<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/clippers-news-jamal-crawford-drops-honest-admission-blake-griffin-chris-paul-failures');   ga('set', 'title', 'Former Clippers star Jamal Crawford drops honest admission on Blake Griffin, Chris Paul failures');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Jamal-Crawford-drops-honest-admission-on-Blake-Griffin-Chris-Paul-failures.jpg"></figure><h1>Former Clippers star Jamal Crawford drops honest admission on Blake Griffin, Chris Paul failures</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-12-10T11:21:27-08:00">December 10th, 11:21am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-12-11T13:27:10-08:00">December 11th, 1:27pm</time><address><a>Erik Slater</a>Erik Slater is the credentialed Brooklyn Nets beat reporter for ClutchPoints. He's a graduate of Lehigh University and the Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University, as well as a Lehigh Football and Syracuse Football alum.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">Los Angeles Clippers</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Many viewed the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/clippers-news-blake-griffin-admits-true-reason-chris-paul-led-lac-teams-failed">Los Angeles Clippers as perennial title contenders</a> from 2012-2017. However, the team, <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/clippers-10-greatest-players-in-franchise-history-ranked">led by Chris Paul, Blake Griffin</a>, DeAndre Jordan, JJ Redick and Jamal Crawford, never reached the heights many anticipated.</p><p>While they won over 50 games in five consecutive seasons, they failed to advance past the second round of the playoffs. Crawford said the team’s unwillingness to have difficult conversations, namely Paul and Griffin, <a href="https://youtu.be/cdvbvOv83Dc?t=22" rel="noopener">played a role</a> in their lack of postseason success.</p><p>“Honestly, I’ve never once, and I was with them for five years, and I’ve never once seen them two have a blow-up,” he said of Paul and Griffin on The Podcast P Show with Paul George. “That’s what was weird about it, like I’ve never once seen them go at each other. Not in a film session, not in a meeting, none of that. It was more so like we didn’t really talk about those things if there was something [wrong]. It was never like an air-out session with those two, none of that. It was always like weird because it was never like oh that’s why they’re mad at each other.”</p><p>“I honestly think, personally, to be very honest with you, I think we weren’t mentally tough as a group, not any one person. I thought when adversity hit sometimes we went like this ( hands going away) we didn’t come together like this.”</p><p>Paul and Griffin are known to have had a contentious relationship, although details of the rift never leaked.</p><h2>Examining Clippers’ failures with Chris Paul and Blake Griffin</h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Jamal-Crawford-Chris-Paul-and-Blake-Griffin.jpg"><figcaption>Kirby Lee-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p>Former Clippers head coach Doc Rivers felt Paul and Griffin’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPTplDdZijY" rel="noopener">differing personalities led to their chemistry issues</a>, which he said pre-dated him taking over as head coach and were never addressed.</p><p>“They both were so different,” Rivers said on the All The Smoke podcast. “Chris is the most competitive guy you can be around. There was damage done already before I had gotten there. And I heard about it, but it was such a passive-aggressive [dynamic], it wasn’t out there… And that’s what killed me because you would have a talk with them both and everything’s good. It was a difficult group because they both are extremely competitive, they definitely had something [going on].”</p><p>Paul said he appreciated Griffin more <a href="https://x.com/DimeUPROXX/status/1246087640866344961" rel="noopener">after their time together ended</a>.</p><p>“You don’t realize what you have until it’s gone,” he said in 2020. “Me and Blake absolutely had our issues here and there and whatnot, but I actually appreciated Blake a lot more after I left.”</p><p>The Clippers lost three times in the second round of the playoffs with Paul and Griffin. They blew a 3-1 lead against the Houston Rockets in the 2015 Western Conference semifinals before losing in the first round the following two seasons.</p><p><a href="https://clutchpoints.com/clippers-news-chris-paul-gets-real-on-time-with-clippers-and-playing-in-the-intuit-dome">The Clippers traded Paul to the Rockets</a> during the 2017 offseason before dealing Griffin to the Detroit Pistons at the 2018 trade deadline.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Former Clippers star Jamal Crawford drops honest admission on Blake Griffin, Chris Paul failures

