LA Clippers have given up a 30-2 run in 5 minutes against the Miami Heat
https://www.nba.com/game/lac-vs-mia-0022500313/play-by-play
This team is cooked lol
good luck with okc, rest of the league
‘just let me go james’
clippers lose
The nephew fucked over the Spurs first and then he managed to fuck over the entire league. His greed will be his legacy.
We probs don’t get Wemby, Castle and Harper if he isn’t greedy. I’ve made my peace with the situation atp.
Me too, but you can’t deny that if it wasn’t for his outrageous requests (and lying about his condition) the Clippers wouldn’t have ended up like that.
of all players to demand, why in the fuck did kawhi demand paul george
He tried for multiple other players including Jimmy and KD but they had already committed.
It’s all rumours and reporting but you can look it up lol
And why was it a fucking DEMAND too I don’t fucking get it
Sure you want PG I fucking get it. But why would you force your team to give up an INSANE HAUL for Paul George, which deprives your team the potential to improve? WTF
The expectation was that the team would be so good immediately that the picks would have been late 20s anyway, barely worth considering. Also keep in mind that Paul George and Andre Roberson were locking down anything that moved in 2018 and the Thunder legitimately looked like the third best team in the NBA until Roberson’s tendons exploded and his career ended mid-air. PG and Kawhi would have been a cheat code on NBA Jam 2020 if it were still legal to make fun sports video games instead of gacha ass.
Post-Aspiration story though, I get the feeling Kawhi figured he could demand whatever the hell he wanted because he took down the Heatles and the Hardest Road Warriors.
If he went to the lakers or stayed with the raps, okc wouldn’t be getting this insane haul.
And if he went to any other team he’d miss out on that sweet, sweet cap circumvention money
If he went to the lakers an in a different world was actually healthy he actually could’ve got the torch from Lebron lol.
AD was amazing and was one of the best players of all time but he was never going to be able to relieve LeBron since he’s not really elite as a shot creator.
Imagine the legacy of that, you’re the one that best LeBron at his peak and then you’re also the one that takes the #1 option from LeBron.
While I made my peace. It’s nice that everyone now sees him for what he is, because when he went to the Raptors, everyone was talking like the Spurs mishandled the situation in some way, and for some reason everyone treats him like a child under the influence of the evil uncle Dennis
bruh is low key greedy and is rewarded by the basketball gods with glass knees.
Only the Raptors managed to benefit for a single season.
If he just re-signed even for a lnotjdd single season everything is different.
Wait, who?
They talking about Kawhi forcing that PG13 deal that got OKC Shai and tons of 1sts.
Thank you kind Redditor
Well it cost him his knees basically. Though he did get a ring first lol
At least we get to share the misery
They get to be ringless with us ❤️
I hate to laugh at yall’s situation but man, seeing Clippers fans go full jihad is the funniest shit ever
It’s a sunk cost as we don’t have pick control until like 2030, where we’ll blow our picks anyways lmao. Considering many of us still love Shai, it’s not the worst outcome
You can take solace in the fact that your likely contributing to greatly limiting the Lakers success over the next several years.
Yeah, tbh I wasn’t even a huge Laker hater but them falling up into Luka has made me vehemently root against them. I’d rather allow OKC to get the first pick and solidify their dynasty than see LA win one because Nico Harrison is a terrorist
Clips fans really aren’t in a position to hate other teams for “failing up.”
Your whole team failed up into a new stadium and fake planted trees. This team should be disbanded so we can get the Sonics back
I don’t really understand this mentality, but to each their own.
If LAC could undo the entire Kawhi era, you bet your ass every single one of us would. Nothing about the Kawhi era has been “failing up.”
We suffered for decades under the worst owner in the league, and then Ballmer bought them and we had some joy. Then we made an acquisition for Kawhi that basically every single FO in the league would do, that ended up blowing up in our face all for a single WCF that Kawhi wasn’t even in. I get that the Aspiration shit is wildly illegal, but it’s not like LAC fans had any say in that nor did ANY of it work out in our favor at all.
