What Do The Clippers Do About Kawhi Leonard Moving Forward? | 5/2/24
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- Dan Patrick recaps the Dallas Mavericks win over the Los Angeles Clippers to take a 3-2 series lead in their first round matchup in the NBA playoffs and discusses Clippers star Kawhi Leonard's absence due to injury as well as what the team can do with him moving forward
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Kawahi sitting on the Bench, meanwhile Embid playing with 1 leg and Half a Face
Exactly !
Embiid's a dam warrior!! I'd love to have a guy like that on my team
Kawhi already has 2 chips, a Finals MVP trophy and at least another $150 million guaranteed in his pocket. Ever since that dirty Zaza play, he's never been the same. Props to Joel for trying to play through his injuries but he's 30 and realizes he may never have another chance to win a chip.
The injuries are not the same
@@daveclark8337props to Kawhi, Glass Man gets paid
How did Leonard earn a spot on the Olympics team
He was mostly healthy during the regular season this year, the knee inflammation from what we know started a few weeks before the playoffs ...
As much time as Leonard has missed since joining the Clippers and now again injured going into the playoffs and missed a few of the games and the Clippers loss in the first round. I can't believe the front office is happy about him playing in the Olympics, something could happen, and he gets hurt or blows out a knee and he's out half the season or more.
He won’t play on the team. He’ll be hurt and rehabbing. That spot should go to someone else.
He’ll be sitting on the bench in street clothes 💯
Los Angeles
Kawahi is the best finesse that’s ever lived . Dude work 1/4 of his contract 😂😂
and ben simmons.
when adam silver made those load management rules. he was looking and pointing at the clippers as the prime example. load management has backfired on them so many times.
Adam silver didn’t make those rules, the Spurs conceptualized that.. Silver made penalties for such especially when it was a major televised game. Everyone else tried to do what spurs started and did it well mind you, and failed badly. Now it’s abused excuse saying we are resting our key players only for them to be hurt during playoffs.
Resting injured or exhausted players who need a break has become conflated with individual players who abused the system by using the leverage of guaranteed contracts and large paydays. For example, Ben Simmons refused to play for the 76ers anymore and then tried to sue the team to pay his contract. Kyrie Irving took weeks off without informing the head coach, or some of his other antics when he was in Brooklyn.
In Kawhi Leonard's case, it's been known that he has a degenerative right knee that has curtailed his career. He also had an ACL tear and a torn meniscus in the same knee. He obviously is going to be on a minutes/games restriction. That's a different situation from players like Simmons and Irving who were finding ways not to play basketball while getting paid.
It's not even load management he's got a degenerative knee condition he will never be available in the playoffs no matter what they do. This was known years ago.
No team with Westbrook and Harden is ever winning anything. Other than a few seasons in OKC…their entire careers have been a joke filled with stat padding and playoff choking. Why anyone keeps signing them is beyond me.
Exactly especially harden their both known for massive downgrades in the post season
Well, Westbrook 's salary is like vet minimum, so it doesn't matter. The rest however....
Has nothing to do with Kawhi never playing huh? What did Kawhi win before Russ & James got to LA? LOL
Kwahi been there 5 years and missed little over 2 full seasons. NBA has to stop paying these guys who sit out.
What ever job you have in America of your not able to work when you get hurt on the job you still get paid weather it’s unemployment or disability. The nba is the same ..
@@melvincreddle1370 that is true but we’re not under contract. Teams can stop paying him top dollar contracts he’s not worth it.
@@wesyoung9150 At this point, the Clippers' front office is fully culpable for choosing to pay Kawhi Leonard max deals, knowing how many games he's missed because of injury/load management. No one is forcing owner Steve Ballmer or general manager Lawrence Frank to give Leonard a three-year, $150 million extension in January after seeing him miss large chunks of seasons for years. Just like no one forced Ballmer and Frank to give Leonard a four-year, $176.27 million extension months after he suffered an ACL injury. At this point, we have to look at front offices for not controlling their spending practices.
At this point, the Clippers' front office is fully culpable for choosing to pay Kawhi Leonard max deals, knowing how many games he's missed because of injury/load management. No one is forcing owner Steve Ballmer or general manager Lawrence Frank to give Leonard a three-year, $150 million after years of missing large chunks of the season. Just like no one forced Ballmer and Frank to give Leonard a four-year, $176.27 million extension months after he suffered an ACL injury. At this point, we have to look at front offices for not controlling their spending practices.
