[Rahbar] Kawhi signs an extension and will likely be followed by PG + Harden. OKC owns the following Clippers picks: 2024 1st (unprotected) 2025 swap (unprotected) 2026 1st (unprotected) 2027 swap (unprotected) Kawhi will be 35, George will be 36 and Harden will be 37 in 2027.
by DiceloConejo
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The Clippers have made their bed. Ride or die with the aging stars. I can’t blame them one bit.
Eh 🤷♂️🤷♂️we got SGA and JDub out of the trade so you will never hear me complain about the bad picks we may get from them
I think with SGA and JDub we’ve already won the trade and anything else is icing.
That’s definitely their best move, and hope for health.
I’m guessing they’ll have at least one rough season between now and 2027 draft. Those old bones don’t have a good track record
Damn. Imagine getting top 5 picks and finals appearances in 2026 or 2027 because Kawhi’s leg fell off and Jame Harden got trapped in a Cheesecake factory. Just keep reloading!
We got what we wanted and the clips got what they wanted, pure greed to be mad about the rest of the picks being low end. As long as PG and Russ are there you can only wish the best for them until they meet the Thunder in the conference finals
Can we stop doing this already? Trade is over we’ve already got our core. It’s getting tiresome to talk about picks everytime Clippers do something, especially this Brandon guy does that constantly. And i don’t like every good Shai and Dub performance turning into Clippers bashing in r/nba. I get it i also didn’t like them when they had Pat Bev or Reggie Jackson but it’s different now.
We’ll always be grateful to Paul George for not leaving in the free agency like some unnamed snake, just for that he is the bigger legend in OKC. And i really would like to see Russ and PG getting rings.
Contract extension doesn’t really mean anything nowadays aside from the TeamOrg would have a controllable trade asset. Clippers seems to be a good organization in terms of willing to spend to have that championship line-up but they could also implode or worst case injury starts happening which all of their stars have history or they all get traded. OKCs use case for their future draft asset is obviously to continuously have controllable players to surround OKCs current Big3 or 4 which at this point their just barely tapping their full potential except SGA.
Clippers are gonna be the 2014 nets in the next few years. There’s nothing to worry about.
Look, I get that Rahbar’s shtick is boundless optimism, but this is a negative development for the value of those picks, and thus for us.
Can’t knock the Clippers for their initial decision. It was smart and has made them real competitors for the foreseeable future barring health.
Sam Presti wins again. Odds of them staying healthy or Harden not pulling his usual stunts are around 0%
Assuming the best possible scenario for the Clips, where they stay in the playoff picture for the rest of the time they owe us picks, those picks should still be handy for replenishing the bench. It might even be possible to trade back into the second round if salary crunch becomes an issue.
Good thing we nailed our rebuilding era draft picks and got our core pretty much figured out!