Kawhi injury officially ruled a Knee sprain, day-to-day status according to Chris Haynes

[mttwlsn16]

Skip Bayless is claiming he has a good source who says that kawhi is unhappy with the clippers medical staff. He could just be making it up. Hope it isn’t true

I believe zero that comes out of the mouths of Skip Bayless, SAS, etc. Those talking heads get get paid to argue and create controversy, that's it.

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[NippySudz]

Skip Bayless is claiming he has a good source who says that kawhi is unhappy with the clippers medical staff. He could just be making it up. Hope it isn’t true

Skip Bayless has no source. He says kawhi needs surgery. ACL surgeries happen immediately unless they need to wait for the swelling to go down. It's been ten days and he's walking around. No way his knee is still swollen.

He said kawhi knee want that serious and he didn't want to play hurt originally then he apologized on air when he realized it could be a serious injury.

He knows nothing.

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[MartinToVaught]

Skip Bayless is claiming he has a good source who says that kawhi is unhappy with the clippers medical staff. He could just be making it up. Hope it isn’t true

Skip is a troll, not a reporter with sources. The media is trying to stir up drama because they're mad that their least favorite team is still here and still competing even with two starters out and a third one limping.

[Captain Ballmer]

Look at the mom, see the son.

At least She's wearing our jersey even at their home, she was also wearing alternate version #2 at the last home game too.

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[NippySudz]

Look at the mom, see the son.

At least She's wearing our jersey even at their home, she was also wearing alternate version #2 at the last home game too.

Watch on YouTube

'our' jersey. You mean her son's jersey. lol. She's not going to wear anyone elses.


Though it would be funny if she wore a reggie jersey.

[Quake Griffin]

Skip Bayless is claiming he has a good source who says that kawhi is unhappy with the clippers medical staff. He could just be making it up. Hope it isn’t true

Skip is a troll, not a reporter with sources. The media is trying to stir up drama because they're mad that their least favorite team is still here and still competing even with two starters out and a third one limping.

Speaking of being the media’s least favorite team…

It’s crazy the media can’t get behind a team coming from the worst sports organization in sports to a championship contender.

Wtf is that about?
Jeannie have powerful friends in the sports media or somethin?

[TheNewEra]

If only it was a minor ankle injury or MCL

[MartinToVaught]

Skip Bayless is claiming he has a good source who says that kawhi is unhappy with the clippers medical staff. He could just be making it up. Hope it isn’t true

Skip is a troll, not a reporter with sources. The media is trying to stir up drama because they're mad that their least favorite team is still here and still competing even with two starters out and a third one limping.

Speaking of being the media’s least favorite team…

It’s crazy the media can’t get behind a team coming from the worst sports organization in sports to a championship contender.

Wtf is that about?
Jeannie have powerful friends in the sports media or somethin?

The NBA has by far the laziest and most biased media of any sport. Their dream NBA is one where the Lakers and Celtics are in the Finals every year and where historically bad franchises and small markets that are perceived as "undesirable" never experience success. That way, they can just keep writing the same headlines and regurgitating the same talking points every year. The Clippers' rise to respectability has inconvenienced the media because they can't write their corny articles about the team's bad history or why they should move to Seattle whenever they need filler anymore.

The NBA itself is also mediocre at marketing their product. Every other team sport makes an effort to promote the team concept and the connection between the teams, fans and communities, even if they sometimes fail to live up to that standard in reality. The NBA's marketing is more in line with individual sports like golf, tennis and racing. So when the underdogs get to have some time in the spotlight, they have no idea what to do with a storyline that is incredibly easy to market (March Madness does it every year). If the NBA wasn't entirely reliant on superstars to market their sport for them, they would have promoted the Clippers as the NBA's version of the Cubs and gotten casual fans invested in whether or not they could reverse the "curse."

All in all, this final 4 has been the biggest nightmare for the NBA's marketing and media since the 1970s. They're reduced to hyping up Booker and Trae because they're flashy, while pretending like they hadn't spent the last few years claiming that these same players were busts with empty stats. And when they aren't doing that, they're trying to manufacture soap opera drama with Kawhi or even just openly whining that they don't want to go to Milwaukee for the Finals.

The fact that the ratings are the highest they've ever been for these playoffs just makes it even funnier since it's a total repudiation of all the narratives that the league and media have been pushing for decades. Turns out people actually do like parity.

