It's the new Moneyball.
They're looking for players who have become undervalued. In this case, it's not because they need to play a new position or because their delivery looks funny. It's because they've committed domestic violence.
Yep. Like we’re not gonna be a championship contending team. I’d rather we suck ass but be a fun, cool team, instead of being slightly better but full of shitty people who I actively root against.
I feel like the chip or bust attitude robs a lot of fans of the enjoyment of watching a regular season. A fun, competitive, regular season team is fun! Basketball is fun!
I know it was a chip on the shoulder seasons for us that eventually led to a 2nd round exit but before the covid shutdown i was enjoying the Raptors 19-20 season more than the chip.
Minimal drama, guys played hard next man up all season & competitive as hell.
I think a lot of fans genuinely forget that watching sports is intended to be a fun activity and not something that induces a constant state of irritability.
With all of the recent signings and then this report, it seems the Clippers just want to be a dislikable defensive team.
In an unrelated note, Ballmers favorite team was the Bad Boy Pistons.
(On a personal note, I love those Pistons teams, so I understand)
They sent their now GM, Lawrence Frank to Toronto to hover around Kawhi. Not to mention Donald Sterling. So it's been 20+ years of the org being assholes.
At least they didn't rob the city for a new stadium and then ask fans to love them. So give Ballmer credit there.
The net worth of some of the other NBA owners, especially the Buss family, is pocket change to Ballmer. If he wasn’t so rich to not have any sort of plausible deniability at all, no doubt he’d have tried to rob the city
Best outcome is to get this piece of shit out of the NBA, what should have been done awhile ago. At the very least I want him off my team. He’s a fucking disgrace.
Moves like this i hope they don't have any success. Fuck it. Rather watch a bunch of sorry ass bottom dwelling kids who are good human beings than picking up sexual predators and abusers.
Maybe it will be funny in 10 years idk.
"Remember when Ballmer compared Blake to MLK and Mandela to retain him?"
"Remember when Clippers signed, sexual predators and a double double order of women beaters!"
[I said it before they went after Miles Bridges, but...](https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1dseer4/comment/lb1tbtu/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) if you're abusive to women and are also a promising young player, the Clippers care about one of those things
"People close to Bridgers said that after seeing how Clippers owner Steve Ballmer has been willing to give players second chances, the team would be a great fit for him and that Bridges has learned from his mistakes."
Good guy Ballmer, just giving anyone another chance as long as they say they have changed.
Honestly, after Primo and KPJ, the teams reputation can't get worse right? Right?
I’d prefer it if they just told us that our opinions don’t matter, and to keep supporting them as long as they succeed. But no, they gotta “try and maintain public relations” and whinge about second chances.
Just tell us to shut up and eat our slop, honestly
I said this in the r/NFL subreddit, and I'll say here: Even if Hannibal Lecter ran a 4.3, no team would take him. He's too unreliable. You can't pay him. You can't build around him. You can't even trust that he's going to be available for the next game.
better than that, there will be tear soaked national media coverage talking about how great he has done turning himself around in LA after pissing himself away in Raleigh or Charleston or wherever that Bug team is located.
Not OP but I think this is public perception? Like if you're a twitch thot who only posts Thirst traps you're not actually seen as a porn star but once you set up an OF account even though you just monetized your thrist traps and still no nudes people will brand you as a porn star already so why not go all out with nudity? Similar to the Clips, with the signing of KPJ, people are branding them already as a domestic violence team so why not go all out and get all the problematic players. (Clips pls trade for Jaxson Hayes).
So to get low key into sociology here lol I think the internet destroyed normal society's ability to informally sanction. Like pre internet people would gather at bars or churches or whatever and share meals, espouse ideas etc. For the most part in polite society when Fred the fascist, or Lenny the Liberal gets all crazy out in public and starts making everyone uncomfortable people would generally tell you to sit down, shut up, no one wants to hear your bullshit etc. Now we all sit in our personal echo chambers all day and then take that mentality into the world. All the shitheads who think just like me always blow my dick on FB or Reddit when I say the "thing" so surely the community where I live feels exactly the same!...
Very valid point. It's near impossible to find a community that doesn't end up becoming an echo chamber if it isn't already one, and it only reinforces the beliefs and likely increases them to more extreme beliefs.
