WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.720 --> 00:00:06.919 Welcome in to an off season edition of Clippers Talk. 2 00:00:07.679 --> 00:00:09.759 You may be watching this on YouTube. You may be 3 00:00:09.960 --> 00:00:12.679 thinking that you're watching this on the Clips and Dip 4 00:00:12.720 --> 00:00:16.359 podcast page. Well, I've gone solo, Me, Chuck and Will. 5 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:19.800 We've all broken up familiarity, breedze, contempt. No, it's nothing 6 00:00:19.920 --> 00:00:20.239 like that. 7 00:00:20.320 --> 00:00:21.239 We were on a break. 8 00:00:21.839 --> 00:00:25.280 I just I gotta get more stuff out. There's so 9 00:00:25.399 --> 00:00:28.480 much to talk about with this team, and so little 10 00:00:28.559 --> 00:00:30.879 time before the season starts just two months away. I 11 00:00:30.920 --> 00:00:33.920 thought I would start my own YouTube channel connected up 12 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:37.799 with Clippers Talk, which is already something you could subscribe 13 00:00:37.840 --> 00:00:41.079 to on Spotify on iTunes. We've been doing this for 14 00:00:41.159 --> 00:00:44.000 some time now in a five seventy LA sports. You're 15 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:47.119 a home with the Clippers. So we'll have it in 16 00:00:47.240 --> 00:00:50.280 podcast form audio only, and then we'll have the vodcast 17 00:00:50.479 --> 00:00:52.240 is what they call it. Yeah, we'll have that too 18 00:00:52.640 --> 00:00:56.640 at follow Adam a on YouTube, just like my Twitter 19 00:00:56.840 --> 00:00:59.719 x handles at follow out of Ma same thing on YouTube. 20 00:01:00.159 --> 00:01:02.759 Some people want me to put it on TikTok too. Well, 21 00:01:02.880 --> 00:01:05.239 they don't like long form videos. And even though I'm 22 00:01:05.280 --> 00:01:07.920 doing some shorts and I'm showing you some behind the 23 00:01:07.959 --> 00:01:09.719 scenes stuff with my life. I think I took a 24 00:01:09.799 --> 00:01:11.640 video of my sister earlier that was kind of weird. 25 00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:14.680 She was holding a Chicago Bulls starter jacket. Even though 26 00:01:14.680 --> 00:01:17.640 I'm doing other things, maybe some fitness advice on my 27 00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:22.319 YouTube channel, I just look. I'm trying to make sure 28 00:01:23.719 --> 00:01:25.400 that we don't run into the same problem that we 29 00:01:25.439 --> 00:01:30.680 are right now with streaming. The rebundling must start because 30 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:32.640 I am so damn tired of having to go to 31 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:36.200 five different places to watch TV shows, to watch movies. 32 00:01:36.719 --> 00:01:39.280 Nobody likes it. I know we all wanted to cut 33 00:01:39.319 --> 00:01:42.000 the cord. Initially, we were wrong. We have to admit 34 00:01:42.040 --> 00:01:44.040 that now, so I'm not going to do the same 35 00:01:44.120 --> 00:01:46.719 damn thing. There's just two places to find me and 36 00:01:46.840 --> 00:01:48.959 at follow Out of May is the handle for both 37 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:52.719 on YouTube now and on x been there since two 38 00:01:52.719 --> 00:01:55.040 thousand and nine or something like that. Got my birthday 39 00:01:55.040 --> 00:01:59.439 balloons on Twitter recently. So This is an off seasoned 40 00:01:59.560 --> 00:02:04.760 edition of Clippers Talk edition and edition with some of 41 00:02:04.760 --> 00:02:07.159 the guys that are now on the squad some of 42 00:02:07.159 --> 00:02:09.639 the guys who are gone. We'll talk about some of that. 43 00:02:10.520 --> 00:02:12.159 We've discussed it at nauseum. 