Hoops Tonight - Reaction to BIZARRE Clippers "part ways" w/ Chris Paul + Celtics smoke Knicks, Thunder beat Warriors
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
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🗓️ 4 December 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Jason reacts to the strange story of the Los Angeles Clippers parting ways with franchise icon Chris Paul, the confusing reporting of the story, how head coach Ty Lue is involved, and what to make of all this. Then he breaks down Jaylen Brown leading the Boston Celtics to a big win over Jalen Brunson and the New York Knicks, plus Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's surgical clutch play to lead the OKC Thunder over the Golden State Warriors without Steph Curry.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:05.3 | The Volume. |
| 0:19.9 | All right, welcome to Hips tonight here at The Volume. Happy Wednesday, everybody. Hope all of you guys are having an incredible week. Got a jam-pack show for you guys today. We got some wild news this morning when we woke up. Very weird morning for me. I woke up to my first, like, real snow day in Denver. I woke up to over six inches of snow around my house. My dogs were going |
| 0:38.2 | crazy. I don't know if I'm going to be able to leave the house today. We'll see how that goes, |
| 0:41.6 | but I've heard good things about the way that Denver cares for their roads. But also woke up to the |
| 0:46.5 | news that Chris Paul is going to be shipped away from the Los Angeles Clippers at some point |
| 0:51.9 | in the next few weeks. We got an announcement |
| 0:55.4 | saying that this is from Lawrence Frank. We are parting ways with Chris. He will no longer be |
| 1:02.6 | with the team. We will work with him on the next step of his career. And then he goes on into |
| 1:07.8 | some more details that we'll get into in a minute of a Chris, |
| 1:12.3 | no longer with the clippers. |
| 1:18.5 | I want to talk about how weird this is, why cooler heads probably should have prevailed here, |
| 1:22.2 | considering no one actually is having fun and having a good time when you're getting your butt kicked every night. |
| 1:23.3 | And then I want to talk a little bit about some specific lineup numbers that point me more towards the stars when it comes to the struggles that the Clippers are having. |
| 1:33.1 | And then after that, we're going to hit the couple of national TV games from last night. |
| 1:36.2 | So the New York Knicks jumped the Boston Celtics early, but the Celtics pretty much dominate them throughout the remainder of that game. Some really fascinating shot |
| 1:46.0 | creation from Jalen Brown, some exciting trends for the Celtics in terms of the simple fact |
| 1:52.1 | that, believe it or not, even though the Celtics are 30th and defensive rebounding percentage, |
| 1:57.9 | they are winning the rebound margin in a way that I want to dig into thanks to |
| 2:03.5 | the effort of their athletic wings, guys like Jordan Walsh and Hugo Gonzalez and Josh |
| 2:09.2 | mine not. So some Celtics talk. Also, if you're a Knicks, if you're a skeptic in the Knicks at any |
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