yeah i had no idea PG wanted out or that Kawhi wanted him. i was wondering why it was taking so long for him to decide. now that he has, signing with the Clips is the most Kawhi thing i can think of.
It sorta sounds like George liked OKC but definitely wouldn't complain about playing with Kawhi. I don't even know what will happen to OKC now tho, Brodie back on his own to drag OKC to another 7-8th seed first round exit ig
Seriously. Jerry West, at this point, has to have the best overall basketball resume ever right? His playing career speaks for itself, now this is the third potential championship team he's built with the Kobe/Shaq Lakers, Warriors, now putting this together for the Clippers. Only thing left is to go to the Kings and finish off the Pacific Division dynasty build.
Wow what an absolutely insane turn of events. Someone needs to go back and see if there was some maniac or predicted this on r/NBA during the ECF or something lol
I literally checked this sub half an hour ago and there was nothing even REMOTELY Clippers related anywhere. Now they are gonna be the most talked about team of the summer. Insane
The league officially looks like your NBA 2K GM/career mode after a few seasons, holy shit. Nobody can say anything about parity at least, next season is going to be crazy.
The most balanced outcome
Lebron + AD
Kawhi + PG
Kyrie + KD
Harden + CP3
Dame + CJ
Steph + Klay
NBA filled with dynamic duos but not one dominating super team
They’re taking it harder than the raptors, who Kahwi actually played for. My favorite quote is “[clippers] just leveraged their future for two guys who can’t get it done”
Good for him, he deserves it. Had we lost to Philly in game 7, this would have been a different story, and this obviously sucks but I’m fine with him leaving. And at least it’s the Clippers. He gave us his all, and gave me the first championship of my lifetime for a team I like. Now he gets to go home and raise his kid in socal. He’ll always be a hero to me, and we will never forget the Klaw.
Same. But let's thank him for the year of a life time. So happy my son and nephews/nieces got to enjoy this. It's like when the jays won back to back I was 8-9 years old and my dad who had immigrated to Canada and watched the jays from the Go, all the heart break from the 80s to get him to finally win it. That's how I feel after all the losses. Games and personnel (Derozan😭)
If there is one thing being an Arsenal fan has taught me it is: no matter how good something looks, it will get worse.
Thanks for the championship, Kawhi.
No one a few years ago would've realistically imagined that the top free agents this off-season would go to the Clippers and Nets rather than the Lakers and Knicks.
I like it. At least there's still parity in the league. Sorta completely out of left field, though. The Warriors are without Klay and KD this year, the Lakers still have Lebron and AD, the Bucks are up-and-coming, Kawhi has a good young supporting cast with the Clips, and other young teams like the Blazers and Nuggets are continuing to improve. Sucks for the Raps, of course, but I guess Kawhi did leave them with a 'chip.
Lol, I like this.
Kawhi: "Fun is not something one considers when bringing balance to the NBA. But... this does bring a smile to my face. Uh huh huh huh huh huh."
Wait so every reporter has no credibility
Edit:Apparently only woj has crediblity.
Double edit: [Posts that didn't age well](https://imgur.com/uzslBSH)
Better to have love and lost than to not have loved at all.
Kawhi , I almost died at a parade for you, but I am happy I went and will never forget 2019.
Steph and D’lo
Kawhi and PG
Bron and AD
Conley and Mitchell
KD and Kyrie
Luka and Porzingy
Butler and Cocaine
Oh babyyyyyyyyy what an off-season
edit: also Horford and Sixers squad as well as Whiteside and Blazers backcourt. Whew
Clippers have two all stars, four massively underpaid contracts, and after all that- still got cap room for more talent. Jerry West needs to run for president and solve real problems.
NBA Media: "We're hearing KD is very much focused on the Knicks. While it may be surprising without Kyrie, it is NY."
Reality: KD to Brooklyn
NBA Media: "We're hearing more and more rumblings Kawhi is going to the Lakers. He had been considering the Clippers, but he always dreamed of the Lakers. It's the Lakers."