44 00:02:12.199 --> 00:02:13.120 Paul George PG. 45 00:02:13.280 --> 00:02:17.319 Thirteen with CND with Chuck and Will on the Clips 46 00:02:17.360 --> 00:02:19.879 and Dip podcast. Still, I think I have a few 47 00:02:19.879 --> 00:02:22.400 more things to say. I think Matt Moore might join 48 00:02:22.439 --> 00:02:24.879 me from HP Basketball because we got into a Twitter 49 00:02:24.919 --> 00:02:28.080 spat recently, so that could be entertaining a little back 50 00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:31.000 and forth, a little embraced debate. Speaking of more on 51 00:02:31.039 --> 00:02:32.840 that in a little bit here with some comments from 52 00:02:32.840 --> 00:02:35.800 Stephen A. Smith. I put out a tweet earlier at 53 00:02:35.800 --> 00:02:37.560 follow out of May. That's really the only reason I'm 54 00:02:37.560 --> 00:02:40.479 doing this episode. I just feel compelled to talk to 55 00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:43.000 you right now. I get these urges to want to 56 00:02:43.039 --> 00:02:46.560 talk more and more about the Clippers, and sometimes I 57 00:02:46.599 --> 00:02:48.800 can't wait for Chucking Will. I just got to go 58 00:02:49.639 --> 00:02:53.120 and I have the capabilities here, got the microphone, got 59 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:56.639 the HD stream going, and a little bit of a 60 00:02:56.680 --> 00:03:00.000 show for you, even though we're two months away from 61 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:02.080 being it into a dome. If you haven't gotten the 62 00:03:02.080 --> 00:03:04.960 tour yet, I have not checking for that email. 63 00:03:04.719 --> 00:03:06.759 Or I gotten it back yet. No, maybe they fired me. 64 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:09.800 No, I'm gonna get it. I'm gonna get some video 65 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:12.319 for you add into a dome. I'm not Carlo Jimenez 66 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:16.199 with the tiktoking and the snap faces and all that stuff, 67 00:03:16.240 --> 00:03:18.759 and I can't edit the way he can, but I 68 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:21.159 can do something. I could do something for you. I 69 00:03:21.240 --> 00:03:23.879 just want to bring you more and more Clippers content, 70 00:03:24.159 --> 00:03:26.360 and that's really what this channel is about. It will 71 00:03:26.400 --> 00:03:28.520 veer off into some other areas and maybe I'll be 72 00:03:28.520 --> 00:03:30.599 talking about Game of Thrones later or anything like that. 73 00:03:30.680 --> 00:03:33.560 I just earlier today. It was a little bit impulsive, 74 00:03:33.599 --> 00:03:38.960 but I made the commitment to be involved with social 75 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:42.000 media more for a year and just see how it goes. 76 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:43.960 See if I can grow the account at all. See 77 00:03:44.039 --> 00:03:47.080 people care, if they're interested, if they. 78 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:48.599 Want more Clippers Talk from me. 79 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:51.680 There is an off season edition. We won't have any 80 00:03:51.680 --> 00:03:54.599 Clippers basketball Summer League's over two and a half muscle 81 00:03:54.639 --> 00:03:59.240 the season stars. But again we got a pretty good 82 00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:03.240 I don't know, we're poor myself in the audience here. 83 00:04:03.639 --> 00:04:05.120 We've been doing this a long time. 84 00:04:05.439 --> 00:04:07.319 Those of you that have listened to Clippers Talk, the 85 00:04:07.400 --> 00:04:12.800 Official Clippers podcast and show prehalf in post is what 86 00:04:12.840 --> 00:04:15.080 I like to do. It is one of my favorite 87 00:04:15.080 --> 00:04:18.079 things in the world. And every postgame show with Clippers 88 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:20.920 Talk where we take callers, we'll be doing that here 89 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:23.839 so much, just podcast form. Maybe at some point I'll 90 00:04:23.879 --> 00:04:26.639 do some live streams and stuff, but every show ends 91 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:31.199 up at Clippers Talk on Spotify, on iTunes, wherever else 92 00:04:31.240 --> 00:04:33.519 you find it now on YouTube and video form. If 93 00:04:33.560 --> 00:04:35.160 you want to see me wearing a black tank top 94 00:04:35.240 --> 00:04:38.959 like I'm Pat McAfee. It's not homage to him or 95 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:42.560 anything like that. It's just really damn hot lately. And 96 00:04:42.879 --> 00:04:45.279 you know, I roll with the original pms. Not the 97 00:04:45.279 --> 00:04:48.000 original original, but the show Petro some money show. Those 98 00:04:48.040 --> 00:04:52.160 are my guys. Pat McAfee's fine, whatever, don't care. 99 00:04:52.279 --> 00:04:53.439 I will go after somebody else. 100 00:04:53.439 --> 00:04:56.680 Though a little bit later here in the show, I 101 00:04:56.800 --> 00:04:59.720 do feel you know what I'm gonna get you right now, 102 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:04.800 some type of way over a tweet I saw a 103 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:05.759 little bit earlier. 