I know damn well you not talking with Jason Kidd as the head coach
FTR I would hate this
Edit: I completely forgot about the FO scandal and mark Cuban trying to sweep it under the rug
This isn't a competition in which FO messes up slightly less. [I didn't want him](https://www.reddit.com/r/nbadiscussion/comments/o2v1v2/comment/h2bfpm7/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) to coach the Mavs. And I think it's right to be critical when such (hiring) decisions are made by any FO, whether you root for the team they run or not.
My friend’s family are Clippers season ticket holders. 11 years. They spent the weekend unhappy with the Kevin Porter news. If this happens, they’re guaranteed to cancel their season tickets. I know they’re probably not the only ones wrestling with that decision.
Oh for fucks sake. Wasn't it enough to deal with the PR disaster of signing Primo (who ended up being a non factor for us) and the difficulties of defending the KPJ signing? I don't know how Hornets fans felt about rooting for Bridges last season, but it's hard to imagine feeling good about seeing him play for your favorite team.
> I don't know how Hornets fans felt about rooting for Bridges last season
Simple, I didn't root for him. And I'd be fine if he was on another team next year.
This can’t be real
Genuinely, clippers fans, how are you gonna feel if this happens?
I think the combination of primo bridges and porter jr would be too much for me. Personally I would be pretty discouraged by the direction my team was heading
Scum. Also shitty organisation to allow this. Clippers will always be a poverty franchise
Watch the video of him absolutely thrashing his partner and then let me know what you think of him.
This dude shouldn't have the privilege of playing in the NBA anymore after what he did. There has to be a more deserving player in the g league or playing over seas that can do what this chump does.
It’s hilarious that this sub is trying to make the Clippers the NBA sweethearts cause Paul George left them (how evil to take a better contract). Even though they signed Primo, KPJ, and now maybe Bridges. They are the NBA’s version of the Browns.
Creating a felon superteam
It's the new Moneyball. They're looking for players who have become undervalued. In this case, it's not because they need to play a new position or because their delivery looks funny. It's because they've committed domestic violence.
“Miles Bridges isn’t a five tool player, but he can definitely hit”
Brad Pitt: Why do we want him? *snaps and points to Jonah* Jonah Hill: “He hits his wife”
"He gets on bae's."
"He's been enhancing his arm strength using an unorthodox training technique; tossing billiard balls at windshields."
They just gotta re create the jailblazers in the aggregate
Steve Ballmer is announcing that he will simply purchase the Charlotte Hornets and use them as a feeder team to speed up the process
The European soccer model, smart.
Dreams can be buy
The Redbull special
Copied Red Bulls whole flow
Bar for bar! (Miles knows about that tho he didn’t do time)
[удалено]
Its actually kind if disgusting. Clippers do a huge amount of community work and giving back. Then they sign scumbags no one should ever pick up.
Yep. Like we’re not gonna be a championship contending team. I’d rather we suck ass but be a fun, cool team, instead of being slightly better but full of shitty people who I actively root against.
I feel like the chip or bust attitude robs a lot of fans of the enjoyment of watching a regular season. A fun, competitive, regular season team is fun! Basketball is fun!
I know it was a chip on the shoulder seasons for us that eventually led to a 2nd round exit but before the covid shutdown i was enjoying the Raptors 19-20 season more than the chip. Minimal drama, guys played hard next man up all season & competitive as hell.
I think a lot of fans genuinely forget that watching sports is intended to be a fun activity and not something that induces a constant state of irritability.
Brought to you by FanDuel. Legalized betting has made sports worse and that leagues are advertising is terrible.
i’ve had so much fun watching okc the past few years. Just seeing guys develop and improve is really cool
With all of the recent signings and then this report, it seems the Clippers just want to be a dislikable defensive team. In an unrelated note, Ballmers favorite team was the Bad Boy Pistons. (On a personal note, I love those Pistons teams, so I understand)
Bit of a difference between some dirty plays and domestic violence
its not a proper soap opera without an antagonist
I love Kawhi but an antagonist that loses half its power during the season finale is not a great one
Did Bridges learn how to play defense during his year vacation?
They sent their now GM, Lawrence Frank to Toronto to hover around Kawhi. Not to mention Donald Sterling. So it's been 20+ years of the org being assholes. At least they didn't rob the city for a new stadium and then ask fans to love them. So give Ballmer credit there.