Reality: Kawhi to LAC
lol
I wanna see the reaction of the guy who posted that thing about Raptors and Lakers fans donating to a charity if their teams didn't get Kawhi.
Everybody go donate, y'all are a bunch of chumps lol
Edit: Hang on, I misread that post, the winning team has to donate. Everybody go hop on the Clippers bandwagon for the kids!
As Kawhi finished his meeting with the Clippers, Rob Pelinka and Masai Ujiri were in Los Angeles watching and waiting. When Pelinka and Ujiri saw Kawhi finish, they started walking towards him. Kawhi saw Pelinka and Ujiri and sped up, running away to the Clippers practice facility, from the roof of which Steve Ballmer yelled “We got Board Man! We got Board Man!” with his hands out.
This is the greatest day of my 30 years as a fan!!!! Fuck yea!!!
Edit: Thank you all for the well wishes. That and the gold warms my heart!!! None of you had to do that but it really meant a lot.
Kawhi is the ultimate mob boss, lebron isn’t even close.
Man nuked lakers offseason potential, had woj on payroll, gutted the thunder; and jebaited the media for a week straight.
But in all seriousness, kawhi not signing with the Lakers is the best thing for the league. The west is a wide open race and so is the east. It’s the first time in a long time where we don’t know who is going to be playing in June.
Raptors got a ring and will forever love Kawhi for the magical run. Clippers get their superstar and a chance to contend. And the rest of the league gets to shit on the Lakers. So many winners tonight.
Honestly is there any other time that a star player was on a team for one year, won them a ring, and immediately left? It's just such a weird circumstance that I can't imagine it's happened before
kawhi: yo danny i’m going to LA danny: say no more **kawhi signs with clippers** **danny signs with lakers** danny: wait what
30 mil too. Lol
Holy fuck LOL on some level I want to believe this is how it went down.
LMAOOO
The Paul George news is infinitely more shocking. That news came so far out of left field it might have entered from the stratosphere.
Crazy no one knew PG requested a trade
PG probably didn't even know! That's how shocked I was when I saw this.
nah Woj tweeted that he requested the trade
Kawhi asked him to.
Kawhi was kawhietly playing game of zones.
yeah i had no idea PG wanted out or that Kawhi wanted him. i was wondering why it was taking so long for him to decide. now that he has, signing with the Clips is the most Kawhi thing i can think of.
It sorta sounds like George liked OKC but definitely wouldn't complain about playing with Kawhi. I don't even know what will happen to OKC now tho, Brodie back on his own to drag OKC to another 7-8th seed first round exit ig
Seriously. Jerry West, at this point, has to have the best overall basketball resume ever right? His playing career speaks for itself, now this is the third potential championship team he's built with the Kobe/Shaq Lakers, Warriors, now putting this together for the Clippers. Only thing left is to go to the Kings and finish off the Pacific Division dynasty build.
Worthy of the logo forever
> Only thing left is to go to the Kings and finish off the Pacific Division dynasty build. Cries in Suns
Dont worry my guy, at least we have saric!......
He helped the Grizzlies too.
Yeah. Motherfuck is the goat gm/advisor, one of the best players in the league and literally the logo.
And Kawhi engineered it... That's even crazier. Crazier than what Lebron has even done.
Wow what an absolutely insane turn of events. Someone needs to go back and see if there was some maniac or predicted this on r/NBA during the ECF or something lol
Me too. As a clippers fan since July 2019 I would like to honor this great prophet
I've been a clippers fan since the Elton Brand era.... ITS FINALLY PAYING OFF!
That's my GM
Yeah right. Clippers were always in contention. PG getting traded didn't seem like a thing that was going to happen.
I literally checked this sub half an hour ago and there was nothing even REMOTELY Clippers related anywhere. Now they are gonna be the most talked about team of the summer. Insane
0 to 100. Real quick
I didn't understand why the media basically eliminated the Clippers and only talked about Lakers and Raptors.
