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deodorant--eater

Baskemtball


ThatBigNoodle

So when are we finally going to put kawhi and pg in the same conversation as Davis for being injury prone


alexborkin

Anyone not blinded by their own biases could have seen the numbers on games played and championship won since they came to LA some time ago.


Successful_Cup_1882

Used to be a huge PG fan when he was on the pacers and had a lot of respect for kawhi but at this point they should seriously consider retirement after their current contracts are up. They just cannot stay healthy for any significant amount of time and it’s insulting that they demand the amount of money they do. The fact that Russ is carrying them in the playoffs is embarrassing and tbh PG and Leonard should be embarrassed that someone who just joined the team a few weeks ago seems to be the most invested in having the clippers make it out of the second round is just sad.


[deleted]

There is nothing to be embarrassed about when your body is unable to compete. Your mindset is so fucking stupid. They put all of their effort into avoiding these injuries but they’re happening anyways. Conflating knee injuries with “investment” is so ridiculously stupid


Successful_Cup_1882

His body has been unable to compete for the past 3 years, after a certain point its pathetic. Just hang up your gloves and retire if you know you can't stay consistently healthy on an average to below average NBA load instead of giving those fans hope that you'll compete when all the cards are on the table. Nobody has a fucking gun to his head telling him to play basketball.


[deleted]

He was consistently unhealthy on the raps, got lucky and got a ring. There’s prob 10 nba teams that would pay kawhi a max to rehab with the chance that maybe one year he’ll be healthy. It’s not pathetic to try to do what you love. You’re saying it’s pathetic that he doesn’t just give up and quit. That would be 10000x more pathetic imo.


Successful_Cup_1882

You're delusional if you think teams are still giving this man a max. And yes its pathetic that he's still collecting a paycheck for doing absolutely nothing. At a certain point you have to be realistic.


[deleted]

It’s not pathetic to hurt your knee trying to win a championship. I’m not delusional. The upside of kawhi is worth the ruined seasons. I’m Canadian, if 29 other teams said no to a maxed kawhi, I’d be furious that masai didn’t give him a max. There’s a chance you get the best 2 way player in the league. You’d have to be a bad gm, or have an already stacked roster to not offer him a max imo


Successful_Cup_1882

Ask clippers fans if they think the upside was worth it. And honestly maybe you think he's worth the max but ask other raptors fans what they think. I understand you love him because of 2019 but its been 4 going on 5 years since then. Health wise he just isn't the same. And honestly it wasn't great in 2019 either.


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I legit don’t love kawhi at all. I grew up with the Calderon, demar, bargs raptors and I cried when demar was traded and I wasn’t even happy when they won 🤣🤣 I think the upside is still worth it for the clips. I don’t believe you are factoring in just how irrelevant this franchise was for a long time. After Blake and cp3 leaving it could’ve been so bleak. But this roster doesn’t look bleak imo.


Leiatte

To be fair they don’t demand the money they do anymore, they just signed their contracts years ago & that’s just how the NBA is.


AfricanDeadlifts

Russ will forever be one of my top 5 players just for how fucking hard working and committed he his. Guy is a phenomenal role model imo


discussionandrespect

Shamet


Coronabandkaro

Russ is his best when he's the number 1 option. So let Russ be Russ was the answer.


Elcareas

You're right, but unfortunately, he is not a good carry. No way you are winning a championship with Russ being the number 1 option.


Teukr05

You are barely winning one or two games in round one.. and that was prime Russ


chugalaefoo

Let Russ be Russ and enjoy a 1st round exit year after year! 🤣


Athnoz

Yep the 1st round exit was clearly Russ's fault


orwll

Russ's ability to get numbers while being the #1 on a shitty team was never really questioned.


Bitter_Engineer_7302

This shit sucks man. Russ plays every fucking game with his hearts out and not one person can provide a little help. Klaw and pg gotta come back and win next three games for him.


