Clippers Get Hammered, Ben Simmons Is Back, and Five Questions Ahead of Next Season
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Welcome to the mismatch. I'm Chris Vernon and joining me as he does every week from the ringer.com is Dave Jacoby. Jacoby.
Verno, there is so much MBA to discuss, but I can't wait to discuss the RV. That'll be at the end of the show.
Oh, we we went down Route 66 for the hundred-year anniversary with the family. I can't wait to hear about this either. All right. We've got to start because we were not on last week as the Clippers penalties dropped. And everyone has now done podcasts about this. We'll give our quick thoughts on this. Number one, they got absolutely hammered. Uh I think everybody when the first tweet came down of the penalties. There was a collective whoa, because I think the longer it dragged on, the more we kind of thought, hey, they're gonna take a plea deal here. Uh there, you know, there's already that reporting on the ESPN side that was saying that they had talked to each other and that uh the I guess the lawyers had been in communication.
So that gave us the impression, at least, a few weeks prior. That okay, they're gonna take a plea deal on this thing. They're gonna say, hey, look, we didn't know, but we kind of knew, and we understand the way this looks for the league and whatever. Instead As it turned out, it appeared to have been just absolute defiance. And so we have five quick thoughts on this. I want to get your reactions to it. The first thing is regarding the absolute defiance, almost every podcast I read or article I read about this, it was funny. Reporters in many cases became the main characters in talking about this, that many of them have relationships. With Clippers Brass or people within the Clippers. And it was like one after another, people saying their relationships got burned, they were talked down to, they were condescended upon.
And I was like, damn man, like I and it was like all the people saying in privately, they were defiant to the people covering the story, right? That the Clippers like it wasn't just like to the league. It was like if you were a reporter and you asked the people from the Clippers about this, it was never like a ho-hum or a I don't want to talk about that, you know. It was a no, we did not do this. And there was like a shadow campaign going along to the reporters. And so shout out to all the reporters with mega hurt feelings because it seems as if they had had good relationships with the Clippers. But the Clippers like burned every bridge like along the way of this. They got no friends anymore, it doesn't seem like, because it seems like reporters feel like burned for the fact that they even tried to talk about this.
Um, but let's get into big I wanna get your thoughts on this. Is this just another example in the long lines of examples, whether it is crimes or it is sports or it is anything, that the best chance you have is to just say you're sorry when you've already been caught?
I think It sort of goes to the first thing that you were saying too. If you lie, deny till you die. You have to pick a side.
What are the NBA’s penalties for the Clippers’ salary‑cap circumvention with Kawhi Leonard?
You know what I mean? So it's like if you're going to lie, deny until you die. Because, you know, and that's sort of what their sort of philosophy felt like it was, because there was no true smoking smoking gun. If you read the report. You know, you read all of the report, and there's no sort of like truly damning, damning piece of information. I mean the Lawrence Franks
memo the Lawrence Frank's memos are pretty I don't know how you talk your way around those.
Well uh uh Gillian Zucker didn't do herself uh very many favors. I did not know who she was before this report and I certainly know who she is now and she's gonna be difficult to hire uh moving forward.
Well, and also it seems like Kawhi got the plea deal, right? Like of all these people, he's the one that, like, all right, you get fine seven hundred grand. I made like fifty million off this thing. Like, all right. And and and the MBAPA and Kawhi Leonard, they're fine with this. It reminded me, like, this is now. fifteen years ago, I remember covering this story of Bruce Pearl was the head coach at the University of Tennessee.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:17–3:52
2
What are the NBA’s penalties for the Clippers’ salary‑cap circumvention with Kawhi Leonard?
3:52–53:57
3
Is the Kawhi Leonard contract the worst signing in Clippers history?
53:57–1:07:28
4
How does Amen Thompson’s five‑year, $208 million extension impact the Rockets’ future?
1:07:28–1:08:56
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