The net worth of some of the other NBA owners, especially the Buss family, is pocket change to Ballmer. If he wasn’t so rich to not have any sort of plausible deniability at all, no doubt he’d have tried to rob the city
Balmer must be hitting the snow pretty hard again.
Best outcome is to get this piece of shit out of the NBA, what should have been done awhile ago. At the very least I want him off my team. He’s a fucking disgrace.
Inglewood up to no good
Ballmer like all billionaires are morally bankrupt, but one owns my favorite team too so I can’t judge.
Kawhi going to come back from the Olympics confused as hell seeing PG get replaced by the prison yard all stars
First Team all Knucklehead man if PG wanted to stay apparently all he had to do was go upside his wife's head
yeah we are the LA Criminals now
Did you like the Grit and Grind Grizzlies? Now get ready for the Commit a Crime Clippers
Lmao nice
From Lob City to Lynch Mob City
213 era to the 911 era.
Inglewood truly up to no good
Streetlights baby!
Police lights over spotlights Handcuffs over handouts
Condolences
It is just hard to root for these guys man
You’ll always have Lob City. If it makes you feel better at least the people who own your team aren’t criminals
Now they got Rob City
Lob city was terrible, bunch of arrogant, douchebag under achievers. 2006 squad was superior to lob city.
even the 2019 team was more enjoyable than any lob city team (except 2012)
Instead for Lob City they had two of the worst floppers and annoying players in CP3 and Blake
Damn I think you guys lost the last 20 Clippers fans in LA now
only 9 left
KPJ and Miles Bridges: The DA Brothers
How you gonna forget Primo like that
He's waived already I think
Is this a “he waved his dick around” joke or was he really waived?
He was really waived
shame he never got to show out
He did plenty of showing out
Highest DV% in the NBA
They’re gonna retire OJ Simpsons number like the Heat did for Mike
He played in Buffalo just like they did after all.
Aaron hernandez night at the intuit dome when
OJ Simpson? The guy from Naked Gun? /s
Clippers building the canceled avengers 💀
The San Andreas Clippers
The ScAvengers
How you trying to lead the league in domestic violence?
Moves like this i hope they don't have any success. Fuck it. Rather watch a bunch of sorry ass bottom dwelling kids who are good human beings than picking up sexual predators and abusers.
Yeah I’d be done. This fucking sucks.
Maybe it will be funny in 10 years idk. "Remember when Ballmer compared Blake to MLK and Mandela to retain him?" "Remember when Clippers signed, sexual predators and a double double order of women beaters!"
Ownership is one thing, harder to get rid of an owner. This is just sad, abusers are protected in professional sports.
I think Ballmer might be just so frustrated with not even reaching the NBA Finals it's fried his brain a bit.
Bridges and porter would be dangerous
Real 1-2 punch
BANG! BANG!
“Clips Gang or Don’t Bang” is gonna hit different next season
On and off the court 😤😤😤
Are these women in danger?
Tbf, only if you're a woman
Resign Primo as well
Do the Clippers hate women?
It sure feels like it smh
[I said it before they went after Miles Bridges, but...](https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1dseer4/comment/lb1tbtu/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) if you're abusive to women and are also a promising young player, the Clippers care about one of those things
Porter and Bridges gonna show up to the wrong court☠️
"People close to Bridgers said that after seeing how Clippers owner Steve Ballmer has been willing to give players second chances, the team would be a great fit for him and that Bridges has learned from his mistakes." Good guy Ballmer, just giving anyone another chance as long as they say they have changed. Honestly, after Primo and KPJ, the teams reputation can't get worse right? Right?
Lol it is always the same in sports, if they perform no one will give a shit
If Hannibal Lecter ran a 4.3 we’d say he had an eating disorder.
I’d prefer it if they just told us that our opinions don’t matter, and to keep supporting them as long as they succeed. But no, they gotta “try and maintain public relations” and whinge about second chances. Just tell us to shut up and eat our slop, honestly
I said this in the r/NFL subreddit, and I'll say here: Even if Hannibal Lecter ran a 4.3, no team would take him. He's too unreliable. You can't pay him. You can't build around him. You can't even trust that he's going to be available for the next game.
better than that, there will be tear soaked national media coverage talking about how great he has done turning himself around in LA after pissing himself away in Raleigh or Charleston or wherever that Bug team is located.