104 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:08.600 If you're looking at my account at follow out of May, 105 00:05:08.680 --> 00:05:10.120 I gave it a retweet. 106 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:14.000 It came from I had to double check this NBA Central, 107 00:05:14.279 --> 00:05:18.839 the Dunk Central, which I think, while an aggregator does 108 00:05:18.839 --> 00:05:22.279 not put out, you know, fake tweets. Barry mccochner stuff, 109 00:05:23.439 --> 00:05:26.279 who I do like and I've interviewed before, but it's 110 00:05:26.319 --> 00:05:29.560 not a fake account like MLB Facts with an X 111 00:05:29.800 --> 00:05:32.040 that says Mike Trout has missed the last three thousand 112 00:05:32.040 --> 00:05:34.920 games straight. It's an MLB record. It's nothing like that. 113 00:05:35.279 --> 00:05:38.279 Now there is another one called NBA Central. 114 00:05:38.519 --> 00:05:39.680 I think that. 115 00:05:39.600 --> 00:05:42.800 Tries to throw people off, like a fake WOJ account. 116 00:05:42.959 --> 00:05:45.680 But this one, NBA Central, is legit. How do I 117 00:05:45.720 --> 00:05:48.519 know it's legit. Well, it's got one point six million followers. 118 00:05:48.759 --> 00:05:51.439 I've got like less than twenty right now on YouTube. 119 00:05:51.480 --> 00:05:56.680 I'm just starting. Give me a break. But the content 120 00:05:56.800 --> 00:05:59.519 that they put up earlier today comes from First Take, 121 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:02.759 And while they didn't post the clip, they posted a 122 00:06:02.839 --> 00:06:07.480 snippet a quote from Steven A. Smith, something we've seen 123 00:06:07.560 --> 00:06:12.040 many times before because one of his favorite people, for 124 00:06:12.079 --> 00:06:17.279 whatever reason, to go after is Kawhi Leonard. 125 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:18.920 Full disclosure. I met Steven A. 126 00:06:18.959 --> 00:06:21.040 Smith one time at Fox Sports Radio back when he 127 00:06:21.120 --> 00:06:24.360 was there. I went and got him pancakes late night 128 00:06:24.399 --> 00:06:28.000 from someplace. He was nice, much quieter off the air, 129 00:06:29.759 --> 00:06:33.079 and by all accounts, really good guy behind the scenes. 130 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:37.959 Of course, you don't get to see that side of him. 131 00:06:39.160 --> 00:06:44.000 You get stuff like this, him saying, quote Kawhi Leonard 132 00:06:44.040 --> 00:06:45.759 invents ways to get her. 133 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:49.000 Now, am I part of the problem too? 134 00:06:49.639 --> 00:06:54.560 Because I am dunking on that comment and using it 135 00:06:54.639 --> 00:06:56.800 to create my own content. 136 00:06:56.519 --> 00:06:57.319 Here a little bit. 137 00:06:58.120 --> 00:07:00.399 We were all guilty of it from time to day time. 138 00:07:00.480 --> 00:07:04.199 But this is not the first time that stephen A 139 00:07:04.639 --> 00:07:07.959 has said this about Kawhi Leonard or something to this effect. 140 00:07:08.839 --> 00:07:10.800 Remember after you got hurt, tore the. 141 00:07:10.759 --> 00:07:14.680 Meniscus right knee in game two, might've actually tour it 142 00:07:14.680 --> 00:07:17.279 in game one, played through it in game two, wasn't 143 00:07:17.319 --> 00:07:18.720 able to go the rest of the series against the 144 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:22.160 Phoenix Suns in twenty twenty three in the first round, well, 145 00:07:22.360 --> 00:07:28.560 he said he should retire. Then Kawhi Leonard came back, 146 00:07:29.759 --> 00:07:33.959 had one of his best seasons last year. Ever regular 147 00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:36.480 season wise ended up I think at sixty seven and 148 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:40.199 