Clippers fans on Reddit:
From the moment we got Kawhi it has been continuous letdowns and for a lack of better word, turmoil.
From him bending us over backwards to trade ALL our assets for PG instead of trusting our front office, to the injuries (tho not exactly his fault), to the first few years he would commute from San Diego to practice/games, to barely speaking about the team whatsoever (heard him speak more on this Asia shoe tour than I think his entire Clippers career), to not sitting on the bench when he was injured, to all this Uncle Dennis bs, to making Team USA, having a workout then being sent home, to the front office never revealing when he would come back from injuries, always playing coy, to now this alleged being paid under the table bull…
I’m just tired boss. Tired of the disruptions.
Lebron always rubbed me the wrong way with the power struggle with his team’s front offices, with Klutch sports and what should be a conflict of interest, with him playing GM and picking players and coaches… but tbh, Kawhi is just as bad, only it’s not magnified cause dude is a mute.
Amazing player when he actually plays, but with all the shenanigans, I’m just kind of over it, and tbh been over it.
Hope we don’t get punished too hard, hope Ballmer stays the owner, but also I want off this Kawhi ride and can’t wait to see us move on and stop moving heaven and Earth for him.
I haven’t been loving Kawhi for about 2 years now and I wanted him badly back in 2019. I was predicting he would go to us when most people thought he was going to the Fakers.
The guy has done more harm to our franchise more than anyone. He was the one who wanted Paul George because he didn’t believe we had a good enough team to win when we had just won 48 games with zero all-stars and took the Warriors with a healthy KD to 6 games. Houston only took them to 6 but with KD out by Game 5. Kawhi didn’t have the foresight in SGA. PatBev was right. We only needed HIM. That’s all they ever needed before trading away the entire farm and losing our depth for him that costs us 10 years.
Prior to getting him, he was trying to weasel his way out of San Antonio, one of the most respectable franchises out there. Maybe because he couldn’t handle Pop’s meddling and suppressing his stats. Then he ditches Toronto after winning a chip for them after we stalked him for an entire season, pretty much violating the rules with our tampering. Kawhi entire game mimics MJ and more of Kobe. Iso ball 1-on-1. It doesn’t work in today’s game when the ball needs to keep swinging around and around.
I say, **** him. We need to keep worrying about his knees and B2B games. If Kawhi was on another team, I bet the OP wouldn’t defend him at all. OP would go full roast if he was a Laker. But since he plays for our Clippers, we need to defend and be in this denial like some do with Ty Lue and when we still had Doc Rivers. Then after Kawhi is gone, you start going to town with him saying he was a big waste of money and time for us. How we lost a decade by trying to swing big with him which ended up being a huge miss.
For all the **** LeBron gets, at least he tries not to miss games. Dude is going to turn 41. While he helped deliver a bubble championship, it’s still a championship. They also won the first NBA Cup. We can’t even win Summer League or make the cut for the Cup. Lakers won 6 playoff series while we won only 3 since 2020. Hate Lakers and LeBron all you want. He is an egomaniac but the Lakers mostly got their money’s worth with him. We got TEMU LeBron or TEMU MJ/Kobe who has never been worth it.
Really ask yourself was Kawhi really worth it? The answer is a big fat NO. I respect Kawhi’s game. I get that. I’m not blind what I’m seeing when he does play. But his defenders become blind after anything bad he does. Great player. The greatest player we ever had. Questionable character with he and Uncle Dennis carrying lots of baggage.
