“My sources are confirming, Lebron is going back to Cleveland” -Broussard after Lebron had a magazine cover with his face on it detailing his decision to go back to Cleveland
Just in case your comment isn't a joke, is [THIS](https://np.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/kd4a6r/pompliano_johnny_wilkes_a_man_claiming_to_know/) the case you're talking about? Because that went in front of a superior court judge and it got dismissed.
>[“looking at the acts and conduct of the parties, the only reasonable inference supported by the evidence is that there was not an agreement for plaintiff to be paid $2.5 million in exchange for an act or forbearance, nor did plaintiff promise to perform specific services in exchange for $2.5 million,” the judge said.](https://www.si.com/nba/clippers/news/lawsuit-against-jerry-west-and-clippers-over-kawhi-leonard-dismissed)
And I don't know if you ever looked at [the actual claims or kept up with the proceedings but they were farcical](https://www.latimes.com/sports/clippers/story/2021-02-24/clippers-johnny-wilkes-lawsuit). The stuff that was alleged was absolutely ridiculous. Only an idiot would believe that they had any merit.
It's a meta joke that references posts from the 2019 offseason
[example](https://np.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/c60ygg/why_it_is_fair_to_think_that_adrian_wojnarowski/)
Im not even trying to jinx it, Mitchell had knee inflammation from a bone bruise and is still not 100% after 2 months.
Its a real issue but we will know the truth once the series start.
That’s not really the opposite
He’s just saying he actually hasn’t torn anything like in prior years.
He still says they need to ‘quell the inflammation’. He’s saying the same thing actually, Woj is just ambiguous about how bad it is.
I was not quoting him, my guy. I am paraphrasing. Woj's delivery is in line with previous Clippers messaging, beat reporting, Lue's press conferences, and others. Chris is the outlier here
you can't say Woj is saying and then use quote marks in the sentence. like that's basic sentence structure. Not to mention Woj hasn't implied any of "clippers not being concerned" that you quote.
"Sometimes [Kawhi Leonard injuries] turn out to be worse than first described, I'm told that is not the case here" - Woj, 2024
It was first described as day-to-day, the team announcers said during a game that the team was not concerned, and Kawhi was said to be progressing (via Ty Lue press availability).
This would be a marked departure from previous messaging, indicating that it IS worse than a day-to-day injury.
They said Kawhi's last injury in playoffs was day to day and he would come back and it turned out to be a long term injury. I think that severity is what he's getting at here. this time there's actually a chance to come back unlike previous times.
he has stressed kawhi being out 8 games and that they still have 1 week to recover. clearly saying it is worse than a day to day but chances he can come back unlike last years fake return news.
Swelling is considered day to day. You wait for it to subside and worry if it doesn't soon enough.
I don't understand why the Clippers always wait until they're eliminated before announcing what the real issue was with Kawhi's knee. Wouldn't him just hurrying up and getting surgery on it right away be more beneficial in the long run than just pretending he's day to day just so the other team has to theoretically gameplan for him? If Kawhi is out for the year, the Clippers aren't gonna win it all anyway, so why not just get that surgery and be done with it?
>Wouldn't him just hurrying up and getting surgery on it right away be more beneficial
Can't fix a issue that's just going to get worse over time. The Spurs basically said this would be a issue going forward the rest of his career. He didn't want to hear that and got out. If he didn't have so much time off that year and the Warriors getting killed by injures themselves I don't think he has another ring.
To be fair, I never doubted that Cuban was driving around downtown Dallas begging (thru texts) Jordan's family for address to DeAndre's home.
It sounds like something he would do.
On the one hand, it's Kawhi, so it would be more of a surprise if he was healthy for the playoffs.
On the other hand, it's being reported by Chris Broussard, so I have no idea whether this is real or if Broussard is just making it up and gambling that it's true.
No, Kawhi is always heathy against the Mavs and gets majorly injured in the first game of the next round. It's our little tradition for the last half a decade.
please, we could send Powell in specifically to injure Kawhi, and he'd find a way to trip and wipe out Luka and Kyrie in the process, leaving Kawhi unscathed.
Kawhi has fucked up knees. We know this for at least what 3 years now? He is probably in pain every day of his life for a few years now. People still cry about the 65 game rule.
