Ballmer – who gave reporters a final preview of the team’s new Intuit Dome and the first glimpse of the arena’s double-sided Halo Board on Friday – says he “hated” seeing George leave as a free age…
Clippers owner Steve Ballmer, left, said he “hated” seeing All-Star Paul George leave as a free agent this summer, but he made it clear he believes the retooled roster surrounding Kawhi Leonard and James Harden can contend as the team enter the glitzy new Intuit Dome this season.
“Paul is a fantastic player, a future Hall of Famer, I would say. But we knew we needed to continue to get better.” Lawrence Frank, the Clippers’ president of basketball operations, on Monday told reporters that the Clippers would not have been able to add or keep the help needed for a championship-contending roster had they given George a bigger deal due to the new CBA and how restrictive it is for tax-paying teams.
have to make the kind of tough decisions the Clippers had to make with George due to the restrictive CBA Ballmer preferred to focus more on the Halo Board, which is 38,375 square feet of high-tech graphics, statistics, player profiles, an eye-catching storm video and t-shirt cannons. In addition, there will be six modes that will be shown throughout a game, including a player box , a coach’s corner and a “Steve Cam.
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