@@michaeljohnson7945 exactly
Kawhi and Paul George both didn’t want to join the Lakers and I’m glad
Remember when the Lakers were courting Kawhi and he was giving them the runaround? It looked like the Lakers had a real shot of getting him. Then, at the last minute, he gave them the slip.
Lakers fans were pissed. Hindsight being 20/20, he did the Lakers a favor. Mr. Load Management can't even play a full season.
@@saejinlee6304 they lucked out
One of them should definitely be a Laker.
Bad career move by both guys. Neither guy is a leader and that’s the problem with the Clips.
That sound bite of PG is cringe. Great way to say he’s not a leader without actually saying it
As for who should’ve been a Laker, definitely PG. He would have a title right now, maybe two
I'm so glad lakers didn't get him . MR LOAD MGMT
@@saejinlee6304I have more respect for Kawhi then joining that bitch diva in lebron…Lebron feared Kawhi
Paul George sound like they already got eliminated.
Prophetic.
Pandemic P
Podcast pete
PG knows, this series is over!!!👍🏿
He needs to retire end of season. This is enough
kawhi is going to keep getting his money as long as he can. ballmer is foolish enough to keep giving him extensions, so why not?
Too much money left on the table if he retires. If you can get it, why not? Look how long Undonis Haslem stuck around on the Heat getting the vet minimum. He is in his early 30’s. He’s going to have to live off of those earnings for the next 30 to 40 years
@@leir2005no one is going to pay him after this. He’s a terrible investment
Can not depend on lenoard, ever! Year after year after year! Can’t trade him, cause no sane person would want him! 45 million dollars are you kidding me! Clippers have tied up huge money on a undependable, rapidly depreciating liability. My business school taught me to put my money into appreciating assets, which lenard,harden, and George are not!! Time to rebuild with young appreciating assets!
He's on the bench, he shows up😅
Poor team construction! Good luck unloading those contracts!
Kawhi needs to retire.
Kawhi is an amazing player when healthy. He just isn't ever healthy enough. The cost per game per performance is just a huge net loss because he takes up a roster spot and huge portion of their salary cap. You can't afford him...
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He plays enough games to get them to the playoffs and sells ticket. The flippers without Kawhi would be another lottery team so they should be thankful he is on their team
$150M guaranteed contract for three years. No incentive to do any better.
Kahwi is Kahwi, teams have known what they're getting from him for quite awhile now and they still pay him. You think long and hard about Paul George, aside from this year he's been no better than Kahwi in terms of games played. You can't have two of those guys around.
Yep , PG ain't dependable either
Paul George has played in 60 more games than Kawhi Leonard has in their time with the Clippers. He missed the bulk of his time with a torn UCL in his right elbow in 2021-22. Even if you remove the 2021-22 season for Kawhi Leonard because of the ACL injury, he's still missed 100 games (another season plus 20 games) since joining the Clippers.
How does someone who can afford the best nutrition and has time to get into peak shape get injured more than my grandmother? I don't get it. It seems like the dude doesn't want to play.
Not to mention he has the best doctors, nutritionist, conditioning coach. And damn, millions of dollar contract to motivate him to play well or at least be reliable.
Best everything available to them to be at top shape.
It's been known for years that Kawhi Leonard has at least one degenerative knee. The bigger question is why the Los Angeles Clippers keep signing him to big contract extensions, knowing he's likely to miss large chunks of seasons.
@@michaeljohnson7945 ballmer is just a bad sports owner. he's going to give kawhi ANOTHER extension after this one elapses in 2027
He’s boring to watch & no personality whatsoever on the floor….just retired & give the spot for someone who’s hungry to win….
Guaranteed contracts are a joke. Who commits to pay someone no matter whether they do their job or not?
desperate owners who will do anything to have a superstar
League should have rules to protect teams from this
The media working hard to try to move PG to the Lakers 😂😂😂😂
He wont . He sucks
We don't want him.
Why would the Lakers want him?
Dan- It’s DON-chich and YO-kich. Keep working bud. They’ve only been around for years!
No pressure, feel sorry for that owner with these pseudo stars, huge red flag about the commitment for the organization , disappointing for those fans that paid for those not cheap tickets, really disrespectful for those people
Is this group of players , playing for championships or just contract’s ?
Def contracts n retirement
Kawhi got 2 rings , finals mvps and he don’t care no more
@@jerrrryy4503That's why they need to pay and dump him. Eat the loss and move on.
Harden has historically bad games when you need him the most.
