2019 nba OFFSEASON news, rumors, drama, and recriminations

kawhi will just show up in uniform to some team's game 1 with no announcement beforehand

zion dunked too hard

Summer League games have been postponed for the rest of the night. pic.twitter.com/dJghRRAj8u

— Rachel Nichols (@Rachel__Nichols) July 6, 2019

Kawhi clippers!!!!!

PG to clips too wtffffffff

What on earrrrrrrrrth lmao

whoaaaaaaaaaaa

staples gonna be wild next year

Kawhi Leonard has been recruiting Paul George to find a way to get to the Clippers and LA pulled it off tonight: George goes to the Clippers with Leonard, and together they walk into Staples Center to go head-to-head with LeBron James and Anthony Davis.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 6, 2019

"a record setting collection of draft picks"

Russ gotta be demanding a trade soon I would imagine

rip toronto

Kawhi is the drama queen after all!

After Leonard pushed George to find a way to get to the Clippers, Paul George approached the team and requested a trade, league sources tell ESPN. OKC was left with no choice and made the best out of a difficult situation, per sources.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 6, 2019

Kinda weird he wanted to partner with his not quite as good clone

The Clippers are sending the Thunder four unprotected first-round picks, one protected first-round pick and two pick swaps, league sources tell ESPN. Those picks go to OKC with Gallinari and SGA.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 6, 2019

appropriately wild

they're gonna be impossible on perimeter d

Wow what a haul tho. Shai plus a million picks and a nice trade chip with Gallo

what

the fuck

what i don't understand is what the "difficult situation" was for okc... PG *just* resigned there

This rules haha the lakers got played and missed out on all the FAs

wowwwww

Yah they coulda been like f u bro guy got 3 more years deal w it yes it’s weird

what an evening in southern california

This rules haha the lakers got played and missed out on all the FAs

― big city slam (Spottie), Saturday, July 6, 2019 2:08 AM (seventeen seconds ago)

well... anthony davis might be the one you'd most want to have for the life of a max contract

I just mean he dragged his feet and kept the lakers waiting while all the major FAs signed elsewhere

Rival NBA teams have been aware of the discontent of OKC's two stars: Paul George -- and Russell Westbrook, league sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium. Leonard pushed the Clippers in recent days to deliver him a second star, and they did.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) July 6, 2019

jesus christ

https://i.imgur.com/f1nU8zx.png

well i don't understand paul george at all

kawhi...

thank you

This year gonna be amazing

did paul george get lobotomized after the 2018 utah series? what did he think playing with russell westbrook was gonna be like

the team that really got fucked this offseason is the rockets

their two stars hate each other, their GM openly tried to trade everyone, and now they're the... 5th best team in the west?

mb they can trade for russ haha

Wow major overpay danny green to lakers 2/30

lakers rage signing free agents now

yeah here comes a series of laker panic moves xp lol

you hate to see it

danny green like "can i sign that contract right now? no i'm serious where's the pen"

Woj saying on sportscenter that he wouldn’t have gone if they didn’t land pg. so basically they gave up ALL that for pg and Kawhi. Worth it.

but if he just wanted to play with paul george it doesn't explain why he didn't have him traded to toronto... it's not like paul george had a say in the matter

They both want to be in LA!

get the feeling kawhi was always going to the clippers just a matter of who he could strongarm them into getting to come along

4/142 for kawhi

Waiting for the KCP lakers signing to drop

if you follow the logic of kawhi allegedly saying that he wouldn't have gone there if they couldn't get paul george, then he would've... gone back to toronto but... not asked them to trade for paul george? it just feels like a cover for me in the hopes that will people will be like, well you can't blame kawhi for wanting to team up with *paul george* in LA! i'm supposed to believe that if okc had told the clippers to kick rocks that kawhi wouldn't have started going down the list... nobody's actually signed a contract yet. would he not have tried to recruit jimmy butler? he decided that he wanted to be in LA and then figured out how to get another star to come with him.

Woj said he may have gone to the lakers

Sources: Leonard and George met in LA earlier in week. Clippers had long been frontrunners for Leonard, but it is unlikely he would've made final leap to sign without PG trade. Clippers imagined Leonard as part of a Lakers Big 3 --- and knew they had no choice. They did OKC deal.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 6, 2019

clips looking like the early champ front runners here

i wonder if that means that the clippers just feared he would go there and that made them act semi-irrationally, or if there was actual intel that the lakers were his second choice