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/spurs-news-jamal-crawford-shocking-victor-wembanyama-revelation-will-terrify-nba');   ga('set', 'title', 'Jamal Crawford’s shocking Victor Wembanyama revelation will terrify NBA');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Jamal-Crawfords-shocking-Victor-Wembanyama-revelation-will-terrify-NBA.jpg"></figure><h1>Jamal Crawford’s shocking Victor Wembanyama revelation will terrify NBA</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-10-25T07:02:05-07:00">October 25th, 7:02am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-10-25T07:02:05-07:00">October 25th, 7:02am</time><address><a href="https://letterboxd.com/splooshpuhrty/films/by/your-rating/">Jedd Pagaduan</a>Jedd Pagaduan is a certified Clippers and Gunners fan, which means he's a very sports-traumatized individual. He now writes about sports instead as a form of therapy.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/3-spurs-bold-predictions-2024-25-nba-season">San Antonio Spurs are on their way</a> to building the NBA’s next great powerhouse, their opening night loss to the Dallas Mavericks notwithstanding. And at the heart of their effort to return to their contending ways is Victor Wembanyama, who made plenty of history during his rookie season and is now poised to have a big sophomore year even though it wasn’t quite apparent with the way he shot the ball on Thursday night.</p><p>In particular, Jamal Crawford, who worked with Wembanyama over the offseason, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/knuckleheadspodcast/p/DBhi7sCyCHD/?hl=en&amp;img_index=2" rel="noopener">has high hopes</a> for the Spurs star, especially with the way he wants to learn from those who have come before him and with the way he absorbs information from veteran leaders.</p><p>“Oh my god, he’s a sponge. He’s the most mature 20-year-old that I’ve ever talked to in my life. Like wise beyond his years. Like how he thinks, how he sees the game. Stuff it took me years to learn, he picked it up in minutes. And I haven’t said this so I’m going to say this. It will go down as one of the five greatest basketball experiences I’ve ever had, working with him, when all is said and done,” Crawford said in an appearance on the latest episode of the Knuckleheads Podcast.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/DBhi7sCyCHD/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading"><div style="padding: 16px;"><p> </p><div style="display: flex;"><div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div><div style="display: flex;"><div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div><div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div></div></div><div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div><div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div><div style="padding-top: 8px;"><div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div></div><div style="padding: 12.5% 0;"></div><div style="display: flex; margin-bottom: 14px;"><div><div></div><div></div><div></div></div><div style="margin-left: 8px;"><div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 20px; width: 20px;"></div><div></div></div><div style="margin-left: auto;"><div></div><div></div><div></div></div></div><div style="display: flex; margin-bottom: 24px;"><div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;"></div><div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; height: 14px; width: 144px;"></div></div><p> </p><p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DBhi7sCyCHD/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" rel="noopener" style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">A post shared by Knuckleheads Podcast (@knuckleheadspodcast)</a></p></div></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://instagram.com/embed.js"></script></p></figure><p>Victor Wembanyama knows that he’s ticketed for greatness, and he certainly has the talent to push him to the top of the NBA’s totem pole. But putting in the work is more than half the battle, and Crawford’s rave review of Wembanyama’s work ethic and humility when it comes to listening to veterans should be music to the ears of Spurs fans.</p><p>The Spurs star is perhaps the most unique player in the history of the NBA. There aren’t any players who can do what he does at his size. And whatever he learned from Crawford should be icing on the cake, especially if he absorbs even just 10 percent of the ballhandling skills that JCrossover had <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/spurs-news-jamal-crawford-adding-victor-wembanyama-game">during his heyday</a>.</p><h2><b>Victor Wembanyama suffers through rough season debut in Spurs loss</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Spurs-center-Victor-Wembanyama-against-Mavericks-Luka-Doncic.jpg"></figure><p>Similar to the start of his rookie campaign, Victor Wembanyama did not find life against the Mavericks to be too smooth-sailing. The Mavericks are the rare team with someone who can make life difficult for Wembanyama, <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/mavericks-news-dallas-victor-wembanyama-dominance-spurs">with Dereck Lively II getting the upper hand</a> yet again over the 7’4″ phenom.</p><p>Wembanyama couldn’t do much damage to the Mavericks from close to the hoop; this might be the next stage of his game that he has to develop if he were to become the league’s most prominent star. He had to settle for a ton of jumpshots on the night, and the results weren’t pretty. He finished the night with just five made field goals out of 18 attempts, with only one of his three-point shots going in out of eight tries.</p><p>There simply has to be a better way for the Spurs to get Wembanyama easier baskets. But there shouldn’t be any concern moving forward for Wembanyama; after all, even the best have their fair share of off nights.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Jamal Crawford’s shocking Victor Wembanyama revelation will terrify NBA

