Haynes: Chris Paul to be released by the Clippers

Ckay · Post #141 » by **Ckay** » Wed Dec 3, 2025 4:49 pm

Is there any benefit to releasing CP3?

Effigy · Post #142 » by **Effigy** » Wed Dec 3, 2025 4:50 pm

hauntedcomputer wrote:No way if I were a contender (especially OKC) would I bring in this guy who just got bounced for being a cancer. Nobody likes him. Even the people who pretend to like him.

Nobody owes him anything (well, maybe the Clips).

OKC already had him once before and I think the relationship was good. I imagine they'd welcome him back to a bench role. I wouldn't say he's a cancer, that Clippers team is garbage, and it's not because of him. Put him in OKC where he can play more of a coaching and developmental role and where he'd be a heavy favorite to win a ring, and I think that would be a good situation for everyone.

Sane · Post #143 » by **Sane** » Wed Dec 3, 2025 4:51 pm

Can he still play though

MoreyWins · Post #144 » by **MoreyWins** » Wed Dec 3, 2025 4:55 pm

Ckay wrote:Is there any benefit to releasing CP3?

Not having to be lectured one of the worst players currently in the league. Good morale booster.

ItsDanger · Post #145 » by **ItsDanger** » Wed Dec 3, 2025 4:56 pm

Should have retired already on his own terms. Washed a while ago.

Castle Black · Post #146 » by **Castle Black** » Wed Dec 3, 2025 4:56 pm

Read on Twitter

Mirotic12 · Post #147 » by **Mirotic12** » Wed Dec 3, 2025 4:58 pm

You can usually get away with being a total dick, if you are a really good player. Not always, but most of the time. But, if you can't play anymore, you absolutely can not get away with being a total dick.

brutalitops · Post #148 » by **brutalitops** » Wed Dec 3, 2025 4:58 pm

Point 1
"Lakers could use him, denver could use him, wolves could use him, X could use him"
Anyone posting this hasn't watched any clippers game. Or I'm suspect they don't watch basketball and are possibly AI bots. He's not the reason why the clippers are ****, but he's done, as an on court NBA player he's done
Point 2
Hes asked for this to ring chase
No, he signed to retire with the clippers. He's said as much as soon as he signed. Nobody had clippers in one of the top 20% of teams. They made themselves a little deeper but worse off this season and made moves to help clear future money and to retire a player who would be the first jersey retired by the team (not anymore)
Point 3
this is a mutual decision
"Just found out I'm being sent home" This does nothing for the clippers. This is a "CP3 Has pissed off a team who couldn't waive him as his salary would count towards the cap so they can't waive, but we're gonna be a classless organization and humiliate him because he was mean to us internally, and we need to get better because we need to get better and can't sink our books with dead money we can't move.

This is a low point for a team which this year was found to have illegally paid a player outside the salary cap. History often repeats itself and the clippers have found themselves to be a **** clown show once again.

Homer38 · Post #149 » by **Homer38** » Wed Dec 3, 2025 5:01 pm

Read on Twitter

SomeBunghole · Post #150 » by **SomeBunghole** » Wed Dec 3, 2025 5:03 pm

Liver_Pooty wrote:Can't really blame him.

Sure you can. Why is a guy who's BPM this year has been -5 mouthing off?

Johnny Bball · Post #151 » by **Johnny Bball** » Wed Dec 3, 2025 5:05 pm

Ckay wrote:Is there any benefit to releasing CP3?

Not having CP3 around.

PushDaRock · Post #152 » by **PushDaRock** » Wed Dec 3, 2025 5:06 pm

Sign a 2 Way deal in OKC and go get that ring!!!

lambchop · Post #153 » by **lambchop** » Wed Dec 3, 2025 5:07 pm

Johnny Bball wrote:
Ckay wrote:Is there any benefit to releasing CP3?

Not having CP3 around.

It's actually insane how bad you have to be to kicked off a team as that kind of vet.

PushDaRock · Post #154 » by **PushDaRock** » Wed Dec 3, 2025 5:10 pm

Marvin Martian · Post #155 » by **Marvin Martian** » Wed Dec 3, 2025 5:11 pm

Homer38 wrote:

Read on Twitter

"The team" = James Harden

An Unbiased Fan · Post #156 » by **An Unbiased Fan** » Wed Dec 3, 2025 5:15 pm

Ckay wrote:Is there any benefit to releasing CP3?

Getting him out of the lockerrom.

Dude is an all-time a**hole. I imagine there's a reason he got booted early.

celtics543 · Post #157 » by **celtics543** » Wed Dec 3, 2025 5:19 pm

This is an all-time situation of a dysfunctional and bad team basically firing a player known for being an a-hole and now no one knows who to blame. Doesn't have to be a good guy in every story.

brutalitops · Post #158 » by **brutalitops** » Wed Dec 3, 2025 5:21 pm

Homer38 wrote:

Read on Twitter

Cp3-"we're ass and we're probably the worst defensive team in terms of transition defense and rebounding. Two things which aren't a skill issue but can be ironed out with little tweaks in offensive where we set up, or hell even effort to improve us to a bottom third team rather then a bottom 3 in these areas

Clippers "Yo CP3 is being an ****, he must be the reason were ****",

canada_dry · Post #159 » by **canada_dry** » Wed Dec 3, 2025 5:22 pm

If the reports are accurate he did it to himself by simply being chris paul

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canada_dry · Post #160 » by **canada_dry** » Wed Dec 3, 2025 5:23 pm

makubesu wrote:Everyone is afraid to speak ill of the dead (or those with a dead career), but Paul famously grates on people. Don’t he have drama with Harden in Houston? Anyways I would love to mock the Clippers but this is probably a both sides issue.

Had drama on the clippers the 1st time around...

Nba on prime guys tease blake about his dislike for cp3 to this day

Had problems in houston

On the suns...

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