Paul George basically said as long as you train hard & play hard you could fail 😮😮😮
You know Paul George is going to play well?😂😂😂
pandemic P had a few dud games in the mavs series
Gawd damn, that was a good Balmer impression!
Kawhi Leonard just needs to retire
0:29 that damn had me in tears
I remember bozos were saying Kawhi was better than Lebron and the new king of LA 😂 They also said Kawhi would win a title for the Clippers before Lebron would win a championship for the Lakers
the story is not Kawhi, it's the other players suck in playoffs
they keeping ty lue a one hit wonder like his mentor😂😂
How is this even a question for LAC? Besides the money issue, Kawhii is a morale killer at this point. Addition by subtraction. And I'm a fan of Kawhi.
Kawhi is the biggest grifter ever, lol. Why do people keep paying him?
because of what he did in 2019
To win you gotta have a "GLUE" guy, which if you know about any sport, it's not always the studs. Tye can't be the glue guy...gotta be a player.
If I had a circumspect leg, I'd go straight to the doctor.
I would try to discuss a pay cut with him. He can show up for 40-50 games a year, take all the breaks he needs, see whatever doctor he wants, but he can’t hold the team hostage. One year contracts at a time.
He is taking 10 mill paycut a year already. Making 50 mill instead of 60
@@kevinira256thats not paycut for his minutes. He should play for 5m max
@@markosekulic119 his impact is 100 mill a year. You have trash players like Jaylen brown on 300 mill contract lol
@@kevinira256 hell no. His impact should be noticed in playoffs currently. But since his Toronto year. He isnt healthy and get big money. Where is logic
NBA teams need to request for eliminating fully guaranteed contract, and go with incentive-based like the NFL in case like this.
Kahwi, if you need time to heal, find your way to that Celtic Green bench. JT, JB, Porzigas, White and Drew got everything you need. All aboard!
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Kawhi chucklin' all da way to Cancun wid all dat cheese!
Kawhi not playing hits two fold this series because Luka is playing on one knee himself
Yes, but his issue isn't degenerative and he's 8 years younger :(
Clippers, Lakers, Warriors, Suns - it’s rebuild time.
Kawhi has a perpetual injury in his knee that needs lots and lots and lots of load management. I say he will play only 41 games next year out of 82 scheduled games. That will be OK for Steve Balmer?
ballmer will pay him $100 million a yeare just to stay in LA.
No one goes to the games!!! I went to game 1 and it was about 80% full. 10% wore clippers gear, and it got the loudest when they announced a free chicken sandwich if two free throws weee missed. I have no idea who would go down to Inglewood for the Clips. They only have attendance due to the lower tha Laker pricing and the fact that that they are in DTLA
PG wwent for 4-13 and you call that playing well? move on... basketball ain't your thing
The media is already working on getting the next scapegoat for the Lakers. PG and Trae are the targets 😂😂😂
Clippers gonna clip
worst super star ever, injured in 4 straight playoffs. it's absolutely ridiculous. Just sit him out, he messes up the rotations moving forward anyway.
The Clippers are the most stacked team in the NBA. If they fired all four “stars” and promoted the bench, they would probably have a better record next year.
Guys like Terence Mann are in arrested development right now, going nowhere because their playing time is being stolen. And at this point in KL's career Norm Powell is probably a better player than KL.
Kawhi has it made. Already has the resume so he feels no pressure to accomplish anymore and someone was rich enough to still throw money at him knowing he was most likely not going to be much use in the post season.
Its hard. Im a Knicks fan but i wanted to see how far the Clippers would go with a healthy team. I dont want to say Kawhi is done because i thought Nadal was done but then he won another Grandslam. But hes been hurt eversince he got to L.A. i will say get rid of Harden and run it back with PG, Kawhi and Westbrook.
If Kawhi pushed thru would his career have been done years ago?
The guy is trying hard to sell that PG played well, while he was as bad as Harden.
They traded sga think about that?
Even if you wanted to get rid of Kawhi Leonard who are you going to get to replace him with? When he is healthy he's definitely more reliable than James Harden and Paul George who both have a long history of choking in the playoffs. I don't know why they call Paul George ”Playoff P” unless the P is for piss poor. Nobody's going to leave on their own because every NBA player wants to live in LA, NYC or Miami especially if they're being paid well. The Clipper's owner is not going to get rid of any of them because he needs superstar names to bring in the fans and pay for that new stadium.
Clips need to only activate Kawhi in the playoffs.
