Zach Lowe: "For Kawhi, we all would agree that the Lakers are certainly not the favorite, a distance third at best" Adrian Wojnarowski: "It's the Clippers!"

Zach Lowe The Clippers are somewhere beyond fucked As recently as yesterday a front office exec from another team said 'Hey the Clippers are quietly positioning themselves in case Jokic wants to leave Denver with lots of cap space and LA and all that' Forget that This team is dead

Zach Lowe Joe House Chris Ryan draft their 15 favorite NBA Champs since 2000 Lowe asks why there was no love for the Kobe-Pau teams who went undrafted Ryan says You probably should have had a Californian on this podcast to balance the east coast lean of the panel Lowe responds Like Bill

Brian Windhorst - I dont know if he Kawhi Leonard wants to go there Toronto Raptors but he has to go there He has to get out of Los Angeles

Tim MacMahon On the Clippers lying about Kawhi Leonard's health following dismissal from Team USA practice in July 2024 The Clippers organizational philosophy was kissing Kawhi's butt regardless of circumstances and factsThe guiding light was Find Kawhi's butt plant your lips on it

On ESPN today Stephen A Smith claimed Kawhi had blackmailed the Clippers subtly shifting the blame to Kawhi and fully away from Ballmer This follows an established pattern as he both blamed Kawhi for taking Ballmers money and held Ballmer blameless when the story came out

Stephen A goes in on Kawhi This is the same guy that blackmailed the Clippers said go get Paul George or Im taking my talents to the Lakers Because of that they ended up trading 5 picks along with SGA Even after this they found a way to pay Kawhi more and still havent been to an NBA Finals