.

@sharitarits9187

Ай бұрын

😢he is heartless n inconsistent

If the clippers made it to the finals he would sit out.

The Clippers should have not moved to Los Angeles. The Clippers are a cursed franchise. The problem is there is a new stadium. What should happen is the Clippers need to move to Seattle and change their name to the Super Sonics.

Thought he’s the new king of LA lol

LA people didn't go to see the Clippers. The went to watch Luka and Kyrie. LA fans couldn't care less about the Clippers.

That's why the Spurs got rid of him. Always hurt and not follow Dr's orders.