The Clippers’ New Secret Ingredient
The Lead
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3.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
The Los Angeles Clippers lost a key player from their rotation recently when Sixth Man of the Year Montrezl Harrell decided to join LeBron James, Anthony Davis and the rival Los Angeles Lakers. Today, we’re joined by The Athletic’s Jovan Buha to look at how Harrell’s replacement, Serge Ibaka, might make the Clippers even better as a team, and how his rare friendship with Kawhi Leonard could be the missing ingredient to solve the chemistry issues that plagued the team last year.
Read Jovan Buha’s story about Serge Ibaka and Kawhi Leonard: https://theathletic.com/2213637/2020/11/22/serge-ibaka-clippers-kawhi-leonard/?source=theleadpodcast
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to the lead ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:04.9 | Download the app today. |
| 0:07.0 | One, two, one. |
| 0:10.0 | One, two, one. |
| 0:13.0 | Serge Abaka has agreed to a deal with the Clippers. |
| 0:17.4 | We're wondering what the Clippers would do. |
| 0:20.4 | They finally land a relative big name here. |
| 0:23.3 | We're back with much more. |
| 0:24.8 | The Los Angeles Clippers lost a key player recently. |
| 0:27.8 | And sixth man of the year, Montrez Harrel, left for the Lakers. |
| 0:31.8 | But they may have lucked out with his replacement. |
| 0:34.8 | Abaka for the lead. |
| 0:37.8 | Bucket, bucket. |
| 0:39.8 | What a night in Toronto. |
| 0:44.2 | Today, the Athletics Yovon Buha on what kind of impact Serge Abaka could have on the court |
| 0:49.8 | for LA, and how he brings out a different side than a notoriously stone-faced superstar |
| 0:55.2 | Kawaii Leonard. |
| 0:56.2 | You know, it almost sounds like a buddy cop dynamic between those two where Kawaii is the |
| 1:00.2 | very reserved, buttoned up one who doesn't show a lot, but Serge is kind of bringing it |
| 1:06.4 | out of him. |
| 1:08.8 | From Wondry and the Athletic, I'm Anders Keltow. |
| 1:11.2 | And I'm Kavita Davidson. |
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