{"id":485448,"date":"2024-07-20T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=485448"},"modified":"2024-07-20T08:45:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T12:45:00","slug":"ballmer-unhappy-with-clips-losing-george","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/ballmer-unhappy-with-clips-losing-george\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballmer unhappy with Clips losing George"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Standing inside the Los Angeles Clippers\u2019 new state-of-the-art Intuit Dome, franchise owner Steve Ballmer claimed he &#8220;hated&#8221; seeing Paul George choose another team but revealed that the new roster around\u00a0 Kawhi Leonard and James Harden could fight for the title in the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p>The Clips owner, who gave media a final preview of the team\u2019s new venue and the 1<sup>st<\/sup> glimpse of the double-sided halo display called &#8220;The Halo Board&#8221; \u2013 shared he believes in the organization\u2019s new roster. Steve doesn\u2019t have any doubt that his team will fight for the championship even without Paul and Russell Westbrook.<\/p>\n<p>Ballmer added that he loves George as he is phenomenal basketballer, but the team must get better and that they offered Paul what they thought was a fair contract for the Clippers to be competitive but the player decided that\u2019s not what he wanred.<\/p>\n<p>George inked a 4-year, 212 million dollar max contract with Philly at the beginning of July.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Clippers owner Steve Ballmer says typical t-shirt tosses at NBA arenas aren\u2019t fair.<\/p>\n<p>So the team\u2019s new $2B home, the Intuit Dome, will have t-shirt cannons in its Halo Board that can hit every seat.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FlyByKnite?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@FlyByKnite<\/a>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0CNsd9MdrQ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/0CNsd9MdrQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Front Office Sports (@FOS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FOS\/status\/1814443600752619542?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 19, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standing inside the Los Angeles Clippers\u2019 new state-of-the-art Intuit Dome, franchise owner Steve Ballmer claimed he &#8220;hated&#8221; seeing Paul George choose another team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":485449,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17188,17837],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[18478,23166,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Clippers owner admitted that on personal level he hated it.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485460,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485448\/revisions\/485460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485448"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=485448"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=485448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}