Is the Clippers’ Window Officially Closed? | The Bill Simmons Podcast 

It's relevant

Ive been a Clippers fan almost 20 years. Man, what do we have to do to break the Clippers Curse?! I wish they mention some suggestions. They didn’t even mention that Ballmer also doesn’t plan to change the team name. Thats big, curious what the research said.

This is the first I've heard of it, today

lmao if one were to take a shot every time he mentions it, the liver would be done. But to be fair, it was relevant to the discussion here.

@@oscarjimenez7676 they better not change the name, i want the CLIPPERS to win a chip

Bill and anything Celtic 😂

Skip bayless watching the sport for 40 years is a close second

Ty lue is the most overrated coach in the nba

he deserves to be fired after this season, he is too stuck to his tenured players, he refuses to move away from Morris and before wouldn't move away from Reggie. We lost a good number of games just from his line up choice which is crazy because he was so good before this season.

You guysbare crazzzyy. TY LUE is one of the best coaches out there. Look how well he has thevteam playing without the stars. The guys scheme and knowledge of the game is great. Love to have him in PHX...

@@KP-st6gi the way he coaches, makes his players injury prone. He basically says, yo you're gonna score, dump the ball to you, and go get a bucket, w/ barely any plays written or offensive schemes. And then because they're offense is so bad, they lack on defense. Anytime they score, it's because their players over tax their bodies, they don't get any easy buckets, and it's miracle contested jumpshots, everytime.

Doc Rivers has entered the chat...

Surely as a diehard Celtics fan he's got to have a soft spot for the clippers and have some hopes they end up better than the lakers lmao

Mr. Kendrick "Champion's DNA" "Big Perk" Perkins himself

@@maxiqums1549 and bontemps too lol

I was listening to Bill's podcast this weekend when Bill and Mahoney were talking about how deep they are

can't really argue they aren't the deepest team in the league tho. Without 2 of their superstar players, they are staying competitive against KD and booker. Suns aren't even able to blowout a team without a single all star player. That's kinda crazy. Unfortunately the clippers are 100% cursed and will never win anything no matter how many stars they have no matter how deep the team is.

Exactly lol

2020 was their best shot too before they got hurt

PG during the bubble playoffs-“there are more important things than basketball”, said it while in the middle of playoffs🤦‍♂️🙅‍♂️

Wasn’t 2020 the year they were healthy & had a 3-1 lead against Denver, PG & Kawhi getting a paltry 24 points combined in game 7?

@@NoName-zm1ks Yes

I’m pretty sure that quote was in the context that it was their first season together and were both planning to partner up in LA for the long haul. I get your point, but that’s an understandable thing to say after their all time playoff choke.

He saved Kawahi and George from getting killed even more. What a performance!

He's the Disney Plus 7 day trial for your Verizon upgrade. Ironically it only feels Kawhi has played 7 games all season. He can retire and still be arguably one of the top 12 SFs of all time

Plus 37 for the series. I died lol

Spurs were right. Kawhi wins a title in Toronto. Everyone still wins.

@@Shortballa11 except the Clippers lol

@@coreyshafarman8918 they in the playoffs almost every year. They cursed so thats still a win for them lol

@@Shortballa11 Fair. I'm not really saying paying him or trading for him was wrong, just that we as fans need to keep in mind that he's extremely unlikely to ever be more than what we see now : an incredible player who cant play more than a few weeks without his knee giving up on him

and if i am not mistaken, wasn't his acl originally diagnosed as a menicus?

You had a healthy squad in 14 and 15 stop the capp

Mmm, there's a huge rewriting of history with that team. In 2012, they just got smoked by the Spurs. No real excuses there aside from just not being good enough to compete with the Spurs. In 2013, Griffin went down in Game 5 I think, but the Grizz had already shown they were better. It was pretty obvious the Clippers weren't ready for that physicality. Griffin was getting manhandled. Those Grizz were no joke especially in the paint, which is where Jordan and Griffin tended to be most effective. In 2014, there were no injuries. The Clippers just got beat. In 2015 CP3 went down for Games 1 and 2, but they won 1 of them. The Clippers were up 3-1 and just ended up choking the rest of the series while completely healthy. The devastating injuries really happened in 2016 and 2017... but by then, the Golden State dynasty was in full swing and it was over for the Clippers anyway.

Injuries are part of the game ...and there's nothing wrong with having good luck

You take your shot

Him and Paul George. These dudes have been hurt every postseason lol

You fools. Kawhi has played more games in the regular and postseason than KD since 2019. Who's finessing whom?

@@MarkLaw13 Kawhi is a bum.

@@CD-gk9ix because you are one.

@@MarkLaw13 the story of the nba can be told without kawhi. He will be forgotten in 5 years. If he’s lucky, they’ll do a 30 for 30 on him for what could have been.

Ty Lue has been an awful coach this year

@@amc1140 Stop! Kawhi & PG have played limited games the entire year. Tell me of a Coach in NBA history that's done more than Ty with his Superstars out. I'll wait.......

@@31hoops73 Ty has the “deepest team” and couldn’t even make the playoffs last year

😂😂

No Blake & Jazz got swept right after

pulling that "my injury was 100 times worse than his, and i was only out..." was horrible. he did deserve to be framed as a "bad guy".

