Speaker 1: Hey, welcome in. It's a Clippers Talk Live. I'm out
Speaker 1: of Mosland. It's good to be with you. Or is
Speaker 1: it as some expected news at least from my size?
Speaker 1: My side just came out, big news, size but expected.
Speaker 1: And it's this sham Sharania now of ESPN, O my
Speaker 1: young Masuk of ESPN, who's been on the show here
Speaker 1: on Clippers Talk our reporting that star Kawhi Leonard is
Speaker 1: expected to miss indefinite time to start the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four twenty twenty five NBA season as he and the
Speaker 1: team rehab his right knee for sustainability on the court.
Speaker 1: Anything shocking about this? Did you guys think you was
Speaker 1: playing next Wednesday? Did you think he was playing the
Speaker 1: first couple of weeks. I don't know how I could
Speaker 1: have prepared you any better for this. I just did
Speaker 1: a deep dive on Kawhi, like I don't know, probably
Speaker 1: less than a week ago, talking about everything. We've heard,
Speaker 1: all the quotes we had from March thirty first on
Speaker 1: throughout this right knee swelling going on. I don't know
Speaker 1: how I could have prepared you more for this. Alex
Speaker 1: Webbin said, not sure this is breaking news. We've known
Speaker 1: this for the most part, I understand this sentiment. Old
Speaker 1: man Yen says, not surprised, but still bumped. Now that
Speaker 1: it's more official, I understand that completely him as he said,
Speaker 1: why are people surprised he didn't do any basketball contact?
Speaker 1: He hadn't been practicing with the team. I have been
Speaker 1: telling you that in order to get back out on
Speaker 1: the court. It would have been big if you could
Speaker 1: have played in a preseason game, because that means he
Speaker 1: would have already practiced and done some contact drills, the
Speaker 1: proper ramp up and build up to playing. I had
Speaker 1: played you audio from Kawhi talking about that very thing
Speaker 1: in Honolulu. I just did a show on this check
Speaker 1: the live section. I just did it, like I don't
Speaker 1: know how many shows. It wasn't go now because I'm
Speaker 1: doing so many, but I tried. I did my best
Speaker 1: to prepare you. I don't know what else I could
Speaker 1: have done. Deca Fantastic said, what I love is Clipper's
Speaker 1: talk is becoming something I can always depend on when
Speaker 1: something happens. Adam is always ready. That was the goal.
Speaker 1: That was my aim here. I appreciate you, Ha, Deca Fantastic.
Speaker 1: Jordan said, this was pretty known. Even Tyleru went out
Speaker 1: with the starting lineup not too long ago. I mean
Speaker 1: Brad Turner just asked him Monday night after the game,
Speaker 1: do you have a starting lineup without Kawhi Leonard said, yeah,
Speaker 1: the one I went with tonight. We've known. Hanta Hans said,
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard always doing this after getting the bag. I
Speaker 1: hope he gets well, plays well, and then we trade
Speaker 1: and gets assets back. Yeah. This is totally intentional on
Speaker 1: his part. He's not a Hall of Fame player. He
Speaker 1: doesn't love basketball. He doesn't have a passion for the game.
Speaker 1: He didn't try to play on one leg in Game
Speaker 1: three last season against the Dallas Mavericks and hang on
Speaker 1: the rim because he was scared to fall to the
Speaker 1: floor after an Alu dunk. Shut up man Deca Fantastic said.
Speaker 1: Week to week is indefinitely no setbacks. Is the key fact.
Speaker 1: I'll read you more from the article, which really makes
Speaker 1: this seem like non news. It starts like this. LA
Speaker 1: Clippers star Kawhi Leonard will be sidelined indefinitely to begin
Speaker 1: the NBA season as he really rehabilitates from inflammation in
Speaker 1: his right knee, sources told ESPN on Thursday. The Clippers
Speaker 1: in Kawhi are in the midst of a rehab process
Speaker 1: for the two time NBA Finals MVP that is aimed
Speaker 1: to bring sustainability for him on the court through the season,
Speaker 1: and the franchise will be diligent and cautious to ensure
Speaker 1: his fitness long term. I'll read that again. The Clippers
Speaker 1: and Kawhi Leonard are in the midst of a rehab
Speaker 1: process for the two time NBA Finals MVP that is
Speaker 1: aimed to bring sustainability for him on the court through
Speaker 1: the season, and the franchise will be diligent and cautious
Speaker 1: to ensure his fitness long term. I have been telling
Speaker 1: you for some time now that I believe they're being
Speaker 1: overly cautious. Rightfully, so, considering everything that has happened, it
Speaker 1: is the correct move. They don't want to set back
Speaker 1: like they had in twenty twenty two when he first
Speaker 1: came back from the ACL where he played a couple
Speaker 1: of games coming off the bench, and then there was
Speaker 1: stiffness in the knee in a game in Okac and
Speaker 1: then we didn't see him for about three weeks or
Speaker 1: a month. Don't want that, am I thirteen twenty four said,
Speaker 1: indefinite can mean a lot of things, which is the
Speaker 1: sad part. It could because why because of what I've
Speaker 1: been telling you, no one knows how his knee is
Speaker 1: going to respond. He has to go through the rehabilitation process,
Speaker 1: strengthen the knee. Then see, Okay, as I'm doing these exercises,
Speaker 1: is it being inflamed? Is it swelling back up? No?
Speaker 1: Check mark, Move on to the next thing. Then eventually
Speaker 1: get to the point where he can get back onto
Speaker 1: the court, but that still includes practicing five on five
Speaker 1: and then see how he responds with his need the
Speaker 1: next day after that. I told you back in the
Speaker 1: playoff series, Yeah, I expect him to try to play
Speaker 1: on it. It's how he responds to that. And he
Speaker 1: didn't respond well after Game two. He looked much better
Speaker 1: in Game two that he did Game three. The Nie
Speaker 1: well back up. I have told you my concern all
Speaker 1: along is that the only reason the swelling has gone
Speaker 1: down is because he hasn't played high level basketball. What
Speaker 1: happens when he gets back to playing five on five
Speaker 1: NBA level basketball. Does the swelling go back up? We
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know how I could have laid
Speaker 1: this out any more cleanly for you guys to understand,
Speaker 1: Alex Webb said. Sham said, they have a handle on
Speaker 1: it and have a better sense of how to manage
Speaker 1: the swelling. Hopefully it works out for Kawhi this time around.
Speaker 1: He's quoting stuff for media Day. That part of it
Speaker 1: that's not new information, like most of this article, and
Speaker 1: it's pretty damn short, is pulling stuff from what Lawrence
Speaker 1: Frank has said already. Leonard and the Clippers have gone
Speaker 1: through a variety of medical treatments to control the inflammation
Speaker 1: since the end of last season. We know Lawrence Frank,
Speaker 1: president of Basketball Operation, is said at the start of
Speaker 1: t in camp that the inflammation had gone down significantly
Speaker 1: since last postseason. Yes, but that the team wanted to
Speaker 1: get the franchise's start need to one hundred percent and
Speaker 1: would take every precaution. This is not new information. When
Speaker 1: asked if he could have to deal with information coming
Speaker 1: up for the rest of his career, that was asked
Speaker 1: at media Day by om Yam Maasouf to Kawhi Leonard,
Speaker 1: Leonard said that it is a possibility, but that the
Speaker 1: medical staff has got a better handle on it and
Speaker 1: is trying to ensure that isn't the case, So Alex
Speaker 1: Web that was for media day. That's nothing new. We
Speaker 1: already knew that. Tim Ay said, not shocked at all.
