The Clippers are a kind of groups who may win all of it, however the well being of their stars Kawhi Leonard and Paul George is the principle factor their championship hopes rely upon.
For the reason that pair joined the Clippers in 2019, Leonard has solely performed in round 52 p.c of the franchise’s video games, whereas PG-13 has performed in 61 p.c of video games.
With the addition of Russell Westbrook final season, the Clippers seemed sharp, till Leonard and Paul each went down with accidents at a vital level within the season.
Kawhi with a knee harm in Recreation 1 of the postseason and George with a knee harm he obtained in late March.
Clippers coach and present Group USA assistant, Ty Lue has given an replace on the pair’s standing and whether or not they’ll out there for coaching camp in a couple of weeks.
“We count on him to be prepared by coaching camp,” Lue stated of Leonard on SiriusXM NBA Radio. “He will probably be one hundred pc by the point coaching camp hits and we simply gotta be prepared for when coaching camp hits with our medical employees, we simply be certain that we’re doing the best issues so far as practices and video games and ensuring the minutes are proper. The identical factor with PG. When these two guys play, we’re an incredible staff.”
It have to be very irritating for Clippers followers to witness the identical story season after season.
Neither Paul nor Leonard have performed greater than 57 common season video games throughout their time in LA.
Each gamers aren’t getting any youthful both and will probably be of their mid thirties in just a few brief years.
So their window to clutch a championship as Clippers stars is starting to shut.
PG-13 is but to win a hoop in his NBA profession, whereas Leonard bagged one throughout his time with the Raptors.
Perhaps this season might be theirs for the taking, we’ll simply have to attend and see.
