Clippers: The leak floodgates have opened - massive twitter thread dump from a Clippers media member

[MikeTheKid]

At first I thought it was Ohm Yungmisuk’s burner account but as you keep reading it’s not after the last tweet talked about Lue’s ties to ESPN.

The Markazi situation makes this all true cause he mysteriously disappeared from pressers.

Again, I thought Ballmer would make changes this off-season but now they gotta burn this down. Get what you can for Kawhi, Mook whatever and keep it moving.


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[hauntedcomputer]

The only shocking thing about this is a "media member" writes on the level of a fourth grader

[WarriorGM]

Nothing too surprising aside from the claim Lue is pretty much throwing games with his lineups to spite the front office. Unless I missed it though the reason why Lue is supposedly doing that isn't mentioned. As an info dump it's not really that enlightening.

[kingr]

All because their 2 star players were injured for the first round. smh

[Bolivar]

This one was awesome I can see why these guys took every opportunity to end the season to an injury asap.

Read on Twitter

[hippesthippo]

That's a pretty good insight into a crumbling situation.

Can't see how the Clippers can't clean house from here. Might be able to compete next year, but looks like a new coach and completely new rotation is in order.
Lue will pick up a job straight away, but for gods sake Ty, select a sane working environment for once.

Don't be surprised if the PG-13 sweepstakes begin. Quite frankly it's a miracle that he can still play considering the nasty injury he had in 2015(I can't even watch it. It was like watching Shaun Livingston get hurt). Injuries and mileage are taking a toll on his body and I respect that he's tried to come back and put his best foot forward but quite frankly the team lived and died with the health of George+Kawhi and the latter having a degenerative quad that bothers him really put a hard ceiling on this team(not winning a title in the 1st 2 years made it a lot harder).

Sadly for them, the Thunder own their picks in the following ways:

24+26: Pick goes to OKC
25: unprotected swap

Sam Presti is licking his chops right now. Hell they already got Tre Mann(via the MIA 21 pick)+Jalen Williams(solid guard out of Santa Clara taken 12th overall). SGA's a beast and they still have that+the Heat pick in 25(lotto pro. then unprotected in 26).

Damn it's gonna be a rough few years in Clipper land but Ballmer knew what he was signing up for.

Just thinking about George's injury makes me shudder, but at least his knee didn't blow up. Presti has done ok with those picks. I really like Jalen Williams, but SGA alone made it worthwhile.

The only shocking thing about this is a "media member" writes on the level of a fourth grader

Actual journalism has all but died. I can follow a Twitter thread without too much difficulty, but the format is in no way conducive to writing articles of any kind.

[Palma Dutch]

borderline schizo thread but nothing he said was the hard to believe, though it's funny that in some of the tiny guard lineups lue ran it got us back into the game so he couldn't even meme correctly

[Lunartic]

Assuming it's true - you gotta fire Lue asap, intentionally sabotaging a season and wasting player's years and the fan's time is wild.

I recall quite a few Clips fans on here complaining about his rotations, weird entitlement minutes to Morris and Reggie - trash lineups that make no sense, leaving RoCo on the bench despite needing shooting+defensive toughness. If he actually crashed their season, he deserves to get blacklisted and never hired again.

The players are a different story, dudes whining about playing time or missing games without obv injuries can be dealt with in-house or just traded away, way less of a big deal. Reggie Jackson was always a dick though, remember his time with OKC? And then his return game after being traded?

Ballmer should fire the GM/president/coach all in one go.

Clipper's player talent is very good they just walked into a healthy near-superteam against the Suns and still put up a solid effort. They should pay Nick Nurse whatever he wants to coach them.

[HardenGoat]

The Ty Lue leak is a bit hard to believe. No coach would purposely put their team in a position less likely to win unless it’s an end of season tank year. A tear down is inevitable. Clippers have the highest roster payroll and have nothing to show for it.

[Sharkboy242]

I ain't reading all that. I'm happy for the Clips tho, or sorry that happened

[chilluminati]

Ahh now it makes sense. Top to bottom level incompetence / no back bone in the FO.

So pretty much confirmed Kawhi is a snake? No longer are we going to question the legitimacy of the San Antonio situation? How many of his injuries were real? How much pull can a star have before they completely ruin a team?

This situation and the Nets need to be studied a bit more after the post mortem, a true case study on letting your hierarchy be controlled by underlings and single presences.