Speaker 1: This has to be part of the load management strategy.
Speaker 1: No back to backs and cut at least the first
Speaker 1: month of the season to save his legs conjecture. Mo
Speaker 1: Hassen said. Any true Clippers fans have been aware of
Speaker 1: this for at least a month. This press release was
Speaker 1: for the rest of the NBA and casual fans. You're
Speaker 1: probably right about that, the guy who I almost put
Speaker 1: in time out earlier, HANSA. Hans said, just an emotional
Speaker 1: sad fan here. History repeating itself helpe the rest of
Speaker 1: the squad kept us afloat, or can keep us afloat
Speaker 1: while we wait for Kawhi to be back. That's fine,
Speaker 1: I understand, it's frustrating. I get it. I just I
Speaker 1: don't know if you have been listening to me since
Speaker 1: the end of March when this first went down. I
Speaker 1: told everybody then, guys, this swelling him missing that game
Speaker 1: against Denver, which have playoff consequences. At the time, it
Speaker 1: was a real injury. Everybody kept telling me, no, they're
Speaker 1: just saving him for the postseason. They wouldn't give him
Speaker 1: a break right before a long postseason. It's not serious.
Speaker 1: He's playing Game one. All that stuff was misinformation. I
Speaker 1: tried to alert you about this. Deuce Time said, I'm
Speaker 1: not surprised. James Hardens, Zoo, Norm and Sky Jones gonna
Speaker 1: do it. Grant Mona in here said, I don't think
Speaker 1: any of this is new or new news to me
Speaker 1: and Adam. Everyone around the team kind of knew this.
Speaker 1: I'm reading stuff from the article that we already do.
Speaker 1: None of this is new. This is just I don't know.
Speaker 1: ESPN wants to take credit for obvious information here. I
Speaker 1: get it. I guess it's a little bit more official now,
Speaker 1: but I don't think anyone thought he was playing next week.
Speaker 1: Jordan said, I think as Clippers fans should be happy
Speaker 1: we are not throwing him out there in Game one
Speaker 1: of eighty two. We need him later in the year.
Speaker 1: Hope we get to see him in about fifty to
Speaker 1: fifty five games this year. The West is tough. I'd
Speaker 1: sign up for that right now. I would sign up
Speaker 1: for fifty games with Kawhi. That's where I'm at with it.
Speaker 1: Fifty games of high level play from Kawhi Leonard, I
Speaker 1: would love that, but again, you have to put yourself
Speaker 1: in a position to actually be able to make the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Try to stay out of the play in and if
Speaker 1: you don't have him enough, you could be flirting with
Speaker 1: being on the outside of the plan. We'll see a
Speaker 1: lot of unknowns AFG prints eight one to eight said,
Speaker 1: hate to say it, but a degenerative knee will not
Speaker 1: get better, It will only gradually get worse. Thanks for
Speaker 1: the definition of what the generative means. I think the
Speaker 1: tenure is done. Heartbreak xs xx Sick Angel says, what's
Speaker 1: the odds he doesn't play this year? No idea, guys,
Speaker 1: Kowhi can't know how his knee response to the treatments yet,
Speaker 1: so how can any of us know? How can the
Speaker 1: team know? Nobody knows it's how his knee responds. Frank
Speaker 1: Jay said, why was he even in the Olympic initial roster?
Speaker 1: That's fair. Did he not know his knee as inflammation
Speaker 1: or did Olympics practice just make it worse? We don't
Speaker 1: know that. At media day, it sounded like he was
Speaker 1: doing his usual workload build up off season workout stuff
Speaker 1: before and out after the Olympics, but he said just
Speaker 1: two weeks before reporting to the training camp in Vegas.
Speaker 1: I think it was for Tmusa. He initially said that
Speaker 1: he had had a turnaround just two weeks before. Then
Speaker 1: we find out after that Lawrence Frank press conference about
Speaker 1: a week before Media Day that he had a procedure
Speaker 1: in May. So I'm guessing he felt good after the procedure,
Speaker 1: whatever it was clean up. People say want to sound smart.
Speaker 1: Nobody can actually tell me what that means. But I
Speaker 1: guess he felt like he was healthy enough and it
Speaker 1: was a bucket list thing for him. And then he
Speaker 1: said the knee was in a neutral state while he
Speaker 1: was practicing and doing some five on five. But when
Speaker 1: Lawrence Frank said, and I pointed this out a million
Speaker 1: times here, that the swelling is almost gone, and that
Speaker 1: was in early October, late September he said that, and
Speaker 1: May is five months before that when he had the procedure. Apparently,
Speaker 1: I said, oh, that's a little bit concerning commits me ow,
Speaker 1: I'll just say it meew. Mio said, should kawaj just
Speaker 1: sit the whole season? This is a wash season anyways.
Speaker 1: Let him sit for an entire year and do whatever
Speaker 1: he needs to do. I think you're missing something very
Speaker 1: key here, very key that surprised me. O. The Clippers
Speaker 1: need to stay in front of the Houston Rockets so
Speaker 1: that they don't have their pick taken away again by Okasee.
Speaker 1: They have a pick swap with either the Clippers or
Speaker 1: the Houston Rockets. They are going to take the better
Speaker 1: positioned pick the team with the worst record. The Clippers
Speaker 1: have zero incentive to just give in and get a
Speaker 1: better pick this season when Okac is gonna take it.
Speaker 1: Whatever the best pick between them and the Houston Rockets is,
Speaker 1: they're getting, So that makes zero since so maybe a
Speaker 1: mute come in or maybe a timeout. Deuce Time says,
Speaker 1: our defense is going to surprise people. Optimism finally got some.
Speaker 1: Grant Mona says, see you tonight, Adam much to discuss.
Speaker 1: Have a great show, thanks Grant. I think he's coming
Speaker 1: on the pregame show with me Clipper's countdown starting at
Speaker 1: six thirty. Deca fantastic says until I hear the word setback,
Speaker 1: it's same old, same old. We haven't heard that yet.
Speaker 1: Alex Webb saying, Harden got us. We are good for
Speaker 1: the first half of the season, We'll see my guy.
Speaker 1: The West is dark and full of terror. Jesse Beer said.
Speaker 1: Adam Law has been hinting at this. It isn't new news.
Speaker 1: Law keeps saying first week in November. First week in
Speaker 1: November might be aspirational. My friend, he's out indefinitely. Nobody knows.
Speaker 1: Law also thought he was coming back in Game one
Speaker 1: and then changed his opinion on that. Nobody knows it's Kawhi.
Speaker 1: I'd been telling people that what the situation is if
Speaker 1: he plays high level basketball? Uh? Is this swelling just
Speaker 1: gonna go back up? I told you guys this back
Speaker 1: in April. I don't know. I feel like I've been
Speaker 1: kind of on top of this. One. Deuce Time said
Speaker 1: James Harden has approven one v one player in the
Speaker 1: late game, especially in the regular season. Facts he's also
Speaker 1: thirty five. A lot is going to be demanded of him.
Speaker 1: Asian Domination fifteen said, do you think Kawhi cries at night?
