2019-2020 NBA Season Thread Basketball • Page 1372

Haven’t seen but a few games of Kumiga. Really hope they figure out something good for the G League Select kids.

But so far this is shaping up to be my favorite draft class in a good long while. Tons of really interesting and talented dudes.

Josh Christopher might go like in the 20s and he is a good player!

 

Should’ve been Bucks/Heat + Houston/GSW

Change my mind

 

always the best part of that dumb day. gimme.

 

For fucking real. No Rockets on Christmas Day is stupid. No one wanna watch the damn Pelicans

 

incredible slate of games i hope they all actually happen

 

but i want to enjoy christmas

 

Of course the Bucks finally get to host a Christmas Day game and no fans are allowed lol

 

Kawhi, chemistry and a failed Clippers title run: Inside the issue that defines 2021

But according to multiple league sources, the perks the Clippers gave Leonard and George began to compromise the standard of the culture they had built over the 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons — the very culture that the Clippers used, in part, to attract Leonard and George to Los Angeles.

Some of those perks included:

• Leonard and George were the only players to have their own personal security guards and trainers.

• Leonard and George had power over the team’s practice and travel schedule, leading teammates to believe Leonard canceled multiple practices.

• Leonard was allowed to live in San Diego and commute from there, which often made him late for team flights.

• Leonard and George typically didn’t speak to the media until at least 45 minutes after games concluded, under the guise of postgame treatment or workouts. This usually resulted in their teammates speaking with the media first, and for longer, essentially becoming the public voices of the team.

• Teammates also believed that Leonard and George were able to pick and choose when they played. Not only did they sit out games entirely, but also at times they accepted or declined playing time in the moment.

While star treatment can work in a locker room, and some of these practices aren’t necessarily unique to the Clippers, it resulted in a lack of buy-in from this particular group, league sources said.

The hard-nosed, competitive culture the team had built from 2017 to ’19, predicated on their all-for-one ethos, was undone in a matter of months, and now a challenging new season beckons, with camps opening this week and games tipping off three days before Christmas.

this team ain't lasting the season lmao

 

Haha Paul George sucks

 

Came to post this. What a loser

 

We have no choice but to stan

Will be buying a JaMychal shirsey

 

I’m absolutely loving the clippers drama

 

Is Paul George actually the Sam Bradford of basketball? He gets big contracts and special treatment it seems because of who he’s friends with not because of his actual basketball (And playoffs!) ability

 

Nah, he's def talented and doesn't get hurt as much. Hayward is the better comp since he's also kinda unbearable.

 

Bradford was very talented he's just made of glass.

 

Come on Lebron let it go man you got everything you would ever want lol

 

Imma say Parsons is the Bradford of the NBA.

 

Oooh, Chandler Parsons is a solid Sam Bradford comp.

 

Paul George made all NBA first team a year ago and was like 4th in MVP voting, extremely wild how the only thing anyone can remember is the most recent playoffs lol this has all gone way too far

 

Bradford wasn’t really unbearable like PG and Hayward. Just incredibly injury prone and still got an annoying stack of money

 

Well he choked in back to back playoffs to be fair

 

But didn’t Giannis kind of do the same thing?