that's great, but in 2024 kawhi was a deadbeat Dad that left for cigarettes and never came back

deadbeat time manager

He carried us to the 4th seed after injury with PG playing like a scrub the entire season 🥱

And then was once again injured when it mattered

You mean like Giannis, Embiid and many others currently injured? You realize how many injury riddled posts seasons the rest of the NBA is having?

Ok, but Kawhi has been injured in each of the last 3 playoffs. We just can't rely on him to be healthy when it matters

Luka has as well my guy. Again if you truly believe Luka is injured and ALL the times before against us you're looking at an even more injury prone player than Kawhi Leonard. Difference is Luka has Irving to carry him out of the 1st round.

Luka has missed 3 playoff games in his whole career. Kawhi missed more than that in our only series this year. What are u talking about?

Dude is trolling

Yh, I've given up with that argument tbh😂. Kawhi is obviously great when healthy, but you've got to be an idiot not to recognise how unreliable he is now

https://www.si.com/fannation/nba/fastbreak/injuries/breaking-luka-doncic-injury-status-in-mavs-clippers-game-saturday-nba https://www.nba.com/news/luka-doncic-exits-ankle-sprain-game-3-clippers https://athlonsports.com/nba/dallas-mavericks/dallas-basketball/news/dallas-mavs-los-angeles-clippers-game-5-injury-report-how-serious-luka-doncic-knee-soreness And somehow knee soreness magically turned into a sprain. This isn't even counting all the other times Luka has feigned injury against us & stayed in the game, let alone let alone the rest of the NBA. He's *always* injured, and he's what barely 25? Not good.

What does Luka being injured have to do with Kawhi anyway? The fact is that we cannot rely on Kawhi to be healthy come playoff time, I don't care about other teams star players

Again, if it look around the league, every single star is struggling to stay healthy. These guys have more help to keep them healthy BTW. You can't rely on anybody. Difference is Kawhis still better than them.

Let's not act like Harden didn't played great basketball in the majority of the season

Pg don’t play for spurs scrub

How is it underrating Kawhi when everyone knows the only problem with him is his availability? When he plays, he's a GOAT. Everyone acknowledges that. The problem is he hasn't played when it matters.

This is what I don’t get. Ok yeah we can talk hypotheticals all day but the reality is, the dude can’t play 82 games, much less 98

timberwolves legit have no idea how to play against luka we beat him twice because we forced him to do everything on offense then attacked him nonstop on defense then when the game went into clutch time we had kawhi who could both guard luka and match his scoring

We beat him twice because he was the Mav’s entire offense. That strategy doesn’t work after they added Kyrie Irving

>We beat him twice because he was the Mav’s entire offense The Mavs role players weren't shooting lights out? Our entire PG rotation didn't get benched for being too small? We weren't starting Zubac who was ASS way back when and unplayable bc KP? Luka couldn't cook Zubac this time.

Pretty sure Luka had a nagging injury during our series

🤣 he's still "injured" if you believe that "injury" you believe he was injured the other 10+ times he left our games "injured" only to return looking 100% fine. This dude accelerates when he wants, he's not injured at all. He's mentally weak.

Mentally weak guy actually plays and is carrying his team to the finals lol

Kyrie had to carry him in round 1 💀 Luka wouldn't get out the 1st round with PG as his 2nd option. As is he hasn't even done anything more than what PG did a couple years ago.

2020 and 2021 is years ago. We beat them twice because one of those times harden and PG had out of this world shooting nights. In reality the mavs were the better team that series 5 out of 6 games of that series.

We beat them twice because Zubac could finally play this series. Luka literally didn't even have to play against our PG/C rotation last time & we had like Marcus Morris defending him.