Speaker 1: This is a timeout? I think Kawhi is frustrated. Uh,
Speaker 1: Deuce Time says one hundred to Alex Webb, Holo Dolo
Speaker 1: says Hardens Zoo and the boys, it's all up to
Speaker 1: you now. It truly sucks that our opening schedule is
Speaker 1: so tough. It's a good point. The schedule is very
Speaker 1: difficult early on on Phoenix coming up less than a
Speaker 1: week from today at Into It Dome JJJ Triple J
Speaker 1: Jared Jackson Junior is who when you respond to comments?
Speaker 1: Is it you from YouTube or a different live stream?
Speaker 1: It's me Adam A Jay says minus two Jays. He
Speaker 1: will get fine for load management, but technically can't get
Speaker 1: fined if he's not playing because he's hurt. But we
Speaker 1: are really saving him for the middle of the season
Speaker 1: towards the playoffs. Watch. This level of delusion is problematic.
Speaker 1: This whole Oh Clippers are playing the long game and
Speaker 1: this is a tactic so they don't get fined for
Speaker 1: load management. Guys, the NBA doctors can clear someone for
Speaker 1: load management. That's what we saw in the nineteen twenty season,
Speaker 1: and the Clippers did not get in trouble. Then. I
Speaker 1: know the player participation player pernticipation policy has changed a
Speaker 1: little bit, but I think it's the same thing. I
Speaker 1: think everyone knows nobody's faking anything. Kawhi's injury prone the
Speaker 1: right knee. Unfortunately, last three seasons same type of issues
Speaker 1: flaring up, popping up. Rene Ze said, our defense is
Speaker 1: going to keep us afloat hope. So Louis Lemmis says,
Speaker 1: Rockets look solid. Whit More a huper a hooper. I thanks, yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't need to hear that name. Can whit Moore.
Speaker 1: Uh Louis Lemmis, if you know, you know, give Kawhi
Speaker 1: more money. Uh Mio said the pick is gone. We
Speaker 1: lost the trade. The pick is not gone. You're casual,
Speaker 1: you're out time out, time out. I tried to explain
Speaker 1: it to you. You didn't want to listen. That's a
Speaker 1: clear cut time out. The pick is not gone this
Speaker 1: season yet. If they stay ahead of the Houston Rockets, okay,
Speaker 1: C will pick swap with them. That's very important. So
Speaker 1: your little oh, what does it matter give up on
Speaker 1: this season? No, it matters. You can keep your first
Speaker 1: round pick him with you said it is four to
Speaker 1: eight weeks. Who's saying is four to eight weeks. That's
Speaker 1: not what indefinite means. That means there's no timeline. Clipsher
Speaker 1: Die says, I'm just excited for Clippers basketball. Thank you.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be into it. On the twenty third let's go,
Speaker 1: and honestly had no expectations for Kawhi playing when I
Speaker 1: got the tickets. This is the way. This is gonna
Speaker 1: be a fun team to watch. I like it. I
Speaker 1: like it. Jam I thirteen twenty four said, wtf type
Speaker 1: of question is that? Does a girln man cry at night?
Speaker 1: Think before you type. You're right, he's still in timeout.
Speaker 1: C has said, and definitely for the start of the season,
Speaker 1: we knew this, Yeah we did. Uh triple J. No.
Speaker 1: My comment was if you respond to comments from YouTube
Speaker 1: or a different live stream, but you answered my question,
Speaker 1: big fan, I appreciate you, triple J. I hope I
Speaker 1: answered it. Uh double X. Sick Angel said, I think
Speaker 1: we just got to have fun with this team for
Speaker 1: the next three years. Last year was our last year
Speaker 1: for competing for a championship until our next era of
Speaker 1: Clippers basketball. I'm calling it right now the into a domera.
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is post two, one three,
Speaker 1: the James Harden era, the James Kawhi era. Until Kawhi plays,
Speaker 1: that's hard to say into a domera. Tim Ay said,
Speaker 1: I'm glad we have hardened over PG since he's more
Speaker 1: able to carry a team. If it were the opposite,
Speaker 1: I think I feel more down. Okay, I see the
Speaker 1: logic there. He's the engine to the offense. Duce Time
Speaker 1: said they bringing back hand checking and defense will be
Speaker 1: of value in the NBA. No more carries and traveling
Speaker 1: buckets will be tough this year. Not sure what you
Speaker 1: read with the rules committee, but none of that is true. Yes,
Speaker 1: they are letting them play more physical. Hand checking is
Speaker 1: a judgment call. It's like holding from an offensive line
Speaker 1: in the NFL, it's how much do you let someone
Speaker 1: get away with? It still happens all the time. It
Speaker 1: is the most overused terminology by old heads that say
Speaker 1: no hand checking. It would be totally different now. It's like, actually,
Speaker 1: hand checking has been illegal since like the late seventies,
Speaker 1: but it's just how much you let them get away with.
Speaker 1: And you can go back and watch games where Jordan
Speaker 1: was getting all kinds of hand checking calls on the opposition.
Speaker 1: They were calling tiki tak stuff back then too. Hello,
Speaker 1: Dello says, in all honesty, this is nothing new. We
Speaker 1: all knew this was the route, the routes they were
Speaker 1: going with with this report, now everyone can stop asking
Speaker 1: the same damn questions about Kauai every time. I think
Speaker 1: that's part of the reason they're getting this out now,
Speaker 1: and maybe it takes some of the sting out because
Speaker 1: you still have five more days or six more days
Speaker 1: till opening night. Jordan said, I think we were made
Speaker 1: at five hundred or just slightly above in all games
Speaker 1: without Kawhi. I have real faith in our roster, and
Speaker 1: in a few games Kawhi does play, we will have
Speaker 1: a winning record. We are making the playoffs, playoffs or
Speaker 1: play in Jordan playoffs or play in that is the question.
Speaker 1: Caesar Ramirez says, big chance for Terrence Man to show more.
Speaker 1: Him and Norm have to step up to keep us
Speaker 1: afloat Nothing inaccurate there him if he said Adam isn't
Speaker 1: Rockets picked to okay see top ten protected? Yeah, so
Speaker 1: the Rockets can't be too bad. I don't think they
Speaker 1: should be bottom ten. The Rockets I think are playing
Speaker 1: team health permitting that goes for everyone. Jay says, not
Speaker 1: a wash season. All this talk and uncertainty about my
Speaker 1: Clippers has me feeling like the good old days when
Speaker 1: there was no expectations on us. We will shock many.
Speaker 1: Hashtag same old underdog, hashtag new dog house Hey, dogs
Speaker 1: in the house. Uh says he'll be back after the
Speaker 1: NBA Cup. Pointless conjecture. You have no information, Hunt a
Speaker 1: Hand says, I got Powell in my fantasy league, so
Speaker 1: more playing time for him. What's the condition on Kai's contract?
Speaker 1: How can he make it guaranteed? I think with Kai Jones,
Speaker 1: is he's eligible for a two way, they have one
Speaker 1: more two way to give away. It's going to go
Speaker 1: to him. By all accounts, they need a backup center
Speaker 1: right now. Mobamba is out and he's played very well
Speaker 1: the last four games in the preseason. Game one was
Speaker 1: very shaky after that. As I always say, progress isn't linear,
Speaker 1: except with Kai Jones. So they'd have to open up
Speaker 1: a roster spot for him to get a standard contract.
