Can some Clippers fan explain what is going on? What is this drama lol

Completely wild and mostly unfounded speculation: Harden was tired of CP3 (again) and wanted him out of the locker room so he didn’t have to listen to him anymore.

NBA needs to step in and place the Clippers under some form of guardianship.

CP3 Isn’t one to hold his tongue. He spent last year as a player/coach on the Spurs. Castle’s ascension in year 2 has much to do with this. Imagine going from playing 82 games with a young team of willing students to an aging, ego riddled team with no accountability. He probably just approached Kawhi in the locker room and this is the result.

I’m purely saying this by conjecture/speculation, there’s no facts that I can use as basis anyway.

He likely pissed off Kawhi and/or his entourage. The team since Kawhi came over has been basically revolving around him.

CP3 has always been a leader, but he’s not afraid to push a lot of people’s buttons. That happened with the end of Lob City where Blake just couldn’t mesh with him personally.

Just off this (and again, purely conjecture), I don’t want Kawhi in my team anymore. The well has been poisoned deep enough with this not-always available star player with a weak knee that can get very, very, good occasionally. And now he can’t get to that superstar level anymore. His uncle definitely has some influence in the team that us outsiders also can’t see, not including the Aspiration deal.

At this point, I feel we should move on from Kawhi and his entourage, even though we’re aiming for 2027 to clear out the cap with all the contracts. Trade him to wherever even if he doesn’t want to, clear out his influence, get something back hopefully. Get a clean slate and rip the bandaid off.

The season itself is mostly a lost cause (one pick to OKC coming up!) and this just added to the misery.

It’s getting harder and harder to keep supporting the team, and that comes from someone who didn’t struggle this much during a decade+ supporting the team under Donald Sterling.

They destroyed the team, any hope for the future in this decade, and pretty much everything they do is a PR nightmare.

I don’t care much about PR, but somehow supporting a team that pays under the table, signs any alleged sexual abuser even with the thinnest upside, and mistreats every team legend, is harder to justify to myself than having an overtly racist owner. Maybe I’m just older, but this just sucks.

Sterling actively didn’t try to win but at least he was clear that he sold hope. We now don’t even have hope, we still aren’t gonna win, and we still have to support scumbags.

Sorry for the rant, I guess I’m close to my breaking point. I know I’ll never stop supporting them cause they’re my team and I’ve spent so much emotional energy in this team over the years. But it’s just zero fun.

Clippers didn’t need to do Chris like this lol they gonne be a lottery team anyway

Why the hell clippers trade Norman Powell away.. weird as shit

So he pissed off Kawhi or Harden somehow

State Farm vs Aspiration let’s go

On the other side of LA, JJ: LeEway James

Grown man subtweeting on Instagram

Clippers are absolute morons no question but CP3 is too old to be posting cryptic messages on social media lol

Never been a Paul fan but let’s be honest, the NBA needs to get rid of the Clippers franchise. It’s terrible. Same for the Nets. Bring a new team to Seattle and add another elsewhere

We are getting a documentary’s worth of hitpieces once Kawhi retires.

something happened behind them doors.

There are people in sports that never win a title but are winners. They work hard, they respect their game, they devote mental and physical effort into mastering their craft. They make people around them better. The build accountability into the culture of the team they are on. And, even absent a ring, they make the history of the game so much greater for being a part of it.

It can be a player, a coach, a general manager, whomever. It’s just a mentality that must be respected by those that respect the game.

Chris Paul is a winner. He was a winner in high school, college, and the pros. He taught countless young players how to improve themselves and their teams. He is a professional, and he annoyed every opposing fan base in the league because he did literally everything he could to make his team successful. He is the greatest player in Clippers history. And he is a winner.

The Clippers don’t see that and don’t respect that. That is, in part, why the Clippers have never been successful even with all the wealth their owner possesses.

This is a loser move by a loser franchise, and Paul deserves so much better.

CP3 go to the thunder and get a ring. Clippers don’t deserve you anyway. 

Treating Chris Paul like yesterday’s leftovers is cruel. Especially for all he’s given the Clippers.

another reason to hate the clippers. not only are they the wannabe LA team, they dropped a future Hall of Famer like a trash.

The kings are the most dysfunctional org in the west, but the clippers are sure giving chase.

This is why free agents go to the Lakers instead of the Clippers. Treating legends with respect matters

This kind of reminds me of the Luka trade in just the wtf are you doing of it all

They got addicted to the bad drama with Aspiration. They just starting shit to taste it again.

Somebody mock up a domino meme starting with Pablo Torre reading a bankruptcy filing 😭

kawhi is behind everything they do

If & when he makes it on to a podcast explaining this it’s going to go super mega viral.

Guess they felt they had to shake something up after Ballmers pressure and somehow decided releasing the franchise GOAT was the move lol

With a standup guy like Kawhi as the leader? No way.

Real ones use the OED. FOH with that Webster’s bull.

lol @ the harden hate. Why blame the most consistent player on your team?

Kawhi on the other hand? Fucking pissed me the fuck off when he pushed his way out of San Antonio. Absolute clusterfuck by kawhi and dennis. Lakers sucked, I hated the warriors, did not like okc, i was not yet a lebron fan, so spurs was the team I followed the most back then.

I swear to god he did not get hated enough for how he handled his trade request.

Everyone seem to forget after he won in toronto.

Then the tree planting bullshit came out. I won’t be surprised if this was orchestrated by the kawhi camp. CP3 deserved better than this.

How dare that son of a bitch expect accountability. This is the Clippers we’re talking about, not an actual NBA franchise. No wonder the team’s probable greatest ever player got cut in the middle of his retirement season.

I’ve never been a huge Paul fan but this is BONKERS. He’s already announced this will be his last season, he’s playing at home for the franchise he helped rejuvenate, and they dump him mid-season??? Just throw him out on the tarmac like Kiffin?? Unreal. 

The word has been on Paul that he’s a difficult teammate, he’s certainly been traded enough despite how good he is that there’s def some fire where that smoke is. But even if he’s the biggest asshole in the world, and even tho he’s having an awful year, whats the harm in keeping him on and having a farewell tour?? At least fans will come out to see him one last time, play a video tribute, all that. For the life of me I can’t understand what the fuck the Clippers are doing 

New talking point for the Clippers defenders just dropped; please adjust your defenses of the CP3 firing to “they’re helping him go to a contender” to “He was being disruptive and deserved it” accordingly.

Bet we find out Kawhi or Harden didnt like him.

Clippers not valuing their franchise GOAT says A LOT about them as an organization. Sorry y’all have to go through this, Clippers fans :(

Fk the cheating Clippers, fk the cheating Kawhi, fk the flopping and dirty CP.

This is all delicious karma.

Honestly, the Clippers are a blight to the NBA.

Kawhi still running shit over there

This is what happens when the values from the top down are not playing by the rules and gaming the system.  Ballmer games the cap.  Kawhi games the IR list, Harden games the defensive end of the floor.  Nobody has any heart to play the right way, not a winner to be found in any leadership position there.

Was the leeway comment before or after Harden’s -39 and benching in the Miami game?

Did he call out kawhi or something lmao

Chris was just starting to play real minutes too, and they have no backup point guard this is insane. I blame Frank’s ego or Harden or both. Kawhi coming back against Miami sent a message. He and the backups had the best plus minus against the Heat in that blowout.

It wasn’t too long ago that Kawhi was throwing his teammates under the bus for not being good enough. This looks like fallout from that. And if so I’m on team accountability not team leeway.