life is good for paul george these days
pretty good
off-season pretty good stretch for him
got engaged
back in november i loved how when he
posted it on ig
he hashtagged it she got a ring first
with the shrug emoji
which was nice uh but he got the bag or
should i say they got the bag today
the la clippers michael holly as you
heard have extended paul george for an
additional four years on top of the 35.4
million he was making this year
uh they extended them for another 190
up to 190 bringing it to a grand total
of five years and up to 226 or so
million dollars uh that the clippers are
committing to paul george
who just said recently i think it was on
all the smoke podcasts uh just recently
said
he wanted to retire a clipper there was
some speculation and rumors about
whether or not you know maybe they could
move him for james harden or some
craziness
but uh you know sam amick from the uh
from the athletic he was like no they're
not looking to move on from this paul
george
kawhi leonard uh experiment and sure
enough
paul george locked in and michael like
you know we haven't said this in a while
but good for the clippers because they
gave up
i believe five draft picks that's two
pick swaps
plus gil just alexander and danilo
golinari uh to the thunder
and it was a possibility that uh pg and
kawhi could have walked after this year
as free agents
so now at least they're not left high
and dry
after this year yeah i think that's
where you should have started
that's where you should have started
okay sorry because
that's it because my bad that's right
i'm trying to
i was i was proud of back into the post
a little bit my best shout out no no no
post go right there go to the post okay
throw it to the post for a dunk
because that's the oh that's the best
thing that could have happened to them
they averted a disaster
i hope it was good that should lead to
your story you're writing this today for
the la times
you're starting with they got something
long-term out of this trade
they averted a disaster next paragraph
and they start talking about the
clippers and how they had to okay the
disastrous
scenario we talked about it last year
after they
blew a 3-1 lead to nuggets all right now
they're on the clock
the team is dysfunctional they traded
their future they really traded their
future away
so their only hope for having a solid
organization a competitive
those guys staying they got one of them
to stay they got the lesser player to
stay see like look at that turn up
putting a negative spin on it already
but it's real i'm being real they've got
this that's not saying much
that's not saying much i mean they're
two really good players but yeah
a lot of people are less amazing no no
no so that's not really an insult
one of them's a top 10 player one of
them's not we'll get to that later uh
so paul george and here's the problem
here's here's here's
a problem that i see now now they got
rid of the big problem
they're not facing that one anymore the
biggest which is losing both of them
so one of the mountains is out of the
way one mountain is in front of them
and that is retaining kauai but so when
you retain kawhi
if you do that if you retain kawhi and
paul george
you're paying a lot of money to a guy
who's a star lowercase
s not a star capital s
and and that's the issue like paul
george
i think his stock kind of went down last
year
it sounds like there's a tank there's no
there's no question there's no question
this stock when
so the whole playoff piece feel good
about it
he'll feel good about it yes you feel
good about it because i would say
that he is a star with a capital s this
is somebody who
two years ago was first team all nba and
first team all defense
i believe it was third in mvp voting or
something like that one of the better
two-way players we have in our league
um and so no i do think he's a star with
a capital
s but absolutely his i mean playoff
there's part there's paul george
and then there's playoff p which became
a running joke when he shot into 40
from the field and like 33 from three
uh for the post season last year and
paul george
paul george and kawhi in game seven ten
for 38. and he has been the target
because kawhi
with those you know two finals mvps is
something of a maid man although
the criticism of him is starting to come
out uh but something of a maid man and
therefore teflon at least related to
paul george or relative to paul george
um who of course
hasn't won anything in his career and so
paul george got a lot of the flack for
that collapse last year
uh because he was clashing with montrez
harold and patrick beverly and whereas
one could kind of understand why
the clippers would pacify and cater to
the the wishes
of the superstar that is kawhi leonard
everybody's looking at paul jones like
yo who the hell you think you are you
are a star maybe with a capital s maybe
with a lowercase s
why are you walking around trying to be
the leader of this team there were a lot
of reports of
of infighting um you know in
confrontations
uh throughout the playoffs with paul
george at the center of it which for me
michael
makes paul george one of the more
fascinating figures
going into this this next season how he
bounces back and if the clippers
don't contend for a championship uh the
blame is going to start with him
yeah a lot of focus is on the clippers
paul george is a big part of it
how kawhi bounces back that's another
story
uh they went from doc rivers to uh doc's
former player
and his former assistant tehran liu
they lost harold to the crosstown lakers
the lakers won a championship as the
clippers were serious
there were so many there's so many
stories there's so many stories around
this team
um i don't know i yeah fascinating
is that the word you want to use i don't
know i don't know
i'm working on it i'm working on what
that word is i'm not fascinated by them
paul george are the clippers
oh you got whoa oh i mean oh
i think fascinating is fair i think
fascinating somewhere between
