Stephen A. reacts to Rajon Rondo to the Clippers: No excuses for Kawhi! | First Take
Stephen A. reacts to Rajon Rondo to the Clippers: No excuses for Kawhi! | First Take
Stephen A. reacts to Rajon Rondo to the Clippers: No excuses for Kawhi! | First Take
Stephen A. Smith and Max Kellerman discuss what Rajon Rondo to LA means for the Clippers.
0:00 Stephen A. reacts to the Atlanta Hawks trading Rondo to the Clippers for Lou Williams, two 2nd-round picks and cash considerations.
0:30 Stephen A. explains why this trade puts more pressure on Kawhi Leonard.
2:35 Max Kellerman thinks Paul George is the issue in LA, not Kawhi.
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From the way sas talks, i thought the clippers signed professor X
I cringe when Stephen A. Smith starts naming players as if there’s a clone army of each lol the Paul George’s and Khawai Leonard’s of the world!! Lmaoooooo
People sleep on Rondo. Hall of Famer in my book anyday.
Playoff Rondo and Pandemic P… sounds like a Fire vs Ice battle
Kawhi Leonard to the warriors next year 😂
Idk, The Nets having 11 All Stars seems like a good excuse.
so rondo should clean up all clipps mess of last year? lmao. utah gonna make it, it’s over in west
Poor PG , dude has a make it or break playoffs rn
the rondo/lou will flip is overhyped. what is a big deal is terrance mann scoring 20 ppg of late
Kyle Lowry didn’t do shyt in the playoffs for the Raptors, it was all Freddy Van Vleet lol Stephen A Smith, stop it lol
Lebron is the greatest athlete in all of sports ever.
The only reason Kawhi get this much hate from Stephen a. Is bc he isn’t Lebron. He’s a quiet guy who just quietly & consistently plays his basketball & Stephen a. Just can’t give him credit for anything… It’s sad at this point.
And I even like Stephen a…
Im with the withe boy on this one
Well Montez knows a lot about the clippers…call it even
Rondo Playoffs Coming for Clippers 💪💪💪
What does this prove if kawhi cant win this year he still an elite player
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Now you replace Lou Will with a recently semi-retire bucket getter “J Crossover! Jamal Crawford…” that is if you only need points., Much cheaper, but similar production if all you need is someone to score (I.e. Lou will)
Lou Will wasn’t on shyt lol
Stephen a the only one that hold kawhi accountable, ALL the pressure is on him this year
Maxx went off! didn’t he?
Kawhi has 2 titles and 2 finals MVPs he good
Win win situation, Rondo back to L.A. and Lou just a stone skip away to magic city 🤣🤣🤣
Clippers win RING
People talking about Rondo like they got Westbrook 😂
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I smell something. Rondo got his pay increase, Clippers wasn’t permitted to pay it. ……………..IF HE DOESN’T FIT, CLIPPERS NEED TO QUIT. Gave up alot of future picks in these 2 years
0:00 Stephen A. reacts to the Atlanta Hawks trading Rondo to the Clippers for Lou Williams, two 2nd-round picks and cash considerations.
0:30 Stephen A. explains why this trade puts more pressure on Kawhi Leonard.
2:35 Max Kellerman thinks Paul George is the issue in LA, not Kawhi.
So Rondo being traded to the Clippers means they gonna be better?
Nah. Rondo’s a great pick up but I can almost guarantee Pandemic P disappears again and loses the series 💀
Rondo is a mid level guard
Stephen A is too busy to downgrade Kawhi. Why?
rondo>williams
Stephen A’s Kawhi takes are corny b/c he never has the same energy with James Harden or anyone else’s game he thinks is flashy bluechip. I’ve noticed he only likes stars who’ve already been hypemachine players. That’s the same way he was talking rubbish about the 04′ pistons and said they had no chance to beat the Lakers when anyone who knew ball knew Detroit was a tough squad. Then if you ask him about that to this day he has all sorts of excuses for the 04 Lakers instead of owning up to his nonsense call…..
‘No excuses for kawhi"
(Meanwhile KD is LITERALLY stacking the deck with endless all-stars) SAS: no kd or nets criticism
Rondo is washed
I wanna a see kawhi and Chris paul at the same team.!
No excuses for kawhi? The man has rings already its Paul George
Kinda disagree at his point abt Bev but whtvr
Lou williams is annoying
No excuses? Stephen A is just going to ignore that Nets team smh
Kawhi gon choke
Rondo has no loyalty to anyone in this league hahaha!!!
If Kawhi Lose again before touching the Western Conference Don’t want to Hear bout How better Kawhi is Then Lebron
It would’ve been dope if lowry went to the clips. U got 3 players of the raptors championship team.
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Whatever it takes to knock lebron off his high horse
Clippers where so loaded last year ! I don’t think they made there team better!
Lou is the the best scorer better to rondo. But rondo have a great iq and great leader better to lou.
Kawhi should had stayed in Toronto and won more titles then go back to Los Angeles