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/suns-news-jamal-crawford-intriguing-label-before-season-opener');   ga('set', 'title', 'Suns get intriguing label from Jamal Crawford before season opener');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Phoenix-gets-intriguing-label-from-Jamal-Crawford-before-season-opener.jpg"></figure><h1>Suns get intriguing label from Jamal Crawford before season opener</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-10-23T18:13:41-07:00">October 23rd, 6:13pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-10-23T18:13:41-07:00">October 23rd, 6:13pm</time><address><a href="https://haydencilley.wixsite.com/hayden-cilley-s-port">Hayden Cilley</a>Hayden Cilley joined ClutchPoints in August 2024 as a Phoenix Suns and Mercury reporter, as well as an Associate Editor. Hayden graduated from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University while covering events like the 2023 NCAA Men's Final Four, the 2024 Vrbo Fiesta Bowl and the Arizona State men's swim and dive team. He recently covered the Phoenix Mercury for The Next Hoops and PHNX Sports.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Ahead of the Phoenix Suns’ opening matchup against the Los Angeles Clippers, they had love from one of their own, Jamal Crawford. While the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/why-suns-overachieve-2024-25-last-season-disappointing-ending">Suns could overachieve this season</a>, Crawford said on the Pat McAfee Show that he believes they can <a href="https://x.com/ESPNNBA/status/1849137084990206440" rel="noopener">utilize the underdog status</a>.</p><p>“I think Phoenix is the dark horse in the West,” Crawford said. “The reason why is because when Durant first went to Phoenix, he and Booker were almost overpassing each other the ball, it seems at some point they had lost that kind of continuity, but I think the Olympics got it back.”</p><p><a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nets-news-kevin-durant-traded-by-brooklyn-to-suns">Durant was traded to the Suns</a> in the middle of the 2022-23 season. While he only played eight games, it was a case of both superstars trying to be mindful of each other. Crawford said it best, they were passing each other the ball too much. Although they both showed out in the playoffs, they fell in the semifinals to the Denver Nuggets in six games.</p><p>Fast forward one season and Phoenix brings in Bradley Beal. The Big 3 only played a combined 41 games together throughout the season. Once again, there was an issue of who would score, handle the ball, and who could take a backseat. There were more factors besides the overall play.</p><h2><b>Jamal Crawford believes the offseason did wonders for the Suns</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Suns-labeled-as-a-dark-horse-by-Jamal-Crawford.jpg"><figcaption>© Joe Camporeale-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p>Coaching and a lack of a point guard dominated criticisms of Phoenix. In that offseason though, they signed Tyus Jones and hired Mike Budenholzer as the next head coach. Crawford emphasized how important those signings were for a team loaded with All-NBA talent.</p><p>“Having a point guard in Tyus Jones, who’s as solid as they come,” Crawford said. “He’ll take the thinking out for those guys. Do what you do best, go score buckets. Brad, Book, and KD, I’ll do the thinking (for you), I’ll put you guys in position. And (don’t forget about) Coach Bud (Budenholzer), he’s a great coach as well.</p><p>In the middle of that season was the 2024 Olympics, where Durant and Booker represented Team USA. Both players were essential in the Gold Medal for the United States. <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/olympics-news-steve-kerr-reveals-unsung-team-usa-mvp">Booker was labeled as the ‘unsung Team USA MVP’</a> by head coach Steve Kerr. Durant offered that dynamic scoring punch down the stretch. In his first game back, he <a href="https://olympics.com/en/news/paris-2024-olympics-kevin-durant-returns-to-inspire-usa" rel="noopener">scored 23 points on eight of nine shooting in only 17 minutes</a>. Crawford detailed a minor but crucial moment after winning the Gold Medal with the Phoenix stars.<br><br>“Booker is one of the most important players, not because he was scoring, but because he was doing everything else,” Crawford said. “Durant was doing everything else and then afterward a small thing, but a big thing, they go on vacation together right after the Olympics.”</p><p>It’s clear the Gold Medal run helped, as both are in top-tier basketball shape, physically and mentally. Still, Phoenix has doubters after an embarrassing end to the 2023-24 season. They’ll aim to keep the dark horse mentality before their regular season begins against the Clippers.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Suns get intriguing label from Jamal Crawford before season opener

