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The Los Angeles Clippers need a shakeup.

The Clippers’ current core of Chris Paul, Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan hasn’t been able to push through and make it to a Western Conference Final or beyond. Complicating matters for this season is Griffin’s broken shooting hand, which he recently suffered when punching a Clippers staff member. He’ll be out of the lineup more than a month.

According to Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports, one move the Clippers would consider over the summer to improve is a Griffin-for-Kevin Durant swap.

“If the opportunity comes to move Blake Griffin and replace him with Durant, the Clippers won’t hesitate, sources said,” Wojnarowski wrote.

“Teams are calling on Griffin trades now, but Clippers president and coach Doc Rivers seems determined to play the year out with Griffin and see how far the team advances in the playoffs. Eventually, the Clippers will determine how intrigued Durant might be in becoming a Big Three with Chris Paul and DeAndre Jordan.”

Durant is a much better player than Griffin, there’s no doubt about it. The Thunder forward is one of the three or four best players in the league and still has plenty of prime seasons left in his career. There’s no reason for OKC to make this kind of move unless, as Wojnarowski notes, it learns Durant definitely isn’t re-signing.

The Thunder also have plenty of big men capable of playing the power forward position. The best of the group is Serge Ibaka, who plays exceptional interior defense along with an improved offensive game. OKC also has Steven Adams, Enes Kanter, Nick Collison and rookie Mitch McGary in the frontcourt.

If Durant were to leave in free agency, finding a wing player with elite scoring ability would be the best option for OKC, rather than a power forward with limited shooting range.

Even if a Griffin-Durant trade is unlikely to happen, it doesn’t hurt the Clippers to be aggressive. Los Angeles is in win-now mode based on its current roster construction and must make the most of Paul’s remaining good years. The veteran point guard is 30 years old and approaching the end of his prime.

Luckily for the Clippers, Griffin has another year left on his contract, so they have plenty of time to figure out what role, if any, he’ll play in the team’s future.
 
Three00ZeeX said:
Ok guys so myself, abubakr shaheed abubakr shaheed , and @Menacin Methods had a heated discussion the other day on the following topic:

If you switch Lebron and Curry (lebron on warriors, curry on cavs) for a full season. what would you predict happens for each team?

in terms of season, playoffs and would either get to the finals​ and if so, who would win?

What are your thoughts?
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come on famb, lebron makes the warriors much worse while steph would make the cavs better

warriors can't do what they do with any other player
 
i always get usher, reggie bush or jalen rose. usher the most, especially if i have the beard. and if i have aviator on, chicks go nuts. had some women following me around nordstrom once taking my picture. lmaoo it was hilarious. jalen and reggie when i have the goatee. None of them really favor each other, but people see what they want. 'you cant have usher baby, but you can have this usher look-a-like d'



when i was in nyc a couple weeks ago a guy thought I was charles woodson and didnt believe me when i said i wasnt lmaoooooo.

i'm lowkey mystique
 
Freeze said:
i always get usher, reggie bush or jalen rose. usher the most, especially if i have the beard. and if i have aviator on, chicks go nuts. had some women following me around nordstrom once taking my picture. lmaoo it was hilarious. jalen and reggie when i have the goatee. None of them really favor each other, but people see what they want. 'you cant have usher baby, but you can have this usher look-a-like d'

when i was in nyc a couple weeks ago a guy thought I was charles woodson and didnt believe me when i said i wasnt lmaoooooo.

i'm lowkey mystique
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so you look like every handsome black celebrity? :nerd:
 
steph and kyrie and love would be unstoppable. lebron and klay and draymond would not be as good. we'd be in here saying klay needs moar halpppp. dray kneeds merrr herrrp
 
Freeze said:
steph and kyrie and love would be unstoppable. lebron and klay and draymond would not be as good. we'd be in here saying klay needs moar halpppp. dray kneeds merrr herrrp
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The only person that needs help is LeBron though
 
nickmaz96 said:
Freeze said:
i always get usher, reggie bush or jalen rose. usher the most, especially if i have the beard. and if i have aviator on, chicks go nuts. had some women following me around nordstrom once taking my picture. lmaoo it was hilarious. jalen and reggie when i have the goatee. None of them really favor each other, but people see what they want. 'you cant have usher baby, but you can have this usher look-a-like d'

when i was in nyc a couple weeks ago a guy thought I was charles woodson and didnt believe me when i said i wasnt lmaoooooo.

i'm lowkey mystique
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so you look like every handsome black celebrity? :nerd:
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hahaha pretty much. just need that michael ealy eye game doh.
 
KhalilMack52 said:
I hope KD ends up in Washington

I need to see the @The Collector Flourish in here
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aint you in the NFL thread..

foreskins barely did anything and dude was lit
 
Lebron needs help more than anyone else. 

Even Rose being the only offensive weapon on the 2011 Bulls, Lebron needed more help than Rose did. 
 
Jay02 said:
Freeze said:
hated these dudes, but i loved hating them. it was fun. i miss this bad as hell. cleveland wack af
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The league really was a ton of fun with LeBron and Miami as the villains. They played their role perfectly. Miss it bad looking back.
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Oh NOW people want to appreciate that 4 years of the NBA :lol: whether you were a hater or supporter of Lebron, that was a very entertaining time of basketball. Only negative it left negative it left me with was being less of a Wade fan based on his current play. Where was this Wade when Lebron "was stuffing the stat sheet" and "not doing enough"? Wade spent a good portion of those 4 years playing every other game, sandbagging, and appearing out of nowhere during game where Lebron did slump and looking like a hero, yet Homer Simpsoning into the bushes to let Lebron take all the flack. Wade ain't fooling me.


NickFolarin said:
What's the legitimacy on this Dwight to Boston trade?
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Bout as legit as a bunch of NTers having hands


nickmaz96 said:
who's gonna start the Dwyane Wade appreciation thread?

top 5 SG & sill getting it done despite all the "washed" talk :smokin
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See previous Wade paragraph
 
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pretty much

you play 4 years at 1/4 speed & you can look good when you finally turn 2 of the other 3 gears on for a change :lol:
 
I don't see the MJ/Butler resemblence. Aside from being tall black dudes they look pretty different.

That's like saying Kristaps looks like Phil Jackson because they're both tall white Knicks
 
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