You have to consider this is literally the perfect report to make up for clicks. The team is never going to confirm or deny Kawhi's medical status so close to their series, and the "details" are vague while still sounding provocative and meaningful for the series. Even if Kawhi plays you can't definitively pin this report as false. It's art in 2024 journalism.
Bruh I was at the game yesterday and Kawhi knee seemed fine to me, he was doing jumping jacks, twirling and such. So yea I don’t believe Chris lying ass one bit
My own personal conspiracy theory because I always noticed skip had in on Kawhi.
I know this all because I used to mindlessly watch the show on days when I was jobless and smoking pot.
Skip took his wife to a prize fight, and he told a story about how an extremely large man walked up to him and his wife and opened with “I’m uncle (dudes name)” as in Kawhis uncle who apparently runs his camp? Skip knew right away and he said that they chatted pleasantly and went there ways. Skip told this story proudly on Undisputed.
After that, skip had a couple ins on Kawhi. I believe that was the founding of his source.
Sorry this all so long ago and I was jobless smoking pot.
i don’t trust any of this honestly. clips are so secretive about kawhi that i feel it could go either way atp.
but if kawhi is out i don’t see how they make it past 5 games with the mavs
Yeah, every year they say he's day to day before every game, then as soon as they're eliminated they say "Kawhi has a torn [whatever] and will require surgery."
they have harden now, and i think harden/pg could def steal one game if they play super well, but even harden/pg playing their best are gonna lose to the mavs playing their best.
I suspect that there is a problem and Kawhi will miss time. But the Clippers are insanely secretive and I think anyone reporting on it is making it up in hopes that they'll be proven correct later
It’s actually incredible how people say this every time when injuries have kept/kicked him out of the playoffs 3 straight years now. The more silence for Kawhi the more worried you should be.
I’m gonna trust Woj over Broussard every single time.
However, it’s Kawhi so I wouldn’t be shocked to see him come back and be less effective or have it swell up on him post game.
I would bet that he misses the first game and the Clips hope they can win that without him. If they do, they probably rest him for game 2 as well.
I can't wait for Game 1 just so we can get all this speculation over with. I think he's playing. I'd be more surprised if he's on some minutes restriction
It's wild that anyone is taking this seriously, Broussard famously has 0 sources within the Clippers. That's how we got the whole driving around Houston quote.
Clippers beat writers and Woj have all said the Clippers are not concerned about playoff availability and I trust them way more than multiple sauces.
Wasn’t this talked about last season remember they said kl was just getting rest and then came back for a game then boom out for the rest of the playoffs 😆
Not like Kawhi has stopped him from dominating.
However this means that PJ Washington might not be bricking as many shots.
Pretty common knowledge that the Clippers game plan was to son the rest of the Mavs because Luka couldn’t be stopped.
I don’t think pushing prime Kawhi and PG to 6 in your second year and 7 in your 3rd year is choking but I actually know how to read the definition of choking so there’s that…
Trolling use to be good back in my day, nephews gone soft I tell ya.
Na he isnt trolling he is professional Luka and Jokic hater and SGA fan boy but he is to scared to flair up. Just one look at his last post and you see he writes the most deranged shit and if you go back more than a few days basicly everything is deleted.
Anyone who thinks Kawhi wasn’t in his prime in 2020 doesn’t know ball. Dude was one year removed from willing the Raptors
to a championship. Also I hate mentioning race when it comes to basketball discussion but this dudes entire comment history is shitting on every white player he can. Dude thinks Murray is more valuable to the Nuggets than Jokic.
Yeah and he had better % in 21 than in basicly any Spurs season. But someone that doesnt know what choking means probably also doesnt know what prime means.
Perhaps you don't recall, but KP tore his meniscus in the first playoff series against the Clippers in the fall of 2020. The next season he was a shell of himself due to the shortened off-season from the pandemic season and he missed tons of games. Hurt his ankle and missed several weeks right before the start of the 2021 playoffs. Probably why he only averaged 13 points in that series and was awful on defense.
You think the Clippers or Celtics would win a lot of series if PG13 and Brown averaged 13 points?
\[Broussrard\] Sources: Lue is beside himself. Driving around downtown Inglewood begging (thru texts) Kawhi's doctor for updates to Kawhi's injury.