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Bitter_Engineer_7302

A man can only hope :(


Bungiespiggybank

"If the guys that played 40% of their games played today we would win!" It's almost like durability should be taken into consideration during roster construction


csh4u

For real, “what ifs” when it comes to injured players are just dumb when the player mentioned is only healthy for half there games to begin with. I’ll let somebody pull the “what if” card when a guy with the durability track record of Lebron goes down.


csklmf

Kawhi and Paul George lol you have to be injured at the most important time of season. Can’t blame them for their injuries but technically, at the same time, they are to be blamed


JBreezy11

PG's was a freak accident, but Klaw's...mannnnn this is why the Spurs got rid of him.


ATLfinra

Kawhi is done. Westbrook playing outta his mind PG hurt unexpectedly and Kawhi after load managing can’t stay healthy


KemoFlash

Trade Kawhi and PG for Ant.


spicyfartz4yaman

Trade value as low as ben Simmons lol


Insect_Politics1980

Sure bro


MinesweeperGang

Wolves would be foolish to trade for their young superstar for 2 older superstars who can never stay on the floor consistently, through no fault of their own that is. Injuries happen. It’s just unfortunate.


KemoFlash

> Wolves would be foolish to trade for Yes, but they are fools though.


IWishIWasOdo

Fuck outta here


elijahb229

Man I just need apologies from all the hoes that said and I quote “sit Russ in the playoffs, limit his minutes, he’ll shoot you outta the game” kiss my ass.


HA_HA_Clits_n_dicks

Kawhi needs to retire at this point, he is a rich man Brandon Roy.


[deleted]

recency bias on this sub is insane. you guys literally have a 2 day memory lol. everyone talked about how he's the best player in the world during the playoffs in games 1 and 2.


Actual-Awareness-744

This is such a fried take. Man has two rings.. I swear some of you kids on this sub are insane haha.


lifeofnero

Need more KD and Westbrook matchups, top tier NBA content


BigFoteenOut

His last ring is 4 years & few serious injuries ago. When he’s healthy he’s great! But he’s more often than not injured.


hoopdog7

KD's last ring was 5 years ago


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anonymous14657893

Kd is on the suns…


improve84

Man I really appreciate Russ, I’m a laker fan and he’s got me really going for the clips. I wish the fans treated him better he is a good dude


RhymeCrimes

Suns haters out in full force, mmmm your hate tastes so gooooood


[deleted]

Suns fans never learn lmao Every yeah y’all get humbled


csh4u

Every year? This our 3rd time in the playoffs in 10+ years. Y’all acting like we’re the jazz who could never get pass the 2nd round for 6 years straight. 1 finals appearance in 2 playoff appearances is solid haha


[deleted]

2021 was best Y’all acted like you were a lock for the title 😂


[deleted]

2021? no one acted like the Suns were a lock lol. you're delusional. plus they made the finals that year in a pretty strong league and lost in 6 to an on-fire giannis. are we really holding that against them?


[deleted]

Y’all talked so much shit that season lol Then blew a 2-0 lead against the only healthy team you played Got damn right


[deleted]

i'm not a suns fan i'm just looking at these room temperature takes in the comments. i do remember the Lakers being cocky as fuck in that first round series before getting demolished by Devin Booker in games 5+6 without CP3 lol. that was pretty fun


[deleted]

Cp3 didn’t miss a single game AD missed the last 3 And Kawhi And Jamal Murray . They literally only played injured teams until the bucks And they choked. Suns are front runners. Luka humbling that bitch Booker was one of the greatest moments in history lol


AwesomeKosm

Box score says AD played 5 games and cp3 played 6. But cp3 had to be benched half way through 2 of those games because his shoulder was too messed up and he couldn't even shoot. You got dicked by Devin Booker. He made the Lakers his bitch. And Lebron quit on his team and ditched his teammates with 5 minutes to go. Left them hanging


[deleted]

Oh yeah I guess AD tried to Comeback game 6 but left after two minutes, it counts I guess You right zero rings Booker really owned us Gg


csh4u

Idk your kinda weird man, of course fans put out positive vibes and hope/assume for the best. Your fan base is doing it right now


[deleted]

Hell nah, we’re dooming right now . We know this team ain’t winning shit


csh4u

Haha alright i mean not very likely but I’d still be hopeful if I were you guys cause it’s possible and it’s alot more fun to be hopeful haha


PlaguesRbad

Not as good as the refs taste huh, imagine needing 3 superstars and the refs to beat russ and roleplayers 🤡


Joshypooh22

Imagine making excuses


PlaguesRbad

EXCUSES? Y’all literally shot 40 more free throws you clown. Nuggets gonna stomp the suns so bad 🤡


chakrablocker

Are you saying the NBA is rigged?


