Clippers big man Serge Ibaka will not join the team on its three-game road trip this week, Andrew Greif of the Los Angeles Times tweets. He hasn’t played since March 14 due to a back injury.
Ibaka signed a two-year contract with the Clippers last offseason that included a $9.72MM player option for next season. He has appeared in 39 games, averaging 10.9 PPG and 6.7 RPG.
We have more from the Pacific Division:
- Patrick Beverley‘s injury has opened up some playing time for Terance Mann, Mirjam Swanson of the Orange County Register notes. Beverley underwent surgery on Friday for a fractured hand. Mann has played a combined 58 minutes over the last two games, contributing 21 points and 11 assists. “I’ll tell you this, with the guys being injured and guys being out of the lineup, these young guys have really taken advantage of it,” Clippers head coach Tyronn Lue said.
- James Wiseman‘s knee injury provides more clarity to the Warriors’ approach to the remainder of the season, Monte Poole of NBC Sports Bay Area writes. No longer concerned with prioritizing Wiseman’s development, they can now either go all out to collect victories and secure a playoff berth, or they can max out minutes for players they plan to build around next season. The No. 2 overall pick could miss the remainder of the season.
- Lakers forward Alfonzo McKinnie has been placed under the league’s health and safety protocols and will miss Monday’s game against the Knicks, Jovan Buha of The Athletic tweets. McKinnie played a season-high 27 minutes against Brooklyn on Saturday, recording 10 points, nine rebounds and four assists.
GSW has no choice but to try and win, you can’t waste Curry this season while he’s at his very best-ever form.
Best case scenario: Steph puts them on his back and they go to the WCF from the 10th seed, collecting the best possible pick for themselves, then grabbing the Wolves pick at #4 or #5, too. The league finally gives him props for doing what Bron could never do (take a team of absolute loser scrubs deep into the playoffs) and gives him another MVP.
The Warriors don’t have the personnel to win this season. Why be delusional? Why put off the inevitable? The Warriors chances will get better if they continue to pursue a rebuild. Why sacrifice the future?
They have 2 choices. Either trade away their best asset(s) while they still can, or lose everything in a couple of years when they blow it up.
What do they achieve by trading away their best assets? Just delaying the inevitable. What happens in two seasons that they need to blow it up?
If/when they once again fail to make a deep playoff run in 2022 do you really expect them to “run it back” for the 2022-23 season?
Their estimated luxury tax bill this year is $116M and they probably won’t even make the playoffs. In 2022 their tax bill will once again be 9 figures and in all likelihood much higher than this year’s.
What’s the point of throwing 100’s of millions away when the team is obviously no longer capable of winning another championship?
Why do they need to blow it up? They have 3 players under 21 on the team now. They have a player in Australia league that is having a monster season who is 21. If they get T-wolves pick they have 2 1st round picks in the draft. What they need to do is get healthy.
I’m not delusional, I just believe in Stephen Curry. He’s already beaten the full strength Lakers, Clippers and Jazz this season. We shall see what happens tonight vs the Nuggets as to how well small ball/Curry-ball goes. I believe in Steph, period. He might (and I didnt even say they’d go all the way, I said WCF) and I mean “might” actually go sicko/joker mode fully from here on out in an effort to show everyone just how good he is. There will be no arguing about needing superteams to win or needing injuries to the other team. If Curry gets this team or total morons deep, there’s no arguing, he’s minimum top 10 all-time on everyone’s list.
annnnnnd they just announced they will be pursuing Kawhi in free agency, so this year we see how good Steph is, and next year it’s back to ruing the league lets. fn. go. ha. ha. ha. haaaaaaaaaa
‘He’ beat…ok…he had 1 more point than Schroder to lead the game in scoring.
@marty The Warriors did not announce that they will sign Kawhi in the off season. That would be tampering and a loss of draft picks.
Don’t bother explaining that to him, he lives on another planet.
The only way the Warriors could sign Kawhi would be is if he was willing to play for the $5.9M MLE, obviously that’s not happening.
And the only way they could get him in a sign-and-trade would involve reducing their payroll by more than $50M, once again obviously not happening. Keep dreaming buddy, we feel for you.
@Vince “sources” within the org, sorry for not being clear.
Wiseman-Dray-Kawhi-Klay-Steph = 5 more finals on the way, everyone stay mad ha ha ha…..
They’ve played better WITHOUT Wiseman this season, however singing Tyson Chandler with Wiseman would’ve been the correct move. Even a Wiggins for Adams & Bledsoe move would be helpful, but more realistic, an Oubre trade that brought back Willy Hernangomez. Signing Ersan Ilyasova or Khem Birch. Dewayne Dedmon even. This team gets slaughtered on the boards. Wiseman isn’t a great rebounder yet, and Looney is 6’9/220-not great vs AD/Giannis/Jokic/Adebayo/Ayton/Randle/Vucevic/Valanciounas/Ibaka/Embiid/Nurkic/Kanter/etc etc.
The league is bigger/the big men have more TALENT than the ones the speedy versions of the SplashBros drove off the court. These guys are not Mozgovs and Pekovic’s.
Getting a rebounder should be first and foremost, and it should’ve been done in January. A 3 man center rotation would’ve been great, as planned with Chriss. After Chriss broke his leg, SIGN ERSAN/DEDMON!
This team is Looney, Oubre, Wiggins, and then EVERYONE IS 6’3-6’6!
