Jimmy should’ve signed with the Clippers back in 2019. LA just has better infrastructure for celebs who want to leverage their brand. He probably could’ve had a Big Face fixed location by now. Would’ve definitely had his own podcast. It’s not an accident that virtually every former Clipper has a podcast.

It took 5 games of tiptoeing around the obvious and having Harden lead the bench unit before they benched Westbrook.

It took 6 more games of tiptoeing around the obvious and having Harden play around Kawhi and PG before they finally decided to have Kawhi and PG play around Harden.

Both times, the change happened after an embarrassing loss to the Nuggets.

Also notable, it took 12 games having washed up PJ Tucker in the rotation before they finally, FINALLY gave Kobe Brown meaningful minutes. Kobe looked nervous, didn’t play great, but he showed flashes of why they spent a 1st round pick on a player who turns 24 in a month.

Kobe passing up open looks and putting it on the floor like Luke Kennard.

Here comes the run.

Come on Kobe. Let’s have good minutes. You just need to defend and take open 3s.

Clips commit 2 turnovers right after they showed the turnover graphic.

I don’t know why Terance is pressing. He just needed to dribble that out.

I had to look up this Vezenkov guy. Reigning Euroleague MVP and scoring champ. Nice pick up for the Kings.

Harden looks like a windmill on defense. Lot of arm movement, no feet movement.

He needs the reps playing the role that they need him to play. He looks like he might’ve got used to being the man in G-League. They need him to play like prime PJ Tucker. I think he’ll get it. He just needs the reps.

Harden seems to have finally got tired of pretending the offense shouldn’t run through him. Enough trying to fit in. The rest of the team needs to adjust to him.

The worst thing about Westbrook isn’t just that he wastes possessions, it’s that he wastes possessions that should be easy or he makes mistakes that lead to points going the other way. They’re just such costly mistakes.

Clippers are Harden’s team now.

PG and Kawhi are just a glorified Chandler Parsons and Trevor Ariza.

Zu is the new Ömer Aşık, and Russ is the new Jeremy Lin.

Makes one think

Well, good for the Sixers that they didn’t get him then. Worked out for them.

I love Jim and Brian.

I don’t get Ty Lue.

Clips deserve to lose this game. Just 8 points 9 minutes into the fourth is a disgrace. Visibly getting frustrated. Not trusting your teammates. Where is the teamwork? Zero teamwork.

Clips are just going to run iso after iso down the stretch. No ball movement, no movement off ball, no team work. That’s why they struggle so much down the stretch in close games. Doesn’t matter that they got Harden, the problem comes down to how Kawhi plays.

19 points for DJ. So close to breaking 20 for the first time since 2019.