Failing up is when you make stupid decisions and still succeed. We have never succeeded at any point, so not sure we went “up” in any meaningful way.
Mfs act like they in control lmao
Lol what do you mean? We already don’t control our pick so shit doesn’t matter. I’d rather see OKC become a dynasty with Shai at the forefront than watch Luka win one with LAL.
They call it Suicide Bomb FC on the banned app
honestly fuck it, i’ve been a fan since the early 2000s. nothing funnier than watching the rest of the league have to deal with our incompetence
It’s not even incompetence.
The PG trade was an obvious move since it also practically came with Kawhi. It just aged horrendously.
Everything else after was incompetence. Mainly our drafting and player development have been absolutely abysmal. If we were going all in, we should’ve prepared for the reality that we would have to rely on 2nd round talent to bolster our depth
Each of our 1st/2nd round picks, outside of Terrance Mann, has pretty much whiffed. And so much that they’re either out of the league or barely playing in the NBA. We’ll see how Christie and Sanders
Pretty much this, coupled with the fact that our drafting process is total shit. I get you won’t hit on every late first/2nd rounder, but getting Kobe Brown made no sense at the time. He was the oldest player in the entire draft, didn’t particularly fill any needs, and had a singular swing skill. Same with Yanic. If we wanted a C prospect, just go get Kalkbrenner. Instead of took a guy who barely knows how to play basketball like 15 picks too early.
I also don’t understand this INSISTENCE on wanting more old players, despite Ty wanting to play faster. The FO and Ty have always seemingly been at odds, and we also seem to be insistent on not having any real culture on this team. The vibes were the best with Russ because we finally had a culture leader, just like when we had Bev. The team simply doesn’t have any identity, and it’s clear now none of them give a fuck now that they’re struggling.
At least we got our ring this decade
It must feel nice to win a ring, We may not see it in our life time lol
New decade same as the old decade
us too
One of the greatest trades of all time, worst for the Clippers
It made sense at the time but might only be topped by the Luka Trade for the worst trade of all time when all the dust settles.
Honestly I think the clippers trade is much worse. It’s Shai + picks that added to their core, with more picks coming. Dallas was saved by the Flagg pick but at least they have flexibility. Who is even tradeable on the Clips aside from Harden and Zubac
Shai wasn’t a lock for MVP at the time. In hindsight that was a really bad trade but the Luka trade is worse because everyone knew it was a terrible trade immediately. It was so bad myself and lots of other people didn’t think it was a real trade.
are people gonna complain OKC ruined parity now
If we can’t win, no one else can either
At least I’ll still enjoy watching random games in the regular season before the inevitable happens.
Despite everything you gotta admit that trade in hindsight is really funny
What do you even do with this franchise at this point?
Merge with OKC as a lottery pick generating subsidiary
I’m giggling
In all seriousness, being a loan farm for OKC’s young talent like in soccer wouldn’t be terrible.
Trade the players you can and try desperately to get a pick in this draft. It’s a deep draft. They should call Joe Dumars.
I’d prefer Harden on my team than Zion at this point
Skinny Zion has been that bad?
Zion is skinny but he lost his ability to actually finish at the rim.
The Zion Paradox
Zion made like 50 3s in a row in his debut and it was all downhill from there
Shouldn’t be too hard to call Dumars since he famously double fists his telephones.
move them to Seattle
Damn imagine the Sonics get their team back but all their picks go to OKC 😅 would be bittersweet
Sonics have more brand equity at this point anyhow
They’re basically praying they can get a big FA in a couple years, and if that doesn’t happen, they probably just wait for some opportunistic disgruntled star to demand their way to a big market franchise.
They’ve been a completely solid team with the longest >.500 streak in the NBA. I think they knew this would come crashing down, although this is probably a worse crash out than expected.
I’d imagine they thought it would last at least another year.
They for sure did, but the FO’s general incompetence and lack of creativity was bound to catch up to them.
We basically haven’t had a good pick outside of Terrance Mann (who we ended up overpaying followed by him regressing) since SGA. We didn’t have all of our picks and never had premier ones, but we also basically went out of our way to make terrible drafting decisions (i.e. Jerome Robinson, getting the oldest player in Kobe Brown, or drafting a no name in Yanic instead of an obvious choice like Kalkbrenner).