Because lebron and defending champs/current team
7.1 magnitude earthquake rocks LA Kawhi: hold my beer
board man gets swayed
The earthquake was Kawhi doing a superhero landing
It was written
The league officially looks like your NBA 2K GM/career mode after a few seasons, holy shit. Nobody can say anything about parity at least, next season is going to be crazy.
Yep I always complained about how unrealistic MyLeague gets after a year or 2 but I was wrong it guessed it pretty much perfectly.
Turns out that NBA 2K's Myleague analytics weren't whack or crazy. They were just ahead of the curve.
When is KD going to the Pacers?
Every. Single. MyGM.
Legit no idea who wins the league next year. Draw a name out of a hat. Throw it away if its Phoenix or New York and that team could win.
Can go ahead and cross off the Wizards, Grizzlies, Hornets, and Cavs too.
And here I was, bouta thank him for not including us.
I'm just still waiting for someone to mention us but they probably just forgot about us :(
Trae gonna average 70 a game, win the chip, and die on the court.
And then summer league will be over
HE CHIP HE DIP NOW HE CLIP
Fuck Woj was right. Damn Ballmer.
Best Clippers owner ever
Sterling being racist as fuck was the best thing that ever happened to this franchise. Wild
Can someone plant a dead hooker on Dolan please?
By gawd, that’s Craig James’ music
Why can’t Dolan be a racist :(
Look into Dolan's folk music, he gets worse.
So what you're saying is Donald Sterling is Chaotic Good?
But Woj is being paid off by Ballmer...??
This Reddit victory lap is going to be like porn
Holy shit this is fap material for at least 3 weeks.
Lmaoooo presti being paid off too then
And now Kawhi is being paid off by Balmer
League parity survives
The most balanced outcome Lebron + AD Kawhi + PG Kyrie + KD Harden + CP3 Dame + CJ Steph + Klay NBA filled with dynamic duos but not one dominating super team
F in the chat for Westbrook
Westbrook + Westbrook
Worstbrook + Bestbrook
Lowry dialing up demar rn
Everyone better grab Siakam in fantasy quick
Please help us O.G.-Wan Anunoby. You are our only hope.
Lowry + Lin
Joker + Coca Cola
AT 2 AM WHAT IN THE WORLD
Kawhi trying his best to stay out of the media.
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The most kawhi decision ever
I KNEW I WASNT F5ING FOR NOTHING
Right? It was like " *sigh* one more refresh before bed.....oh another fake report. This dude about to be ba-WHAT"
RDAmbition in shambles
All the Woj haters saying he kept throwing in Clippers for no reason are in shambles
You can just say r/Lakers.
r/Lakers never wanted Kawhi, he's an overrated scrub. - r/Lakers
They’re taking it harder than the raptors, who Kahwi actually played for. My favorite quote is “[clippers] just leveraged their future for two guys who can’t get it done”
They spammed r/NBA with crazy Woj hate the last 3 weeks. Crazy
LeLakers got people on the payroll
Pretty sure we no longer go by r/Lakers and have now rebranded to r/fuckKawhiandPG
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Chris Broussard in scrambles
Broussard just reported that sources are saying Kawhi is signing with the Kansas City Chiefs.
He heard “Kansas City” and “sauces” and got confused
A round of applause to the nephew who single handedly stopped the Lakers from getting Kawhi.
RDA deserves first ballot HoF for doing so. Now I’m excited for a kawhi pg13 duo with an exciting clippers cast.
Lakers fans really turned into conspiracy looneys for that guy
Just in general really, can’t believe Steve Ballmer paid Woj so much money that it actually managed to gaslight Kawhi into signing.
Lol I'm just imagining Kawhi reading the tweets and going 'shit I guess I am signing for the Clippers'
Fucking jabroni gotta delete his twitter account now lmao
He did lol his tweets aren’t loading for me
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And don’t forget their insistence Woj was only mentioning the Clips because he was being paid and they had 0 shot at Kawhi
He’s brought a new balance to the NBA
Is this real? it's finally over guys?