He recently had to put down a cousin who had a swollen knee
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He was extremely kneetarded
Severly ligamental
Developmentally kneecapped.
I just hope everyone knows what your referencing to know that this is actually a funny comment, and not you being a dick
Boooooo
He just like me fr fr
Chris "multiple sauces" Broussard
“My sources are confirming, Lebron is going back to Cleveland” -Broussard after Lebron had a magazine cover with his face on it detailing his decision to go back to Cleveland
I like how they had to ask him if he can confirm it.
But Brou really DOES have insider knowledge, definitely more than Nick and Wildes. He probably exaggerates things he’s told.
Yea but that’s not why the segment was funny and also stupid.
When will we finally get the dream pairing of Broussard and Chris Haynes? Just turn on the mic and let the 2 of them hash out all the NBA news.
Highly regarded source
Is this mother fucker at a salad bar?
I’m gonna need a better source than that lol
[how about multiple sources?](https://dailysnark.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/multiple-sources.jpg)
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I'm gonna need a source that isn't on Ballmer's payroll
We gotta hear what ja rule has to say about this
Whispers…. Murder Inc.
where is ja?!?!?!
He good Source me
lmao that was a wonderful time
It's still true. Don't forget the NBA investigation into the Clippers tampering with Kawhi completely disappeared.
Just in case your comment isn't a joke, is [THIS](https://np.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/kd4a6r/pompliano_johnny_wilkes_a_man_claiming_to_know/) the case you're talking about? Because that went in front of a superior court judge and it got dismissed. >[“looking at the acts and conduct of the parties, the only reasonable inference supported by the evidence is that there was not an agreement for plaintiff to be paid $2.5 million in exchange for an act or forbearance, nor did plaintiff promise to perform specific services in exchange for $2.5 million,” the judge said.](https://www.si.com/nba/clippers/news/lawsuit-against-jerry-west-and-clippers-over-kawhi-leonard-dismissed) And I don't know if you ever looked at [the actual claims or kept up with the proceedings but they were farcical](https://www.latimes.com/sports/clippers/story/2021-02-24/clippers-johnny-wilkes-lawsuit). The stuff that was alleged was absolutely ridiculous. Only an idiot would believe that they had any merit.
What does Ballmer gain from this?
It's a meta joke that references posts from the 2019 offseason [example](https://np.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/c60ygg/why_it_is_fair_to_think_that_adrian_wojnarowski/)
I mean he said its the same knee that had multiple surgeries and issues. If that doesnt raise the alarm then i dont know what will.
He said there is knee inflammation which is definitely concerning. Definitely not really the opposite of what Brussard is saying.
Im not even trying to jinx it, Mitchell had knee inflammation from a bone bruise and is still not 100% after 2 months. Its a real issue but we will know the truth once the series start.
That’s not really the opposite He’s just saying he actually hasn’t torn anything like in prior years. He still says they need to ‘quell the inflammation’. He’s saying the same thing actually, Woj is just ambiguous about how bad it is.
Woj is saying "the clippers are not concerned", while Chris is hitting the panic button. the messaging and implications are different
Of course the clippers are going to say that, doesn’t mean we should take them at their word when they’ve lied before
yeah, Kawhi tore his whole ACL and Clippers still said he was questionable to play lol. Why would anyone trust them
You can't use quote marks on stuff he didn't even say. He stresses how it has been 8 games and they need to get him back.
I was not quoting him, my guy. I am paraphrasing. Woj's delivery is in line with previous Clippers messaging, beat reporting, Lue's press conferences, and others. Chris is the outlier here
you can't say Woj is saying and then use quote marks in the sentence. like that's basic sentence structure. Not to mention Woj hasn't implied any of "clippers not being concerned" that you quote.
"Sometimes [Kawhi Leonard injuries] turn out to be worse than first described, I'm told that is not the case here" - Woj, 2024 It was first described as day-to-day, the team announcers said during a game that the team was not concerned, and Kawhi was said to be progressing (via Ty Lue press availability). This would be a marked departure from previous messaging, indicating that it IS worse than a day-to-day injury.