sixty eight games played before. Unfortunately then he was swallowed 149 00:07:40.279 --> 00:07:42.920 up again or swollowed up again. But he had a 150 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:48.040 stretch that was historic. I was chronicling it saying Kawhi 151 00:07:48.079 --> 00:07:51.279 for MVP with a hashtag all over Twitter. I was 152 00:07:51.279 --> 00:07:54.160 trying to make sure everybody knew just how efficient he was. 153 00:07:55.079 --> 00:07:58.319 Where over a thirty game stretch, he set the all 154 00:07:58.360 --> 00:08:02.360 time efficiency record an NBA history over that long of 155 00:08:02.399 --> 00:08:06.639 a period of time, shooting shooting splits of fifty seven 156 00:08:07.079 --> 00:08:11.399 fifty one ninety fifty seven percent from the floor, fifty 157 00:08:11.399 --> 00:08:13.720 one percent from three ninety percent for the free throw 158 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:18.759 line over a thirty game span. God Tyr is just 159 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:22.399 scratching the surface of what he was doing. Basketball deirvana 160 00:08:22.480 --> 00:08:26.000 was being reached. It was unbelievable. And I've said this 161 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:28.240 before and I'll say it again because I'm hoping for 162 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:31.240 it to happen again. When Kawhi Leonard has gotten hurt, 163 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:36.840 he has come back stronger and a more efficient player. 164 00:08:38.159 --> 00:08:40.320 That's a fact we've seen. 165 00:08:40.320 --> 00:08:42.360 People always talk about the run in twenty nineteen with 166 00:08:42.360 --> 00:08:45.360 the Toronto Raptors. The numbers he was putting up in 167 00:08:45.399 --> 00:08:48.080 twenty twenty one with the Clippers were even better in 168 00:08:48.120 --> 00:08:51.440 the playoffs before he got hurt. The numbers he just 169 00:08:51.480 --> 00:08:54.080 put up last year coming off the meniscus. 170 00:08:55.759 --> 00:08:57.360 That's the best regular season stretch up. 171 00:08:57.320 --> 00:09:01.000 His career, and people slept on it. They weren't paying attention. 172 00:09:02.399 --> 00:09:05.039 Why the Clippers were at the top of the conference 173 00:09:05.080 --> 00:09:08.600 for about two days if that, and then they went 174 00:09:08.600 --> 00:09:12.759 through that swoon in January and February dropped down to 175 00:09:12.840 --> 00:09:17.320 fourth place. He gets hurt on March thirty first, apparently 176 00:09:17.360 --> 00:09:20.840 against the Charlotte Hornets. Was out after that tried to 177 00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:23.720 give it a go in the playoffs. And this is 178 00:09:23.799 --> 00:09:25.320 kind of the crux of the issue here. This is 179 00:09:25.360 --> 00:09:29.639 where I have a problem with Stephen A. Smith. I'm 180 00:09:29.639 --> 00:09:31.240 not going to go after him like he went after 181 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:34.039 Kalmi Brown, but there are I'm sure people in the business, 182 00:09:34.039 --> 00:09:36.120 in the industry that feel the same way about him 183 00:09:36.840 --> 00:09:40.120 and his ran about kawme because he does stuff like this, 184 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:43.480 and I get it. He is ESPN and this is 185 00:09:43.639 --> 00:09:46.559 how he gets paid, and apparently he's damn good at it. 186 00:09:47.679 --> 00:09:51.919 He's the highest paid person there. But he says ridiculous 187 00:09:51.960 --> 00:09:57.879 things for attention. Quote Kawhi Leonard in Ben's Ways to 188 00:09:57.919 --> 00:10:07.000 get hurt, quote Kawhi Leonards to retire, he finds a 189 00:10:07.039 --> 00:10:09.279 polarizing subject. This is what. 190 00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:11.799 Gets me going. 