Speaker 1: Do they trade PJ and someone else a two for
Speaker 1: one so then they have that possibility for Kai someone else.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Se said that makes my decision easy.
Speaker 1: Read Uno d it is. When those red jerseys come,
Speaker 1: it is gonna be something. Triple J says, hope I
Speaker 1: get to see into it in person. I became a
Speaker 1: Clippers fan from Columbus because the Columbus NHL team shares
Speaker 1: the Clippers name. And as a kid, I confuse them.
Speaker 1: That's funny. I like that. I like fan history, like
Speaker 1: that Triple j MHL NHL Minor League Hockey j said,
Speaker 1: hit the like button and subscribe boys Clipper Nation. I
Speaker 1: second that. Jason Chavez said, when will the pain end
Speaker 1: for us? I don't know. I'm thinking about Kawhi right now,
Speaker 1: then the Clippers organization front office, and then us. But
Speaker 1: I understand as fans this is so frustrating. I completely understand, guys,
Speaker 1: And if you want to lash out a little bit,
Speaker 1: I'll take some of it. I didn't like what the
Speaker 1: guy said earlier. I won't even repeat it. There's some
Speaker 1: stuff that crosses the line. But because I know Kawhi
Speaker 1: wants to play, and I know how frustrated he is,
Speaker 1: and it's crazy that they're still dealing with swelling, and
Speaker 1: I you know, I have I have wondered before Ulma
Speaker 1: asked the question. I've told people this is behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: I've been like, you know, is his body just saying
Speaker 1: no more when they're swelling like this from playing and
Speaker 1: doing things he used to be able to do. Is
Speaker 1: his body just saying that's enough? I don't know. I
Speaker 1: hope not. I hope they're figuring this thing out. But
Speaker 1: if he had surgery in May and it's almost gone
Speaker 1: five months later, I told you after we heard that
Speaker 1: from Lawrence Frake, that didn't make me or give me
Speaker 1: a vote of confidence. I try to be as honest
Speaker 1: as possible. I told you back in April what I
Speaker 1: thought the deal was with Swelling and how concerning that is.
Speaker 1: But y'all didn't want to listen to me. He's playing
Speaker 1: game one, an'm you don't know, Jordan said, I have
Speaker 1: us anywhere from five to eight, So play an advantage
Speaker 1: play in advantage seeding where we have two chances to
Speaker 1: get the win either way. I'm sure we make it.
Speaker 1: In we would have the nine or ten seed shaking
Speaker 1: to play us in the play in Oh, they'd be shook.
Speaker 1: Jordan question, how many games do you have Kawi playing?
Speaker 1: Is that what's determining whether they're a five seed or
Speaker 1: an eighth seed? Jm I thirteen twenty four said that
Speaker 1: December to end of season schedule gets dark for real.
Speaker 1: The night is dark and full of terror. I hope
Speaker 1: he gets back as soon as possible, and don't we all,
Speaker 1: and that he can stay on the court and it
Speaker 1: not be an in and out thing. That has always
Speaker 1: been my concern. See said, where are the real Clippers
Speaker 1: fans at Let's go Clippers? Wall needs to step up? Hey,
Speaker 1: it's been one game and I was damn impressed with
Speaker 1: everybody at the wall and the supporter section. They were
Speaker 1: an incredible game one Monday night. Do you guys deserve
Speaker 1: a tip of the cap, a pat on the back.
Speaker 1: Well done, just rallying each other with a chance over
Speaker 1: and over again. It was loud and clear from the
Speaker 1: section we were at. I think in twenty five up
Speaker 1: there a little bit broadcasting row, Shakim Samuel said, how
Speaker 1: many wins do you think the team without Kawhi could
Speaker 1: win if Kawai plays zero games? Do you guys want
Speaker 1: to talk about that? Is that gonna induce panic? If
Speaker 1: Kawhi plays zero games? How many can they win? I
Speaker 1: will go with forty forty and forty two. Maybe forty
Speaker 1: two and forty all right, I'll say forty two, just
Speaker 1: because they did do that without Kawhi in the twenty
Speaker 1: one twenty two season with only thirty one games from
Speaker 1: Paul George. Richard LW said, six months since the last
Speaker 1: game he tried to play, and all the club told
Speaker 1: the fans is managing inflamation, because that's probably all they know.
Speaker 1: What else, what other information do you think they're holding back? Like, honestly,
Speaker 1: it's inflammation. Now, the root of that, the source cause
Speaker 1: of that is my concern. Triple J said, So is
Speaker 1: KPJ getting a guaranteed spot that means bones chances are
Speaker 1: slim to none? Huh, Well, guaranteed what do you mean
Speaker 1: by that weird terminology? He's signed through next season? He
Speaker 1: has two years on his contract, so yeah, we still
Speaker 1: don't know if he's gonna get suspended. We still don't
Speaker 1: know his availability. And maybe that's one of the reasons
Speaker 1: they haven't traded Bones because I know in the past
Speaker 1: they have looked for a better situation for Bones to play.
Speaker 1: You're bringing Chris down and KPJ sure seems like Bones Highland.
Speaker 1: His plans aren't long for the Clippers or with the Clippers.
Speaker 1: Sergio Gutier says, will Kawhi ever wear the new Clippers
Speaker 1: jersey in an actual game? I hope so. Richard Heacock says,
Speaker 1: I'm just jumping on not sure what's been said. I'm
Speaker 1: normally an optimist, but I think we need to be
Speaker 1: prepared for his career being over. I hate it for
Speaker 1: him more than anything. It's his career. Sergio Gutierrez says,
Speaker 1: Kawhi for Levine straight up. I don't know if the
Speaker 1: Bulls are doing that right now. I mean, Levine's pretty
Speaker 1: injury prone. I wouldn't do that. The Clippers are not
Speaker 1: gonna do that. Like Levin healthy, it still doesn't make
Speaker 1: you a contender or something like that. You get an
Speaker 1: actual healthy Kawhi. I know it seems like a long
Speaker 1: shot right now, but an actual healthy Kawhi in a
Speaker 1: playoff series, you feel like you got a shot against anybody.
Speaker 1: Anthony Armstrong said, is KPJ going to be suspended to
Speaker 1: start the season. I don't know, Sir Jeremy Mormon. Anything
Speaker 1: as possible. Clippers could be really good without Kawhi and
Speaker 1: really bad without Kawhi. I don't know about really good
Speaker 1: without Kawhi. I think treading water without him is best
Speaker 1: case scenario that Mexican nar is in here. One of
Speaker 1: the usuals. Wait, I'm late. What happened with Kawhi? All right?
Speaker 1: Little reset, It's much ado about nothing in some ways
Speaker 1: from anyone in the know or anyone that has listened
Speaker 1: to this show for weeks. Here, Jesse Beard tried to
Speaker 1: come in here and be like, don't you know this
Speaker 1: is what Lot Murray's been saying. Yeah, I've had him
Speaker 1: on the show. I've been saying all this stuff. Thanks
Speaker 1: bro Cham Shradia reported this along with our friend Oum
Speaker 1: Young Masuk of ESPN, who has been on the show.
