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Obviously disappointed with the level of the workforce at the Clippers, Kawhi Leonard hopes for an improvement in the coming weeks. The former Raptor reportedly even asked a star to join him in the City of Angels!
With the arrival of the free agency, we can expect a lot of trades. A new bomb landed in the night with the desires of Russell Westbrook, but we should not forget the soap opera of Chris Paul, also on the departure with potentially 4 teams involved! In all this, we find the Clippers who want to make changes in their workforce.
Indeed, it is Kawhi Leonard who made the direct request. The former Raptors is not very happy with the lead and clearly wants a better player, some sort of maestro, to come to the City of Angels. A name ? Westbrook? The Clippers are one of the 6 interested franchises.
However, The Klaw would not have asked Westbrook to join him in Los Angeles. On the other hand, this is not necessarily true when we talk about Chris Paul according to Ryen Russillo. According to the ESPN reporter, the two men would have a discussion about it.
The Clippers are definitely interested in Chris Paul.
There is a problem because even though Paul asked the franchises not to trade any player to get him back, it’s hard when you get $ 40 million the year and another $ 40 million the next year. Still, he told the teams, “Please don’t trade any players for me. I just want to come ”. But he won’t take any buyout with the Thunder.
But here is something that surprised me, because I understood that Kawhi is a mythical creature who never speaks and yet, he would have spoken to Chris Paul. He would have asked, “Hey, you should come here”. This pursuit is real.
But as Russillo explains, the $ 40 million annual CP3 is going to be difficult to fit into the Clippers’ salary cap to date. The front office will have to set up a hell of a trade to do this, but nothing is impossible, especially if Kawhi puts the pressure behind.
For Kawhi Leonard, improvement is clearly needed in the lead, to the point of asking Chris Paul to return to the Clippers. Unfortunately for the winger, the transaction promises to be very, very complex.
