Damn I'm now hungry
Goddamn 🤣
Hey man... I heard IOS 19 is right around the corner, I'd hold on a second.
Lmao 😂 😂😂“slow roasted” is nasty work
With 20/20 hindsight that trade turned out pretty badly for the Clips. The SGA for Podcast P trade looks pretty stupid now, just by itself. Dam!! The Clips got fleeced bigly...
Streetlights over spotlights!
LA oUr wAy
We over me!
PG didn’t get that message
Driven over given
Wf does that even mean 😂
One of the wealthiest men in the world roleplaying as a blue collar worker lmfao
Just a tech billionaire trying to appeal to blue collar workers.
"Fuck the spotlights!! I'm with you streetlight folk!!" - Steve Ballmer after wiping his ass with 100 dollar bills
“who’s going to score against the Clippers”
LA Bulls???
More like Runway lights as he takes off for Philly
sNaRl OvEr StYlE
GrIt oVeR GlAm
Give no quarter!
This will never not be funny.
posts a graphic comparing their team to the 96 Bulls
"The Los Angeles Bulls!!!"
‘tHe LaKeRs PAiD ToO MuCH FoR AD’ 🤣
😂😂 clowns
Adding more insult to injury is that OKC is actually managing those assets into being a contender for a long time, whilst New Orleans is still in the middle pack even with those assets + Zion.
Forget the picks, a straight swap for SGA alone is looking pretty damn good right now!
This is what I came to say. They are actually building a good team and hopefully it’s sustainable
With the new CBA they'll eventually have to dump a lot of these role guys, but they've got picks to do it lol all time fleece by OKC trading PG.
We really didn't give up much. Harden and PG trades crippled franchises.
Considering a ring, and potentially a 2nd one, Lakers got a bargain.
We did pay too much, but we got one chip so far, and counting, so fuck em!
How much is too much for a championship? Because I don't think what they paid was too much for a ring.
We paid the correct amount.
Lakers were right to go all in on AD. BI is a star, but he's a B level star. The rest of the pieces were role players.
Still 2025 first round pick to be determined which will go to the Pelicans. If the Lakers miss the PO then the pick wins the lotto, Pelicans can draft Cooper Flagg who supposed to be the next Larry Bird.
if by any chance the Lakers miss the Playoffs, the pick will be 8-14
Bad luck season possible as with Memphis who lost Morant and others to injuries. Lottery ping pong ball can play some tricks at times. Probability is low but still not impossible.
LA paid a just and righteous amount to grab AD. LA gave up prospects that would’ve never gotten LA past the second round. Boston was about to trade one of, if not both of the J’s to get AD if he had been willing to be traded there.
The AD trade isn’t what potentially closed LA’s window. Front office incompetence is what closed LA’s window and LA still managed to get a ring out of it.
Hard to say exactly. Would I green light it again if I knew we’d get a ring? Fuck yes.
Could we have kept a pick or a guy? Probably. We were bidding against ourselves and Griffin took full advantage of us.
Only thing I would change is to have kept lonzo instead of kuz. But who knows if he would have been the defender he became without playing with jrue holiday. Or if he would’ve fixed his jumper if he wasn’t traded. So at the end of the day, it is what it is.
All of that is pretty irrelevant if Lonzo can’t stay on the court
And you’re right about that. But that’s the point of a “what if” right? Like I said above there are even more variables than that. It’s just another to add onto the pile with that.
If you got a championship, then you didn't pay too much. Other franchises would pay 3 times what we did just to sniff their very first championship.
Clown talk. Most organizations get 1 or 0 chips from having a generational talent for over a decade. Getting one within a few years of getting that player for BI, injured Lonzo and Hart is far from an overpay.
Ball, Hart , Ingram is too much?
Are we just gonna ignore the million picks / swaps?
LA gave up four picks and two swaps, right? And, then they won a title in the first year of the experiment.
It’s the injuries that LeBron & AD suffered and the asset mismanagement by the front office after the title season that makes the AD trade seem a bit insane. A more competent front office would’ve squeezed another title out of LA as soon as LeBron and AD could get healthy again. Pelinka traded a first + Danny Green for Schröder and let Schröder walk after one year. That’s basically a first rounder and $20M annually in bird rights that LA let sail away.
There were two big men from the title team that were integral to LA’s rim protection that weren’t brought back for the title defense year, which cost us in the first round when Ayton feasted off the lobs.