Acting like Charlotte didn't give him about a hundred chances... sigh
that reads more like Bridges and his people want him to join the Clippers more than the other way around
I think the report of the Clippers being interested coming from Turner seems to imply interest from both sides
"We didn't want to sign him, he just kinda forced his way onto the team. We were powerless to stop him."
Eh Bridges’ case looks a heck of a lot worse than KPJ’s.
Hide ur kids, hide ur wife’s Kawhi keep the family safe
His sister can handle herself if it’s an old lady with money
He will. He's home injured all the time.
Don't do girls night at the Intuit Dome
Might as well get Harvey Weinstein as a scout
Bill Cosby could be their in arena announcer.
Build a statue at Intuit for Jeffery Epstein
Diddy as their halftime show
Lawrence Frank - "Fuck them ~~kids~~ women"
Clippers playing the long game, waiting for Ja to really fuck up so they can make their pitch about second chance culture in LA lmfao.
"Never mind California's restrictive gun laws, Ja, we'll have your back."
lmao great way to open the new arena
fml It’s like starting an onlyfans career once you do one you might as well go all in
Streetlights not spotlights gang
Ankle monitors not computer monitors
Legal actions not play actions
Court cases over court spaces
Gaslights not spotlights
At least onlyfans models aren't criminals unlike they guys y'all are looking for lol.
What the hell does this even mean?
Not OP but I think this is public perception? Like if you're a twitch thot who only posts Thirst traps you're not actually seen as a porn star but once you set up an OF account even though you just monetized your thrist traps and still no nudes people will brand you as a porn star already so why not go all out with nudity? Similar to the Clips, with the signing of KPJ, people are branding them already as a domestic violence team so why not go all out and get all the problematic players. (Clips pls trade for Jaxson Hayes).
What I was thinking lol, bizarre analogy
I legit thought this would be an onion article or something Wtf clippers
If we make it to the playoffs healthy and out of prison we're gonna be a PROBLEM
Is Terrence Davis available?
Actively inquiring
LA Wifebeaters Ballmer doesnt care how he wins. If his team has to beat down the other team’s wives, so be it.
People were deadass joking about the Clippers going after Miles Bridges. We have lost the impact of shame in our society.
So to get low key into sociology here lol I think the internet destroyed normal society's ability to informally sanction. Like pre internet people would gather at bars or churches or whatever and share meals, espouse ideas etc. For the most part in polite society when Fred the fascist, or Lenny the Liberal gets all crazy out in public and starts making everyone uncomfortable people would generally tell you to sit down, shut up, no one wants to hear your bullshit etc. Now we all sit in our personal echo chambers all day and then take that mentality into the world. All the shitheads who think just like me always blow my dick on FB or Reddit when I say the "thing" so surely the community where I live feels exactly the same!...
Very valid point. It's near impossible to find a community that doesn't end up becoming an echo chamber if it isn't already one, and it only reinforces the beliefs and likely increases them to more extreme beliefs.
Are they signing Kawhi’s sister next?
They'll pay her in jailhouse commissary credits and packs of smokes.
2000’s Jailblazers ain’t got nothing on this.
Court rooms over basketball courts
Fuck it bring back Primo
Suicide squad. i may be the suicide, they can be the squad
building a team of criminals all for a 6th seed is nasty work
Bro, this can't be real. What the fuck is this timeline? Lmao
They need to do something with the new arena opening up next season … even if it means having women beaters on the team
"This Thursday is Ladies Beaters Night at the Intuit Dome. Bring proof of a court summons for spousal abuse and the first beer is on us!"
The clippers are deadass branding themselves as the team that gives criminals 2nd chances
Intuit dome loading up with domestic violence ballers and toilets
Primo, KPJ, now Miles Bridges? They really have a type.
I know damn well you not talking with Jason Kidd as the head coach FTR I would hate this Edit: I completely forgot about the FO scandal and mark Cuban trying to sweep it under the rug
This isn't a competition in which FO messes up slightly less. [I didn't want him](https://www.reddit.com/r/nbadiscussion/comments/o2v1v2/comment/h2bfpm7/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) to coach the Mavs. And I think it's right to be critical when such (hiring) decisions are made by any FO, whether you root for the team they run or not.