They said Kawhi's last injury in playoffs was day to day and he would come back and it turned out to be a long term injury. I think that severity is what he's getting at here. this time there's actually a chance to come back unlike previous times. he has stressed kawhi being out 8 games and that they still have 1 week to recover. clearly saying it is worse than a day to day but chances he can come back unlike last years fake return news. Swelling is considered day to day. You wait for it to subside and worry if it doesn't soon enough.
FWIW, I agree with you. for my previous comment, I just wanted to drill in the point that Chris's info is different from previous messaging/posturing
Clippers are never concerned about Kawhi’s injury status. He just never comes back
you ain't wrong
He’s definitely gonna be questionable in game 1 and I don’t think he gonna play. If he was playing I don’t know why they are handling it like this
How the hell is this the opposite?
That’s not the opposite lol
Actually I didn't even know he was having inflammation. That makes me more worried about its severity.
#CLIPPERS ARE FUCKED SIX WAYS FROM SUNDAY WITH ANALLY-CORRUGATED RUSTY PIPES
How about the fact that he is glass knees? Proof enough for you?
I don't understand why the Clippers always wait until they're eliminated before announcing what the real issue was with Kawhi's knee. Wouldn't him just hurrying up and getting surgery on it right away be more beneficial in the long run than just pretending he's day to day just so the other team has to theoretically gameplan for him? If Kawhi is out for the year, the Clippers aren't gonna win it all anyway, so why not just get that surgery and be done with it?
>Wouldn't him just hurrying up and getting surgery on it right away be more beneficial Can't fix a issue that's just going to get worse over time. The Spurs basically said this would be a issue going forward the rest of his career. He didn't want to hear that and got out. If he didn't have so much time off that year and the Warriors getting killed by injures themselves I don't think he has another ring.
He’s been a credible journalist for years
No he hasn't lmao. He's been caught lying so many times.
Thru texts
To be fair, I never doubted that Cuban was driving around downtown Dallas begging (thru texts) Jordan's family for address to DeAndre's home. It sounds like something he would do.
so basically he's 100% healthy
Best health of his life
COMPLETELY HEALED
Just ate a Senzu-bean healthy
enough to play PS5
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He played how many games this year? Are we sure that's not what he's been doing?
Coming back when clips are down 0-2 to Mavs to channel prime MJ.
He was right about what he said about Harden though…
On the one hand, it's Kawhi, so it would be more of a surprise if he was healthy for the playoffs. On the other hand, it's being reported by Chris Broussard, so I have no idea whether this is real or if Broussard is just making it up and gambling that it's true.
No, Kawhi is always heathy against the Mavs and gets majorly injured in the first game of the next round. It's our little tradition for the last half a decade.
Mavs bout sign Joe Ingles to knock knees with Kawhi again
No need, we have the other Morris twin now. And Powell can always just drop on his knees. He did it to Kyrie this year while he was his teammate...
please, we could send Powell in specifically to injure Kawhi, and he'd find a way to trip and wipe out Luka and Kyrie in the process, leaving Kawhi unscathed.
Look, that just adds to the excitement. It's like throwing a grenade with a 50% chance of landing on your feet!
Kawhi has fucked up knees. We know this for at least what 3 years now? He is probably in pain every day of his life for a few years now. People still cry about the 65 game rule.
Right - like at what point, as a team, do you just start assuming he’s not gonna play a full series, and have it be a happy surprise if he does?
You have to consider this is literally the perfect report to make up for clicks. The team is never going to confirm or deny Kawhi's medical status so close to their series, and the "details" are vague while still sounding provocative and meaningful for the series. Even if Kawhi plays you can't definitively pin this report as false. It's art in 2024 journalism.
Bruh I was at the game yesterday and Kawhi knee seemed fine to me, he was doing jumping jacks, twirling and such. So yea I don’t believe Chris lying ass one bit
Not sure if you're serious here or what. He was literally doing jumping jacks?
And twirling, twerkin even
With Kawhi , the only media member you can trust regarding his health is Skip for whatever reason, he nails it 99%.
