I don’t know what the hell you do if you’re Lawrence Frank/Steve Balmer, to be honest. They’re in the worst situation in the league, and it’s probably not even close.

If OKC doesn’t straight up own their pick through 2027, they have the right to swap, so tanking is completely off the table. The Harden trade was a desperate move, and they’ve made themselves a worse team, and have put their future in an even bleaker position in the process. Philadelphia controls their ‘28 and ‘29 picks as well.

All LAC can really hope to do is to try and move PG/Kawhi at the deadline/offseason and get some level of draft capital back so they have something to look forward to other than an OKC pick in the twenties every other year.

If they’re dead set on trying to improve their roster, who can they even move? It’s clear that they need to get bigger, but what do they have of value that they’d be willing to move? Norman Powell? They’re absolutely screwed.

  • TheGargageMan@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Clippers haven’t had a significant pick since Blake Griffin but have been decent most of the time anyway.

  • Splittinghairs7@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Let’s be honest, they should still eventually be a decent team this year. However, it’s very doubtful they can actually win it all.

    They just have to ride it out.

  • pinktwhite@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Theyre essentially locked in to whatever this mess is. Only way out is to ride out the contracts

  • SirThixcksAlot@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    You play out the rest of the season and evaluate from there. If they continue to fall flat you give Kawhi and PG moderate short term deals or tell them to take a hike.

  • tapk69@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Stop making stupid posts. Everyone except the clippers and Reddit knows that Harden and Westbrook failed on the Rockets. Just sit Westbrook and play Harden. Its not that complicated.

  • kimbaker1@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Negative comments gets you banned in Clips sub.

    Be on the lookout for Uncle Dennis.

  • trevortins@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Honestly I think the clippers will figure it out, I think Russ will have his role reduced and harden pg and Kawhi will learn to play with eachother. It’s just a lot of things they need to figure out and against Denver although they lost they out up a decent fight and showed glimpses of what could be an awesome team.