As a musician, same. Players play, musicians make music. Jeff Beck vs Eric Clapton. Clapton had like 4 great bands and Jeff Beck = 0...
This is what Kawhi meant by the Clippers lack of "Basketball IQ." He is out there on a floor full of basketball morons. Unless something changes, he's OUTTA here come next summer.
That's the fact. He is not going to stay with the Clips to snarf up a few excess millions. Phoenix is an hour by plane from his home in San Diego and he can go there next year and get to play with Chris Paul.
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It's not even a question of selfishness--it's a state of mind. Kawhi f*ked up. PG is a playa. Jimmy Butler is a baller. The Clippers FO f*ked up bigtime too. We could have had Jimmy Butler for FREE instead of trading away our draft picks for the next 100 years. PLUS Shai. Kawhi would definitely have signed with us if we had Butler on the hook.
Clippers now have no ballers except Kawhi. NONE.
The irony is that Lob City had a half-dozen. CP, BG, DJ and JJ all balled. Barnes balled. Even Austin balled. That's where I'm coming from at the moment. Lob City never quit on me and I never quit on them. But last year's Clippers quit on each other, quit on their coach, quit on Ballmer who treated them like gold, quit on all of us. Quit on themselves.
Name a baller on the roster. Go ahead. Tell us it would have come out just the same if the FO had got Butler instead?

Playa vs Baller. PG was the wrong call and it was the FO who made it. And there it is...