The Paul George Signing Is STUPID…

The Paul George Signing Is STUPID…

this Paul George situation has kind of blown my mind typically when something this big happens you can see on my channel I immediately post about it I’ve got a video up within an hour or an hour and a half really wanted to kind of sit and think on this one a little bit though because I I’m really struggling to understand exactly what just happened so obviously we know that Paul George signed with the Philadelphia 76ers four years 212 full four-year Max contract a contract that the Clippers were not willing to give him they could have given him a little bit more money but they did not want to give him the fourth year Philly was willing to do the fourth year and Paul George is now be playing alongside tyres Max and Joel and beat and that is extremely exciting to me I think that is a perfect fit because he can kind of be in and out of these games you’re not relying on Paul George to be this like primary Creator you’re not relying on him to be the best offensive option if the team is fully healthy this is a perfect fit for Paul George and arguably given some of the other additions that Philly has made as well as the ability to continue to add some pieces they are them the Knicks and then the Celtics above them those are the best teams in the East going into next year they’re real Conference Finals and finals contenders depending on health and I can totally understand what some people are saying right now about not loving the contract for Paul George some people even going as far as to say that it’s going to be one of the worst contracts in the league here in a couple of Seasons I can understand the hesitancy to add him but here’s what I would say to people are saying that this is a terrible contract what would you have done what would the other option have been because if they don’t get Paul George they have to sign Tyrese Maxi to an extension they have to do all these other things this was the offseason in which they were going to have cap space so it was going to be like hey let’s give kcp 30 million and and someone else 20 and then we have these pieces and we at least can trade those guys away maybe get more cap space trade them out for a star or we can go and get Paul George I understand not wanting to give him the fourth year but I don’t understand what the other option here was supposed to be for Philadelphia the most efficient thing that they could have done is to just take in a perfect third star alongside Maxi and embiid in in Paul George and not give up anything like yeah the contract might not be great in two seasons I’m totally willing to admit that the last two years of this contract are probably not going to be great but you know who clearly doesn’t care about that the Philadelphia 76ers Dar Moray has a history of this going back to you know bringing in or bringing back I should say Chris Paul handful of other guys he wants his Stars he wants to try and push for a title and at the last two years of the deal aren’t great he can trade the guy or he can just deal with it and and eat the rest of the contracts and if you’re the Sixers this is a two-year window anyway like Joel and be it’s not like Jolan beat’s 24 he might only be an MVP caliber guy for two more seasons anyway and at that point you have Maxi to kind of take some things over but this is just the price that you pay to get Paul George away from a situation that I truly don’t think he wanted to leave I think if the Clippers had offered Paul George a fourth year on his contract he would have been with the Clippers so if you’re Philadelphia and you have Max cap space you’ve been planning it for this for two years and your options are overpay a little bit for Paul George or get kcp at 30 million a year I think the answer there is pretty clear I’m not that worried about the contract I’m not that worried about how bad it’s going to be in a couple of seasons because embiid’s probably only going to be good enough for you to be a real Contender for the next two seasons anyway and this is a franchise that is absolutely desperate for playoff success they haven’t had it like they are real Conference Finals and finals contenders myy is desperate to win a title something that he’s never done he’s never made the finals either and this this is a kind of move that you make when you have the opportunity to when you have a small window I can you like two things can be true it can be a bad contract in the long term for Paul George and it can still will be the correct decision for Philadelphia to bring him in now for the Clippers this is the part that I do not understand and I don’t really understand how anybody could explain it to me and make it make sense if you are giving Kawai an extension a year ago and you’re giving James Harden a new contract 2 years 70 why are you just okay with losing Paul George for absolutely nothing because there’s only two there’s only two options here only two things happened here either the Clippers looked at the situ and decided we’re fine losing Paul George we have kawhai we have Harden we have some other guys we’re totally okay with that guy playing for an a new basketball team next year we’re fine with it we don’t want to give him the contract or two they truly didn’t think he was going to leave they had they really felt like they could play hard ball on the fourth year on the contract they didn’t feel the need to go out and really make that competitive offer and they were just surprised that Philly was willing to do it and they lost Paul George they didn’t mean to it wasn’t purpose it just happened and Paul George called their Bluff and he’s gone there’s only one or two things happened there and in either scenario it is massive franchise mismanagement in my opinion because yes we’ve already talked about all the risks of the Paul George contract and I can understand the Clippers not wanting to give him a fourth year it’s not like this has been a successful team it’s not like you know these guys are ever healthy together I totally get that but every move they’ve made since they brought in Kawai since they brought in Paul George has been about