J. Kyle Mann

Having said that, I just don't see another pathway for the Clippers to get anything approximating a player like him at his age.

And so in terms of opportunity costs, I totally understand it for them because resetting was going to be difficult no matter what

was going to happen.

We'll see what happens with Kawhi now.

Maybe they can get something out of him or maybe the fact that they weren't able to trade him before the deadline is a suggestion that he has a suspension coming up.

We'll see about that.

But like just having something going forward at the very least to me, if I'm a Clippers fan, I feel good about because it was going to be a wilderness for a long time without our picks, without any way to get anybody like him in there.

They were selling cap space and cap space is not a plan.

It's a dream.

All right.

Why don't we take a quick break and we'll get to the rest of these deals in a bit.

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