Speaker 1: Said Clipper star Kawhi Leonard expected to miss indefinite time
Speaker 1: to start the twenty twenty four twenty twenty five NBA
Speaker 1: season as he and the team rehab his right knee
Speaker 1: for sustainability on the court. And then they reference stuff
Speaker 1: that is coming from past press conferences. That is all
Speaker 1: information that's been out there. And I literally just did
Speaker 1: a deep dive like a week ago or maybe less
Speaker 1: than that here in this channel, a kind of Kawhi
Speaker 1: investigation based upon all the quotes we have heard that's
Speaker 1: way more in depth than actually anything we got in
Speaker 1: this I don't know, seven hundred word maybe article, maybe
Speaker 1: five hundred. It's it's nothing. Anybody who's surprised by this
Speaker 1: hasn't been paying attention. Triple Jay says Adam might have
Speaker 1: to lace him up and carry this team to forty wins.
Speaker 1: Gregory says, people flipping out already as if why going
Speaker 1: to be out for the entire season. If he has
Speaker 1: to miss a third or half the season to play
Speaker 1: more in the postseason, so be it. I'm confident in
Speaker 1: the team without him. I'm glad you are. But if
Speaker 1: he misses half the season, it's gonna be really hard
Speaker 1: to get anything above the ninth or tenth spot. Jordan said,
Speaker 1: it would be great if Kawhi plays fifty to fifty five.
Speaker 1: I think that's the best of both worlds of load
Speaker 1: management and staying competitive. Fifty to fifty to five sixty
Speaker 1: is five or six seed around forty five conjecture great
Speaker 1: great estimates. I'm glad. I'm glad you got all figured out, Jordan.
Speaker 1: As usual, Sure, Frank j said, Kawhi is a bona
Speaker 1: fide top top player, but at some point we got
Speaker 1: to cut our losses. We just resigned him. So isn't
Speaker 1: he locked in? Yes, we can't move him, even if
Speaker 1: we want to. You could. I don't know what you're
Speaker 1: getting for him. I don't think the trade offers are
Speaker 1: coming in right now for Kawhi Leonard based upon his health.
Speaker 1: I don't think the Clippers necessarily want to trade him
Speaker 1: because he signified a transformational move by the team being
Speaker 1: a destination franchise for the first time ever. Kawhi chose
Speaker 1: them in twenty nineteen. Everybody won them first time the
Speaker 1: Clippers were able to land a guy like that. Soggy
Speaker 1: Cereal said we'll have a twenty twenty three Miami run
Speaker 1: to the finals. I'm optimistically delusional. I agree with the
Speaker 1: last part this. Morgan Freemas said in seven Gregory he said,
Speaker 1: we'll be competitive and they'll be better than people expect.
Speaker 1: We gonna be all right. Just watch, okay and well
Speaker 1: if Gregory with two why says so, then wow? Why
Speaker 1: be concerned? Guys? Hansa Han says, any update on PGA
Speaker 1: trade on a PJ. Tucker trade, Nope, don't have one
Speaker 1: for you. Probably just gonna have to wave them. Richard
Speaker 1: Heacock says, I like this roster is not a championship roster,
Speaker 1: but they're going to be fun this season. Go Clippers agree.
Speaker 1: I think this is a team that is very similar
Speaker 1: to the types that Clipper Nation has come to love
Speaker 1: and adore. JM I thirteen twenty four, says you all
Speaker 1: talking about trading Kawhi WQF are you gonna get for him?
Speaker 1: You might not even get a first round pick. Probably
Speaker 1: not currently, I don't know. David Stegner said, greetings from Germany,
Speaker 1: Clipper family. What's up, David Stagner. I think it's nothing
Speaker 1: that we didn't expect already. I am hype for an
Speaker 1: underdog season. Let's make the best out of it. I
Speaker 1: like this. Oh no, siste one says hi Adam A.
Speaker 1: He was in time out at one point last night.
Speaker 1: Did Clippers talk after dark? Late last night? Before that,
Speaker 1: we had Darian Vagierion from Locked on Clippers If you
Speaker 1: want to check that out, Hellodollo said. Also, indefinite can
Speaker 1: mean one week or months. Yes, indefinite just another way
Speaker 1: to say nobody knows right now? Is that not what
Speaker 1: I've been telling you? Nobody can know because they don't
Speaker 1: know how he is going to respond. Definition of indefinite
Speaker 1: if I read it off of Google lasting for an
Speaker 1: unknown or unstated length of time. Synonyms unknown, indeterminate, unspecified, unlimited, unrestricted.
Speaker 1: Somebody's like that means four to six weeks indefinite. Like, no,
Speaker 1: that's not what it definite means. I think they got
Speaker 1: time out. Gregory said, last message for everyone not directed
Speaker 1: towards you, Adam, by the way well you set it
Speaker 1: in here, Jordan said, I disagree with your take that
Speaker 1: without Kawhi we are cooked. I believe without Kawhi we
Speaker 1: will be a five hundred team. A five hundred team.
Speaker 1: Did you check the standings last year, Jordan? In the
Speaker 1: Western Conference? Let me give it to you, uh NBA standings.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you what a five hundred team gets
Speaker 1: you in the West. Because you keep talking about, oh,
Speaker 1: they'll be all right, they'll be fine, they'll be good
Speaker 1: enough without Kawhi to still be okay, to tread water
Speaker 1: and all these things overly optimistic. And I like the optimism,
Speaker 1: but I'm bringing realism here. The Houston Rockets were five
Speaker 1: hundred and forty one and forty one. They finished five
Speaker 1: games behind the Golden State Warriors, who were the tenth seed,
Speaker 1: So five games away from being in the plan. The
Speaker 1: more you know, maybe do a little bit of research.
Speaker 1: Uh double X sick Angel said, what would it take,
Speaker 1: hypothetically for the Clippers to make the play in if
Speaker 1: Kawhi can't play this season? Hypothetically forty five to forty
Speaker 1: six wins somewhere in that range to make the low
Speaker 1: end of the play in probably Oscar Hemanez said, all
Speaker 1: you could hope is that the Clippers use this chance
Speaker 1: to develop younger players. We do not have draft picks,
Speaker 1: so win with what you have. Yeah, there is no
Speaker 1: reason to bottom out right now, there's no incentive to
Speaker 1: do so. It doesn't make any sense. Someone tried to say,
Speaker 1: just lose this season. They were putting time out. Rafa
Speaker 1: meant to a a man after my own heart cut
Speaker 1: from the same cloth, said, keeping the receipts me too.
Speaker 1: Coffee and Ball said, I really wanted the Clippers to
Speaker 1: trade for zach Lavine, the second peg left when the
Speaker 1: Bulls would have loved to get off him right now
Speaker 1: will be harder to get there. I have been telling you,
Speaker 1: before you try to trade for that replacement for Paul George,
Speaker 1: maybe just maybe see where Kawhi Leonard's health is at,
Speaker 1: because if he can't sustain play, it doesn't matter who
Speaker 1: you trade for. You're still not a contender without Kawhi. Well,
Speaker 1: this is dumb. Rafa, Mentue said. Addition, by subtraction, not
Speaker 1: having Kawhi insane. That might be a timeout. Sergio Gutierrez said,
Speaker 1: I'm not too impressed with Kobe Brown this preseason. Hopefully
Speaker 1: he can show something tonight. He's my player to watch.