191 00:10:13.879 --> 00:10:18.639 People act like there are actually classes on sports media 192 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:22.639 and broadcasting and journalism. There are classes out there. I 193 00:10:22.679 --> 00:10:26.360 think my friend Rob Parker teaches one of them. Maybe 194 00:10:26.360 --> 00:10:29.840 a usc love Rob the hobmong the YouTube at some 195 00:10:29.879 --> 00:10:36.399 point on clipper Stock. But there are actual sports media 196 00:10:36.440 --> 00:10:41.200 classes out there, Like it's not obvious what Stephen A. 197 00:10:41.279 --> 00:10:43.200 Smith is doing, Like they have to teach you a 198 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:50.000 class about what's happening here. The jig is up, guys. 199 00:10:51.279 --> 00:10:53.879 It's pretty obvious to everyone, at least it should be. 200 00:10:55.000 --> 00:10:56.600 I'm gonna lay it out for you. 201 00:10:57.759 --> 00:11:00.399 All you do to gain attention. 202 00:11:02.200 --> 00:11:06.120 Is get on a big enough platform, say some inflammatory, 203 00:11:06.919 --> 00:11:15.639 usually inaccurate things, some low information takes about a polarizing 204 00:11:15.679 --> 00:11:21.360 team or polarizing player, teams like the Lakers and Cowboys 205 00:11:21.399 --> 00:11:24.919 or Patriots, or players like Tom Brady and Lebron James. 206 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:29.240 And what you do is you split the audience into two, 207 00:11:29.480 --> 00:11:31.840 not in a bad way, not like you're talking politics 208 00:11:32.159 --> 00:11:35.320 and you're gonna lose half the audience. You actually gain 209 00:11:35.879 --> 00:11:44.000 both sides because you garner attention from the positive side 210 00:11:44.039 --> 00:11:46.759 of the group that likes what you're saying, loves that player, 211 00:11:47.519 --> 00:11:52.120 loves that team. If that's the angle you're taking, say, 212 00:11:52.159 --> 00:11:56.919 it's I don't know, Skip Bayless defending Michael Jordan as 213 00:11:56.960 --> 00:12:01.200 if his legacy hasn't been defended enough all the time. 214 00:12:02.039 --> 00:12:04.440 It is a religion for some of these older gentlemen 215 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:09.799 saying get off my lawn, or shaking their fists of 216 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:14.559 the clouds, get off my clouds. Kind of what they're saying, the. 217 00:12:14.519 --> 00:12:15.480 Old ways were better. 218 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:20.679 I think their nostalgia tripping. That's beside the point. Half 219 00:12:20.679 --> 00:12:25.120 the people are going to agree with them and they're 220 00:12:25.120 --> 00:12:26.480 gonna get attention off of that. 221 00:12:26.919 --> 00:12:28.159 The other half. 222 00:12:30.879 --> 00:12:33.240 They're gonna hate what they're saying, but they're gonna hate 223 00:12:33.320 --> 00:12:38.879 watch it. They're gonna continue to watch to hate watch 224 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:42.879 like I have with somebody shows I should have gotten 225 00:12:42.919 --> 00:12:44.840 out of earlier, like The Walking Dead, like how did 226 00:12:44.840 --> 00:12:48.120 I make it to Season seven? Stupid Mayer and stuff, 227 00:12:48.159 --> 00:12:51.879 and then Nakan the Bat that was a pretty good 228 00:12:51.879 --> 00:12:54.159 tease of whoho is going to kill? But they killed 229 00:12:54.159 --> 00:12:54.799 two people. 230 00:12:57.080 --> 00:12:59.279 This is what sports media has become. 231 00:13:00.519 --> 00:13:07.879 Just talk about someone polarizing, talk about a team that 232 00:13:07.919 --> 00:13:12.039 people love to hate and some people love to love, 233 00:13:12.240 --> 00:13:17.519 like the Cowboys, and you will get your audience. And 234 00:13:17.559 --> 00:13:24.559 it's so simplistic and so it's sports simpleton. That's what 235 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:28.720 it is, sports simpleton talk. I hate it. I've been 236 00:13:28.759 --> 00:13:31.000 asking for this for a while. I've been waiting for 237 00:13:33.120 --> 00:13:40.480 a hot take bubble to come. Maybe it's happening Skip Bayless. 238 00:13:41.200 --> 00:13:43.399 I don't know if he's retiring or just leaving FS one, 239 00:13:44.480 --> 00:13:47.120 but people are patting him on the back, like Nick 240 00:13:47.240 --> 00:13:50.879 Right and saying he carved out a lane. 241 00:13:51.039 --> 00:13:51.519 Nick right. 242 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:54.080 I think acknowledge that he might not have a job 243 00:13:54.200 --> 00:13:56.960 or be in this business and the manner he is 244 00:13:57.200 --> 00:14:00.240 if it wasn't for guys like Skip Bayless. I think 245 00:14:00.320 --> 00:14:04.200 it is some of the downfall of sports talk, of commentary, 246 00:14:04.399 --> 00:14:06.360 of analysis. 