The Lakers championship-winning core (KCP, Kuzma, & indirectly Caruso too) was basically shipped out with a first attached in one offseason for an ill-fitted guard.
three picks (19 (#4 pick), 22 (#8 pick), 25) and 1 pick swap...and bi, hart, lonzo
Don't forget zu for fucking Mike muscala. Clips must have dirt on Rob or something. But seriously I just think he's a fucking moron who made friends with the right person.
Who said that lol
Point and laugh at the Clippers
Kawhi misleading/lying to the lakers during that free agency has forever made me a hater. Goodbye Clips!
Fucking karma lmao
Bro, I've hated the paperclips for decades
They weren't worth hating until the CP3 debacle lol those LO/ Darius Miles teams were even fun and cheap tickets lol
Bruh, hate for the paperclips is eternal.
2nd only to Boston.
Always was. Always will be.
Lmao fair enough. I never cared about them that much. Spurs, Suns, even Warriors before them to me.
But it's always Boston 1st. Fuck them forever.
all they got to show for it is a CF appearance 😭 rest in fuckin piss man. losers finally got bullied outta Staples and team is fallin apart one by one. thank fuck
I’m genuinely curious to see what their ticket prices/attendance will be next year in Inglewood
Probably like $500. But you get 17,800 seats so that's a pretty good deal.
Season ticket prices doubled for courtside I heard.
Concessions are also going to be pricey just to pay for that damn arena
New king of LA 🤡
136 total Clipper fans worldwide and they all talked shit nonstop while accomplishing zero. I don't feel bad at all. Couldn't have left Staples at a better time... yea I said Staples..
Replaced pg with KPJ
I'd replace him with KFC at this point. At least they won't go hungry in that empty ass 2 billion dollar arena
I just realized this isn’t a hypothetical sign and trade shitpost, this is actually what the Clips gave up for PG just to let him walk.
Jesus Christ, remember when Lonzo, Ingram and some future draft picks that all turned into bums was too much for the best center in the league who was also young, but that was too much and the Clips had a better run team.
This shit will always be funny. Lakers traded for a top 5 player and won a championship that season. They were an AD injury away (ironically) from repeating.
The clippers have a WCF appearance.
I remember that summer, it was duos coming together and LeBron/AD worked right away. Kawhi/PG didint, KD/Kyrie didn’t
No OT tonight…ballgame
PG for Shai straight up they still would have lost, let alone adding players like Jalen Williams in with the picks lol
Good, Kawhi deserves all of that. Choosing the Clippers over the Lakers, there’s consequences for that. Have fun playing in an empty, new stadium.
Choosing the Clips is fine. It's him intentionally stringing us along that sucked. Don't care, got a ring anyways lol
It’s okay, karma’s bitten him in the ass year after year since then.
*bitten him in the knees
Lmao
Yea that was an asshole move from him. He never wanted to sign for us in the first place. Fuck him.
I’d love to go watch some cheap NBA Games. A man can dream
They gave PG a reflective vest and a hard hat and he’s still leaving
Choosing the clippers over repeating with the raptors was the stupidest thing he’s done.
Kawhi destroyed the Clippers. If he came here it would have been the same, but with 1000x the pain given the size of the fanbase and media attention.
But hey, they got to the WCF.
As a basketball fan, kinda bummed the duo never really put it all together.
As a lakers fan, hahahahahahahaha losers
In the most injured post season of all time.
All that assets for the best nickname of the NBA
PANDEMIC P!
Here for the Clippers / Nuggets / Warriors downfalls
0 championships, 1 championship, 4 championships. One of these is not like the other.
bigger they are the harder they fall
PG for Shai alone is starting to look criminal. Absolutely fleeced
I mean Shai wouldn’t of developed on the Clippers and any team would’ve did this trade to get PG and Kawhi
I mean Shai wouldn’t of developed on the Clippers
Shai is a top 5 player. You don't just "develop" that just because you had the right environment. It usually means you are both talented and a hard worker and would succeed anywhere.
Bum ass franchise will never win a ring
You need to sniff the finals before you can reach for the ring.
Battle of LA to the bottom
So the Clippers, who have always complained about “buying” our rings, tried the same and failed miserably.
They traded away a young MVP finalist, and 4 usable 1sts, for nothing. Not even the finals.
Just move to Seattle already.
Or San Diego
Do they hang banners for 2019-20 Preseason Favorites?
The Lakers got lucky missing out on PG, and Kawhi made a mistake passing up the Lakers for the Clips. These guys also stole prime CP3 from us and have nothing to show for it. They really are the most cursed franchise in the NBA.
They deserve it. If only we could give some of that curse to Boston.
