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Live from Southern California, this is the Jim Rome show.

Why don't we start with the Clippers?

The Steve Balmer Clippers

just keep getting better and better, right?

Well, I don't mean literally.

On the court, they just keep getting worse and worse. But off the court, the antics,

the terrible optics, the inexplicable developments just keep getting more and more entertaining.

That's what I mean about them getting better and better. Like, as an example, how do you

taught being embroiled in a cap circumvention scandal involving some

random bankrupt tree company while starting this season 5 and 16 on the floor? How do you top that,

right? Impossible to top, right? Not for the clippers, it's not because it's who they are. It's where they live. It's what

they do. Do you need an example? Here's one. The Clippers just sought off the best player, arguably,

in franchise history, in the middle of the night, 21 games into his alleged retirement farewell tour,

a retirement tour that he returned home for so he could take it as a clipper. He picked him.

He wanted to come home. He wanted to go out as a clipper. The Clippers actually just canceled Chris Paul's

retirement tour. Now, you might call that, and people have, you might call that the most

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