247 00:14:05.799 --> 00:14:06.720 If you want to call it that. 248 00:14:08.679 --> 00:14:15.200 Some people call it journalism. The landscape has changed so much, 249 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:18.600 but it's just so transparent what's going on. It's so 250 00:14:18.799 --> 00:14:24.519 easy to be divisive. I don't see it as talent 251 00:14:24.679 --> 00:14:28.519 so much. It's just a formula for success, an easy 252 00:14:28.519 --> 00:14:32.639 one that they've been writing for so long, like a 253 00:14:32.720 --> 00:14:38.720 bad dose coin or something some whacked out crypto Kanye coin. 254 00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:42.399 What is that still around? Do I still have some. 255 00:14:44.799 --> 00:14:46.799 The bubble may be happening before our eyes. 256 00:14:48.879 --> 00:14:51.840 I think people are starting to tune out guys like 257 00:14:51.840 --> 00:14:53.519 Steven A a little bit more. I think the rating 258 00:14:53.519 --> 00:14:57.399 can say that, I don't know if it's a cry 259 00:14:57.440 --> 00:15:02.600 wolf thing. How many times do we have to hear 260 00:15:02.720 --> 00:15:09.600 false narratives and inflammatory speak and outrageous takes when we 261 00:15:09.679 --> 00:15:14.200 know better. Granted, sometimes once in a while it's entertaining. 262 00:15:16.039 --> 00:15:19.919 He was screaming about weed. Lay off the weed. I 263 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:23.360 once in a while, Max Kellerman saying I want a 264 00:15:23.440 --> 00:15:29.759 goadala that gets used in the DJ beat, But I 265 00:15:29.799 --> 00:15:33.759 think it's just so appealing to the lowest common denominator 266 00:15:33.799 --> 00:15:35.679 that I think is starting to smart and smarten up. 267 00:15:36.600 --> 00:15:37.759 And I'm hoping. 268 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:41.840 Because I really changed things here with my one reach 269 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:46.320 wheet of the Steven A. Smith quote regarding Kawhi Leonard saying, 270 00:15:46.399 --> 00:15:49.960 quote Kawhi Leonard events ways to get hurt, and me saying, 271 00:15:50.279 --> 00:15:52.919 Kawhi is trying to give it a go in Game three, 272 00:15:53.279 --> 00:15:55.120 as I posted the clip of him hanging on the 273 00:15:55.200 --> 00:15:58.360 rim against the Dallas Mavericks when he probably shouldn't have 274 00:15:58.360 --> 00:16:00.799 been playing at that point, but was trying so hard 275 00:16:00.840 --> 00:16:04.200 to go for the Clippers. He was laboring out there, 276 00:16:04.519 --> 00:16:09.080 noticeably gimpy, limping around, and he caught that alley from 277 00:16:09.080 --> 00:16:10.879 Paul George, who I don't know why he was throwing 278 00:16:10.919 --> 00:16:12.799 him an lu if he knows Kawhy is hurt. 279 00:16:13.080 --> 00:16:13.840 Kawi went up and. 280 00:16:13.799 --> 00:16:19.279 Got it, and then he hung on the rim, afraid 281 00:16:19.279 --> 00:16:22.440 to land. It looked like because of that impact on 282 00:16:22.480 --> 00:16:24.919 the force of hitting the court on his right knee. 283 00:16:26.080 --> 00:16:28.360 It's hard to watch, it's painful to watch, and I'm 284 00:16:28.360 --> 00:16:29.960 sure it was painful to be out there. 285 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:31.480 And he was. 286 00:16:33.200 --> 00:16:35.559 Don't tell me he's inventing ways to get hurt. Don't 287 00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:37.679 tell me he doesn't love basketball. Don't tell me he 288 00:16:37.720 --> 00:16:40.360 isn't trying to win a championship for the Clippers. His 289 00:16:40.440 --> 00:16:43.720 body has betrayed him. Yes, that's a fact he's been 290 00:16:43.759 --> 00:16:47.000 injury prone. It's a fact he hasn't been able to 291 00:16:47.039 --> 00:16:49.320 close out a season the last four for the Clippers. 292 00:16:50.440 --> 00:16:54.840 No one is more upset about this than Kawhi just 293 00:16:54.919 --> 00:16:59.360 because he's not holding the press conference, just because he's 294 00:16:59.360 --> 00:17:01.879 not putting the press sho release out there on social media. 