Kawhi leaving T.O. an blessing in disguise
K.LEONARD getting 52 MILLIONS next season and has a huge contract until he will be really old...
THATS 55 millions every year..
Blow it up that extension was a major mistake
lol lol lol dan!!
Chich Dan Chich... your the ick my friend
You’re
Do what? They gave him 150 million 😂
Release George, Leonard, Harden and Westbrook. Then start over.
Paul sounds like he gotten use to loosing. 😂I
PG disappeared like James Harden when elimination game/s
Imagine getting pay $45 million to sit and watch games 😵💫
As a Toronto fan, we had Kawhi at the height of his powers. We wanted him to stay and run it back but in hind sight I'm glad we aren't married to him. I tolerated him because of how great he was playing but I found him to be a kook - completely aloof. We had built the team to get to this point and we knew we had a shot - this would not have worked in any other situation - it was completely bizarre that Kawhi wouldn;t even be on the bench for the games he was load managing - Lowry, Siakam, Serg, Fred basically plugged their nose and did what needed to be done. I don't think he is a bad guy but he is strange - comes off a selfish. He has his uncle in his year and he is trying to protect a future that is never going to happen - he will never be healthy enough to make it through a long playoff run at this point - his knees are full on shot and I don't think he is a "play through it" type of guy. He's finished - anyone with a big portion of their money tied up on him is in trouble.
He just has bad knees. It happened to Brandon Roy, Greg Oden, Grant Hill, Derrick Rose, Penny Hardaway, and Bernard King. It's sad, but that's the way it is.
Talk about the damn Mavs! Why are you talking about someone who isnt even playing? This dude is such a Dallas hater.
Not that they are asking. But the Clippers are the last team I would want to play for. Harden, Kawhi, Paul George and Westbrook? Blah 🤮
Who’s your team
Russell Westbrook Jr the Third!!! 😂😂
What if we found out Kawhi is older than LeBron?
They flucked themselves with that extension.
Spurs dodged a bullet with this guy glad things worked out the way it did
This steve Balmers thing. If he content with this then by all means.
Yea.. its been what 4 years....breh needs to play already
Kawhi is washed dude is always hurt his value as a super star is over he should retire give somebody who’s gonna play that money
i'm not even sure Kawhi is even a draw anymore
they was stupid to resign him
I never liked Kawhi ever since he sat out an entire season in San Antonio regardless of NOT being injured smh. The league should’ve fined him, suspended him & given him a pay cut. Hes a untrustworthy, temperamental diva smh. 💯
Paul George is a chump. I don’t believe for one second that he works hard on the off-season. Same for Harden. The least serious professionals ever.
How hard is to pronounce Doncic for some of these guys? It's Don-chich. It's not that hard.
When you arent from the area where Luka was born, you cant get used to Yugoslavia lastname pronunciation soo thats why people make mistakes.
He missed 181 games and I am 182nd comment
Can’t trust Kawhi to be healthy. Got to let him go. This is the last straw. I know he can’t control injuries but it’s time to move on.
They should also let James harden go
They have to cut/trade Kawhi, and Paul George goes to Philadelphia.
Dump all 4 “stars” for sign and trades for draft picks.
That's why the Spurs got rid of him.
Always hurt and not follow Dr's orders.
You know Paul George is going to play well? He played worse than James harden and zubac. He had 1 good game and was a no show in the other 5 games.
Who the hell is Luka DonciK? 😂
Actually what if kwahi trying his best but his body is not helping him out at least kwhai trying
If the clippers made it to the finals he would sit out.
Harden, George, and Westbrook are fucked. They're not winning a championship. It doesn't matter where they go, they're not going anywhere near a finals trophy.
PG should go to the Sixers or Bucks
"That's not good"...thank you captain obvious HAHA.
He special don't pressure him or his feelings get hurt
Permanently LA’s JV team
LA people didn't go to see the Clippers. The went to watch Luka and Kyrie.
LA fans couldn't care less about the Clippers.
Even Toronto he did 60 reg season games its just that he held up in playoffs. He played just enough to get that extension. Paul George comment is someone who is paid well and chip means nothing as his performance is not a leader.
Thought he’s the new king of LA lol
Why would anybody keep this guy if he never plays?
Trade him making it out of the 1st round once in 5 years is just sad
Man said still nothing like the Lakers don’t have a chip; stop talking like rings are easy to get. This decade is only 3 full years in; the lakers had the first ring of the decade.