We make good trades at the margins, but had no vision outside of that. Like we knew we weren’t going to extend PG, yet let him walk for nothing. I agree with letting him walk, but a more competent FO would have just shipped him off for some value like a first and a decent prospect.
Overall, it’s not like we magically just don’t have any depth. We never invested in youth, always traded for fringe improvements, and were never proactive.
I would say move them to a big market where they can be under the shadow of a dominant organization, but…
They will be fine.
Kawhi for Wiggins+expirings+picks
Harden for Kuzma+Portis+picks
Zubac for picks
Plus a shit ton of cap space.
Boom. Rebooted.
If only it were that easy
Like Ballmer would let his team tank
its the Prokhorov Nets script with Lawrence Frank playing Billy King
Y’all should send them half a ring if you win again within the next few years or so…
bro my team was starting dudes no one knows the name of this season and we still werent this ass pre edey getting back
We have like 4 playable guys and Ty Lue has very obviously quiet quit.
Did aspiration miss another payment?
Idk grizzlies are going to be dookie for years too until they switch franchise players. Ja is a mess, no team winning with him
Hello Cam Boozer
Don’t even say it
We can’t even laugh at them if their pick falls down or suck because it doesn’t matter
It’s okay, I think I want Peterson instead.
The only thing stopping this at this point is Adam Silver just rigging the draft like he likely did for the Mavs.
Honestly speaking if there’s any substance whatsoever to the Mavs being given the 1 pick then there’s no way in hell the league lets any of the OKC picks convey, right?
Still gonna be like a top 5 pick. Gotta keep some plausible deniability.
With how hard some of these other teams are tanking, I feel like the Clippers still end up like 10 games over the Wizards for example, so pick 7 prob where it lands. Save this comment for the future lol
Silver could rig it for OKC just to give the rest of his tenure plausible deniability
He doesn’t care about deniability after the Flagg situation lol
Maybe Presti finally drafts a bust. Right? Right???????????
he has plenty of swing and misses. He just has like 3 picks every draft.
I was readying myself for the Essengue pick but alas the Bulls beat Presti to him.
No he will keep drafting all nba players
He’s gonna draft the proposed #60 Pick and make it his goal to turn him into an MVP.
Peterson looks real real nice next to Shai.
Norman Powell is an insane man
“Bradley Beal over ME?”
Powell is gonna get a 120+ million contract this year while Beal is getting paid 6 million a year, there is no comparison here
Well one of them is washed plus missing the rest of the year, and the other is literally having the best year of his career
But Powell is likely heading into his first allstar season. I’ll rather have him than Beal even if it costs more. Clippers def would have a better record too
Clippers didn’t want to extend him because they want to maximise cap space for the 2027 offseason, which is when they will start to see transition to a new era.
Lol clippers are so stupid
4 teams have traded him away since draft night and it hasn’t worked out for a single one lol
its funny how Norm was ripping on PG leaving Clippers yet they traded his ass too
Stormin Norman
How is it actually possible that they’re this bad?
Most people projected them to be a top 4 seed, that might be the biggest miss of all time
basically every prediction had them and golden state over the lakers suns and pistons
Betting on 2 retirement homes seems very silly in retrospect
I mean I didn’t think the Clippers would be better than the Lakers but I didn’t think they’d be this bad
They just looked at the superstar names and forgot they’re all 35
It’s crazy because they were actually good last year. They went from a top 3 D to a bottom 3 D overnight
I think it’s a mix of their stars getting old, bad trades and the massive Kawhi drama ruining team morale
They’re probably sad that they’re not all getting paid under the table
Imagine being Harden carrying the team and the Clippers wouldn’t even pass him some stacks under the table
I did, I expected Ayton to be ass, Lebron to be old, Reeves to be fools gold, okay Luka is good, but that’s one man, and the Clippers were a good regular season team last year.
Let’s be real here, everyone picked every team over the Suns this year
I’m taking a victory lap 20 games in. I had them as the #10 seed out West.
