The season that belongs to the Clippers is over, they started low and went high, and they were once thought by fans that they could stand in the ranks of the championship teams, but they were eliminated by the Mavericks 4-2 in the first round of the playoffs. It's been a bumpy season for the Clippers, with players and teams seeing hope and then losing hope.
If you lose, you lose, if it's over, it's over, so get ready for a comeback! But it won't be easy for the Clippers to make a comeback, because both Harden and Paul George are on the team to renew their contracts early, and if they can't complete the early extension, they will enter the free market this summer, and if a team is willing to offer a high price, it will be very difficult for Ballmer to keep them.
So the Clippers know this, and their goal is to re-sign Harden and Paul George smoothly and with all their might. However, at this critical moment, the Clippers management's approach is to make the players feel a little chilly, because the team's management told Harden and Paul George that their contract extensions will definitely not be higher than Leonard's contract, because in their hearts Leonard is the star of the house, so no one else's contract amount can be higher than Leonard.
Then the Clippers management gave Harden an early contract extension offer of a 3-year, $90 million early contract extension, the last year of the contract also includes a team option instead of a player option, which is simply not a shame at all, in the last year of the contract The team can choose to give up on you at any time, which is obviously a great disrespect to the player, although Harden has a little crotch in the playoffs, but you look at the attendance rate of other people in the regular season and the playoffs, the first round out of this pot can't give Harden back.
Clippers management gave Paul George an early contract extension for a two-year contract. A $100 million early contract extension with the final year is a team option like Harden. Judging from the early contract extensions offered by the Clippers to Harden and Paul George, the team has no respect for the players at all, and neither of them has a player option in the final year of the contract, which means that the team has a great distrust of the players, because they take into account the decline in the player's competitive level and can stop the loss in time at any time, which is a bit too obvious.
Then Harden and Paul George directly rejected the Clippers' insulting offer to renew their contracts, and then some American media said that Harden and Paul George had basically officially said goodbye to the Clippers, because the team's approach did not take them seriously at all. Harden and George can be said to be the two players with high attendance on the team this season, and the player who contributed the most in this situation actually took the least money, which made them feel even more unhappy, and it was only a matter of time before they left.
If the Clippers let go of Harden and Paul George next season and they continue to build the team around Leonard, the window for this team to win a championship will get smaller and smaller. Look at these new generation of stars in the West who have led the team to officially rise, how good they are this year's Timberwolves and Thunder will be too much to repeat here, in addition to the new rising teams, everyone should not forget that there is also a strong Nuggets, so the Clippers continue to build a lineup like this, and the first round of the West will become their biggest barrier!
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