Sam Amick

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The Athletic NBA Daily · Sam Amick on the NBA wide impact of the Clippers punishment · 7 Sep 2026 podcast

He was with Cleveland.

He's been in the running for multiple GM jobs, turned down opportunities to advance to be the top guy in a front office.

So they're pretty well equipped.

Mark Hughes, longtime assistant GM of the Clippers and other folks in that group.

So operationally, they're going to be fine.

The pick deficit is,

They're no stranger to, but it's a massive disadvantage.

You know, it's funny because in the short term, it doesn't really change much at all about the Clippers' challenge this season.

You know, Law had kind of made the joke that Ty Lue is no stranger to winning games without Kawhi Leonard, which presumably is going to be the case again with Kawhi going to Toronto.

So short term, you can almost kind of like put the blinders on and pretend that there's nothing to see here.

The long term stuff, you know, is that they had...

put their books in a place where they wanted to be completely ready next summer to go all in, whether free agency or taking on money in trades.

This is why they wouldn't extend James Harden as much as he wanted, led to his departure.

This is why Kawhi himself was not being promised the kind of money down the road that he was hoping for.

So if you're going to have a structure around this kind of penalty, they're actually in probably about as good a position as you could imagine.

And last but definitely not least is like, you know, we talk about how the league definitely came down hard on the Clippers.

Well, I tell you what, they could have come down a whole lot harder if they had killed this trade.

Because you immediately go from losing, you know, five picks to unofficially losing three.

Like you're getting two back in that trade.

I mean, just imagine if they had also killed the trade and you end up being down seven.

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