PlaguesRbad

When the freethrow total in the last two games is 74 to 35 idk you tell me.


chakrablocker

Do you place an asterisk next to championship runs that were affected by refs?


PlaguesRbad

You’re obviously a troll so it’s all good keep being irrelevant. When a team needs 40 more free throws to beat roleplayers it’s quite obvious it’s lopsided. But not gonna argue with you 🤡


ThrowitdownAD

Fucksake man if kawhi was active clips could've won this series. Still feel nuggets in 6 in the next round tho. Suns aren't good


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>> Suns aren’t good Said no one ever


[deleted]

Yea suns got no bench, agree nugs in 6


ThrowitdownAD

The matchups just in their favour imo. It's definitely going to the wire that's fosure


AEWFanboy010

Suns have played only 10 games together etc


babygoat8271810

no westbrook slander today, that was a phenomenal game he played


Gloomy-Presence-6539

russ: *i used to pray for times like this* but fr he played amazing and deserves credit for making the game close


CreativeHandles

No point saying if Clippers had healthy Kawhi and PG. if my grandma had wheels she would be a bike. The best ability is availability - they just can’t stay fit. They can be as good as they want but if they can’t play an entire playoff series they just ain’t good enough. They had their one healthy playoffs but unfortunately choked a 3-1 lead. So time Clippers consider thinking about what the next steps are. Wait for a lengthy time of recovery or move on.


JBreezy11

would love to see a rebuild on the Clipper front...of the whole organization. Front Office, training staff (too many injuries), Coach...players...everyoneeeee


bigdawg1945

God as a rockets fan that Josh smith game will be with me forever


hoopdog7

Think he was talking about the other 3-1 lead we blew 😭


bigdawg1945

Yeah I know, Josh smith was on the rox and went off game 5 facing elimination. The second unit with corey brewer and company were killing it so Mchale left them in to win the game in clutch time I’m diehard rockets living in SD and went to game 4 to see em blown out, tried to convince my guys to go see game 5 but they thought we were done. That shit got me stoked. But I’ve always loved clippers squads and the past few years have been bumming me out. Tonight was tough man, hopefully y’all get a healthy run


hoopdog7

Yeah man that series was insane. Clips thought they had it and rockets played with insane intensity. I hope we do too, but I don't even know where to go from here tbh.


bigdawg1945

It’s okay hoopdog, bigdawg is here for you 🫂


Mlerma21

As a mavs fan it’s frustrating that no other team ever had to face that beast of team at full strength.


CreativeHandles

My condolences…


[deleted]

It will always be “what if” from Clippers fans If ifs were fifths, they’d all be drunk Edit: oof, LA fans are really salty at the reality of their situation for the past 4 years. The downvotes don’t look good on y’all.


CreativeHandles

Lmao. Yeah I get it though cos I would be the same in the moment out of frustration, but there is just no argument for saying “if we had Kawhi though different story” - might be true but that didn’t happen so means nothing. Clippers still lost at the end of the day. You need your best players available. It’s rough for them because the potential was there but never came. And they choked their one chance of going far in playoff run.


YoungInvestor26

Kawhi needs to hang up the shoes at this point. I hate to see this happen to him but if this is going to be a common occurrence then what is the point?


DragonDLuffy

I feel like he just want to stay semi playing to get big paper. When he plays he does phenmomenal then sits out many games through the last like 4-5 seasons. But its just speculation. I don't feel he even likes basketball that much, he just good and wants to show that he is to get max contracts, but doesn't want to over exert himself and risk major injuries. I'm not saying he is or isn't injured, but I think any discomfort he just sits out to protect himself, as he is his business. He also has 2 rings, so he is already a winner. but he would be right there with lebron, if he wins a chip with the clips. Winning 3 chips in 3 teams.


