This late night Clippers – Blazers interested us in more ways than one. First of all because it took place in Seattle, for the first NBA game in the Emerald City since 2018, but also because it offered the opportunity to see a certain Kawhi Leonard again in shorts for the first time since June 2021, to seeing a certain Damian Lillard for the first time in shorts since December 30, and seeing while we’re there a John Wall in shorts for the first time since April 2021. Just that.
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What better way to start a season than to snitch on billionaire, supercharged Clippers owner Steve Ballmer? Moreover, as an introduction to a match taking place in his hometown of Seattle, which has been weaned from the NBA for almost fifteen years? The answer is obviously in the question so taste me these 80 seconds of happiness before talking about basketball:
Steve Ballmer addresses the crowd in Seattle.https://t.co/5zx0t9AAtH pic.twitter.com/aD4m9Xo1pj
— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) October 4, 2022
Never satiated the Stevie, and it was therefore in a festive atmosphere that this match could begin, a match which offered us the returns of several well-known heads from the NBA League Pass. Kawhi Leonard, who started his match with a big silent bucket after a few seconds, Damian Lillard, who took a little longer to warm up but eventually found his way back to the logo, and the now veteran John Wall, brought to be one of the free electrons of the second unit of the Clippers this season, very happy to be able to redo his work in a franchise which turns a minimum. Three different files but three desires to do battle and three more reasons for not having slept since noon yesterday. Amen.
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The first of many.
John Wall opens his account with the @LAClippers! ???? pic.twitter.com/xC9VHv4ujC
— NBA (@NBA) October 4, 2022
Basketball level nothing very exciting unfortunately, past the time of happiness to see all these beautiful people, and our three darlings will have also seen their respective coaches order them to remain seated throughout the second half. No time to fool around and Kawhi even took the opportunity to take a shower at half-time, apparently he had a coinche tournament after the match, and the match, precisely, which was won with its share of suspense by the Clippers, despite an opponent carried by its almost public as almost regional of the stage. The points to remember from this meeting, if we can report a pre-season match? A small yard from Jusuf Nurkic and a huge pancake from Jerami Grant, set to be a well underrated reinforcement in Rip City, and the same for a Jabari Walker until proven otherwise best rookie in the gang (0/4 shooting in 15 minutes for his promo colleague Shaedon Sharpe). On the Clippers side, we obviously note the ease demonstrated by Paul George and Kawhi Leonard, the new fine performance of the Frenchman Moussa Diabaté and a hello from his uncle Nico Batum but also, and this is less funny, the ankle injury of Luke Kennard and Norman Poubelle’s powell match (1/11 shooting).
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A very nice party in any case, launched ideally by MC Ballmer and ended between good friends, which still means that Jusuf Nurkic did not demolish anyone and this is perhaps the best news of the night. Come on, quickly, the rest, because it’s still too good to redo NBA nights by dropping crates all alone on your sofa.