Speaker 1: I think he's going to get minutes. Jordan said he
Speaker 1: wants to walk back something he said earlier that sounded dumb,
Speaker 1: and now he wants to correct himself. Maybe. Jordan said,
Speaker 1: I'm saying without Kawhi we would be five hundred. Kawai
Speaker 1: will play in some games, so if we stay in
Speaker 1: five hundred without him, we will boost to a higher
Speaker 1: winning record, adding the games he does play well, He's
Speaker 1: out and definitely right now, so let's see what happens.
Speaker 1: Sist A one said Adam a. In your opinion, which
Speaker 1: teams in the West got better? Most of them? I'll
Speaker 1: run it down for you. I've talked about it plenty.
Speaker 1: The Clippers are the one team that most people are saying, oh,
Speaker 1: clearly got worse last season losing Paul George. I'll give
Speaker 1: it to you here. The Oklahoma City Thunder better and
Speaker 1: they won fifty seven games over the number one seed.
Speaker 1: You get Isaiah Hartenstein, you get Alex Gruso, You're better
Speaker 1: They're gonna win sixty games if they stay healthy. The
Speaker 1: Denver Nuggets, you can say they got slightly worse. They
Speaker 1: lost KCP Jamal Murray. I'm a little bit concerned about
Speaker 1: his health right now. He hasn't looked right. Minnesota Timberwolves
Speaker 1: depends on who you ask. I think they may have
Speaker 1: gotten a little bit better, but I think they are
Speaker 1: in contention for a top four seed once again in
Speaker 1: the Western Conference at worse by trading Karl Anthony Towns
Speaker 1: they bring in Devincenzo. Depends on they make Julius Randall fit.
Speaker 1: The Dallas Mavericks. I don't think they're making the NBA Finals,
Speaker 1: but they can have a better regular season where they
Speaker 1: finished better than fifth. I could see that happening, just
Speaker 1: because think about it this way. They didn't pick up
Speaker 1: Daniel Gafford and PJ. Washington until late in the season
Speaker 1: when there were thirty games left. Now they have them
Speaker 1: for an entire year and that defense. Now they lost
Speaker 1: Derrick Jones Junior to the Clippers. They brought in Klay Thompson,
Speaker 1: who's slicking a little bit on the wash side. I
Speaker 1: hope not because I love Klay Thompson, but what do
Speaker 1: you go oh of eight or oh of nine the
Speaker 1: other night against the Clippers? That into it dumb. They're
Speaker 1: in contention for a top five seed, Top four, May,
Speaker 1: top three Phoenix. I don't see how they can get
Speaker 1: much worse than last season. Just won forty nine games,
Speaker 1: stayed out of the plan. We're the sixth seed health permitting.
Speaker 1: They do have issues there. Katie's older Devin Bookers have
Speaker 1: been a little bit banged up, Bradley Beal has health issues.
Speaker 1: If they're healthy, they could be higher than the sixth spot.
Speaker 1: The Lakers. I don't know if they're getting seventy games
Speaker 1: out of Anthony Davis and Lebron James this season, But
Speaker 1: I think JJ Reddick will be a much better coach
Speaker 1: than Darvin Ham and actually can optimize lineups and put
Speaker 1: the best five out there, which is kind of critical
Speaker 1: to coaching. They have a possibility to be better. New
Speaker 1: Orleans Pelicans de Jontay Murray's there. They still have Brandon Ingram.
Speaker 1: What's gonna happen with that? But if they get more
Speaker 1: games and a Zion Williamson can be better. Sacramento Kings
Speaker 1: get Tomar de Rosen. They lost two less games last season,
Speaker 1: then the year before and they dropped from the three
Speaker 1: seed to the ninth seed. Brutal. That's the West. They
Speaker 1: can be better. Golden State. I don't know. They could
Speaker 1: be right around the same forty six wins. They need
Speaker 1: good health too with Steph Curry. But I see the
Speaker 1: Houston Rockets being better. They won forty one games, and
Speaker 1: remember they petered out at the very end. They were
Speaker 1: in a race with Golden State for that final playing
Speaker 1: spot and they faded. I like Emo O'dukah's Odoka is
Speaker 1: a really good coach, and they have a lot of
Speaker 1: young talent, and they should be better. They should. They
Speaker 1: could be competing with the Clippers all season long. They
Speaker 1: play each other four times. Utah has less incentive to tank.
Speaker 1: They could still get the draft pick, but they can't
Speaker 1: trade Laurie markin it. He's there the entire year. So
Speaker 1: they could be better than thirty one wins the Memphis Grizzlies.
Speaker 1: The last two times they were healthy, they were a
Speaker 1: top three seat in the West. Last year they weren't healthy.
Speaker 1: They had twenty seven wins. They should be a lot better.
Speaker 1: San Antonio. They're better than twenty two win team. They're
Speaker 1: better just by playing when Byama more minutes. They babied
Speaker 1: him last year. They won't be doing that as much.
Speaker 1: They have CP three, they have some other young guys.
Speaker 1: If Devin Vessel can get healthy, and I know he's
Speaker 1: already banged up Portland twenty one wins last year, I
Speaker 1: don't know. They could be worse. Who knows. Triple J says,
Speaker 1: I got about fifteen more minutes here. Triple J says,
Speaker 1: you and other Clippers media defend the front office, but
Speaker 1: I just don't get why they keep the fans out
Speaker 1: of the loop. Same with PG injury before the Suns
Speaker 1: Round one series, like it was a competitive advantage, not
Speaker 1: to say a guy's out for the series to make
Speaker 1: the other team still have to game plan for them.
Speaker 1: You're not going to do that. Other teams wouldn't do
Speaker 1: that necessarily either. If you look at any team star
Speaker 1: players and how murky and vague injury reports can be,
Speaker 1: it's not that unusual. I'm sorry, I think it's a
Speaker 1: little bit my opic. You're just looking at it through
Speaker 1: the lens of a Clippers fan. Rafam mentwo As said Westbrook.
Speaker 1: That's it. Yeah, they can be better without Russ. I
Speaker 1: think Jordan said, we aren't going the whole season without Kawhi,
Speaker 1: so bringing up a straight up five hundred season doesn't compute.
Speaker 1: We don't know anything. He's out indefinitely, hope not. But
Speaker 1: when he's back, is he playing at that high of
Speaker 1: a level. Remember it took a while. Go look at
Speaker 1: the numbers when he first came back from the ACL
Speaker 1: before he was Kawhi again. Evil Bot said Kendrick Perkins
Speaker 1: saying he's retire. He and Stephen A. King f off.
Speaker 1: Mo Hassen said if the front office wave PJ, could
Speaker 1: they sign Kai to a regular contract in Williams to
Speaker 1: the two way while staying under the cap. I am
Speaker 1: not sure about that, so I don't want to guess.
Speaker 1: Rafam Mentue said, Minnesota not better. They ain't much worse.
Speaker 1: Uh more minutes for nas reed is a good thing.