@@laz0rama Nah. Now we know Kawhi doesn’t play even if it’s just a hangnail so it’s normal for his teammates to be fed up.

Not if they clean house. Trade PG and Kawhi and you’ll get a bunch of firsts.

@@micahclawrence a bunch? Ehh that’s a reach. They’re stars (in Kawhi’s case a superstar). But nobody is giving up prime capital when they are guaranteed to miss significant time including playoffs.

@@micahclawrence no point on rebuilding. Clippers are cursed. This is best case scenario

Russ only plays "well" when he is the only superstar

He's just not the same when playing with other stars. He needs the ball. He needs to be the guy. Unfortunately, when he is the guy, his ceiling is a first-round exit.

@@celtics1051 I disagree. PG had his best statistical season of his career along side Russ playing well in OKC. Russ and Harden were competing for a conference finals appearance and unfortunately ran into lebron and AD.

@@celtics1051 Magic don't have a point guard, they need to sign him for 2 years or whatever, it's better if they reach the playoffs and exit the 1st round than going years upon years of missing it.

@@kurtlowder3276 , Exactly, his "production" increases dramatically when he is allowed to be a ball hog. All those triple-double records came at the expense of OKC. They didn't win shit.

He sold tickets

This is not really the venue for it. But i contend balmer is one of the worst major CEOs in modern times. Look into every major decision he made from windows 8 to the inexplicable nokia buy. Dude was the epitome of peterman principle. There was a reason the stock jumped when Nadella took over. Rich guys do not deserve respect just for being rich. A lot of it is just being in the right place at the right time. Now paul allen on the other hand? Dude was a legit genius

Kawhi was worth the gamble for a franchise like the Clippers after the 2019 title. But after several seasons of season-ending injuries, it's just ridiculous not to have a contingency plan in place for if/when Kawhi gets hurt, or scrapping the plan altogether.

When he took over, Kawhi just came off winning a championship while load managing. And Paul George didn’t have a bad injury history at that point that indicated he would miss as much time.

Balmer just has the deepest pockets. Nothing more

No one in the media has an issue with Kawhi in terms of ability. He just is hurt 90% of the time, which makes him a liability. Especially for a max contract.

Both things are true

What the media holds against him is that he doesn't share with his team any issues/injuries he has. He also decides to isolate himself from the rest of the team which creates a weird atmosphere in the locker room. You play a team sport, behave and act as part of the team.

Bc both are true, these two could talk for hours about how good Kawhi is when he plays

It’s over. Hopefully Westbrook comes back and has a legacy year and gets us in the play in

Teams know, the media knows. Everyone knows. It’s much easier to just trash a guy.

He might have bunned his knees for good in TO. man what a run that was.

Or, he just super brittle 🤷🏻‍♂️

No he didint tou imbecile

Looked fine when he played the majority of the Toronto games and every game in the playoffs that year to win a championship

he should have got her a better lawyer

They weren't close.

She deserved it.

Facts. He load manages all season because if he doesn’t his knee will do this. It’s unfortunate and there is no right answer

Yeah that final year was awful. They gave him 2 months off to start the season, then they only played him like 15 minutes per game with like 3-4 days between games. Then they increased him to 24-ish minutes per game and he just quit on them. That when things got soured. I love that those guys had the guts to call Kawhi out though. I understand not feeling 100% but Kawhi took things too far, especially when the Spurs were being so conservative with his minutes. We also have to remember the Spurs doctors were right on the money, they realized it was a degenerative issue. It's probably why Kawhi immediately went to get a more favorable second opinion and to land a big contract somewhere else.

every year a better record - beat the other team 12 times in row - pretty sure looks like it

@@denigster Soooo they got victory banners against the Lakers up in the Rafters....Makes sense, Most Clipper shh ever. At least the Lakers got a bubble 🏆

@@denigster raise the regular season banner!

They’re in denial 😂

@@curtiszyr - Yup. Pretty much. 🤷🏻‍♂️

😂😂

Enjoy that one and only banner

​ Julian.. You're better than that... Behave yourself

David ,shhhhhh

*Buffalo Braves

Get out of LA 50 years of this I don't know what else to say Kawhi Leonard knee was shot when he first signed with them Steve Bahmer is just some billionaire that's don't know how to run a NBA Team yes he's better than Donald Sterling but the Curse continues Because he signed two guys that there injury history is serious Kawhi Leonard and Paul George legs just can't hold up the Clippers as a organization have seen there players just fall with terrible injuries Danny Manning Livingston Candyman Steve Bahmer should just get them out of LA this organization need a break 50 years of being the Lakers stepchild should be enough

Move away from the shadow of the Lakers

I can’t wait for the 30 for 30 on this Clippers 4 year run lol

Kawihi didn't play in the wcf🤷🏽‍♂️

I think their would definitely be teams interested

@@MrOctober44 You're probably right. Even the worst contracts in the league seem to get traded every year.

Suckers born every day unfortunately

he coached his behind off this playoffs. Anyone who can turn Russ into a solid defender deserves to be in the HOF.

Most over covered team in the league bro

Remember the last time they were up 2-1?