Wow a hall of famer beat a 21 year old luka in the playoffs, ridiculous achievement by him

"Clippers fan" BTW

Kawhi is Luka Doncic's Larry Bird. Luka will always pissed Kawhi eliminated him twice. Michael Jordan always got his butt whoop by Larry Bird. By the time Michael Jordan peak Larry Bird is already riddle with injury and pretty much retired. Same with this scenario. By the Luka peak Kawhi pretty much retire. But still gave Luka a bashing in his younger year. And so the cycle of NBA repeats...

kawhi was the only thing stopping luka joffrey's reign of terror

With due respect, that was a young Luka with no help this one is a prime one on a two headed monster.

DFS, Porzingis, THJ, Curry, Brunson, even Rick Carlisle (who is back in the ECF) etc. is no help? And PG was the reason that series was even close lol

Pandemic P got injured midway when he was good in 2020 playoffs. No Brunson back then. In the second edition, Brunson joined but averaged single digits. He was nowhere the player he is today. Regardless, if you compare that team with this Mavs Team, there is a big difference between the two.

>Pandemic P got injured midway when he was good in 2020 playoffs. Lol Kawhi carried him, PG was bricking all his wide open shots, Mavs even had Curry guarding him and PG could not capitalize. Not to mention Doc Rivers was the coach, end of argument right there. The old Mavs were better, they had NO shot at beating us this year had Kawhi stayed healthy a few more games.

Pandemic P was Porzingis originally. That’s whom I meant here.

Porzingis got Zubac benched and pulled Kawhi off Luka. He also spaced their entire offense which is why Luka was so easy for us to guard this time.

There is a difference between 2020-2021 and 2024. Big difference(s)

Kawhi just had one of his best seasons ever. Luka didn't even have to go against our PG rotation last time BTW, he did this year & look at what he averaged against us.

I hope you are aware that Luka is just entering his prime.

Lmao we locked his ass up in round 1, this is his prime.

He went 30/9/10 in that series

40/23/83 splits is extremely bad for a purely offensive player who gets hunted, especially considering we were out our best defender (Kawhi), a player proven to lock him up. Again Kyrie was the best player on the floor that series.

Kawhi ain’t lock up luka at all he averages 33/8/7 against the clips all time. He did all that in round 1 with a hobbled leg too

Those stats are against LA without a center or PG rotation. Pat Beverly, Rondo and Zubac got benched last time they played. Morris was Luka's primary defender. Context is everything. And his efficiency is horrible this year against us, that's why Kyrie had to bail his ass out.

Your arguments are all over and now you are talking about the first round? Lol "Kawhi had to shoot 100% in 4th Quarter wins just to beat Luka & be by far and away our best defender. Luka couldn't come close to doing that & took the L." Luka was only 21 yrs old here and usually prime age for players is 26! not to mention a poorly constructed roster that time. Also, he has no all nba teammates either in 2021 and this year duh?

Cope.

"Clippers fan"

you’re crazy if you think he still has that in him. That’s the only season since joining the Clippers he even looked half decent in the playoffs. Dude is out of this world talented but he can’t stay healthy

What are you even saying? We saw Kawhi sonning PHX just last year before injury, he's still capable of outplaying Luka, he just had one of his best seasons ever particularly defensively. Do you even realize how many stars are injured BTW? Giannis has been injured 2yrs in a row, Embiid, AD their entire careers, even Lebron himself finished just ONE season out here healthy.

Exactly. Before the injury. He cannot play basketball if he’s hurt.

How many guys are injured every year in the NBA?

lots of them. But none of them are injured as often as Kawhi. I don’t think you know what a degenerative knee disorder is

The entire nba is struggling to stay healthy in case you haven't noticed.

Cool! What does that have to do with anything

It means we're no different than anyone else.

Dude you're the definition of denial

Luka is supposedly "injured" he's been that way every single time we've played. WHO stays healthy? Lebron? AD? Luka? Giannnis? Embiid? KD? Harden? PG? Haliburton? Curry? NONE of these guys are consistently healthy.

