excerpt from an article I saw Players like Patrick Beverley, Montrezl Harrell and Lou Williams—Clippers bedrocks before the arrival of Leonard and George—bristled when Leonard was permitted to take games off to manage his body and to live in San Diego, which often led to him being late for team flights, league sources said. The team also allowed Leonard to dictate to Doc Rivers when he could be pulled from games, among other things. Tyronn Lue was on Rivers' bench for all of this, but the Clippers were Rivers' show. talk about diva...He did all this just to choke in the playoffs?
Kawhis a bum and a bad person, not surprised being related to murderers. (Garbage genes except for athleticism) Anyone in the media with his dick in their mouth just blinded by their hate for Lebron. Him and uncle Dennis can go to hell. Harden >> kawhi in every way. Off the court too.
Before every Clippers game last season, the team’s training staff would honor Kawhi Leonard’s request and create a private space for his pregame routine. The staffers would enter and take over that space for roughly 20 to 45 minutes, according to multiple team and league sources. On the road, there were occasions when the space they occupied was the female staffers’ locker room. That also happened sometimes before a doubleheader at Staples Center when the changing of the court limited the availability of the Los Angeles Kings’ locker room, where Leonard normally warmed up privately. Various Clippers players, coaches and staffers were aware of the arrangement and some felt uneasy about it. While there appeared to be no sexist intent, the visual of women staffers being unable to use their locker room to use the bathroom, to change clothes or to access their personal belongings while Leonard stretched did not go unnoticed. At least one player mentioned it to a confidant and at least one staffer complained about it to coworkers. It was an awkward arrangement, but drawing too much attention to it risked being seen as going against Leonard, the team’s unquestioned star, in the eyes of the organization. “What were they going to do about it?” one league source said. “It’s Kawhi.” If there was one dynamic that showed the issues with some of the preferential treatment the Clippers conceded to Leonard and Paul George last season, and how it affected both other players and staffers, it was Leonard’s pregame privacy request. And while the locker room space situation didn’t happen in the NBA’s restart in the Orlando bubble, the chemistry issues created earlier in the season contributed to the team’s shocking loss in the Western Conference semifinals. Up 3-1, LA dropped games 5, 6 and 7 after having led the Denver Nuggets in each of them at halftime. On and off the court, the players never established the requisite chemistry, continuity or trust to win a championship in their first year together. The organization estimated it could layer superstars on top of the core group of returning role players to win a title, but it awfully misjudged the internal blowback over everything from playing time to preferential treatment to personality differences. “How do you ever build a strong team with that **** going on?” one team source said. “I thought from the beginning, ‘We’re doomed. Kawhi wants too much special treatment.’” 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. the least this dude could do is not choke away a 3-1 lead and be absolutely atrocious in a game 7 to a team like the Nuggets after getting treated like a god all season if this was Harden, he’s being labeled a bad teammate and a spoiled diva...perhaps even a cancer...but since it’s Kawhi, all you’ll hear is that he’s a robot, and that’s it...
If another Western playoff contending team is dysfunctional, indirectly is good for us. Even though the contract don't work; Russ dodged a bullet by not going to PG13's invite. Also may explain Doc's exit. Good luck Ty Lue.
If Harden had won a ring for Houston, we would build him a strip club inside the lockeroom and fly him in on a private jet every day.
NBA is not in a good place. The "player empowerment" stuff has jumped the shark, and now you're getting stuff like that. Embarrassing.
I would take Kawhi for Harden if they threw in a decent player or two fr picks. After all we would need compensation for the fact we might not make the playoffs with Kawhi being injured or "load managed"
Harden has all that. He probably hires strippers as air hostesses on his private jet. Now that is what I call flying in style
Clippers are looking for fans, you are welcome to root for him there. Kwahi has one unbelievable season and ppl are ready to put him in the hall of fame. When he was in Toronto, he was a hunter, then he joins the clippers with a target on his back and failed miserably. It’s not easy carrying a franchise on your back every night for almost a decade, something Kwahi knows nothing about.
