Welcome to the morning shootaround here on the Athletic NBA Daily.

You know, sometimes you make a plan and you think, oh, that's a pretty solid plan for a podcast.

And then Chris Paul gets sent home in the middle of the night.

And you're like, you know what?

There might be a little bit more interesting story.

I'm your host, Andrew Schleck, with me, Dave DeFour, Esper Henny, Zanakada.

And the Clippers, you know what?

Just when I thought things couldn't get any worse for the Los Angeles Clippers.

You know, you have this investigation

that's following you. You're losing all these games. You're sending away a Hall of Famer

and perhaps one of the best players to ever put on a Clippers jersey. And you're just like,

you know what? We'd rather not. And that's where we find ourselves here today.

S., just your general thoughts on this Chris Paul debacle that has happened in LA.

Well, since the reporting has come out in the seven hours since it's happened or something, it happened to like 3.30 in the morning.

I am tired.

With all the reporting that's come out, it seems as though Chris Paul was trying to be a voice in the locker room or in the organization, be keeping people accountable.

And that didn't seem to rub the right way with, uh, with some of the people in the

Clippers organization, between Kauai maybe, between Tai Lu maybe, between Lawrence Frank.

Um, yeah, to me, it just seems so funny that a guy was like,

hey, we should keep players and teams and the front office accountable.

And they're like, we don't like that.

We don't like the idea.

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