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I am Jared Weiss.

I'm joined by our Clippers writer LaMurie.

Eschua Kid is our producer on this one.

And Law, you're back from Hawaii and Seattle.

You cover the Clippers, but you haven't

really been in L.A. at all so far this preseason. Yeah, man, it's been good to be all over the Pacific

ocean, basically. So it's nice to be back in L.A. So what happened in Hawaii? This is a team that

was, I think they were admitting they were disappointing last year. They were kind of like a half-baked, idealized version of what they were going to be. It's been, how many years has it been now of Kauai and PG? I can't even remember. This is year five. Year five, wow. Yeah. I count the year that Kauai didn't play, but you should count it.

These guys, you know, they got older all the same, right?

Yeah.

So dynacies don't really last more than five years unless you're the Warriors or the Spurs.

And this dynasty has never even won.

So they're not even dynasty.

So, yeah, they're kind of running out of time.

I imagine this is probably the last year that they're going to dynasty so yeah they're kind of running out of time i imagine this is probably

the last year that they're going to do this before they blow something up who knows maybe paul george

hits a big extension they keep it going but something's probably going to change after this year if it

doesn't work out and they're not exactly positioned to be like a juggernaut but they obviously have

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