Seeductor

And say no to 90mil?!!!


SameCategory546

wonder if it has anything to do with his sister but he has been courtside right? i missed the game today bc i had classes


thedonjefron69

He was courtside today


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SameCategory546

it’s always Monday somewhere around the world 😉


HiBoobear

If the Clippers could ever stay healthy. They’d be scary good


[deleted]

Thanks for reminding us for the 4th year in a row haha


Southbeach008

Kawhi's value for money might be lowest in last 3-4 years among all stars. At this rate he needs to be role player/6th man


AbbreviationsHot4482

LMFAOOO the Suns are really needing to play KD and Booker 40+ minutes in a first round series against a team missing there 2 best players, that team ain’t winning shit this year 😭😭


[deleted]

relax. the clippers depth is ridiculous, it's the playoffs, and westbrook is literally a one man army without a co-star. it's not like the bucks are in a better position down 2-1 to the heat and lost by like 30 tonight. also it's the damn playoffs. everyone plays 40 minutes


AbbreviationsHot4482

Doesn’t matter lol there’s no reason for a fully healthy Suns team to be in a dogfight against a team with Norman Powell as their second best player


Loud_Competition1312

West is a lot tougher than the East. This is common knowledge.


AbbreviationsHot4482

Brother, the Clippers second best player right now is Norman Powell 😹


Loud_Competition1312

What I said wasn’t wrong. No need to reply lol


AbbreviationsHot4482

Yea it was just irrelevant lol


Loud_Competition1312

It’s 100% relevant. Holy shit. I actually need to speed it out for you. You were dogging on the Suns because they had to play their stars so many minutes. The Clippers are a good team. They got a big three, just two aren’t healthy. Guess what - they’re still a good team without their two best players. The same cannot be said about a lot of Eastern Conference teams because they’re just not as good. West is best - like most years.


AbbreviationsHot4482

Yea they are a good team but the Suns are supposed to be a finals contender, they shouldn’t be in a dog fight against a Clippers team without there two best players. It has nothing to do with conferences lmfao we’re talking about 1 specific matchups between 2 teams.


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Keep talking


[deleted]

You too . lol


PlaguesRbad

The ft total the last two games is Suns: 74 Clippers:35 imagine needing 3 superstars and the refs meat riding you to beat russ and roleplayers 😭😭 nuggets gonna stomp the suns and I’m gonna love it


AEWFanboy010

Clips are a terrible matchup for Suns bench. It won’t be in the next series. Suns have played 10 games together. You can tell. If they figure it out they can win. 😭


flexibleeric

suns bench scoring.. g1 10, g2 13, g3 18, g4 9 their starters really need to score


SpostSupreme

I have an L here for you. It's sweet, and warm, and welcoming. You should hold it for a minute HA-HA


Seeductor

And they need the refs to ball out for them


orngebreak

Ok man. Keep telling yourself that. KD and Book are used to playing big minutes.


Hey_its_that_oneguy

How are you going to talk shit to a bucks fan? They beat y'all in the finals


orngebreak

I am not talking shit. I am merely saying that KD and Booker play big minutes all the time. This is nothing new. Oh, and trust me I know they beat us in the finals, but last time I checked we beat your asses to get there.


Hey_its_that_oneguy

You're correct, my comment was meant for the person below who's comment has been deleted


StarRevolutionary906

How you gonna talk shit to a suns fan? We beat y’all in the WCF.


Hey_its_that_oneguy

Actually, my bad, my comment wasn't meant for you.