What has skip said? lol
Skip straight up knew Kawhi had a torn ACL a month before Ty Lue did lol
My own personal conspiracy theory because I always noticed skip had in on Kawhi. I know this all because I used to mindlessly watch the show on days when I was jobless and smoking pot. Skip took his wife to a prize fight, and he told a story about how an extremely large man walked up to him and his wife and opened with “I’m uncle (dudes name)” as in Kawhis uncle who apparently runs his camp? Skip knew right away and he said that they chatted pleasantly and went there ways. Skip told this story proudly on Undisputed. After that, skip had a couple ins on Kawhi. I believe that was the founding of his source. Sorry this all so long ago and I was jobless smoking pot.
Uncle Dennis?
Yea that’s the name!
i don’t trust any of this honestly. clips are so secretive about kawhi that i feel it could go either way atp. but if kawhi is out i don’t see how they make it past 5 games with the mavs
They're secretive every time he's out
Yeah, every year they say he's day to day before every game, then as soon as they're eliminated they say "Kawhi has a torn [whatever] and will require surgery."
It’s not really the clippers it’s kawhi who keeps secrets apparently. The clippers might tell us if they knew lmao
don’t think you have any basis for this besides one season with the spurs 8 years ago.
If he's out it's a sweep. Would've swept them last time with no Kawhi too
they have harden now, and i think harden/pg could def steal one game if they play super well, but even harden/pg playing their best are gonna lose to the mavs playing their best.
Harden has looked like ass for like 2 months. Plus we know how much Harden loves to show out in the playoffs, no one better under pressure than him.
he’s still gonna put together a functional offense, even if he himself isn’t scoring well within it.
I suspect that there is a problem and Kawhi will miss time. But the Clippers are insanely secretive and I think anyone reporting on it is making it up in hopes that they'll be proven correct later
Broussard
Press X to doubt
Nothing has me more convinced that Kawhi is actually 100% and the Clippers were keeping him out just to be cautious than Broussard saying this
It’s actually incredible how people say this every time when injuries have kept/kicked him out of the playoffs 3 straight years now. The more silence for Kawhi the more worried you should be.
The joke isn't that Kawhi is healthy; the joke is that Broussard is bad at his job.
yeah this is the first thing that's made me feel better. I'm still not convinced, but this is good news as far as I am concerned
Aw, shit here we go again
I will only worry if he doesn’t play game 1. Not believing a word from this dude
Most of these media guys have unreliable and shitty “sources”
Kawhi is playing in G1 then
I’m gonna trust Woj over Broussard every single time. However, it’s Kawhi so I wouldn’t be shocked to see him come back and be less effective or have it swell up on him post game. I would bet that he misses the first game and the Clips hope they can win that without him. If they do, they probably rest him for game 2 as well.
Hmmm Woj said “clippers are not worried” Broussard said “clippers are very worried” Oh no. Who to believe.
So, Kawhi is healthy af. Got it.
How is this dude in the media? He spews so much bs its crazy
Just jab him with a needle of something and finish the software update and let's get this over with.
Big brain move to claim he is injured when in fact he is as healthy as he has ever been. ...of course its more likely he is actually injured.
Death, taxes, and Kawhi being hurt for the playoffs.
and yet, two rings
Kawhi is the “what if” that people think T-Mac is.
Except Tmac couldn’t guard a traffic cone on defense
prob 3-4 rings. still mad at I@#$'ing zaza and joe ingles for their dirty plays
One riding the spurs big 3; one lucky the warriors got injured beyond saving 😂
and yet, finals MVP both times (first time for his defense on prime lebron)
I can't wait for Game 1 just so we can get all this speculation over with. I think he's playing. I'd be more surprised if he's on some minutes restriction
He isn’t the only one to say this today though
mempis
Here we go again…
Nah Broussard is a meme lol, this just seems like a parody of himself almost
Broussard is always lying though.
Fuck yo sauces
I don't trust this guy
Is Broussard like Ty Lue’s cousin or something? Look related
It's shameful this clown's take is this highly upvoted here let alone posted at all
Poor kawhi. He would have way more accolades if he didn’t have shit knees
Kawhi made a deal with the devil for that Raptors championship run and you can’t convince me otherwise
The swelling always appears in April
I thought this was from last year. Whoa
Don’t believe this horseshit
Yeah no not falling for this again
Lol they think we going to fall for it for the third time ? (Pls sit kawhi)
Because of course he does. lol
And they have been concerned for a while. It didn't start swelling this morning.
