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

[BeatDaCavs420]

So everything most of thought about that diva Kawhi is true...He sucks

[hippesthippo]

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

Sounds a bit like the way a certain recent President prefers to run things by purposefully creating chaos.

It's one thing to spend the money to add talent, but you have to make sure the pieces all fit and you don't have everybody stepping on each others toes.

[LofJ]

So Paul George is the best thing the Clippers have going for them. Dude deserves to compete for a championship, have to wonder if he's going to ask for a trade.

[MavsDirk41]

If im Ballmer i blow this team up. Every player on that team is available. Its open season and im starting over.

[KnicksGadfly]

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.

Let me introduce you to Larry Brown on the Knicks. Look up how he set his starting lineups

[Exp0sed]

pretty fascinating thanks for posting this, couldn't stop reading haha

obviously this guy has an axe to grind but this smells right to me. alot of specific details that could easily be verified as well. if ur gonna make S*** up, u don't make up this level and type of detail

even if half of this stuff is true or even if just the gist of it is true - that explains a lot

I'm not sure I can adhere to this interpertation of Lue actively sabotaging, I mean using bad lineups on purpose cuz he has to think about himself too, right?

If sticking it to the FO is so important to him he would have just quit,right?

but the rest of it sounds credible to me, some of these trades \ moves were completely baffling and can only be the result of total internal chaos

[BodieB]

Someone get Paul George out of there. Seems like he deserves better than all this.

[nikster]

Some of the criticisms about roster management ring hollow. Sure they've made some strange mistakes (and the reported Powell for Gordon deal is nuts) but theyve generally done a good job of keeping a good supporting cast around their 2 stars. This is a season where PG and Kawhi missed 50+ games and your head coach is apparently intentionally sabotaging the team yet they still finished 5th in the conference

[Slava]

It doesn’t seem too long ago that the Clippers has 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.

Spoiler:

Those are probably going to go in the same basement as the Blake Griffin recruitment t-shirts with Gandhi and Mandela on them.

[sashaturiaf]

I have no idea where to begin or finish reading, but I take it's something that's critical of the Clippers' front office.

Yes they do suck, but they're still better than Sean Marks.

[God Squad]

Damn.

[Inklink]

So happy to see this snake org eat ****.

[MAMBAEMD]

I’ve been watching the NBA for 40+ years and have seen a lot of messed up.

This is as messed up as it gets.

Toxic + dysfunctional + injuries + lack of winning + massive payroll + aspirations to be LA’s team = pure disaster

[Harry Garris]

Seems like a hot mess of poor management and bad team chemistry but who knows I wouldn't want to let this kind of info be leaked about my team either, it's always messier under the hood than on the polished exterior.

[jehosafats]

Read on Twitter

lolololol

[Roscoe Sheed]

A lot of this is likely untrue- especially the statement that the players hate Lue- if so, there is no way they would have fought so hard to comeback in games like last night rather than waiving the white flag.

I can believe the stuff about Morris and Jackson being upset, but the rest seems to be highly speculative

[enigmatics]

This is some soap opera crap LOL.

Virtually none of it meant anything. The only reason they weren't successful is because Kawhi and PG13 could never stay healthy. Everything else is just salt and very LA tabloid.

[MikeTheKid]

If im Ballmer i blow this team up. Every player on that team is available. Its open season and im starting over.

Not before that new arena opens

[MavsDirk41]

They gotta make some changes. I was wrong about Leonard. I thought after the 2019 finals he was gonna dominate for the next 5-6 years. Dude must be mentally weak.

[infinite11285]

Kawhi doing an Irish goodbye midgame seems like such a Kawhi thing to do