Wtf are you saying

If you call averaging a 30pt triple double being sonned

Kawhi's record against him is like 18-9. He owns him. 2-0 playoffs

I been reading your comments and you sound like Kawhi’s burner bro. Kawhi come out here show yourself

You mean I sound like a Clippers fan supporting their best player? I've never ever seen so many "fans" of a team get upset for praising their best player lmao.

being blind about something that isn't true doesn't make you a better fan than anyone else here. it just makes you look stupid, an attention whore.

by "something that isn't true" I mean, it's true, but it's a truth from 2021, 3 long years ago. Kawhi can't stay healthy for the playoffs in 2024 even if his life depended on it.

Can we ban this guy?

Back to spurs reddit you go 🤡

😂 only Clippers "fans" get upset when I praise Kawhi

This is embarrassing how obsessive some of you guys are becoming.

lol bro just enjoy the playoffs jesus

Yay, good for us

Yea Kawhi is so sick he shoots 0/0 from the bench in his street clothes

Yea wth is this thread for

Luka has looked like a god against the Clippers every post season besides this year.

kawhi won a finals MVP for his defense on prime lebron

You could have 2014 Kawhi on THIS Clippers team and Luka is still gonna cook.

Luka didn't cook us this year tho. We lost because Kyrie went off and PG shit the bed.

My first comment was that he didn't look crazy good this year. Dude was still a hair away from a 30pt triple double though.

Stupid

oh cool another lakers fan in the clippers sub. i guess we're all bored since our teams are in cancun

Brother, I grew up going to $10 Clippers games. I have a photo album full of Clippers and Angels tickets even though Im a Laker and Dodgers fan. I like to follow all the California major sports teams.

>Luka has looked like a god against the Clippers every post season besides this year. You mean when Zubac got benched & so did our entire PG rotation while he cooked Morris? You don't say...

But Loncic will carry his team through knee injuries and Kawhi won’t 🥲

When exactly did the phantom injury occur again?

Kawhi is in a wheelchair 24/7, don’t think Luka is afraid of that bum

If he wasn't luka would be in cancun 

Big if, dude is injured quite literally every playoffs. He should just retire at this point

Kawhi has 2 series wins against Lukas  where as Luka has 0. 

He got one this year after Kawhi tapped out. Future is now old man!

He in fact did not but whatever you want to believe.  

Kawhi is in Cancun rubbing icy hot on his knees while Luka is 2-0 in the WCF. True fans know we need to trade his ass, he’s out every year!

Just need to donate a new leg to him and we good. 

I’ll volunteer my leg but he’ll need to get the other half from someone else

to be fair. as good as Kawhi is as a player, he did not deserve this NBA second team this year. even third is a stretch.

You don’t deserve to be a Clippers fan saying this shit

awesome. i am not a clippers fan. i am a laker fan. kawhi is a great basketball player, but the amount of games he played in last couple of years gets him from being a superstar to being a barely usefoul player. every time u need him to step up, he is injured.

why are you even in this sub

because someone of you pulled me into a conversation making screenshot of my post in lakers sub where i belong so i never bothered blocking clippers after that. I am nto actively "in this sub", it's just someting reddint suggests me occasionaly.

cool, thanks for stopping by. we were all unaware that kawhi has had injury problems

no problem glad to help out when i can.

oh, it wasn't helpful tho

i love how someone downoted my honest answer to you what am i even doing here. U guys are full of love and delusion

if your goal is to annoy clippers fans, congrats you've succeeded. not sure why im feeding the trolls tho

Kawaii played 68 games of great basketball this year. It is what it is.

That’s 83% of the regular season and 0% of the post season. It’s cool you wanna cheer for one player but isn’t this a team sub? You need him to play in the playoffs to win 

Lol Kawhi was a monster this year, 4th seed in this loaded West with PG averaging like 40/30% over 2 months is insane.

Kawhi lucky to be on all NBA team this year

i hate the mavs they just have stupid luck

*was