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

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

00:11 He said, we didn't feel like this was a championship or bus season,

00:15 which maybe at the start of the season, people could have assumed that.

00:19 But after the Clippers traded for Marcus Morris, after they traded for Reggie Jackson,

00:22 or after they picked up Reggie Jackson, I don't think anybody thought that.

00:26 Everybody expected the Clippers to win this season.

00:30 Other NBA players, Blake Griffin expected the Clippers, CJ McCollum expected the Clippers,

00:35 everyone expected them to win.

00:37 So to say something like we didn't expect this to be a championship or bus is quite a cop out

00:43 in a moment like this when you're up 3-1 and you've blown double digit leads

00:48 in every single game, 5, 6, and 7.

00:52 And if anyone needs to hear that again, the Clippers blew double digit leads in games 5, 6,

00:58 and 7 to advance to the conference finals for the first time ever in franchise history

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

01:07 So to say this isn't a championship or bus season, while understandably Paul George said that

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

01:18 it was the first year for the Raptors.

01:20 It's the first year for a lot of people, and they're not making these excuses.

01:25 So at the end of the day, the Clippers just couldn't execute.