Chris Paul "CP3" Signs 1 Year/$3.6 Million to RETURN to Los Angeles Clippers For 21st NBA Season

based on the reporting and the facts (clippers revealing themselves) I don't understand why you are so willing to vindicate the clippers.

Its really really strange

Its not about the mob, I hate both LA teams

 

There you go again. What is really strange is your belief I'm vindicating the Clippers. Are you incapable of understanding opinions you disagree with?

The legit reported facts don't place blame on the Clippers or CP3. Unfortunately, there are talking-head opinions you are treating as facts. This is how you are joining the media mob defense of CP3.

 

I don't give a **** about the mob or the media.

I don't have the time to reiterate why what the clippers did was completely classless but yes, please hold out for the scenario where CP3 violated a fellow teammate and they had no choice but to banish him in the middle of hte night on the road without any communication since he is a secret booty bandit

 

wat jeffrey teague have to say about this?

 

More than Jeffrey Epstein.

 

would be more interested in wat jeff epstine have to say, if only someone didn't unalived him.

 

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id...rce-nba-season-disaster-end-kawhi-leonard-era

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But once Paul began playing it, the Clippers seemed to recoil. When he offered suggestions to a player about training methods, he was warned not to undermine the staff, sources said. When he'd challenge players on or off the court, or tell them how to run a play, there were complaints from both players and coaches that he was abrasive.

"That's how Chris is," one executive with another team said. "He wears you out. He's convinced he's right -- and he often is right, which kind of pisses you off -- and he'll go around to everyone until you agree with him."

All this became even more pronounced in training camp, as Paul quickly became a standout as the leader of the second unit, which was routinely beating the starters.

"We were kicking their ass," forward John Collins recently told ESPN. "Everyday we were kicking [the starters'] ass."

Paul played 19 minutes a game during the preseason, averaging 8.3 points and 5.3 assists. It was a much heartier role than had been discussed in the summer.

"I think that's where Ty went wrong," said one source close to the situation, "because that really empowered Chris and changed the expectations."

Lue liked Paul's competitive spirit, and he played well in the time he was given. And the team needed him with Leonard, Bogdan Bogdanovic and Bradley Beal nursing injuries coming into the season.

It was then, multiple sources said, that the schism began to develop.

"If all they wanted was a cheerleader," the executive said, "why did they sign Chris Paul? I mean, they had him before. They knew what he was like."

AFTER THE TEAM was blown out in its season opener against the Utah Jazz, sources said Paul attempted to get players to talk about the loss as they came into the locker room.

It was the kind of thing Paul would routinely do on other teams. But the Clippers' locker room, full of veteran players and coaches, is not particularly active, even after wins, sources said. So Paul's attempt to encourage dialogue fell flat.

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The next morning, Paul went to the facility early to get in a workout.

During the meeting, sources said Paul raised concerns about the team's culture -- noting the lack of conversation in the group text chat and the lack of time the players spent together off the court.

Frank, for his part, stressed that Paul's style wasn't in line with what they needed it to be -- that his leadership was being perceived as subversive rather than helpful.

Later that day, Paul and Lue talked on the phone for 40 minutes. It was their final substantive conversation before Paul was sent home nearly a month later, on Dec. 2. (Every other interaction was short or via text, sources said).

The call began with Paul asking Lue why he'd been benched for the second half of the Clippers' game the night before, a game in which the Clippers led by three points at the half only to lose by 13.

Paul suggested having a meeting among team leaders and holding more practices on off days.

Lue told Paul he was coming across as too critical of players and coaches and needed to understand -- and own up to that.

A call that was meant to resolve festering issues and clarify roles ultimately did neither. Later that day, Lue informed Paul he would not be in the rotation for the next game.

He did not elaborate but with the team struggling defensively -- LA's top-five defense from a season ago had struggled against younger, faster offenses -- and something had to be done to change the dynamic.

The next day, Nov. 8, during the game against the Suns, tensions spread to the bench. Paul and Van Gundy somehow found themselves shoulder to shoulder on the bench. It was the first game of what would be five consecutive DNP-CDs. For a long time, neither man said a word.

Eventually Paul broke the awkward silence, snarkily asking Van Gundy if he wasn't talking to him.

Van Gundy scoffed in response, multiple sources who witnessed the exchange said, and questioned Paul's earnestness.

The next day at the facility, Paul had another long meeting with Frank, sources said. In it, he gave Paul a "final warning" about being divisive. Paul also had another tense meeting with Van Gundy that day too, trying to resolve the previous night's exchange and other issues that had caused friction between them.

Both meetings ended well enough that Paul asked and was granted permission to talk to the team. Frank also said he'd try to facilitate a meeting with Lue.

On Nov. 11, an off day after a loss to the Atlanta Hawks, Paul stood in front of the team and apologized if he'd come off as too negative or divisive.

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On Nov. 30, tensions between Paul and Van Gundy came to a head on the team's flight to Miami.

Van Gundy had been upset the night before that Paul had openly questioned how the coaching staff had used Leonard's limited minutes toward the end of the team's loss to the Dallas Mavericks, their seventh in eight games. Leonard was coming off a minutes restriction and was defending a red-hot Klay Thompson, known for his movement without the ball. That took a lot of energy, Paul had argued.

Van Gundy accused Paul of changing the coverage without approval.

Paul responded that he had only "suggested" switching Leonard's defensive assignment because he had bumped up against his minutes restriction.

To prove his point, Paul stood up and walked down the aisle of the plane to Leonard and Kris Dunn and asked them if he'd suggested a change or actually changed the coverage, multiple sources who witnessed the interaction said.

Both players affirmed that he'd suggested it, sources said. The interaction was brought up again to other players on the team during the flight, and sources said that subsequently got back to the coaching staff and front office.

That night, the team decided they'd finally had enough.

"He was a pain in the ass when he was a great player," another executive with a different team said. "And now he's not a great player."

 

Has he officially been released the Rox should get him.

DD

 

Keep in mind, if waived, he still has to clear waivers. Since he’s on a vet minimum contract, that seems unlikely. 25 teams with worse records than us have to pass on his min contract first, b4 Rockets get their turn.

I think part of why nothing has happened yet is for this very reason. Clippers still want to help him land on a team he wants. Clearing waivers takes it out of Paul’s control.

make sense?

 

Wait, what? The bench guys are better than the starters? And CP3 is/was their leader? And they don't want him? That's pretty messed up.

But CP3 has not been play well at all. How can this be true?

 

Cp3 kicking the starter's ass everyday in practice but shooting 35% FG on the court lmao.

 

Btw to everyone fantasizing about a Cp3 reunion the Rox are right under the apron. We would need to trade a vet min to get Cp3. I aint dumping Tate or Jeff those guys can still play.

 

LOL - Van Gundy and Paul, two headstrong whiny people - not surprised.

DD

 

i woulda came to his party. breh invited the wrong crowd.

 

Life of the Party.

 

It was time for a split if neither the coaches nor the other players liked him. Maybe the Clippers could have been a bit more gracious. That final conversation in Atlanta must have really gone south.

 

It's actually crazy that he was basically just trying to do things to help the team build chemistry, they all went "meh" then sucked and he's the one to blame tbh.

 

They got the same thing going on in Sacramento, just did not send WB, Lavine or Derozan home.

Mutiny against Doug Christie. Winning cures alot, losing not so much.