Lakers got lucky not getting Kawhi too
I still think this was a right trade even in hindsight, the trade was really for PG and Kawhi ( seeing how he would only sign if PG went there ) I don’t see any team passing up on two top 15 players at the time .
Insane L
One conference finals loss
That’s all they did 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Clippers schadenfreude never ever gets old it’s glorious
Go check out their subreddit, they're all so angry 😂😂😂
Awww thank you for this. Schadenfreude does ease the stress a little.
Clippers gonna clip
OKC needs to put up a statue for Westbrick and Presti for keeping them entertaining while transitioning into a rebuild seamlessly.
Can we trade GMs with them?
1 of those picks turned out to be Jay Dub right? Horrible asset management lol clippers
SGA balled in Y1 for OKC and that was enough for me to know who won
Their new arena should still be filled laker fans on opening night lol
And I thought the Luol Deng issue was bad, this is just another level.
And then I have to read takes like “You shouldn’t clown the Clippers, they made the right move it just didn’t pan out” MOTHERFUCKER if we did this type of shit and never made the Finals they’d be saying we were the new most poverty franchise in all of sports worse than the Colorado Rockies or New York Jets 😭 fuck the sorry ass Clipper man, traded their future for two tissue paper ass “Superstars”
The fall of kawhi needs to be studied bro went from arguable best player in the world to we expect a knee injury by game 53 💀
Sign and trade him for Bradley Beal lmao
And not even a "mickey mouse" ring to speak of lmaoooooooo. Clippers are garbo 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Westbrook gonna return to his quadruple double machine era
10 points, 10 turnovers, 99 claps, 99 seconds of continuous shouting when throwing a monster dunk
Ah uncle Dennis deserves this
:2603:
Best thing about this the sad look on Khawi’s face this next season if he leaves. I didn’t forget him colluding with the Clippers while keeping us in the dark so we couldn’t sign any major free agents to play with Lebron and AD. This is basketball karma at work
Damn
PG actually showed out for them in comparison to Kawhi. I almost feel bad for Clips now. Almost
It's surprising that Jerry West (RIP) didn't see the superstar potential in SGA. To give up future SGA, and all those picks was crazy. And surely, he could've overruled Lawrence Frank if he knew how good SGA would've become.
Yeah, that’s crazy for someone like PG and people were saying that at the time, it’s not even in hindsight.
If the Celtics can't eat shit, at least the Clippers can help themselves to a big ol' bowl. SGA for George straight up would have been an amazing trade, let alone everything else they got.
Shai & 7 first rounders. Disgusting work
Hahahah. The wildest argument that Lakers overpaid. Even amongst some Lakers fans. Come on now…
Well this isn’t good for the Lakers. We have to go through OKC if we want to win a title. Clippers screw themselves to screw the Lakers is something I think their fans would actually like.
PG will go to the 76ers probably, I thought for a second the Warriors were gonna swoop him up.
Worse than the Westbrook trade?
What players ended up being those picks? Also what players ended up being the picks in the Aad trade.
Hahahahahahah biggest failure in nba trade. History
Number of Clipper rings despite having PG, Kawhi, Russ, Harden: 0
Going to the sixers to stink it up
I’ll always regret Kawhi not coming here.
Bron, AD and Kawhi would in theory have been the greatest big 3 of all time.
Wonder how much Kawhi regrets it now.
💀💀💀💀
Shai should have been MVP which would make this even worse!
Right now, I don't think anyone would even trade SGA for PG straight up.
we won 1 chip and 1 IST chip, and these basement dwellers only sniffed Conf. Finals once
Karma for Balmer trying to make Dippers big dogs over lakers and also karma for kawhis free agency bs
Actually though, don’t mean to interrupt the jerk, they only have 1 last FRP, with at worst also giving lowering next year.
It does suck that they lost SGA though
Loll all things considered yeah. I think the only viable player they got was Jalen Williams. Imo I honestly think draft picks are a little overrated but depends on the organization.
I don't blame them for doing literally everything and anything to try to win
Yeah, it is a 20/20 vision type thing. Maybe besides 2020, they could have won any year if Kawhi/PG were healthy.
At the same time, if they didn't go for it - everyone would still laugh at them so it makes no difference lolll
Definitely 20/20 hindsight
Clippers are even more done than before, that new stadium about to become Lakers Staples center 2.0
Even if the Clippers ended up being a dynasty with Paul George and Kawhi Leonard, you know 99% of LA is still Lakers town.
Brilliant move lol
Well as a Lakers fan, I love it. Now, let me get back to my current sad life as a Lakers fan.
Hell naw lol
He could have been a laker…
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Now they got Kawhi and his slow roasted bbq chicken knees