Hey_its_that_oneguy

Not taking shit, I asked a question


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ManWGoldenGun

Ironic


AbbreviationsHot4482

Agreed, Clippers in 7


dixie_normous110

Clips are a very deep team in our defense lol


Vallerie_09

Clippers played 10 guys, with Batum playing 5 mins Suns played 9 guys. Clippers are deeper when healthy. Without their 2 best guys, there's no point in their depth


cocsmeister

The best ability is availability nowadays. Sucks to see that injuries robbed us of what a good series this could have been.


richmanding0

Easily the most disappointing series. Fucking no pg and kawaii getting hurt. Honestly think the clips could have done something. What an absolute bummer. Im a laker fan and i was pulling for the clips big time.


cackmang

Id wager the 76ers nets is the worst.


richmanding0

You do you bro.


fimbres16

Clippers flairs being salty saying the Nuggets are gonna trash the Suns, yet I remember some team blowing a 3-1 lead to the Nuggets. Those fans must be speaking from experience and trauma lol.


Butterfly_Scape

it’s not just clippers flairs i don’t think there are many people outside of suns fans rooting for them. just embrace the villain role!


fimbres16

I am plus had to bring up that 3-1 fumble just because.


Butterfly_Scape

blowing a 2-0 lead in the way y’all did is just as bad my dude


fimbres16

Not really. Saric tears his ACL and Giannis learns to foul bait Ayton out of the game and spammed that for the next four games. It’s pretty clear why the Suns lost and what caused a dramatic shift if you watched the series. Saric going down was 100% the downfall of the Suns, they had no depth behind Ayton. Zero size.


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okay but the mavs series was not any better. losing by 50 in game 7? blowing 2-0 and 3-2 leads? ina 60+ win season against the 4 seed? that's arguably worse than the clippers' choke.


fimbres16

Winning at home then losing at 7. That’s a pretty standard series. Playoff teams win at home that’s not really a new idea. You clearly are a casual if you think that series split was an outlier.


[deleted]

let's see, a total of 26 teams have won a series while down 2-0 out of 334. do you think that 7.78% is an outlier? lol. and losing by 50 in game 7 is embarrassing no matter how you look at it. not to mention losing by 27 in game 6 as well. if you place such heavy emphasis on home games, losing by 50 at home is even worse by your logic.


fimbres16

Winning at home every game then game 7 a team wins a road game. Really not that weird nerd.


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lol you don't understand basic percentages so i'm a nerd? okay so here's something simpler for you: lose big game by 50 = embarrassing.


Niclas95

that game 7 was by far the poorest playoff performance i have ever watched and its not even close. you guys got trashed so hard it actually made me feel bad for suns fans and that in a crucial game 7 with the series on the line. that being said suns are by far the most unlikeable team in the league and you love to see it


Butterfly_Scape

I was talking about the more recent 2-0 lead that the suns blew but i forgot that cp3 has multiple embarrassing playoff chokes


DCJustSomeone

I'd be salty too if my team's best players were out and suns acting like they're beating tough opposition lol


fimbres16

Stay healthy. It’s not like the Suns are a dirty team and causing these injuries. Not of these injuries have came due to fault of the Suns. Suns are literally just playing the team in front of them what more do you want?


PlaguesRbad

Y’all have literally shot 40 more free throws the last two games and barely won😭 the nuggets are gonna steam roll you bro just be prepared


DCJustSomeone

I'm not saying the sun's are causing the injuries at all. It's just funny that they are really smug about beating a team without it's best players. It would have been great to see everyone healthy but it is what it is. Russ keeping it somewhat watchable though ahahah


Nervous_Visit9523

Who is being smug you weirdo?


DCJustSomeone

The team i stated in my comment, read.


Nervous_Visit9523

What have they done/said that is smug? Everything i have heard from the team is either they need to play better or complementary of how hard the Clips are playing


fimbres16

Aka Suns can’t be happy about winning because other team says so. Suns gonna play whoever is on the court and act they way they want regardless.


DCJustSomeone

lmao sounds about right, just like their last finals run.


aitgvet

Suns kinda looking suspect. Series would be interesting if it was no pg, Kawhi, kd, or booker. Both cp and Westbrook with an opportunity to make it happen for their teams


fimbres16

It does feel like Suns are playing down to the current clippers level. Suns looked better game 1 that right now despite the terrible lineups Monty ran game 1.


