Honestly it seems like throughout his career, Chris Paul has grated on veterans and been a good leader for young players. I’d guess that he could come off as very patronizing and be a micromanager. To young players though, that would come off as a leader who is focused on details.

I wonder what the difference is. Is it really just a team of veterans tired, can’t be bothered, and not wanting to be lectured at VS a team of young players aching to get better? Or is it a matter of CP3 not being good enough to receive that kind of respect anymore? 

Makes sense though. Going to CP3s house is probably the coolest thing you can do in Oklahoma City on a Saturday… but it’s not even an honorable mention on a LA Halloween.

OKC needs to pick him back up just to give him a potential ring

The first thing he did was buy suits for all the guys. Art the tone from the start. The clippers are such a shit show and their record reflects it.

Every kid in the city gets driven out to the neighborhood that somebody on nextdoor recommends for having good candy now instead of just walking out their front door where they live. It’s crazy.

only this clippers team could make me side with chris paul of all people lol

People can say what they want about Chris Paul’s leadership style, antics on the court, attitude with the refs, whatever you want. They can’t deny that he’s been a culture add on every single team he’s been on

I mean, Chris Paul doesn’t have that great of a history with teammates, teams in the past, management, and it’s been reported that he can be kind of a cancer in the locker room. Partner that with him and James Harden not really liking each other, which spans back to their playing dates in Houston, it’s not a surprise that the Clippers aren’t fucking with him.

I’m also a certified CP hater lol

+ Suns

Kawhi not a vocal leader? Color me shocked

Kawhi is a godawful leader, Tim was the leader during his first couple of years, and then Tony Parker, while being bad at it, was a leader the last couple of years he was there, and then Lowry was the clear leader in Toronto, and there’s been no leader in LAC since, well, CP3 left back in 17’

It’s the reverse of complaining without offering solutions. It comes off like they were annoyed at Paul for acknowledging reality.

You’re correct. Shelburne is a clippers mouth piece. This was trying to make Chris look sad, but all it did was validate Chris.

yeah also, the clippers fucking suck and dont own their pick so, like, i’d be glad if someone CARED about winning, i know my team traded luka but the clippers are done

Then why is this problem unique to the Clippers?

Hang on, people in r/nba love basketball?

don’t worry he is

This is an American thing. You gotta find some bigger reason that must have to do with nationality or generation. Like CP3 is American. There’s tons of young American players who care and there’s many who don’t. There’s lots of European guys who were known as lazy and never cut it in the league too. These are just individual people who have different personalities and work ethics. It doesn’t have to be about Nationality. Zubac wasn’t guaranteed anything and was traded for a bag of chips, he needed to work hard to stay in the league and the clippers had guys who were established already. Simple as that.

Reminds me when there was sad story of Essien throwing a birthday party in Madrid and invited all Real Madrid players and only 2 players showed up. One was Carvalho who was anyways a very long teammate with Essien at Chelsea for many years, and another was Modric (Croatian player) who has only become teammate with Essien. No one else showed up

Kawhi is injured all the time so people forget

Yeah, from the outside, it really seems like Kawhi doesn’t do any of the leadership stuff. All the stories that make it out about him are how he doesn’t do something

KD knows he’s not a leader but he’s a willing teammate and he cares a ton, he’s just not vocal.

Kawhi doesn’t care about his teammates and has clashed everywhere he’s gone. He’s a bad teammate.

It showed a serious lack of care. Like they don’t even care to try to win games. They don’t even pretend to care. They’ve all given up on winning and just want to cash checks and be stars.

I’d say blow it up at the end of the season by Ty Lue and Lawrence Frank are equally part of the problem.

Came here for exactly the same reason.

You’re saying that Chris Paul…CHRIS PAUL has no friends.

I literally can’t hear about a sparsely attended party in any context without picture perfect memories of that shitty movie popping into my head

Meanwhile, I can’t even remember what the voice of my dearly departed mother sounds like and the pictures I have of her look more and more like a stranger as the years go on LOL 🤦‍♂️

Feels like him retiring this past offseason after having been a solid starter on the Spurs last year would have been a nicer ending.

Isn’t Harden in a low-key serious relationship with a kid?

When are roads icy in Phoenix ?

Or is it a saying in America ?

Reverse Malice at the Palace where fans rush the court and start fighting GM, owner, and players

Julius Hodge

ANTIGUAN MENTIONED 🇦🇬🇦🇬🇦🇬🇦🇬🇦🇬🇦🇬

Every podcaster and analyst jerks him off at the start of the season, as they imagine peak offensive and defensive Kawhi. Then the season starts, he doesn’t play much, Clippers sputter out. Rinse and repeat for the past 5 years.

Any other star gets ripped apart and psycho analyzed throughout the season and media circuit, but with Kawhi it’s crickets.

Everyone else that gets paid what he gets paid and has the star treatment he’s had has been expected to be a leader at some point in their careers

Just because he has never been doesn’t mean he should get a pass on not being one when nobody else gets it

I just meant if I was a young player trying to make a name for myself and I had a future HOFer who was willing to mentor me or even just pass a long some valuable information I would take advantage of it. Part of that is showing up to social things like this and building a relationship with the person.