Portland and Piston fans better be careful. Before we pull that rape case that Chauncey settled out of court
What the fuck.
Fuck me how would you even continue to support the team, I don’t think I could. Gotta feel for the Clippers fans for real
My friend’s family are Clippers season ticket holders. 11 years. They spent the weekend unhappy with the Kevin Porter news. If this happens, they’re guaranteed to cancel their season tickets. I know they’re probably not the only ones wrestling with that decision.
Dynamic duo of KPJ and Miles Bridges 😈
Of course they are lol
Gotta catch them all. Them being scumbags playing in the NBA
First team all criminal lineup
the jail blazers could never
The San Quentin Clippers
DO IT
LAC might as well just own the reputation at this point. Go for it.
This team gonna be worse than Kobe and Malone Jesus
Lmaoo Josh primo, KPJ AND miles bridges?????? Dawg you can let one slide but all 3??
Clippers gonna retire Kobe’s jersey
You know, that new arena probably needs a nickname. Based on the Clippers’ last few signings, The Intuit Dome –> The “I Didn’t Do It” Dome
What’s next? Ruben Patterson and Jayson Williams on the coaching staff?
It’s crazy how gambling is frowned upon more than domestic violence
Oh for fucks sake. Wasn't it enough to deal with the PR disaster of signing Primo (who ended up being a non factor for us) and the difficulties of defending the KPJ signing? I don't know how Hornets fans felt about rooting for Bridges last season, but it's hard to imagine feeling good about seeing him play for your favorite team.
> I don't know how Hornets fans felt about rooting for Bridges last season Simple, I didn't root for him. And I'd be fine if he was on another team next year.
This can’t be real Genuinely, clippers fans, how are you gonna feel if this happens? I think the combination of primo bridges and porter jr would be too much for me. Personally I would be pretty discouraged by the direction my team was heading
Intuit Prison Cell. We're really only missing Giddey.
how much damn money the clippers got? they signing everybody.
God bless LA women
LOL
They signing all the knuckleheads lmfao
Inglewood Abusers. Hop on board
2024 Jailblazers
Primo, KPJ, and now potentially Bridges? Lmao
Screw ballmer
Scum. Also shitty organisation to allow this. Clippers will always be a poverty franchise Watch the video of him absolutely thrashing his partner and then let me know what you think of him.
Here we goooo! First Team All Felons! 🎉
Team Streetlights
They’re really building the avengers out here and thanos is just some poor lady who doesn’t want to get assaulted
Are they also bringing Donald Sterling back? Lol
I hope to god if they get him, fans everywhere will relentlessly shame ownership, and that it goes viral
Someone joked about this a few days ago, but its happening, the all time woman beating team. But its the NBA, not the WNBA.
The jokes just write themselves
Waiting for a Kawhi with 4 1sts for Morant trade
NBA Scriptwriters are working hard.
You can’t make this shit up
They should hire Ray Rice as assistant coach and make P. Diddy a part owner.
Please take him. Please. And yes, he used to be my favorite player on the current Hornets team. Please take him.
New Clippers spokesman Bill Cosby! American's Dad.
Ballmer would sign Chris Benoit if he could
Class act.
This dude shouldn't have the privilege of playing in the NBA anymore after what he did. There has to be a more deserving player in the g league or playing over seas that can do what this chump does.
That team packs quite the punch.
I thought this was from the circle jerk when I read it
“Beat LA” but this time LA is doing the beating
Miles acted dumb in charlotte. He's going to get himself hurt in LA
Women in Inglewood better watch out
We all know who's minutes he's getting but at least this time he'll be beating a Mann
Next thing you know Jason Kidd is our new coach. The fuck is going on?
It’s hilarious that this sub is trying to make the Clippers the NBA sweethearts cause Paul George left them (how evil to take a better contract). Even though they signed Primo, KPJ, and now maybe Bridges. They are the NBA’s version of the Browns.
The Los Angeles Felons moved to Dallas and then back to Los Angeles again. Nobody in Dallas seemed to notice
The Pelican Bay Globetrotters
Tryna become the Chiefs of the NBA
Primo, Porter Jr, and Bridges? No wonder Westbrook and PG both peaced. They would have blown gaskets over their stupidity.
What about Jazz? Him and Flipowski would be crazy.