Old ass teams don’t win in the modern NBA anymore. Please ignore all my other takes that are tending wrong.
They have whiffed on like 90% of picks in the past decade since Shai, so they have no young talent that has developed into a quality rotation piece. They continue to suck at drafting (Yanic), so they don’t get any immediate boost in the draft.
The only thing that has really kept them afloat is making good moves at the margins (Norm for filler, Dunn/DJJ signings, Russ/Batum/Reggie buyouts, etc.), and they totally whiffed on these this last offseason (BroLo, Cp3, Beal, + Norm for JC trade). So where this leaves them is a team of aged out guys playing in a stale system with 0 prospects to give minutes to develop meaningfully.
Yes but that would be priced in as of October 2025.
The question was how are they so bad relative to what people thought just 2 months ago.
A few things:
The Heat just shoot crazy. 14⁄21 from 3. Some from the logo. Hand in face. Doesn’t matter. Everything’s going in
I’m not even talking specifically about this game. You’re about to be 5-16 with a bottom 3 defense in the league
It’s been a story this whole season. Teams shoot the lights out against us from deep. Klay Thompson turned back the clock last game. Vit Krejci hit a career high against us with 8 3s. Luka’s in a slump from deep. Starts 5⁄5 and finishes with like 7-8 3s. It’s baffling how good teams shoot when they play us. People are gonna say it’s defense but the commentator just stated the clippers give a top 10 shot difficulty to opponents. So I don’t even know what to think. We just suck
I mean it’s not some coincidence that teams just shoot better against us. Dunn and Kawhi both regressed defensively and DJJ is out. We have soft defenders and teams go into the night knowing they’ll have great looks.
Offensively, every single team knows exactly where the ball is going to be. It’s going to be in Harden’s hands and if you double him appropriately, it’ll end up with either JC (who can’t dribble) or Dunn (who can’t shoot).
We have such an obvious game plan and are old as dirt.
Players also probably just feel more confident going up against a 5-15 team, I’m sure mentality is baked into it
Most people projected them to be a top 4 seed
Balmer $$$
I’m just watched Kris Dunn play iso ball while sharing the court with Harden/Kawhi/Zu.
The PG trade keep getting worse and worse
How do you get that heat tag under your name?
Go to the r/nba subreddit then click the “…” at the top right, then click edit user flair
Lowlights over spotlights
I will be livid beyond belief if the Thunder pick ahead of the Nets in the draft. Wizards fans too
They better not be ahead of the Pacers in the draft or so help me god…
If Adam Silver has courage, he’ll rig the lottery away from them
according to reddit he just spent the last year rigging the championship for us, commanding the refs to allow our defense to foul aggressively, and giving SGA a godly whistle. why would he turn back now?
The idea of rigging the league for a market as small as OKC is fucking hilarious to me. Hey Silver, wanna try rigging it for Portland next? We’re a tiny ass market too.
I think the idea that the draft was rigged for Dallas or that the Luka trade itself was a result of league pressure are totally asinine when you think about the logistics of it for more than half a second, but even there I would understand the logic (league wants LA to be good because it’s a big market, then compensates Dallas for their troubles). Rigging it for OKC of all teams is fucking ludicrous.
Throw people off the scent?
The plans of Sam Presti are measured in centuries
I’m still convinced he’s a space alien, he might not even know what scent is.
you and i both know the nets are gonna get the worst pick possible and okc and pacers are gonna be above them
At this point I think the Clippers are just like, “If we’re going down, the rest of the league is going down.” Lol
Only solution is for Silver to remove the Clippers from the league for the Kawhi scandal.
Is this the best set-up a chip contender has ever had? Lmao a ring + first overall pick on a 68+ win team lmfao
Lakers won a chip then drafted James Worthy first overall.
I mean the only other comparison is the 73-9 Warriors then adding prime Kevin Durant in the off-season.
Detroit had the second pick in the draft after their championship. Larry Brown wanted to draft D. Wade but was overruled and they took Darko instead.