Speaker 1: They are not much worse, if at all. I don't
Speaker 1: think you understand. Anthony Edwards is like twenty three. He
Speaker 1: is going to get better. Dallas isn't better. They can
Speaker 1: be better seating wise. I don't think they're gonna make
Speaker 1: the finals regular season, though they could be. Hullo Dollo said,
Speaker 1: the people that keep saying lose this season or trade
Speaker 1: him right now. Either aren't Clippers fans or have absolutely
Speaker 1: zero clue about the state of the franchise with the
Speaker 1: picks and how trades actually work. Agree those people have
Speaker 1: been putting time out often. Timothy said, I think it's
Speaker 1: time for l Frank to go. He can't come out
Speaker 1: being disappointed at the Team USA decision than three months
Speaker 1: later Kawhi is out in definite. A lot of politician
Speaker 1: or politics happening, and we don't need a politician. Yeah,
Speaker 1: welcome to big business. Like you think this is unusual
Speaker 1: for just the Clippers, Like if he felt good during
Speaker 1: Team USA, then he should have had an opportunity to play, period.
Speaker 1: I get it's weird, and I don't know if anybody's
Speaker 1: ever asked that question. So you were ready to play
Speaker 1: five on five for Team USA, but now the season
Speaker 1: is starting and you're out, and definitely that doesn't seem
Speaker 1: to line up. I understand that disconnect there. I have
Speaker 1: asked that question. I asked lat Murray. He put it
Speaker 1: as he's trying to play eighty two games versus ten
Speaker 1: games in team with Team USA. I don't know. Rafa
Speaker 1: mentu A, said Brian James and Reddick are a joke.
Speaker 1: Oh god, Triple J said, Brian Shaw had the most
Speaker 1: authentic response I have seen from someone in the Clippers
Speaker 1: organization since two and three started shaking my head. Rafaman two,
Speaker 1: I gotta stop going to him. Richard Heacock said, Triple J.
Speaker 1: What did Shall say? No? Actually this is good? What
Speaker 1: did Brian Shall say? Check out Clippers Talk after Dark
Speaker 1: from last night in the live section here on YouTube.
Speaker 1: Richard Heacock said, I understand the strength of the West.
Speaker 1: I think because of it, there might not be a
Speaker 1: sixty win team. Everyone rest players has injuries and tries
Speaker 1: hard to beat one another. Two maybe that can help us. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they can beat each other up, which drives down records.
Speaker 1: That could happen. I just think of o Case he's healthy.
Speaker 1: Because of how young they are, they are actually a
Speaker 1: team that could win sixty games. They have guys who
Speaker 1: are young getting better, and typically younger guys stay healthier,
Speaker 1: and they're loaded with everything you can want. Coffee and
Speaker 1: Ball said, regarding the Levine comment, I disagree with or
Speaker 1: without Leonard having Levin at the very least doesn't gif
Speaker 1: rap picks to the teams. We owe them to plus
Speaker 1: his contract runs concurrent to Kawha's. That's part of the problem.
Speaker 1: Coffee and Ball. They want money opened up in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six. If they have Levine under contract, who has
Speaker 1: an opt in for fifty million during that summer, that
Speaker 1: does not help them get other free agents. So you're
Speaker 1: missing part of the equation a little bit. I understand
Speaker 1: your point about staying afloat and above the Houston Rockets.
Speaker 1: That's not a bad one. Lay Low Concer said, what's up, Adam?
Speaker 1: What's up? La Lo Lo Loo from better Coole Saul?
Speaker 1: I love them, man, hear me out. What if we
Speaker 1: trade Kawhi straight up for lebron Uh? That's hear me out?
Speaker 1: Time out. Triple J said that the corporate response is
Speaker 1: basically to be patient with Kawhi, basically saying we have
Speaker 1: to hold Kawhi's hands, maybe insinuating him and others or
Speaker 1: over it. You're reading into way too much there. Nicholas
Speaker 1: I said, quit pairing up Kawhi with another crutch. The
Speaker 1: dude is done La la before he was hitting for
Speaker 1: timeouts that I love Kawhi, but man, this game so old.
Speaker 1: I can understand the frustration. I try to think of
Speaker 1: it from his perspective, though, My god, he's one of
Speaker 1: the greatest players ever. Guys, there is a scenario on
Speaker 1: Earth too where Kawhi has a healthy career and is
Speaker 1: in the damn Goat conversation. Legit, that's how good he
Speaker 1: is when he's healthy. Jackson Snow said, Minnesota spacing got
Speaker 1: much worse, and that's a huge lost for them. You
Speaker 1: think their spacing got much worse because Julius Randall and
Speaker 1: Kat You're forgetting Devincenzo is there. You're forgetting nas Reed's
Speaker 1: gonna play more and he can shoot. I don't think you, guys,
Speaker 1: this is wishful thinking. Oh no, Minnesota got worse. Dell's
Speaker 1: got so much worse. This is wishful thinking. I'm sorry
Speaker 1: they did not get significantly worse. Evil Bot said Memphis
Speaker 1: is better this season, no kidding, man. I brought it up.
Speaker 1: The last two times they were healthy, they were a
Speaker 1: top three seed in the West. Now they've had some
Speaker 1: health concerns already in the preseason. But Deka Fantastic said
Speaker 1: being a good GM isn't managing fans, it's managing players.
Speaker 1: Saggy Cereal said it's constructing a team. Actually that can compete,
Speaker 1: and the Clippers, if they were ever healthy, they could have.
Speaker 1: They can't account the front office for Kawhi doing his
Speaker 1: acl in the middle of a run where we all
Speaker 1: thought they were gonna win the championship. That's not their fault.
Speaker 1: They can't account for them. And he misses a year,
Speaker 1: then he comes back, does his meniscus. Now he has swelling.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Every GM in the history of basketball would
Speaker 1: have made the trade, So don't tell me this is
Speaker 1: on Laurence Frank Saggy Cereal said out in definitely means
Speaker 1: nothing changed. I like our team now. If Kawhi returns,
Speaker 1: that's cherry on top. Season hasn't even started, so we
Speaker 1: can't be doomers yet. Good. I like that, Baha, Sharif said,
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Cousins and Lou Williams just said in affirm that
Speaker 1: l Frank is the problem. Well, I didn't hear that.
Speaker 1: I gotta hear the context, Timmy, he said, Adam, are
Speaker 1: you going live for today's game? Of course, I'll be
Speaker 1: it into a Dome pregame of six thirty. We'll be
Speaker 1: live on here and on the postgame show. Jay says.
Speaker 1: Starting the season eight and two. Can't wait for the
Speaker 1: Clippers' top post game. Let's go Clippers. Yeah, I'd sign
Speaker 1: up for five and five in the first ten games
Speaker 1: after Active Sports tv LA Clippers News says, so Frank
Speaker 1: was upset with Team USA for Kawhi being sent home,
Speaker 1: but the whole time Kuhi was really injured. We don't
Speaker 1: know exactly what was going on there. SS said, Hey, Adam,
Speaker 1: I could find you on the AM after last preseason game,
Speaker 1: or I couldn't find you on the AM. You were
Speaker 1: only online last preseason game. We were on a five
Speaker 1: to seventy. We were on there, but not for Clippers
Speaker 1: after Dark. I'm doing a lot of stuff here that's
Speaker 1: just YouTube exclusive. Now if you're just signed up for
Speaker 1: the podcast side on Spotify or iTunes or iHeart sorry,
Speaker 1: but I'm posting a lot of exclusive content on YouTube here.
Speaker 1: I've got like six episodes here that are not there.
