Bradley Beal Signs $11M Deal with Los Angeles Clippers

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00:00Big news yesterday around the association featuring the Phoenix Suns and the Los Angeles

00:05Clippers. Bradley Beal, DRS, bought out of the remainder of his deal in Phoenix and intends to

00:12sign a two-year, $11 million deal with LA. Again, the Clippers adding some veteran firepower,

00:21the 32-year-old Beal, to their starting five and another offensive threat from the scoring

00:26perspective. If this deal happened in 2018, the Clippers would be the championship favorites.

00:32LA is still not, despite the acquisition of Beal yesterday. But you say Kawhi Leonard,

00:39James Harden, and Bradley Beal, and it does kind of hearken the idea that LA is going for it out

00:46in the Western Conference. Of course, father time and injuries and health could be a big conversation

00:53for the Clippers once again. What do you make of Bradley Beal? Now joining the Clips.

00:58Yeah, going for it, maybe going for the early bird buffet there at what, 4 p.m. or like a two for one.

01:04Like, I don't know what we're going for at this point now because it hasn't worked out in the past.

01:07Like, what is going to change? Like, are we also understanding that Kawhi Leonard is mysteriously

01:11going to play 75 games next year, be extremely healthy once he gets to the playoffs? And James Harden,

01:16who's a great basketball player, but he's fighting father time as well. Bradley Beal's never won

01:20anything in the NBA. He's going to be that missing piece to put you over the top. Like,

01:23remember the 1980 Phillies, all those struggles in the late 1970s, Mike Schmidt and the boys,

01:27Larry Boa, couldn't get over the top. Oh, they got Pete Rose. Why? Because he's a known winner and

01:32showed them exactly what it takes to get done, and they won it in 1980. That's not the case here.

01:37Like, hey, we're bringing in Bradley Beal. He's like Robert Orr. He's got like 10 championships.

01:40He can walk us through some tough spots. He knows nothing about winning. He knows about collecting a

01:45paycheck and getting his. That's it. So now he goes to LA. It's like, hey, man, I look up on the

01:50rafters in Los Angeles. Yeah, you used to at the Staples Center back in the day when all of those

01:54banners said Los Angeles Lakers. And now you go to the Intuit Dome and you look around. Is there a

01:59single banner in that place? Or are they still hanging like Blake Griffin, like monster posters

02:04up in the top so you can take a look and cover up the old Laker banners? You know what I mean? Like,

02:07what are we doing with LA? This doesn't move the needle at all for me. Is it a decent move at a price?

02:13Yes. But the people getting excited that Bradley Beal went to LA does nothing for me. It's like

02:18the Russell Westbrook effect where no matter where Russ Westbrook went, he is going to clog up the

02:23spotlight, want to get his and could give a damn about winning. That's Bradley Beal in a nutshell.