Mannion, Curry, Payton II-6’3, Poole, Bazemore, Mulder-6’4, Lee 6’5, Draymond, Toscano-Anderson, Paschall-6’6.
Oubre and Wigs are only 6’7/190, better for guarding 2’s and smaller 3’s than the 4’s and small 5’s they’ve been tasked with guarding- and Steph isn’t 26 running with 24yo Klay anymore.
Mo Speights, Omari Spellman, hell Bogut would’ve fit had he not spread rumors abt the locker room
Call Roy Hibbert at this point, we need ANY size. Jared Sullinger, Wilson Chandler, Larry Sanders, Ekpe Udoh, Ian Mahinmi, KALEB WESSON!, Ante Zizic, Vincent Poirier, Tyler Zeller, Thon Maker, Skal Labissiere, Henry Ellenson, Noah Vonleh, Caleb Swanigan, TJ Leaf, Kyle O’Quinn, Joakim Noah! LITERALLY ANY SIZE! I’d take Mario Hezonja, Jabari Parker, Kidd-Gilchrist, Justin Jackson, DeMarre Carroll, Kenneth Farried, or Darius Miller.
Preferred list is Wilson Chandler, Tyson Chandler, Omari Spellman, DeMarre Carroll, Farried, Jabari Parker, Mario Hezonja, Kyle O’Quinn, Larry Sanders, Mo Speights, Ian Mahinmi, Caleb Swanigan, Noah Vonleh, and then Ekpe Udoh or Festus Ezeli
I’m not sure Steph is at his ‘very best-ever form’. He’s been phenomenal, but he’s been better before, especially in 2015-16.
Also, saying that Lebron never took a team of scrubs deep into the playoffs is wrong.
He had Irving and Love most of the season, he only put the team on his back in the playoffs. Steph has had these idiots every game this season. Big difference.
Last time I checked, the playoffs mean a LOT more than the regular season.
LeBron took a team with Larry Hughes as its 2nd best player deep into the playoffs.
and Steph is about to do the same with Kelly Oubre, be afraid, be very afraid…
@rct you are delusional if you dont see what Steph is doing now and think he was better in 2015, he’s averaging 38.6 a game over his last 7 games. He isn’t missing shots, period. He has entered a tier of gameplay never before seen in this league. He is proving to everyone he’s top 5 all time. He might end up top 1 all time.
We have 1 healthy player standing 6-foot-7 or Taller. The roster was flawed from Opening Night by having only 2 players taller than 6-9 that are athletic because they are both Injured now ( Marquese Chriss and James Wiseman ).
Kerr’s Small Ball approach only works with talented players and not the GLeague level players we have this year.
Thank you. This team is TINY, and the league has more talented bigs than when the Splash Bros were running Pekovic and Mozgov off the court. They needed a Tyson Chandler/Ersan Ilyasova/Omari Spellman/Mo Speights/even Jabari Parker. I wouldn’t be surprised if Kaleb Wesson is signed, as he was with the team before the season.
Lebron took a sorry Cavs team to the finals as a 23 year old.
No need to rush Wiseman. You don’t want to rush knee injuries in young players. They know what he needs to work on in the off season. As shown by Poole’s development, they know what they are doing. With Klay coming back, Wiseman’s continued development, and Jessup could make the team formidable next season. Moving Oubre could allow them to add a veteran big. The 2 1sts make for a bright future.
If they “knew what they are doing” they would have started Wiseman in the g-league due to his lack of overall pro experience, and instead of ruining his confidence, he ends up being good like Poole.
Kawhi tho…
There was practically no G-league this season. Wiseman’s confidence isn’t destroyed. Why would you want to delay his development?
“practically no” just eat the L Vince, you are wrong here. Poole went to the G league this year, Wiseman should have been there too, if SocKERRtes refuses to develop players.
You might need Sillivan’s expertise to figure out a way for the Warriors to get Kawhi. The easiest way would be to send Thompson to the Clippers in a sign-and-trade then clear out enough cap space under the hard cap (teams receiving a player signed in a S&T are automatically hard-capped) most likely by trading Curry to a team that has enough cap space to absorb his salary. And voilà! You have just traded away the Splash Brothers in order to get The Klaw.
Noooope, sign-and-trade Kawhi for Wiggins, much like how GSW did the KD for DLo trade.
Its astonishing how biased you are, you really are ignoring all facts and logic just to come into EVERY gsw thread to talk your ish. While your team flounders in last place and your screen name changes for the millionth time.
Mann is playing great, even performing well against 1st units. His aggressiveness in attacking the paint will be valued even more in the playoffs. His shooting has also improved. Solid rotational guy.
Kyle Kuzma with another typical -26 +/- tonight with his unwillingness to play defense. He’s nothing but a poor man’s Melo and they’re stuck with him until 2024.
Do you just come here to disrespect players and teams who have annihilated the Rockets relentlessly over the last 10 years?
Going to start reporting you for spam if you dont stop talking ish. You bring absolutely nothing to the table and all you do is post to take shots at GSW and LAL. Pathetic. Why not post about your “famed team icon” Christian Wood? LMAO cant wait to never see your idiotic posts that are based in pure vile hatred and no facts or stats, ever again. The mute button they announced on MLBTR cannot come fast enough. Where’s your joy in buckets? NO ONE CARES ABOUT BILLIONAIRE OWNERS PAYING TAXES.