Speaker 1: Just in the past week, Jordan said, I'm confident on
Speaker 1: a night to night basis only teams I can see
Speaker 1: out matching as straight up as four teams thunder t Wolve,
Speaker 1: Celtics and Knicks. I'm sorry, man, you're out to lunch.
Speaker 1: You're crazy. I don't know. I don't think you understand
Speaker 1: how much top end talent means in the NBA. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you heard this, but it's a superstar
Speaker 1: diverer league, and a lot of teams on paper, based
Speaker 1: upon the Clippers' health, are going to have the talent
Speaker 1: advantage most nights couldn't. I don't know that means. Active
Speaker 1: Sports tv LA Clippers News says Laurence Frank can't be trusted.
Speaker 1: I'm done with that stuff. Jordan's said, Philly and regular
Speaker 1: season walls to be a load managing cool story bro
Speaker 1: Active Sports tv LA Clippers News said our organization is
Speaker 1: looking like a joke. Okay, we got another Doomer here.
Speaker 1: Hello Dolo said, Yeah, they're looking like such a joke.
Speaker 1: With the best arena in the history of the world.
Speaker 1: Hello Dolo said, Okay, see lost iHeart for Isaiah Hartenstein
Speaker 1: for about two months with an injury. They might have
Speaker 1: a rough time without a center. Wait, what's the Isaiah
Speaker 1: Hartenstein injury? Out for two months? Am I the casual here?
Speaker 1: I know he has a hand injury. Oh that just
Speaker 1: came out earlier today, miss five to six weeks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they'll still be fine. Uh, sucks for Hartenstein. Okay, see
Speaker 1: though I love Isaiah Hartenstein, get better, speedy recovery. Coffee
Speaker 1: and Ball said, good point twenty twenty six free agent
Speaker 1: classes loaded anyways, doing a great job at him. Enjoy
Speaker 1: the rest of your day. Appreciate you, Coffee and Ball
Speaker 1: raphe L Romo said, just joined Kawhi out and definitely yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's what the header says here too. Triple J
Speaker 1: said never seeing Kawhi pass the second round in a
Speaker 1: Clippers UNI is depressing. Deca fantastic said. Tyleru said, we
Speaker 1: may have to piss off Kauwhi. Yes, I brought that
Speaker 1: up this quote multiple times. If you check out the
Speaker 1: Kawhi investigation I just did about his right knee swelling
Speaker 1: in the episode section, in the live section, just within
Speaker 1: last week, you would not have been surprised, surprised at
Speaker 1: all by anything that occurred. Yet today. He also said
Speaker 1: it seems like Kawhi voice he wanted to play opening day,
Speaker 1: but the Clippers clearly are protecting him. I agree with
Speaker 1: that they should be. Triple X Sick Angel said, I
Speaker 1: got ten minutes left. Maybe need some more Jordan Miller
Speaker 1: in my life and love the content you've been pushing out,
Speaker 1: you've been grinding. Thank you, appreciate you for noticing. Mk
Speaker 1: x LNT said, this is a fantastic opportun you need
Speaker 1: to accomplish the unexpected. Let's see what our guys can do.
Speaker 1: No woman, no kawhi uh we Marley h. Nicholas I said,
Speaker 1: I'm going to the game tonight, see the new stadium
Speaker 1: and Lop City too. Kai Jones, well, no doubt I
Speaker 1: would expect him to be playing. I know there's gonna
Speaker 1: be some starters likely out, but just more room for
Speaker 1: Kai Jones KPJ to get some more run I'm expecting,
Speaker 1: and then Jordan Miller Kobe Brown. Need to see them
Speaker 1: be at their best tonight. Here. In the last preseason game,
Speaker 1: Jackson Snow said, people don't guard Nas the same way
Speaker 1: they guard Cat Biggs. Are more willing to let to
Speaker 1: let to let the ten points per game score shooters
Speaker 1: of the twenty two point per dude they guard nasried,
Speaker 1: you don't know what you're talking about. If you think
Speaker 1: they are significantly worse the Minnesota Timberwolves, you don't you know.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry you haven't watched how they have played already.
Speaker 1: As Nasrie is the sixth Man of the Year winner,
Speaker 1: and I thought he should have won it last season,
Speaker 1: even though I love Norm. He should have been top three.
Speaker 1: But I thought nas Reed should have won it. He
Speaker 1: just got forty one percent from the outside. They weren't
Speaker 1: all open shots. If you think Minnesota is significantly worse
Speaker 1: with one of the best players in the league, Anthony Edwards,
Speaker 1: who is getting better better, He's twenty three, guys, He's
Speaker 1: not gonna be worse. Jamal Murray posted it, posted what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna check it out a lot? Murray, then you
Speaker 1: love him? Uh? I don't know what'd he post? Something
Speaker 1: Kawhi related, not seeing it being derailed. Andy Ate one
Speaker 1: two nine three said, I just hate all the Clippers
Speaker 1: go about it, acting like fans wanting to know Kawhi's
Speaker 1: health is none of our business, but then asking us
Speaker 1: to pay top dollar to watch this team. Can't have
Speaker 1: it both ways. What would you like to know about
Speaker 1: his health? What can they tell you other than the inflammation?
Speaker 1: And I have to see How's new response? Who can
Speaker 1: know more than that? Sergio Gutierrez said, Adam, I've been
Speaker 1: waiting for the Clippers content like yours for years. I
Speaker 1: just hope you don't get burnt out. Not gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Keep up the fantastic work. Also, Fred Rogan is a boob.
Speaker 1: I love Fred. It's a love hate relationships sometimes, but
Speaker 1: mostly love red and blue, mostly blue. Old Dirty Dashers said,
Speaker 1: stick a fork and us were cooked. Old dirty Dashers
Speaker 1: and old dumer on here Jackson snow said, never said
Speaker 1: they were much worse. Then stop. There's still a top
Speaker 1: four team in the West, So what is your point?
Speaker 1: Nas had the benefit of Cat being with him on
Speaker 1: the Floorida help space. He played a lot without Cat.
Speaker 1: Your nuts, man, you didn't watch Minnesota. I don't think
Speaker 1: you guys understand Minnesota's defense being the number one defense
Speaker 1: by a wide margin. That's not gonna fall off because
Speaker 1: they lost Carl Anthony Towns. They're not going to be
Speaker 1: outside of a top five defense, Evil Bot said, Johnston
Speaker 1: and and Koompo will be a Clipper. Thanks or nothing?
Speaker 1: Easy Oh said, what does this Kawhi injury mean for
Speaker 1: this season? Less competitive trade for someone? Rewind all right,
Speaker 1: I'm out. Maybe I'll have something even before the game,
Speaker 1: even before six point thirty, even before a pregame, depending
Speaker 1: on how early I get to into it DOM. I
Speaker 1: might do a live stream from the parking lot for
Speaker 1: the doors open for media. I love y'all. Try to
Speaker 1: stay as positive as possible. Again, this is a lot
Speaker 1: of a non story with Kawhi letter today. I appreciate
Speaker 1: you guys being in here. This is the norm for me.
Speaker 1: There's breaking news. I'll do my best to go live
Speaker 1: for you until next time. At worst, you'll see me
Speaker 1: at six point thirty pregame show Clippers Countdown, Clippers taken
Speaker 1: on the Sacramento Kings some preseason game number five. I
Speaker 1: met Amslin and we will talk to you then