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The building should’ve been buzzing before this one. With tons of media on hand for a nationally televised game between last season’s regular season MVP and NBA Finals MVP, Staples Center was supposed to be poppin’ for one of the season’s most eagerly anticipated matchups. Instead, a soldout crowd of 19,068 in downtown Los Angeles were […]
Kawhi Leonard is a key part of the Los Angeles Clippers‘ plan to compete. But you wouldn’t know it if you lived outside of Southern California, as the Clippers have opted to sit their superstar for nationally televised games in back-to-back weeks. As Adrian Wojnarowski points out, it’s unlikely that Leonard will play in back-to-back […]
The Clippers aren’t making it up as they go, even if it may seem like it at times. There is a strategy. Sorta. A day after Kawhi Leonard missed his first game of the season for load management reasons, the talk before he returned to the court against the Spurs Thursday at Staples Center in […]
The Clippers shocked the world by pulling Paul George away from Oklahoma City and signing Kawhi Leonard last summer. When asked about the days leading up to Kawhi’s decision on Tuesday, LeBron James told the assembled media that he believed the Lakers had a chance of signing Leonard. Some insight from LeBron James on Kawhi Leonard today. Said […]
Despite the momentum the Clippers have heading into this season, Los Angeles will always be the Lakers town, which was never more evident on Sunday, when L.A. native Kawhi Leonard attended a Rams game. While watching the Rams-Buccaneers game at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum, Leonard was shown on the jumbotron, and was showered with boos from the pro-Lakers crowd. It’s likely […]
According to Marc Stein of the New York Times, Kobe Bryant handpicked a number of current NBA players to attend a training camp last month at his new facility in California. Kobe Bryant, I’m told, held an invite-only camp for a few days in mid-August at his new facility in Thousand Oaks and had Kawhi […]
According to Adrian Wojnarowski, Kawhi Leonard and Paul George had discussed playing together in Los Angeles well before free agency opened—a claim that has sparked more concern about tampering within the NBA. In the latest episode of his ESPN podcast, Wojnarowski said George’s agent had gone to OKC to request a trade to the Clippers, as his client was intent […]
Late last month, the Los Angeles Clippers held a press conference introducing their new superstar tandem of Kawhi Leonard and Paul George. The moment wasn’t lost on Clippers head coach Doc Rivers, who helped orchestrate a similar union between Tracy McGrady and Grant Hill with the Orlando Magic in 2000. Even though they happened 19 years apart, the blueprint was still […]
Amid rumors that the Toronto Raptors have internally discussed taking the No. 2 jersey worn by Kawhi Leonard in his lone season with the team and retiring it, Raptors superfan Nav Bhatia vehemently disagreed with the idea. Bhatia also doesn’t believe in having a statue erected in honor of Kawhi’s game-winning Game 7 shot against the Philadelphia 76ers, which helped Toronto advance to the Eastern Conference Finals. Nav argued that […]
In his sit-down interview with ESPN’s Rachel Nichols following the Los Angeles Clippers‘ introductory press conference earlier today, Kawhi Leonard spoke highly of his new star teammate Paul George, saying, “This is probably the first time I’m playing with someone with elite level talent.” Is Kawhi right about that? Kawhi also revealed that he got pretty close to […]