295 00:17:03.480 --> 00:17:05.680 And I know he doesn't need me defending him. But 296 00:17:05.720 --> 00:17:08.000 when you see Lawrence Frank out there talking about Team 297 00:17:08.119 --> 00:17:12.160 USA sticking up for his guy and Kawhi, you knew 298 00:17:12.160 --> 00:17:14.720 who was disappointed I'd being able to play. And we've 299 00:17:14.759 --> 00:17:17.079 talked about what seems like a double standard. Kevin Urant 300 00:17:17.119 --> 00:17:20.720 didn't play at all in exhibition games that for TMOSA 301 00:17:20.839 --> 00:17:24.799 this year, but they kept him on the team. Okay, 302 00:17:25.519 --> 00:17:29.480 didn't seem like much of a collaborative effort with Kawhi 303 00:17:29.559 --> 00:17:32.839 Leonard and the Clippers for why he was left off 304 00:17:32.839 --> 00:17:33.440 Team USA. 305 00:17:33.920 --> 00:17:35.359 Different subject for a different day. 306 00:17:35.359 --> 00:17:37.000 We talked about it on Clips and Dip with til 307 00:17:37.039 --> 00:17:43.559 Marrazari a couple of weeks ago. But he wants to play. 308 00:17:43.720 --> 00:17:45.519 You don't got to kick a guy when he's down. 309 00:17:47.640 --> 00:17:51.039 That's what Steven A. Smith is doing. And it's just 310 00:17:51.160 --> 00:17:58.920 so weak and just it gets me irked because he's 311 00:17:58.920 --> 00:18:02.559 gonna get eyeballs over and a lot of low level 312 00:18:02.680 --> 00:18:05.319 NBA people are gonna be like, yeah, Coawha never plays, 313 00:18:05.359 --> 00:18:08.119 he can never play. You can never make it through 314 00:18:08.119 --> 00:18:11.400 the playoffs, make it through the regular season. It's like, 315 00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:14.799 what do you want to do? Scream at his knee 316 00:18:15.720 --> 00:18:19.240 stop swelling, and what can he do outside of put 317 00:18:19.279 --> 00:18:23.119 the work in, do his best, be prepared for each 318 00:18:23.160 --> 00:18:26.000 and every season. I mean, now we see we hear 319 00:18:26.039 --> 00:18:30.680 the same people who are giving him grief for allegedly 320 00:18:30.680 --> 00:18:33.240 load managing when I think he was hurt. You saw 321 00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:38.440 him limping around the twenty nineteen finals, was coming off 322 00:18:38.440 --> 00:18:40.839 that injury. Load managed the first couple of years with 323 00:18:40.880 --> 00:18:44.759 the Clippers. It's like, yeah, I think if there's anyone 324 00:18:44.759 --> 00:18:48.000 who's rightfully load managing, I think it's a guy like 325 00:18:48.039 --> 00:18:50.440 Kawhi Leonard. I think it's someone who's one of the 326 00:18:50.480 --> 00:18:55.720 greatest NBA players at his peak in a high leverage 327 00:18:55.720 --> 00:18:57.319 situation in a playoff series. 328 00:18:57.039 --> 00:18:57.920 That we've ever seen. 329 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:02.799 I think there's probably a top ten all time playoff performer. 330 00:19:03.240 --> 00:19:05.400 You look at his numbers over his last sixty playoff 331 00:19:05.440 --> 00:19:08.640 games since he became an undisputed Number one was San 332 00:19:08.640 --> 00:19:09.920 Antonio in twenty seventeen. 333 00:19:10.839 --> 00:19:11.880 Ridiculous numbers. 334 00:19:12.200 --> 00:19:15.079 Over thirty points, over fifty percent, shooting about forty percent 335 00:19:15.079 --> 00:19:21.440 from the outside. He's a playoff all time riser. But 336 00:19:23.200 --> 00:19:26.960 to continually harp on it and go after him for 337 00:19:27.079 --> 00:19:29.440 not being out there doesn't really help the situation much. 338 00:19:29.880 --> 00:19:31.559 He wants to be out there. If his body allows 339 00:19:31.599 --> 00:19:33.400 him to be out hit there, he'll be out there. 340 00:19:35.519 --> 00:19:38.039 I just I don't know a guy like Steven A. 341 00:19:38.160 --> 00:19:38.960 Smith who. 342 00:19:40.720 --> 00:19:44.519 Seen some of his basketball highlights. Not that I say, 343 00:19:44.599 --> 00:19:46.519 because you know who am I that would be. 344 00:19:46.519 --> 00:19:47.400 Hypocritical of me. 345 00:19:49.039 --> 00:19:51.359 I'm not saying you got to be a professional basketball 346 00:19:51.400 --> 00:19:56.160 player to criticize guys. But I'm saying, if you're going 347 00:19:56.200 --> 00:20:01.880 after someone for trying to play, playing through it, being 348 00:20:01.920 --> 00:20:05.799 injury prone, no fault