Paul George: 'This is not a championship-or-bust year for us'

Paul George may say it wasn't championship-or-bust year, but it truly was.

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00:00After what may be one of the biggest choke jobs in NBA history,

00:05Paul George said something very interesting at the end of adult.

00:10He said, we didn't feel like this was a championship or bus season,

00:14which maybe at the start of the season, people could have assumed that.

00:18But after the Clippers traded for Marcus Morris,

00:20after they traded for Reggie Jackson, or after they picked up Reggie Jackson,

00:23I don't think anybody thought that.

00:25Everybody expected the Clippers to win this season.

00:29Other NBA players, Blake Griffin expected the Clippers,

00:32CJ McCollum expected the Clippers, everyone expected them to win.

00:36So to say something like, we didn't expect this to be a championship or bus,

00:40is quite a cop-out in a moment like this, when you're up 3-1,

00:45and you've blown double-digit leads in every single game, 5, 6, and 7.

00:51And if anyone needs to hear that again,

00:54the Clippers blew double-digit leads in games 5, 6, and 7,

00:59to advance to the conference finals for the first time ever in franchise history

01:03after 49 years, they had that opportunity.

01:07So to say this isn't a championship or bus season,

01:10while understandably Paul George said that from the standpoint of,

01:14oh, this is their first year together, it's the first year for the Lakers,

01:17it was the first year for the Raptors, it's the first year for a lot of people.

01:21And they're not making these excuses.

01:24So at the end of the day, the Clippers just couldn't execute.