[tarantism]

I don't think I'm buying this. This person may have media credentials somehow but they are definitely not a reporter of any quality. Most of this seems anecdotal at best and nobody professionally involved with the team in any notable way would ever post something like this, and if they did it wouldn't be up long.

Not to mention this person speaks like a fan. Comes off more like a YouTube conspiracy video than actual reporting. I'm sure there are issues in the locker room, and they may be more significant than some of their peers but whatever fact these posts are rooted in is lost in translation.

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[Crazy-Canuck]

I can believe the kawhi stuff.

[baldur]

what is new? dont we all already know all these?

[cupcakesnake]

Whether this is fanfic or not (the story is being semi-corroborated by more legit sources), this was a fun read and answered some of our biggest questions:
1. What's with the Marcus Morris thing?
2. Why did the Clips straight-up punt on defense for most of the season? Why isn't Roco playing?
3. What the hell was with that all-guard lineup in game 2?

I never would have guessed the answer was...whatever this twitter thread was. But it's the only answer we've got right now!

[Lakers LeBron]

While I agree that it's hard to imagine a NBA coach intentionally losing games, one thing to consider is that when Steve Ballmer ran Microsoft, he created an incredibly toxic work culture that was filled with the types of detrimental rivalries that you see outlined in the OP.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2012/08/microsoft-lost-mojo-steve-ballmer

[Quattro]

This guy sounds about as credible as a “Realgm insider”.

[Lockdown504090]

Does any of this stuff matter if pg doesn’t get locked up with dort? This injury to kawhi followed the same pattern as last. Pg goes down with injury, kawhi stops load managing as a result and he gets hurt because he needs load management.

[hippesthippo]

Assuming it's true - you gotta fire Lue asap, intentionally sabotaging a season and wasting player's years and the fan's time is wild.

I recall quite a few Clips fans on here complaining about his rotations, weird entitlement minutes to Morris and Reggie - trash lineups that make no sense, leaving RoCo on the bench despite needing shooting+defensive toughness. If he actually crashed their season, he deserves to get blacklisted and never hired again.

The players are a different story, dudes whining about playing time or missing games without obv injuries can be dealt with in-house or just traded away, way less of a big deal. Reggie Jackson was always a dick though, remember his time with OKC? And then his return game after being traded?

Ballmer should fire the GM/president/coach all in one go.

Clipper's player talent is very good they just walked into a healthy near-superteam against the Suns and still put up a solid effort. They should pay Nick Nurse whatever he wants to coach them.

I have a hard time believing that Lue sabotaged the season. I can absolutely believe that Morris and Reggie were whining like bitches and it divided the locker room.

The Clippers had a lot of players that were all right around the same level in my mind, so it was inevitable that a couple of guys weren't going to get the minutes they wanted. The constant injuries to PG and Kawhi leading to guys getting opportunities that would promptly be taken away as soon as they came back would obviously be frustrating.

Throw in a little bit of favoritism and it's easy to envision the situation tumbling out of control if you have veteran players pulling **** like that, so what can you do? Plus, who knows what the Front Office was doing the whole time; trading for guard after guard after guard, adding players that Lue didn't want and constantly shuffling the roster.

The biggest issue I had was Morris getting minutes over Covington, but if Morris is dividing the locker room and the Front Office doesn't get rid of him and Batum is playing well... again, what do you do?

Just a tough situation all around. I'd start at the top with Lawrence Frank and get rid of him first. Lue will be gone regardless, whether he leaves on his own or is fired. I don't know anything about Winger, but if things are that bad you may as well just clean house and start fresh.

[homecourtloss]

This is freaking wild man... Wow


This guy has balls of steel or was asked by a higher up to do it so they can clean house and distract from the season ending in a first round exit.

That's a good point. The shade being thrown at Lue and paranoid boomer, Lawrence Frank makes me think if its a Michael Winger power play to get rid of those dudes and maybe trade Kawhi to start fresh.

Ahh now it makes sense. Top to bottom level incompetence / no back bone in the FO.

So pretty much confirmed Kawhi is a snake? No longer are we going to question the legitimacy of the San Antonio situation? How many of his injuries were real? How much pull can a star have before they completely ruin a team?

This situation and the Nets need to be studied a bit more after the post mortem, a true case study on letting your hierarchy be controlled by underlings and single presences.

Kawhi is the real cancer.

It doesn’t seem too long ago that the Clippers had put together the best roster in the NBA led by two 2-way wings who were going to own the NBA, LA, Lakers, Lebron, Kawhi was a silent killer, etc., etc.