of his own, his body betraying him, 349 00:20:07.039 --> 00:20:09.759 that might be crossing the line. As someone who didn't 350 00:20:09.799 --> 00:20:16.759 play at the highest level that suspect to me. But again, 351 00:20:17.319 --> 00:20:21.799 the attention is going to be there regardless unless we 352 00:20:21.880 --> 00:20:24.759 get rid of this hot take bubble world we have 353 00:20:24.839 --> 00:20:28.160 been living in for far too long now. It would 354 00:20:28.200 --> 00:20:30.640 be great to have some more honest sports takes, like 355 00:20:30.680 --> 00:20:34.720 how is Tim Leagler not the most well known basketball 356 00:20:34.759 --> 00:20:43.200 guy on ESPN. He's brilliant. He's hopefully going to be 357 00:20:43.200 --> 00:20:45.039 calling a lot more games next season. I don't know 358 00:20:45.079 --> 00:20:48.599 why that hasn't started up before this him as the 359 00:20:48.640 --> 00:20:54.839 color commentator. Fantastic, He's an actual basketball analyst. Instead, we 360 00:20:54.920 --> 00:20:58.839 have to listen to stephen A and Kendrick Perkins routinely 361 00:20:59.200 --> 00:21:03.440 get the facts wrong and just spit out hot take 362 00:21:03.480 --> 00:21:07.319 after hot take, with Bob Myers trying to join them, 363 00:21:07.400 --> 00:21:11.200 I don't know, reduce himself to throwing out hot takes. 364 00:21:15.160 --> 00:21:15.680 It's tough. 365 00:21:18.200 --> 00:21:22.319 I love the TNT guys, I also feel like they 366 00:21:22.319 --> 00:21:24.640 could do a little bit more basketball analysis. I understand 367 00:21:24.720 --> 00:21:28.000 the point of their the most entertaining of the hot 368 00:21:28.000 --> 00:21:31.920 take artists out there, and they are Sometimes they sound 369 00:21:31.920 --> 00:21:34.160 pretty well informed and like they don't actually watch games, 370 00:21:34.160 --> 00:21:36.839 and I think they've admitted that many times before. Still, 371 00:21:37.039 --> 00:21:40.359 they are the most entertaining studio hosts in the history 372 00:21:40.359 --> 00:21:43.039 of existence. That's not the case with Stephen A. Smith. 373 00:21:45.279 --> 00:21:49.559 A lot of these guys are just living off of 374 00:21:49.599 --> 00:21:52.720 saying inaccurate things for far too long. And I just 375 00:21:52.759 --> 00:21:55.279 did not like what he said about Kawhi Leonard over 376 00:21:55.279 --> 00:21:57.200 the last week and what he's been saying about him 377 00:21:57.240 --> 00:21:59.279 now for a couple of years. How is he the 378 00:21:59.319 --> 00:22:12.880 guy to tell someone else to retire a professional athlete. Yeah, 379 00:22:13.319 --> 00:22:15.279 you know, it wasn't as hot in here earlier, but 380 00:22:15.400 --> 00:22:17.799 now I'm kind of kind of getting myself worked up 381 00:22:17.799 --> 00:22:18.519 a little bit here. 382 00:22:19.880 --> 00:22:20.480 I get it. 383 00:22:21.680 --> 00:22:24.839 He's the best at his craft. This is what he does, 384 00:22:24.920 --> 00:22:27.279 this is how he's made a living. Doesn't mean it 385 00:22:27.319 --> 00:22:32.680 can't push back, not that Kawhi needs my help. And yeah, 386 00:22:33.079 --> 00:22:36.000 maybe I'm using him for content, just like he does 387 00:22:36.000 --> 00:22:43.519 with other stuff. Ah, it's tough not to well. I 388 00:22:43.519 --> 00:22:47.359 have to live with those double standards sometimes rules for the. 389 00:22:47.440 --> 00:22:47.799 Not for me. 390 00:22:47.920 --> 00:22:53.200 Look, I'm not telling any professional athlete to retire, not 391 00:22:53.240 --> 00:22:55.480 in a position where I'd feel comfortable ever doing that. 392 00:22:57.440 --> 00:23:02.400 But the clickbaiting, the aggregating, this is what works. 393 00:23:03.440 --> 00:23:04.400 I'm hoping. 394 00:23:06.559 --> 00:23:09.519 I'll play less of the game myself and just talk 395 00:23:09.599 --> 00:23:12.160 more Clippers basketball as we move along here. I do 396 00:23:12.240 --> 00:23:15.640 want to talk with I believe he's at HP Basketball. 397 00:23:16.599 --> 00:23:25.599 Matt Moore. Yeah, Matt Moore, NBA writer for Action Network HQ. Now, 398 00:23:25.599 --> 00:23:30.960 we did get into a debate about Paul George or 399 00:23:31.160 --> 00:23:33.920 he said something that I found to be a little 400 00:23:33.920 --> 00:23:35.839 bit off, and I'll just give you a preview of 401 00:23:35.839 --> 00:23:39.759