the nation uh-huh
and pity
i i listen listen hold on hold on okay
pity pity means that well everybody
we've already established i think we
both agree
everybody's playing for second at least
on paper going into this next season
everybody's playing the second the
western conference in the nba
lakers got better okay um
but pity suggests that and
i understand given the history of this
franchise uh pity suggests that you
already know how this movie is going to
end
however there is an alternate ending and
this is why i think today is not the day
for clipper jokes
because the as you've pointed out listen
man all all
playoffs you talked about how much of
their future they forfeited
to bring these two guys together and the
very real fact that this was
essentially down to a one-year window
this is a one-year window given that
until today
both these players had the option to
walk and they would have
lost all those draft picks to oklahoma
city because the way they got kawhi
leonard was by trading off their their
future for paul george by mortgaging a
feature for paul george
yes they may have gotten the relatively
speaking
lesser player locked up again it's not
saying much
lots of people are lesser than kawhi
leonard paul george is still
conservatively a top 20 if not top 15
player playoff p has got a lot of work
to do
it you know they they are fascinating
because they're talented enough
when you start with a list of potential
challengers to the lakers
at the top of that list is the clippers
so yeah
last season clipper's gonna clip i got
it
but as we move at the top of the list of
the clippers you said the top of the
list
near the top if not number one they're
near the top of teams in the western
conference that can challenge the la
lakers
you gotta start with the clippers okay
sure okay
why would okay if i start with the
nuggets then the clippers are two
they're
they're at the top of the list they're
they're one of the teams
that you would say has a chance if
anybody does of toppling the lakers no
matter no matter their history
no matter their their chemistry issues
for the same reason that people like you
were picking them the way they are last
year
or or picking them to beat the nuggets
when it was clear that they were
collapsing
that's the same reason why you got to
like them going into this year yeah i
picked them to beat the nuggets and they
showed me some information
they showed me something you know and
it's not a day for clipper jokes you
know what it's a day for
really if i look at this team being
completely serious about them okay
they signed paul george to a big
contract and you know they had some
chemistry chemistry issues last year
i think what they need is a point guard
no question i need a point guard no
question
if you really think about what they're
missing that is
a glaring hole uh for them and
you can't as much as as much as you love
uh
pat beverly i i really don't think he's
a guy
you should have running your offense so
i don't think that he's not it
um no no point forward can do it if you
consider paul george a point forward
or corey leonard yeah the offense why
more or less runs through them yeah
no so i think that's what they're
missing but this is interesting
interesting
at least they didn't say that it wasn't
a sad
the saddest clippers blues song
like bb king used to write blues songs
inspired by the clippers that's where
all this stuff came from it's good stuff
that's how sad it was you know uh
lucille and the clippers okay that's all
i need yeah but
it's not that sad story of okay the
clippers gave up a bunch of draft picks
and those guys walked away
after two years which would have been a
very clipper thing yeah which would have
been a very clipper thing
a lot of pressure a little bit of it is
alleviated
yeah you know what you talked about a
lot yesterday we talked a lot about
relationships and that picture behind
you
that wedding picture this is the the
wedding
we we had a wedding today between paul
george
and the clippers so they are connected
that okay so if you think paul is your
man
that's not bad honestly that's not bad
like listen man
like play off p again
not bad it's not good enough because the
clippers okay you're out there history
let's go
let's okay let's go back let's go back
to relationships okay cool thank you
thank you for the ally
thank you for the alley-oop man you're
trying to be married you're trying to be
single
you're trying to be married i mean you
know because you you want to sit out
here and have all these high standards
you understand what i'm saying they got
to have a perfect credit score they got
to have no kids
they got to have no baby mamas no record
good paying job all late mind the kids
nice car
nice house you want all this stuff
that's why you're alone that's why
you're by yourself
okay if you're the clippers all right
and you got
a former first team only talking to you
right now
i'm just i'm preaching i don't know what
that's not i don't know who appreciate
hear this
i don't know i don't know how i'm
preaching to i don't know who i'm
preaching to today
but sometimes you gotta settle here and
there
i'm not saying in general but sometimes
you got to settle here and there
who the hell are the clippers to turn up
their nose at paul george
you're the l.a clippers you're like yes
paul
yes absolutely you put a ring on old
girl's finger
we're putting the ring on your finger so
if kawhi decides to walk at least you
got paul and george
and that ain't so bad it may it may not
be a ritz
it may not be at least you got crackers
at least you got crackers
you know yeah it's not the worst and
he's a good player kawaii not is that a
pizza
but he's a good player if kawhi leaves
that ring you put on paul george's
figure will be the last ring you see
that's it if kawhi is out
that's it that they're done but you know
where else is why gonna go
where else would who knows who knows hey
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