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/spurs-news-jamal-crawford-adding-victor-wembanyama-game');   ga('set', 'title', 'Jamal Crawford reveals how he’s adding to Spurs star Victor Wembanyama’s game');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Jamal-Crawford-reveals-how-hes-adding-to-Victor-Wembanyamas-game.jpg"></figure><h1>Jamal Crawford reveals how he’s adding to Spurs star Victor Wembanyama’s game</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-06-20T19:07:55-07:00">June 20th, 7:07pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-06-20T19:07:55-07:00">June 20th, 7:07pm</time><address><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@LedesmaHector">Hector Ledesma</a>Hector Ledesma has been covering the Spurs in San Antonio since 2005, but he has been following them for even longer than that. An award-winning journalist born and raised in San Antonio, Hector has worked across all types of television and radio platforms. His work extends online and through social media (@HectorLedesmaTV) where he continues that work with ClutchPoints.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Generational talent Victor Wembanyama actually is trying to do it all. The 20-year-old marvel is continuing to work with Jamal Crawford, who’s considered one of the NBA’s best ever ball handlers as well as a three-time Sixth Man of the Year winner. It appears to be <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/why-victor-wembanyama-will-be-a-problem-for-nba-in-2024-25-per-paul-george">another step Wembanyama</a>, who carried loads of expectations before a Rookie of the Year campaign with the San Antonio Spurs announced he was for real.</p><p>Crawford joined the Dan Patrick Show to discuss <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/spurs-news-jamal-crawford-convinced-victor-wembanyama-better-than-hype">working with Wembanyama</a> this summer. It’s a relationship <a href="https://x.com/dpshow/status/1803480363823448085" rel="noopener">that started when</a> the former top overall draft pick appeared on TNT.</p><p>“We go back to earlier this season when we had him on the show,” Crawford said of his first interaction with the Spurs leading scorer.</p><p>“He had been doing some crazy moves so I asked him if he could do this particular move and he’s like, ‘Yeah, I’ve been doing that for years.’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, OK,'” Crawford continued. “We hooked up at All-Star and I just showed him some freestyle moves and from there our relationship kind of took off.”</p><p>Wembanyama qualified for All-Star Weekend courtesy of the Rising Stars Challenge.</p><p>“I showed him a wrap around move where he wraps around his body; it’s only reserved for tall guards, guys with long arms that could pull this off. I thought he could take it to the next level,” Crawford said. “But, it was funny, when I started showing him, all the other rookies, sophomores on the court – all the attention, they stopped shooting, they went over there. I’m like, ‘Ok, let’s just keep this surface level because everybody’s watching right now.'”</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">If Victor Wembanyama develops the Jamal Crawford dribble package, how on Earth will he be guarded? 🤯</p><p>(via <a href="https://twitter.com/YahooSports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@YahooSports</a>)<a href="https://t.co/ySpbu2UfUy">pic.twitter.com/ySpbu2UfUy</a></p><p>— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClutchPoints/status/1758576983192252922?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 16, 2024</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><h2><b>Victor Wembanyama, Jamal Crawford team up </b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/TNT-analyst-Jamal-Crawford-second-from-left.jpg"><figcaption>Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports</figcaption></figure><p>A recent picture that Wemby posted on his Instagram account <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C8UwrP6Jwuy/?img_index=1" rel="noopener">showed him working with</a> the man regarded by many as the greatest reserve to ever play. Crawford went on to describe what would help Wembanyama’s game going forward.</p><p>“They absolutely can,” Crawford answered the host’s thoughts about whether San Antonio will add a veteran floor general.