constantly pushing for a title constantly adding more salary bringing in Harden even you know a less than a year ago continually giving these guys new contracts so if that mindset carried over to Kawai and James Harden why did that mindset stop at giving Paul George a fourth year on his contract now part of that is kawhai didn’t get four years he got three Paul George excuse me James Harden only got two so they were just like hey dude we kind of want you to be on the same timeline as these other guys could you just not take the fourth year and Paul George wasn’t willing to he felt like a team would do it and he was 100% correct and I just if if you were going to get to this point if you’re the Clippers and you’re going to be so frustrated with the way the team is performed you’re going to be so concerned about how much money you’re spending the second apron and all that stuff if you’re going to get to that point then shouldn’t you have been at that point a year ago two years ago like multiple playoff disappointments ago why is this the offse season in which you finally decided that it is no longer worth it to take the risk of the fourth year on Paul George which makes me think that they truly did not believe he was going to leave like up until yesterday basically they probably thought hey this guy’s going to come back he’s going to come crawling back to us because no team would give him the fourth year and he wants to stay in LA and I I really think that if no team had given Paul George the fourth year he would have come back to the Clippers it was going to take the fourth year as I talked about in the sixer section that’s what it was going to take to get him to leave LA to leave the Clippers to go to a location situation that honestly I don’t think he really wanted to go to but he was willing to to do that for the fourth year and the Clippers just thought he was going to come crawling back take three years and they were going to be in this perfect situation and they almost tried to make it too perfect like would clearly this is the decision they made but would would you truly rather not have Paul George at all rather than have Paul George on a four-year contract instead of three is the fourth year that big of a deal you’re already willing to do a three-year Max it’s not like there’s a diff there’s a massive difference in the Philly contract compared to the Clippers they were both Max contracts it’s like the Clippers were offering him 25 a year they just didn’t want to do the fourth year and maybe at a certain point it just got uh untenable like the the situation was just not able to be solved it was a tough contract negotiation something they’ve been dealing with for like a year at this point and then once it became clear that Philly was an option Paul George took that option um I’d be really curious to see and find out over the next couple of days if at any point Paul George went back to the Clippers and said hey I’m seriously going to sign with the Sixers are you sure you don’t want to give me the fourth year it doesn’t feel like that’s what happened but I just I truly can’t understand I know that some people are going to say that it’s a good idea for the Clippers to let the guy leave W if you’re going to let the guy leave then you should have tried to do what the Nets did to get the picks back in you know kind of a version of the M Bridges tra like if you’re going to lose Paul George then you might as well just be bad because you are kind of like semi contenders with Paul George on the roster if that if that roster is fully healthy and without them you’re certainly not contenders so why not just blow the whole thing up like obviously they’re going into the new building next year and that’s why they’ve been continually pushing and adding these new contracts and and constantly trading away assets so again why the change in mindset that’s the thing that I I I truly don’t understand this is pretty unprecedented when you look throughout the history of the league of teams that kind of not necessarily like went all in but continually added pieces year after year after year and then just decided eh we don’t really want to resign one of our best players this this like almost never happens now granted this is the new NBA that we live in now I mean the the second apron all this stuff in the new CBA is scaring teams it’s why like you typically don’t see a team like the Nuggets just lose kcp in free agency because they don’t want to resign him to a big enough contract that’s that’s not normal um and a lot of the the deals that we’ve seen so far in free agency have definitely been more conservative in terms of years and money and so maybe that’s the answer is the the new CBA the second apron all that stuff it just scared the Clippers they were always willing to go all in go all in go all in but once they realized what a fourth year was truly going to mean bringing back Paul George they just decided they would rather not have him they’d rather move forward with Harden and kawhai and figure it out later it it’s a situation that I I I truly can’t understand I get it from Philly’s perspective even with the risk I think it’s a it’s a great move for them and if if I’m a Clippers fan if I’m in the front office I’m waking up this morning and thinking what just happened how did we just lose someone who’s still an all-nba caliber player at times when healthy for absolutely nothing so moving forward clearly the story of this is going to be is Kawai going to be excuse me is Paul George going be healthy and is embiid going to be healthy because if they are and they go into a postseason series there’s nobody in the Eastern Conference they can’t beat if they’re healthy with this roster they put together and for the Clippers maybe you start looking at trading James Harden maybe you start looking at trading kawhai for some of your picks back from Oklahoma City I have no idea but I just truly cannot understand the direction that this move is is is putting them in

Paul George has signed a max contract with the Philadelphia 76ers in free agency, leaving the Los Angeles Clippers.

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