[NippySudz]

Skip Bayless is claiming he has a good source who says that kawhi is unhappy with the clippers medical staff. He could just be making it up. Hope it isn’t true

Skip is a troll, not a reporter with sources. The media is trying to stir up drama because they're mad that their least favorite team is still here and still competing even with two starters out and a third one limping.

Skip Bayless is a kawhi fan, even though sometimes he may pretend not to be, He's not part of the NBA conspiracy to hold the clippers down. I think that's a reach. Skip Bayless of all people?

I think Stephen A is.Any all star we go against is supposedly bigger than superstars of yesteryear. We get through it and he doesn't address it. Devin Booker became kobe after one game in the WCF and a sweep of an undermanned nuggets team. Come on now. THat's clear media bias. I think he doesn't like Kawhi because Kawhi doesn't give him the time of day.

he lied last year about kawhi said someone tell lebron some being scared to guard me, remember that? He said Why isn't kawhi texting his teammates the way CP is when he is away from the team, when his colleague rachel nichols did a story/report that Kawhi was doing just that.

[MartinToVaught]

Skip Bayless is a kawhi fan

No, he's a Spurs fan who hated Kawhi after he left San Antonio. He's only pretending to be a Clippers fan to troll LeBron's fans, not because he has any respect for Kawhi at all. Calling Kawhi "Number 2" for an entire year instead of his actual name already made it clear how he really feels.

At the end of the day, Skip is a troll who's just trying to manufacture soap opera drama because the NBA's media is awful and favors soap opera drama over real analysis of the sport. He's no better than Stephen A. He's worse, actually, because at least Stephen A. can be funny sometimes.

[Roscoe Sheed]

this guy Steve Alexander from yahoo sports guesses that Kawhi will go to the Knicks or the Heat in the off season. Never heard of him before. Is he a good source?

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/kawhi-leonard-going-key-free-154131691.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAG5hEhvl2KZdqsly77ULyu6bGcwDP-eE3-Fe3aw-XMZxdA_lSkRrsVw_vhSeEY9_IHNLPFrh64DMA-SDpm4aEkM25XRBtifF_BMluNx2fjU7Nf-psCXc5_z9UIWxEliTfzpb-OeSdMxItzG36DvzQ0XK22dzDMaRczpXEbxsONRF

[NippySudz]

Skip Bayless is a kawhi fan

No, he's a Spurs fan who hated Kawhi after he left San Antonio. He's only pretending to be a Clippers fan to troll LeBron's fans, not because he has any respect for Kawhi at all. Calling Kawhi "Number 2" for an entire year instead of his actual name already made it clear how he really feels.

At the end of the day, Skip is a troll who's just trying to manufacture soap opera drama because the NBA's media is awful and favors soap opera drama over real analysis of the sport. He's no better than Stephen A. He's worse, actually, because at least Stephen A. can be funny sometimes.

I disagree. He's a kawhi fan and so is his wife and he manufactured the whole Number 2 thing for ratings. I like him better than stephen a but I can admit skip has had a lot of low points fishing for troll topics to debate such as commenting about Lebron and AD following Westbrooks' wife on twitter and trying to parlay that into something about basketball.

I think he likes Kawhi because Kawhi reminds him of jordan but he won't flat out come out and say it.

[NippySudz]

this guy Steve Alexander from yahoo sports guesses that Kawhi will go to the Knicks or the Heat in the off season. Never heard of him before. Is he a good source?

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/kawhi-leonard-going-key-free-154131691.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAG5hEhvl2KZdqsly77ULyu6bGcwDP-eE3-Fe3aw-XMZxdA_lSkRrsVw_vhSeEY9_IHNLPFrh64DMA-SDpm4aEkM25XRBtifF_BMluNx2fjU7Nf-psCXc5_z9UIWxEliTfzpb-OeSdMxItzG36DvzQ0XK22dzDMaRczpXEbxsONRF

Brother. Come on.

He said NY was too cold the last time. He's not going to NY especially his team competing for a title and Steve Balmer helping him grow his business. The money is in silicon valley, not with dolan.

The writer is just sharing his opinions.

If anything, PG will be moved and they would try to keep kawhi if kawhi didn't feel like playing with PG.

[Quake Griffin]

Skip is a troll, not a reporter with sources. The media is trying to stir up drama because they're mad that their least favorite team is still here and still competing even with two starters out and a third one limping.