</p><p>“I can see why it would take a little bit because he’s such a unique talent and you can use him in so many different places on the court,” Crawford continued. “You can use him bringing up the ball, you can use him in the mid post area, you can use him in the post area. He can shoot transition threes and he do everything in between so I understand Pop [Gregg Popovich] and those guys’ thinking because you just don’t know exactly what you have until you have it and, even then, he can stretch the imagination.”</p><p>“But, you’re right, getting that point guard to grow with him and that fits him will definitely serve him well,” Crawford concluded.</p><p>Including the one game he logged for the Brooklyn Nets in 2020, Crawford played in twenty NBA seasons. He suited up for nine teams over a career that averaged at least 17 points per game for the better part of that two decade career. That’s tons of knowledge he can share with a young man who’s just starting his legacy. Wembanyama appears to be well on his way with every aspect he adds to an already scary combination of size and skill.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Jamal Crawford reveals how he’s adding to Spurs star Victor Wembanyama’s game

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He is originally from a small town in Southern California. Mistretta graduated college with a degree in broadcast journalism from Biola University.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Former Los Angeles Clippers players have been reacting to <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/clipped-review-fx-limited-series-donald-sterling-racist">FX’s new show Clipped</a>. Chris Paul <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/clippers-news-chris-paul-clipped-show">previously shared his thoughts</a> on the show, which focuses on Donald Sterling’s controversy when he was the owner of the team. JJ Redick and Jamal Crawford are the latest ex-members of the team to weigh in on Clipped.</p><p>Redick played for LA from 2013-2017. Crawford was a member of the team from 2012-2017. Both players were impactful for the mid-2010’s Clippers.</p><p>Redick was one of the best three-point shooters in the league, while Crawford implemented a mixture of shooting and elite dribbling to make him one of the best sixth men of all-time. In fact, Crawford won two of his three NBA Sixth Man of the Year Awards in LA.</p><p>So what do Redick and Crawford <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9zHLa53LxQ&amp;t=1530s" rel="noopener">think about the show</a>?</p><p>“I’ve watched two, I can’t wait to watch three,” Crawford said, via The Old Man and The Three podcast. “It’s hilarious because some things I remember and some things like that did not happen but I understand it’s entertainment. But my hair, I’ve never used a piece of spray paint in my life, why do they have my hair looking like that.”</p><p>“Some of the stuff with my free agency was actually accurate,” Redick said later. “We had a charity golf tournament at Palos Verdes at the Trump Course there and that was the only interaction I ever had with him (Donald Sterling). This was after he tried to cancel my deal because he woke up and decided he didn’t want to sign a white player. I went up to him just to say hello and I said hey Mr. Sterling, ‘nice to meet you’, and he said ‘hey JJ I’ve heard a lot about you.’ That was the only words I ever spoke to him.”</p><h2><b>Clipped draws mixed reviews from former Clippers players</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Clippers-players-Blake-Griffin-Matt-Barnes-Jamal-Crawford-and-JJ-Redick-in-2015.jpg"><figcaption>Thomas B. Shea-USA TODAY Sports</figcaption></figure><p>The mid-2010’s Clippers featured no shortage of potential. They failed to win a championship, but produced plenty of memorable moments and highlights. Chris Paul and Blake Griffin led the “Lob City” era Clippers. Deandre Jordan also played an impactful role along with Redick and Crawford.</p><p>Paul called out one specific scene that <a href="https://x.com/PatMcAfeeShow/status/1798773423214358878" rel="noopener">he said never happened</a> while speaking on The Pat McAfee Show.</p><p>“Me and my wife watched the first episode,” Paul said in early June. “It was kind of cringy, right? Honestly, because you got somebody who’s telling their vantage point… One perspective. I seen my wife kicking it with Donald Sterling’s wife. And I was  like ‘what? That ain’t ever happened.'”</p><p>The show has received mixed reviews from others as well. Many NBA fans have tuned in. Of course, only those involved with the Clippers truly know what occurred since they lived it.</p><p>The idea for the show is interesting. The Donald Sterling era was obviously far from ideal, and Steve Balmer has done an impressive job since taking over. The inside look at the team itself will catch fans’ attention.</p><p>It just needs to be remembered that some of it may not be completely accurate. With that being said, Redick did mention that some of the show was “actually accurate.”</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

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