Cam Boozer plz
This is like James Worthy in ‘85
The Clippers implosion is fascinating. It’s like Karma knew the league wouldn’t punish them. Also, Karma must be an OKC fan.
We just that goated
Damn right
Congrats OKC on the top 5 pick
there are things i want to do to ty lue that i cant say
also fuck the league, wont be watching when okc is dominating anyways lmao.
hope okc the best
The Clipper fans who have blamed Ty Lue for every problem we’ve ever had the past 5 years are in for a rude awakening when he is fired.
Will be interesting to see who the fans blame next. Because Ty is a good coach and this team is genuinely terrible.
There’s like 5 coaches in the NBA who could come in and do a better job and zero of them will ever be available to LAC
Harden’s quiet quitting and it’s going to get loud if he doesn’t get traded soon.
Harden? Quitting? Impossible!
Powell is just piling it on. Vengeance is his name
This hate watch has been generational. Westbrook really ended the clippers
I love this
We gotta start repping clippers gear at home games.
Clippers chose John Collins and ^Beal over Powell
Ai told me clippers probably won’t trade harden cause they competing for a championship this season. Send him to Houston or OKC!
🎵 Youuuuuu blow my miiiiiind
I’m satisfiiiiiiiiiiiiiied
Outstanding!
Girl, you knock me out 🎵
Almost everyone i knew make fun of Sam Presti when he keep on trading his players for picks. Now it’s Sam who’s laughing on all of us.
“If the Clippers must burn, so to must the rest of the league” - Steve Balmer on destroying the NBA, probably.
Ballmer can’t threaten us with the Thunder pick because they’re absolute ass anyway.
Lock em up
Something something Thunder pick
Heat have shot 14-21 from 3 in the half and the Clippers are 3-13…💀
Yo clippers fans you’re allowed in the Thunder sub any time
The clippers cheating and still sucking out loud is hilarious. More hilarious my team directly benefits from it
Lol , Miami are you not entertained
I had literally just turned on the game at the beginning of this run because it was such a close game. Lol… I’m not saying it was me though..
We are so cooked man
-rubs hands- good…. Good…
here’s to hoping silver embraces league parity as his legacy. in silver we trust.
Ty Lue is an OKC double agent. Watch him get a job in their front office next season
With the 3rd pick…..
Thanks
Clippers suck. They should move to Vegas where they can suck ass with the Raiders.
Every time the Clippers lose I get a little chubby dude
My team lost 28 games in a row and we never looked this bad
Welcome to the Seattle Clippers
If the Thunder win 70 games and also get the top pick in the lottery, how long will it take until Adam Silver is taken by an angry mob and turning like a rotisserie chicken over a fire?
Wild that the richest owner has such a poverty franchise
Someone check Ballmers bank account, probably paying for the Kawhi contract with money from Presti for tanking and improving their pick
Lawrence Frank has doomed us all…
Having a old roster & adding more old players never goes well
So much schadenfreude from Balmer’s failure to buy his way into a championship instead of building
Kawhi checks not clearing
This team is beyond cooked. The team comp is just weird. On payer they can play.
The one thing I noticed is that the player does not give a single fuck.
Zubac this season looks uninterested.
I was told by clippers fans that they were the deepest team in the league.
If you don’t like that you don’t like Clipper basketball
Y’all made fun of us before - look who’s laughing now!!! Not so fun when the rabbit has the gun is it
That’s a lay-up line lol
Investigate the Clippers immediately.
Clippers so bad it made CP said fuck basketball 😂
Forgot what a bad team with no reason to tank looks like
For the first time in my life I am actively rooting for the clippers to win as a lakers fan… and they can’t even do that right .. what a cursed franchise
Petty ass Clippers are taking the entire Western Conference (sans OKC) down with them. If we can’t win, y’all ain’t winning either!
I wanna know why the Heat have kept their starters in over 3min past when the Clippers emptied their bench
Cursed poverty franchise. I knew something was up when Lob City didn’t win anything
Keep going. I’m almost there.
Streetlights over Spotlights!!!
Hey, it takes old people a bit to warm up. They get em later after a little nap at halftime!
I’m not watching the game, but does normal Powell have 30 lol