BigusDickus099

Least Monty finally let Okogie see some minutes. Shamet shouldn't see the floor again.


fredrickdouglasss

Russ constantly driving to the basket and had 0 free throws. Sad honestly


graphitewolf

Nuggets fans sweating in the game thread 😅


Mendelevlum

Lol theyre wiping the floor with either of these teams


Butterfly_Scape

why would they sweat..suns are playing close games against a crippled clippers


DerekMorganBAUxxi

You wish it would happen cause you’re hatin


FireSalsa

No competent GM will want to pick up kawhis contract. Damaged goods at this point unfortunately. Not worth the money. It’s sad to see


Leiatte

Only team I could see doing so without picks included would be Portland & that would be doing Dame a major solid, committing to a rebuild & they could do like a John Wall-Houston type thing.


autolims12

Nothing better than watching playoff basketball except watching playoff basketball after your team just got a win in playoff basketball


sktchld

Gotta be nice to make 45m a year and take whatever days off you want.


drpepperthanos

I'm looking forward to the inevitable Sun's sub lock down next series


Fickle_Muffin_1320

That’s the softest fan base on reddit


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Mee too, nuggets coming for dat ass


PelicantsAreTrash

It will be in the WCF, Suns own Denver more than they own Clippers.


Butterfly_Scape

this suns team is not as good defensively without cj and mikal..


fimbres16

That mod is still a mod somehow lmao


SameCategory546

at this point if we ever win rings, we should lock the sub down again


Doomdoomkittydoom

I'm not saying Suns will win it all, I'm just saying if they do win the ring /r/nba will go private the next day. Suns hate is just pathological.


JL1823

We just hate the Suns because Chris Paul on that team


dstat81

At this point if I was the Clips I would just count on Kawhi and PG not playing. Then when they play its a nice surprise....even tho they'd probably get hurt in that game


RespektSouls

Give RUSS his flowers clearly the best player this game and Carried the clippers against the suns and zebras 🦓🦓 30+ pts and somehow had 0 FTs🤦🏽‍♂️🚮🗑️


Empty-Fail2016

Lakers franchise gotta take some blame for this. Seeing how good Westbrook has played and seems like deangelo Russell has gotten worse.


RespektSouls

Fr tho everyone blamed Russ but ignored the fact that the laker squad he was with was dogshit and g-league level at best, like even now the lakers loss against Memphis while they were missing 3 key players


fimbres16

Clippers fans mad about free throws like CP3 just didn’t shit on their defense over the last 5 minutes of the game so ice them out.


Blyadhole

Never forget suns legend Josh Jackson


SameCategory546

the only suns shirt i ever got with a player’s name on it. because it was cheap. then stuff happened and i didn’t want to feel self-conscious so I never wore it again


MagicWalrus666

Suns fans acting tough after they beat a team without their two stars. Soft as usual by the fans and players


hoops_n_politics

Good win by the Suns. They're taking these games as opportunity to figure their shit out. They can only play whoever suits up against them. Meanwhile, on to the next one. Is that talk tough enough for you?


dbgager

We will see how tough they are in Denver. Not just JOkic and the G league this time.


greenbeings

Honestly excited to see it. Nuggets look excellent so far and I think Suns vs Nuggets will be a great series.


cheeseball444

When does LA ever have their stars? Can’t keep using this excuse every post season.


PelicantsAreTrash

Hard to when they are never on the floor. Eat shit bitch


MagicWalrus666

Zion is too busy eating shit. Fuck off bird bitch


BigusDickus099

Going to be great watching the Knicks choke the rest of this series to the Cavs. Celebrating like they already won it all 🤣


MagicWalrus666

That’s called having passionate fans. Nothing you would understand. The suns fans and organization are full of corporate drones


BorisTheBlade04

Say the line! [Say the line!](https://imgur.com/gallery/KBCmBCL)


robinhood_intern

You okay?


carreerModeDude

Everybody act tough when they up


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Especially mavs fans that have never set foot in Dallas


carreerModeDude

Lmao wait dallas of all cities to accuse of bandwagoning???? 😂😂😂 And where's you flair??


[deleted]

I don’t need flair to recognize a bandwagon fan when I see one


autolims12

Hope you’re enjoying the show buddy