The LA Clippers are for Real–MAYBE

The LA Clippers are for Real–MAYBE

Well the LA Clippers are on a roll right now winners of nine of their last 10 and are 26 and five overall since the calendar ticked over to December fresh off of an absolutely eye popping 149 Point outing against Atlanta the torrent three-month stretch by LA’s other team

Leaves them sitting a top the Western Conference in sole possession of the number one seed with both the Thunder and ter wolves losing last night pretty damn cool and the Clippers were already one of the biggest would a Coulda Shas in the entire NBA coming into this season

As the clip show have just never been able to fully capitalize on their potential following that stunning collusion based super teamup strategy that was deployed by kawhai Leonard and Paul George back in the summer of 2009 19 that left even the super team King himself scratching his head at the time

As remember LeBron was already in La at that point and he was also putting on the full court press for Kawai to join him in the City of Angels with the purple and gold Kawai instead though had designs on his very own super team with the other

La franchise just one problem he needed a super star mate to come to town and join up what it do baby yeah and Kawai would find his perfect match in the form of Paul George who was coming off of a career year with the thunder in 201829 as George was named First Team

All NBA and First Team all NBA defense that season while posting a career high 28 points per game eight rebounds and four assists and at the time a legitimate case could have been made for Paul George as a top five NBA player and ascending at just 28 years of age who

Finished third in MVP voting that very year a pairing with Leonard seemed like a match made in heaven as Kawai was fresh off of his age 27 season a year where he led the Toronto Raptors to an NBA championship the two still in their 20s both born in Southern California

Both High Caliber two-way players just one tiny problem here George still had three years left on his 4-year 137 million contract with Oklahoma City but not to worry this was after all right in the heart of the super team era where petulant overpaid Pradas just decide what and where they want to play

And expect others to facilitate their every whim thanks LeBron so just about one year after signing that Max extension with the Thunder Paul George was of course on his way to team with Kawai and again this seemed like a can’t miss pairing except that is for the fact

That pretty much neither one of them can manage to finish a full NBA season and what has all of a sudden been 5 years since that team up and entering into this 2023 2024 season kawh Leonard had only played a total of 161 of a possible 37 seven games while Paul George had

Himself missed 118 games during that span playing only 189 games over the last four years the Clippers though would add another High Caliber SoCal native in February of last year when Russell Westbrook agreed to terms with this La team after being cut loose by his original La team what and things

Would really heat up on Halloween this year when just four games into this brand new 2023 2024 League year the Clippers would complete a blockbuster deal to bring on another southern California original and former League MVP James Harden I’m not a system player I am assistant and he didn’t even need

To eat his way out of town this time just go on record bashing his longtime Advocate and president of basketball operations for the Sixers Daryl mury as a liar let me say that again darl Mor is a liar then of course no show training camp before arriving and

Later skipping out on more practices with personal matters eventually as is almost always the case in this busted ass era of entitlement big baby little game James Harden would be shipped off to LA and the Clippers responded initially to this trade by losing six consecutive games and dropping their

Overall record to just three and seven but since that time the Clippers have been arguably the best team in the entire league as they have not only seized that top spot in the west but are also currently the second ranked team in net offensive efficiency behind only the

Boston Celtics and speaking of Boston the Clippers are now all of a sudden just three games out from ripping the best record in the entire league from them unlike the Celtics though la is helmed by one of the very best coaches in the entire league teron Lou and they

Boast a quartet of players all 35 or younger who have each been named to at least one all NBA first team throughout their career this team is absolutely stacked come on get up if you TI as I am however there remains some troubling unanswered questions which promis to

Linger around this team up until the very moment they voiced that potential Larry O’Brien trophy it’s all about the Larry O as James Harden’s prolific proclivity to pissing down his leg in the playoffs when the lights are at their brightest is extremely well documented to say the least while

Playoff P has had his own high-profile High leverage meltdowns in the postseason such as when he transformed into pandemic P right before our very eyes in the bubble Tournament of 2020 when the Clippers blew a 3-1 series lead at the hands of the very young Nicole yic and Jamal Murray Denver Nuggets in

Game seven George dropped a robust dump in his pants it’s a complete crap while dropping a minuscule 10 points on four of 16 shooting including zero zero point0 in the fourth of that winner take all game The Following season in the 2021 Western Conference Finals a six-game loss to the Phoenix Suns George

Again experienced some uh struggles I go poopy going five of 20 from the field in game four before posting a 6 of 15 shooting game in the game six Eliminator getting blown out 130 to 103 and posting a te worse – 25 for the game well you

Can’t be calling yourself playoff p and lose all the time and then of course there’s kawhai Leonard who does have two championships under his belt and two finals MVPs but this guy is so damn brittle he can barely Run 10 ft down the court without sustaining a season ending

Injury ultimately there are no guarantees in Life or sports but this team has more question marks than any title contender in recent memory if they can stay healthy this team very well may be the last last team standing at the end of the season but that is a Monumental if

The Clippers look like VIABLE title contenders, as they have now all of a sudden taken over the number one seed in the West. BUT, there are STILL some major questions that will need to be answered…