The following is a list of recent very good, non-superstar PGs won the title: Rondo, Derek Fischer, Chauncy Billups, an old Jason Kidd, Sam Cassell and Tony Parker. Calling any of those dudes “great” is a bit excessive. They are very good at what they do, each one with a different skill set, but great is a stretch. Would I want them on my team sure. But great, nah.

The very things CP3 is saying about the Clippers is the same things these guys say when they leave the old for something new. LeBron said it when he was drafted by Cleveland and when he left for Miami. Shaq said it when he signed with or was traded to the Lakers, Heat, Cavs and Celtics. It’s horse poo. You win championships because of a solid team game, with grit, tenacity, defense and complimentary players. These role players make all the difference in the world because they are the ones who help the rest of the team step their game up. CP3 to BG will be nice to watch, but championship? That’s worthy of an AI rant on practice or a Jim Mora rant on playoffs.

CP3 is not great. Great players take the ball and team in their hands. CP3 didn’t do that enough in Hornets games. He did have some talent around him…David West played his butt off in a contract year — I believe he will disappear this year. Otherwise, he’s nothing exceptional: He has only a 16 ft jump shot and can’t play defense. Okafor is a double double guy, but gets in foul trouble all too often. There was talent on the Whorenets but going to LA gives him a chance to play with Shawne Kemp 2000.

As for the Whorenets, there were opportunities for CP3 to have talent around him in New Orleans, but not every coach is suited to develop and coach up talent. Imagine a team with Brandon Bass at the 4, JR Smith off the bench, David West at the 3, Marcus Thornton at the 2 and Chris Paul. That’s scary. The franchise has been poorly run ever since George Shinn bought it, so hiring Byron Scott and chasing off talent shouldn’t have been a surprise. Nor should it be a surprise that the team’s best players wanted to leave and made up their minds to do so 2 or 3 years ago.

Ronnie Brewer + Taj Gibson + a cap filler for Mo Williams?

A lot of superstar teams don’t have superstar PG’s which I think is the key. The Celtics won a title because they had Rondo, and Rondo may not be looking as prime as he was early on, but regardless… they won because they ran great players through a great point guard. CP3 is a great point guard who has never had another superstar around him. No one to dish 6-7 assists to, and then score 20 a game with. This is going to be a whole different story. And don’t even give me that David West crap – old man is old!!!!!

Young guys build together that glue a lot better than veterans build it. That is one of the key things that hurt the Heat.

Just some ramblings for your plate.

The truth remains that there is only one team in LA that can talk about championships, so shut up and play the game and prove that you can do. Don’t start yapping before the first tip off of the season.

P.S. we all know you’d rather be playing for the other team in the arena.

Not four, not five…

Win, then talk; otherwise it’s just baseless, unearned bravado.

Solid team around them, no chance of winning a championship.

The depth they add will be 2mil and 3mil a year guys and it will be handled. And Sterling after years of humility must have hired some sort of PR guy, he’s been handling everything a tiny bit better. But time will tell.

They will still win a title, and everyone will be like, OMG CLIPPERS LOL.

Just saying, the Fakers fans will be jumping the bandwaggon regardless of what people think once Kobe is gone. Dwight to Brooklyn, and the Lakers will be nobodies unless someone comes out of the NCAA as some kind of phenom.

And OKC fans, a similar scenario is about to play out for you too. Except the Clippers have at least 10x the TV revenue.