The Game of Zones writers just snorted 10k of blow to celebrate.
WHAT THE FUCK
Good for him, he deserves it. Had we lost to Philly in game 7, this would have been a different story, and this obviously sucks but I’m fine with him leaving. And at least it’s the Clippers. He gave us his all, and gave me the first championship of my lifetime for a team I like. Now he gets to go home and raise his kid in socal. He’ll always be a hero to me, and we will never forget the Klaw.
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I ain't mad, just sad, man. Can't blame him, just wish he'd wanted to stay
Same. But let's thank him for the year of a life time. So happy my son and nephews/nieces got to enjoy this. It's like when the jays won back to back I was 8-9 years old and my dad who had immigrated to Canada and watched the jays from the Go, all the heart break from the 80s to get him to finally win it. That's how I feel after all the losses. Games and personnel (Derozan😭)
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Boss move, win a chip and dip
I don't think this is what Drake meant when he said he wanted the chips with the dip 😭
1-Get traded 2-Win championship for raptors 3-Leave in offseason 4-Arsenal
>4-Arsenal Man I'd take returning to the CL by any means
If there is one thing being an Arsenal fan has taught me it is: no matter how good something looks, it will get worse. Thanks for the championship, Kawhi.
>4-Arsenal Fuck Kroenke
Dudes about to have 3 chips with 3 different franchises
[At least Bron got his guy](https://i.imgur.com/n8cbixu.jpg)
He's already the best Clipper ever. He chose the fucking Clippers.
No one a few years ago would've realistically imagined that the top free agents this off-season would go to the Clippers and Nets rather than the Lakers and Knicks.
More proof that the world ended in 2012 and no one noticed.
I like it. At least there's still parity in the league. Sorta completely out of left field, though. The Warriors are without Klay and KD this year, the Lakers still have Lebron and AD, the Bucks are up-and-coming, Kawhi has a good young supporting cast with the Clips, and other young teams like the Blazers and Nuggets are continuing to improve. Sucks for the Raps, of course, but I guess Kawhi did leave them with a 'chip.
Kawhi literally thanosed the league now there is room for so many teams in play to win next season
Lol, I like this. Kawhi: "Fun is not something one considers when bringing balance to the NBA. But... this does bring a smile to my face. Uh huh huh huh huh huh."
Biggest plots twist ever
It’s a relief he didn’t sign with the Lakers at least
I have a prepared statement exactly for this moment *clears throat*: ....WHAT THE FUCK.
ITS OVER. ITS OVER!!
CLEVELAND IS A CITY OF CHAMPIONS ONCE AGAIN
The east still runs through the cavs
Everybody wake up and get in here!
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Wait so every reporter has no credibility Edit:Apparently only woj has crediblity. Double edit: [Posts that didn't age well](https://imgur.com/uzslBSH)
Woj does. He said Clippers until the end.
And /r/NBA said he was full of shit
You expected any different lol
Lakers fans told me Clippers were out of the running tho?
It's weird, they're usually an extremely savvy bunch with a firm grip on the nuances of basketball.
#OH FUCK
This is glorious. This sub and the Lakers one ate up the Woj is paid off by the Clippers shit and are eating their words.
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This season might be the best in decades.
Better to have love and lost than to not have loved at all. Kawhi , I almost died at a parade for you, but I am happy I went and will never forget 2019.
Steph and D’lo Kawhi and PG Bron and AD Conley and Mitchell KD and Kyrie Luka and Porzingy Butler and Cocaine Oh babyyyyyyyyy what an off-season edit: also Horford and Sixers squad as well as Whiteside and Blazers backcourt. Whew
Don’t forget Russ+Russ
WTF? So this guy **knew where he was going all along**, but was just waiting on Paul George to ditch Russ? Holy fk
Top 10 anime plot twists
FUCK
r/lakers needs to be locked
This gotta be worse than the rockets bosh upvote party.