Speaking of being the media’s least favorite team…

It’s crazy the media can’t get behind a team coming from the worst sports organization in sports to a championship contender.

Wtf is that about?
Jeannie have powerful friends in the sports media or somethin?

The NBA has by far the laziest and most biased media of any sport. Their dream NBA is one where the Lakers and Celtics are in the Finals every year and where historically bad franchises and small markets that are perceived as "undesirable" never experience success. That way, they can just keep writing the same headlines and regurgitating the same talking points every year. The Clippers' rise to respectability has inconvenienced the media because they can't write their corny articles about the team's bad history or why they should move to Seattle whenever they need filler anymore.

The NBA itself is also mediocre at marketing their product. Every other team sport makes an effort to promote the team concept and the connection between the teams, fans and communities, even if they sometimes fail to live up to that standard in reality. The NBA's marketing is more in line with individual sports like golf, tennis and racing. So when the underdogs get to have some time in the spotlight, they have no idea what to do with a storyline that is incredibly easy to market (March Madness does it every year). If the NBA wasn't entirely reliant on superstars to market their sport for them, they would have promoted the Clippers as the NBA's version of the Cubs and gotten casual fans invested in whether or not they could reverse the "curse."

All in all, this final 4 has been the biggest nightmare for the NBA's marketing and media since the 1970s. They're reduced to hyping up Booker and Trae because they're flashy, while pretending like they hadn't spent the last few years claiming that these same players were busts with empty stats. And when they aren't doing that, they're trying to manufacture soap opera drama with Kawhi or even just openly whining that they don't want to go to Milwaukee for the Finals.

The fact that the ratings are the highest they've ever been for these playoffs just makes it even funnier since it's a total repudiation of all the narratives that the league and media have been pushing for decades. Turns out people actually do like parity.

Agreed.

Quality post.

[Quake Griffin]

this guy Steve Alexander from yahoo sports guesses that Kawhi will go to the Knicks or the Heat in the off season. Never heard of him before. Is he a good source?

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/kawhi-leonard-going-key-free-154131691.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAG5hEhvl2KZdqsly77ULyu6bGcwDP-eE3-Fe3aw-XMZxdA_lSkRrsVw_vhSeEY9_IHNLPFrh64DMA-SDpm4aEkM25XRBtifF_BMluNx2fjU7Nf-psCXc5_z9UIWxEliTfzpb-OeSdMxItzG36DvzQ0XK22dzDMaRczpXEbxsONRF

Clippers have their best season ever and he's gonna bolt for NYK? The same NYK whose coach has a reputation for running his players into the ground - the opposite of load management?

Players want to play where they have a chance to win.
Secondarily, they want to be in a place that they trust to make moves to keep the team competitive.

He aint leaving.
Well...wait. If he were to leave, it would be against all conventional wisdom and logic.

[Wammy Giveaway]

He aint leaving.
Well...wait. If he were to leave, it would be against all conventional wisdom and logic.

He did leave the Raptors because it wasn't his place, and they ended up winning a title.

What made him choose to play out the final year of his contract in Toronto, Canada? A championship, or rather, lack of one. Clippers have never even gotten to a conference finals, now they have.

What if Leonard leaves to join teams that have never won a title before before? After Raptors and Clippers, you have Pacers, Hornets, Nuggets, Grizzlies, Timberwolves and Pelicans. Maybe he ends up becoming a wandering mercenary, a Chris Paul who makes teams better and respectable, but with a dash of Tim Duncan - providing wisdom, intelligence, sharp focus, and responsibility (playing for the greater good).

At the end of the day, Leonard has two Finals MVPs, he's "through" with ring chasing, and is with Clippers to help finish what Chris Paul started.

[NippySudz]

this guy Steve Alexander from yahoo sports guesses that Kawhi will go to the Knicks or the Heat in the off season. Never heard of him before. Is he a good source?

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/kawhi-leonard-going-key-free-154131691.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAG5hEhvl2KZdqsly77ULyu6bGcwDP-eE3-Fe3aw-XMZxdA_lSkRrsVw_vhSeEY9_IHNLPFrh64DMA-SDpm4aEkM25XRBtifF_BMluNx2fjU7Nf-psCXc5_z9UIWxEliTfzpb-OeSdMxItzG36DvzQ0XK22dzDMaRczpXEbxsONRF

Clippers have their best season ever and he's gonna bolt for NYK? The same NYK whose coach has a reputation for running his players into the ground - the opposite of load management?

