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Kawhi Leonard's Former LA Clippers trainer is suing the Clippers for wrongful termination
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10/25/2024
Kawhi Leonard's former Los Angeles Clippers trainer Randy Shelton is suing the Clippers for wrongful termination.
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This was a crazy story yesterday.
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Did you see that Kauai's trainer is suing the Clippers for wrongful termination?
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He don't work for them.
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He, uh, well, well, he did, he did work for them and he got fired by the Clippers
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and he's suing for wrongful termination.
00:23
Um, it says, uh, the story from Yahoo, a former trainer with the LA Clippers
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is suing for wrongful termination, claiming he was dismissed for raising
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concerns over treatment of Kauai.
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Leonard was receiving for his injuries.
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Randy Shelton is claiming in a lawsuit that he was fired for complaining.
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Kauai was being subjected to unsafe and illegal treatments
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for injuries reports.
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Chris Haynes, the Clippers responded, disputing the claim to say, Mr.
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Shelton's claims were investigated and found to be without merit.
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We honored Mr.
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Shelton's employment contract, paid him in full.
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The lawsuit is a belated attempt to shake down the Clippers based on
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accusations that Mr.
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Shelton knows are false.
01:03
Shelton says he was hired in the Clippers in part to recruit
01:06
Leonard as a free agent.
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His relationship with Leonard goes back when he was the strength and
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conditioning coach at San Diego state.
01:12
Man, I wonder what they were putting in Kauai Leonard.
01:14
What does he claim?
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Oh, like you bone on bone, bone on bone.
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Like there, there is no treatment.
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So I don't like, yeah, I don't know, man, I don't know, just Kauai doesn't play.
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And not only that, they extended him, keep extended him says the, uh, the
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lawsuit says simply put the recovery timetable is unacceptable to the Clippers.
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Leonard eventually sat out 2021, 2022 while recovering upon returning.
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The Clippers agreed to a load management plan that would limit Leonard's minutes
01:47
to keep him from playing back-to-back games with the lawsuit claims that
01:49
However, Leonard, this is from the, I guess the lawsuit, however, Leonard was
01:53
required to play significant minutes to begin the season and complained of
01:56
swelling and inflammation in the knee.
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After the first two games on October 24th, 2022, an MRI revealed cartilage
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damage in his knee and Leonard was given by a biologics to band-aid the problem
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rather than allowing him the full time to heal.
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Leonard says he was hired in the Clippers in part to recruit Leonard as a free agent.
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His relationship with Leonard goes back when he was the strength and conditioning
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heal juicy, that like, again, when it becomes like the injuries are the
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injuries and when you don't treat them as such, you have problems like this.
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Right.
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And, and, and, and I, and I think if that is an issue, here's where it gets tricky.
02:46
It's not like football where you sign a contract, you get banged up.
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They can come for you and get some of that money back or cut you or whatever.
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So you're, you're more, you're, you're, you're probably more likely to try
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to fight through it, basketball's guaranteed money.
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So I don't know why you would ever put a player in a position where he's
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going to miss an extended amount of time.
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What if, okay.
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Kawhi Leonard was with team USA, right?
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And all of a sudden gone, send them home.
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Now, all of a sudden he's being never practiced, reevaluated.
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Re-evaluating all the time.
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Maybe they're CYA.
03:44
They knew this lawsuit was coming down the pipe and now they're being
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overly cautious with his injuries.
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Um, I don't know because even before they got Kawhi, he had the same
03:54
problems, like this is not nothing new, right?
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This is, this is what I mean, got him from San Antonio to Toronto.
04:06
You guys are adorable.
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What are we going to say?
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Two scoops of adorable.
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Why guys, the writing is on the wall.
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Let me take you back.
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Let's let's go back to, uh, whatever year it was, 2010.
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Probably the Olympics.
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These three stars met up, had a discussion.
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We all know what happened there.
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Fast forward to 2024, Eric Spolstra in prime position to have a
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conversation with old Kawhi.
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You know what he said?
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Make a stink, buddy.
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No, here's why.
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Here's here's why.
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Let me tell you why it would never happen.
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Let me tell you why it would never happen.
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I will be so disappointed in the Miami heat, knowing your injury
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situation, the last three years to then trade for somebody.
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Who's also going to be injured.
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Plus he just got an extension too.
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Right?
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Like that makes no sense.
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Of course he did.
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What do you realize what you're saying?
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Makes zero sense.
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Based on what this team has gone through the last
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theoretically, you're saying he makes a stink and then demands a trade to Miami.
05:29
No, Jimmy Butler is traded for Kawhi Leonard.
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And I'm saying, what else do you think is going to happen?
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Cause that's the only man that he'll never demand a trade.
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The Clippers will be like, we're tired of this guy.
05:43
Take him off the books.
05:45
Anyone willing to get this guy will trade you and we'll throw in a PJ.
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And then if you throw in a PJ, I mean, PJ, does this make sense to you?
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I just want to get the hell out of here.
06:00
I don't care how you attach it.
06:01
You can rub it, twist it, flip it, saute it.
06:04
I want out.
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