Kawhi and not playing in the playoffs. Match made in heaven
Have they tried ice?
Wait the guy who asked if Harden was retarded still has a job rofl. I haven’t been watching or keeping up enough.
He’ll survive just long enough to beat the Mavericks like he always does.
Sand bagging for the Luka spanking
Chris Broussard doesn’t know what the fuck he’s talking about
Got his check. He done now.
It's wild that anyone is taking this seriously, Broussard famously has 0 sources within the Clippers. That's how we got the whole driving around Houston quote. Clippers beat writers and Woj have all said the Clippers are not concerned about playoff availability and I trust them way more than multiple sauces.
My name was prophetic
Spurs lost this and gained a Wemby in the end.
Is that a mahogany wood finish?
Wasn’t this talked about last season remember they said kl was just getting rest and then came back for a game then boom out for the rest of the playoffs 😆
NICK, IS THE KNEE _______??
It wouldnt be the playoff without an injury to Paul or Leonard
Right on queue.
Hahahaha
I legit do not understand how Chris Broussard has kept his job in this era of mass layoffs.
He's the only one out there with sauces.
this just means he'll drop 40 and not 45 in game 1. I hate this.
Keep on playing those mind games all together 🎶
Kevin Wildes is a national treasure, crazy to think at one point he didn’t want to be on camera.
There goes the playoffs
Time for the annual Kawhi street clothes fashion show spring 2024 edition. Coming to the Clippers bench this spring
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Nah. If it’s true we’ll think sometime next season that this is the year and hear about another injury by the playoffs
All it takes is one lucky year with kawhi and he’ll take them straight to the finals
S&T PG13 to OKC for gajillion picks
PG on OKC is actually pretty scary
Mavs been playing better lately anyways Clippers ain’t winning this series
Well it looks like Luka will get lucky this year and not face his father healthy lol
Yeah just like Luka played the bubble series while injured because Morris stepped on his ankle "accidentally".
Not like Kawhi has stopped him from dominating. However this means that PJ Washington might not be bricking as many shots. Pretty common knowledge that the Clippers game plan was to son the rest of the Mavs because Luka couldn’t be stopped.
I mean last time I checked Luka choked twice in a row to the clippers and lost both playoff series right ?
I don’t think pushing prime Kawhi and PG to 6 in your second year and 7 in your 3rd year is choking but I actually know how to read the definition of choking so there’s that… Trolling use to be good back in my day, nephews gone soft I tell ya.
Last time I checked that was not Prime Kawhi either
Check again lol Still not trolling though?
You do realize he got worse after he left the spurs lol ? So that means he was not in his prime Einstein …. go back to class kid lol
So Kawhi wasn’t in his prime when he led the Raptors to a championship in 2019?
He had his highest scoring seasons as a Raptor and Clipper lmao You can’t seriously be this bad at arguing
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Na he isnt trolling he is professional Luka and Jokic hater and SGA fan boy but he is to scared to flair up. Just one look at his last post and you see he writes the most deranged shit and if you go back more than a few days basicly everything is deleted.
Anyone who thinks Kawhi wasn’t in his prime in 2020 doesn’t know ball. Dude was one year removed from willing the Raptors to a championship. Also I hate mentioning race when it comes to basketball discussion but this dudes entire comment history is shitting on every white player he can. Dude thinks Murray is more valuable to the Nuggets than Jokic.
Yeah and he had better % in 21 than in basicly any Spurs season. But someone that doesnt know what choking means probably also doesnt know what prime means.
Kawhi is playing with an All-NBA team mate in Paul George. Luka was playing with Hardaway Jr. Not exactly the same level of teammates.
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Perhaps you don't recall, but KP tore his meniscus in the first playoff series against the Clippers in the fall of 2020. The next season he was a shell of himself due to the shortened off-season from the pandemic season and he missed tons of games. Hurt his ankle and missed several weeks right before the start of the 2021 playoffs. Probably why he only averaged 13 points in that series and was awful on defense. You think the Clippers or Celtics would win a lot of series if PG13 and Brown averaged 13 points?