Here’s Why Kawhi Leonard Wants The Clippers To Trade For Chris Paul

Updated: November 12, 2020

The Clippers came up short in the bubble and it’s obvious that they will not be able to keep all their pieces in free agency. Montrezl Harrell is probably going to be too expensive and they may also have to cut bait with Lou Williams and others.

So knowing that the bench will be shorter what do the Clippers do? Recruit Chris Paul of course. That’s right the Clips and Kawhi are looking to add a third superstar to their starting unit in the former captain of the LOB CITY Clippers.

“The Clippers are definitely interested in Chris Paul,” . “The math doesn’t really make any sense and Paul has basically told any of the teams that are interested in trading for him, ‘hey, I don’t want you trading your player for me. I want to just come and join you,’ but that’s really hard when you’re making over $40 million a year and another year for $40 million plus for next year. So Paul’s not taking any kind of buyout for Oklahoma City to then try and make up the money somewhere else because I don’t know that the buyout would make a ton of sense for anybody involved, even if the buyout were really high and then Paul went ahead and made extra money.

“Here’s something that did surprise me because it just feels like Kawhi is this distant, mythological creature that doesn’t talk with anybody. Apparently, Kawhi reached out to Chris Paul immediately and was like, ‘hey, you should come here.’ So that part is real, the pursuit is real, the interest and the math on it from Paul’s standpoint doesn’t seem to be all that realistic.”