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00:02 - Were you surprised?
00:07 And I get it, Kawhi has played all this year.
00:10 He's actually been on the court.
00:12 He's been healthy.
00:13 He's been productive.
00:15 It is the NBA and you wanna have stars.
00:18 You're going into a new arena next year, et cetera.
00:21 Were you surprised at the financial commitment,
00:25 153 over three that they gave Kawhi today?
00:27 And obviously they'll probably double that up
00:29 by giving around the same thing to Paul George
00:31 so that they're in lockstep for the next few years.
00:33 Were you surprised by that?
00:35 - Honestly, I was until I wasn't.
00:41 'Cause it made sense, right?
00:42 Torver High, think about this folks.
00:44 Just remember that both PG and Kawhi
00:47 both could have opt out after this year
00:49 and James Harden is a free agent.
00:52 And we had talked about this.
00:53 I think I've talked about this with you, Mike.
00:55 They had to make this work, right?
00:58 Especially once Whitney A. Whitten got hardened.
01:00 Steve Ballmer put all these chips in the middle of the table
01:03 and let's be honest, after a rocky start,
01:06 they've been fantastic, Mike.
01:08 I mean, you could argue,
01:10 you know, I just said this on my podcast.
01:12 It'll be released tomorrow.
01:13 Like if you're a team in the West,
01:16 do you wanna see the Clippers healthy?
01:18 Like, do you wanna see PG?
01:20 And here's the thing, Carver.
01:22 Like I think it's 2016, '17
01:25 was the last time Kawhi played 70 games in a season.
01:29 Think about that for a second.
01:30 I know you had the COVID cancellation year
01:34 that we had the shortened COVID year after that.
01:36 But Mike, he hasn't played that since '16, '17.
01:40 And now as he played like that offensively, Mike,
01:43 he's playing like that defensively.
01:44 Remember folks, in that playoff matchup versus the Suns,
01:49 go look at the tape.
01:50 He was the best player on the floor before he got hurt.
01:53 I don't even know if Phoenix would have beat him
01:55 if he was healthy.
01:57 But now that he's healthy and he's playing back to back
02:00 three or four nights,
02:01 Steve Ballmer, Mike, had to run it back with this crew
02:05 going into that new arena.
02:07 Now, the best part about this really quick is
02:10 the length, three years.
02:13 That puts Kawhi at about age 30, I think 35.
02:17 It would put PG at 36.
02:20 It would put Harden at 37.
02:22 If they were to do the same thing,
02:23 it would put them all together.
02:24 So what they've done is they extended them,
02:27 but not in a place where it's gonna crush them
02:30 at the end of their career.
02:32 - Nope, it's true, coach.
02:33 The years is what's very important there
02:35 once you get down to the three.
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