Players want to play where they have a chance to win.
Secondarily, they want to be in a place that they trust to make moves to keep the team competitive.

He aint leaving.
Well...wait. If he were to leave, it would be against all conventional wisdom and logic.

He's not leaving. No ones entertaining it. The only way he leaves if Clippers pressure him to come back and he actually gets injured and has to be out for sometime, like KD and his calf strain. It would fracture the relationship.

Other than that, he's not leaving. He has ties to the area, he's business partners with balmer, which could open up sponsorships, investment opportunities and so forth. This is not a toronto raptor situation where they gave him the keys to the kingdom but the locale was the issue.

This guy is surrounded by successful front office, jerry west and balmer at the helm. Why would he leave that? to go back to the east coast to play in the snow? he says he hates north weather. I remember him saying that.

[Clemenza]

this guy Steve Alexander from yahoo sports guesses that Kawhi will go to the Knicks or the Heat in the off season. Never heard of him before. Is he a good source?

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/kawhi-leonard-going-key-free-154131691.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAG5hEhvl2KZdqsly77ULyu6bGcwDP-eE3-Fe3aw-XMZxdA_lSkRrsVw_vhSeEY9_IHNLPFrh64DMA-SDpm4aEkM25XRBtifF_BMluNx2fjU7Nf-psCXc5_z9UIWxEliTfzpb-OeSdMxItzG36DvzQ0XK22dzDMaRczpXEbxsONRF

Brother. Come on.

He said NY was too cold the last time. He's not going to NY especially his team competing for a title and Steve Balmer helping him grow his business. The money is in silicon valley, not with dolan.

The writer is just sharing his opinions.

If anything, PG will be moved and they would try to keep kawhi if kawhi didn't feel like playing with PG.

Kawhi is the better player of course but as of right now PG seems to be more in favor with the team and front office than Kawhi imo. If we get to the Finals without Kawhi the narrative will switch on the perception of both players moving forward. Also this injury is slightly looking like the incident that happened with the Spurs where he wanted out and was sent to Toronto.

[Clemenza]

Skip is a troll, not a reporter with sources. The media is trying to stir up drama because they're mad that their least favorite team is still here and still competing even with two starters out and a third one limping.

Speaking of being the media’s least favorite team…

It’s crazy the media can’t get behind a team coming from the worst sports organization in sports to a championship contender.

Wtf is that about?
Jeannie have powerful friends in the sports media or somethin?

The NBA has by far the laziest and most biased media of any sport. Their dream NBA is one where the Lakers and Celtics are in the Finals every year and where historically bad franchises and small markets that are perceived as "undesirable" never experience success. That way, they can just keep writing the same headlines and regurgitating the same talking points every year. The Clippers' rise to respectability has inconvenienced the media because they can't write their corny articles about the team's bad history or why they should move to Seattle whenever they need filler anymore.

The NBA itself is also mediocre at marketing their product. Every other team sport makes an effort to promote the team concept and the connection between the teams, fans and communities, even if they sometimes fail to live up to that standard in reality. The NBA's marketing is more in line with individual sports like golf, tennis and racing. So when the underdogs get to have some time in the spotlight, they have no idea what to do with a storyline that is incredibly easy to market (March Madness does it every year). If the NBA wasn't entirely reliant on superstars to market their sport for them, they would have promoted the Clippers as the NBA's version of the Cubs and gotten casual fans invested in whether or not they could reverse the "curse."

All in all, this final 4 has been the biggest nightmare for the NBA's marketing and media since the 1970s. They're reduced to hyping up Booker and Trae because they're flashy, while pretending like they hadn't spent the last few years claiming that these same players were busts with empty stats. And when they aren't doing that, they're trying to manufacture soap opera drama with Kawhi or even just openly whining that they don't want to go to Milwaukee for the Finals.

The fact that the ratings are the highest they've ever been for these playoffs just makes it even funnier since it's a total repudiation of all the narratives that the league and media have been pushing for decades. Turns out people actually do like parity.

Good post although I think MLB is way worse at marketing and drumming up excitement for its games also baseball's unwritten rules are killing the sport imo

[NippySudz]

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I highly doubt he returns this series. Now I'm beginning to question if he will even return at all

The kawhi part is at the 1 min mark.