Steph Curry on Kawhi Leonard withdrawing from Team USA before the Olympics: “I know he wanted to play... Hopefully, for the long term, he’s in a good place because the game needs him. When he’s not out there, you miss an all-time great player. We hope he’s ready for this season.”
From January 13th to March 3rd 2024, a 2 month stretch:
Paul george only managed to score over 18 points for 5 out of 22 games🤢🤮��
He shot 43%fg
The clippers went +6 games over .500 over that span
Because of who? Kawhi and Harden the 2 best players on the clippers last year
Paul George on what he’s looking for in free agency and his future:
“For sure contributing to winning basketball. I mean at this point… It’s not even about… Like people are saying, ‘chasing a championship.’ Like, it’s not that. But it’s playing the right style of basketball is what I’m chasing.”
Time to come to the uncomfortable reality that we’ve all wanted to deny and push off.
That we have lost the OKC trade and it’s due to the guy who pushed for a star not being able to stay healthy.
Once Steve realizes this, the sooner we can go proceed & make necessary changes.
Every year of Kawhi Leonard and Paul George with the Clippers:
2020: second round exit
2021: conference finals loss
2022: missed playoffs
2023: first round exit
2024: first round exit
The last four seasons have ended with one or both of Kawhi and PG injured.