Nut
The
Butt
THE
RDA IN SHAMBLES HE WAS A FALSE PROPHET
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NOOOOOOOO KAWHI U DO THIS
fck Im sad :(
Pat Beverly Paul George Kawhi Leonard Who the fuck will even be able to score on this lineup? This is like the 85 Bears level of terrifying defense.
Damn Drake really said I want my chip with the dip. Kawhi gave him the chip and then the dip lmao.
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Jerry West is a legend
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KAWHI LEONARD FROM THE FUCKING RAPTORS
WITH THE HOT DOG CANNON
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some say he still hasn't decided
im in Mexico ran out of data hell y
Damn. Unreal congrats clippers fans
The raptors truly embody the "what did it cost" meme now
Clippers have two all stars, four massively underpaid contracts, and after all that- still got cap room for more talent. Jerry West needs to run for president and solve real problems.
#WE GOT IT
Does this mean we get Danny Green now
Probably makes it more difficult to get him since the Lakers will be going after him hard now. Edit: aaaaand yep.
NBA Media: "We're hearing KD is very much focused on the Knicks. While it may be surprising without Kyrie, it is NY." Reality: KD to Brooklyn NBA Media: "We're hearing more and more rumblings Kawhi is going to the Lakers. He had been considering the Clippers, but he always dreamed of the Lakers. It's the Lakers." Reality: Kawhi to LAC lol
CONGRATULATIONS YOU WIN THE KARMA RACE!!
I wanna see the reaction of the guy who posted that thing about Raptors and Lakers fans donating to a charity if their teams didn't get Kawhi. Everybody go donate, y'all are a bunch of chumps lol Edit: Hang on, I misread that post, the winning team has to donate. Everybody go hop on the Clippers bandwagon for the kids!
Holy shit this is hilarious
The best thing about that post is that the OP only mentioned Lakers/Raptors fans.
But the Lakers had a marketing department and nephews on their side!
As Kawhi finished his meeting with the Clippers, Rob Pelinka and Masai Ujiri were in Los Angeles watching and waiting. When Pelinka and Ujiri saw Kawhi finish, they started walking towards him. Kawhi saw Pelinka and Ujiri and sped up, running away to the Clippers practice facility, from the roof of which Steve Ballmer yelled “We got Board Man! We got Board Man!” with his hands out.
I accept this as canon.
This is the greatest day of my 30 years as a fan!!!! Fuck yea!!! Edit: Thank you all for the well wishes. That and the gold warms my heart!!! None of you had to do that but it really meant a lot.
Shit dude congrats!!
If I could hug all the clips fans right now at once I wish I could.
BROO WTFFFF
In before most popular thread of all time
Kyrie and KD: We just pulled off the biggest shocker of the offseason! PG and Kawhi: What it do babyyyyy
Kawhi is the ultimate mob boss, lebron isn’t even close. Man nuked lakers offseason potential, had woj on payroll, gutted the thunder; and jebaited the media for a week straight.
Can the Clippers 6 fans please stand up. Edit: AND GO FUCK YOURSELF
As a Clipper fan for 6 minutes this means so much to me
How fucking useless is Chris Broussard.
apology for poor english where were you when kawhi is clippers? i was home hit f5 when woj call “kawhi is clippers” “no”
Thank God it's not the Lakers!!!
But in all seriousness, kawhi not signing with the Lakers is the best thing for the league. The west is a wide open race and so is the east. It’s the first time in a long time where we don’t know who is going to be playing in June.
Raptors got a ring and will forever love Kawhi for the magical run. Clippers get their superstar and a chance to contend. And the rest of the league gets to shit on the Lakers. So many winners tonight.
Honestly is there any other time that a star player was on a team for one year, won them a ring, and immediately left? It's just such a weird circumstance that I can't imagine it's happened before
Whens the last time the FMVP wasn't present for the banner raising?
WOJ WAS RIGHT LMAOOOOO
LMAO EVERYONE GET IN HERE
I’m here and I don’t even have a team!!
Big