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Originally Posted by BishopMVP
Only if you can have Chris Paul fall into your lap.
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Yeah, obviously a stroke of luck for the Hornets, but regardless, getting rid of Baron was absolutely necessary. If you haven't seen it up close, you may not appreciate the kind of poisonous atmosphere Baron brings to an organization when he's unhappy. And he always ends up being unhappy. Unloading him was just about the best thing the Hornets ever did, Paul or not.
I wish the Clippers luck. Maybe it'll be different this time since he's finally playing at home in LA, but if pattern holds, I see an initial burst of moderate success followed by slow degradation into immature malcontentism. He was openly tanking games in New Orleans -- it didn't get quite that bad with the Warriors, but getting benched during the biggest game of the year was not a great sign either.