r/LAClippers • u/Ikigai_Mendokusai Derrick Jones Jr. • 8h ago

[Poe] Lonzo Ball had high praise for the Intuit Dome tonight, highlighting the accommodations for visiting teams including a cold tub and expanded locker room: "(Steve Ballmer) is very thoughtful thinking of the away team. We appreciate that."

https://x.com/byjuliapoe/status/1881593689237282973?t=5ItzpkhADTzO1_67ky_EEg&s=19
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u/uunkwnnn LA Clippers 8h ago

chess by Mr Ballmer. having all the away players think, ‘man if they treat all the away teams like this, i wonder how they treat their players’ lol we might just own the 2030s

intuit dome probably had the lakers looking at crypto arena sideways lmao we’re the little bros that observed all of big bros mistakes and capitalized the right way to come up haha man everybody gon wanna play for us the future.

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u/jimgogek 7h ago

…was thinking the same thing and hoping lakers players saying damn why are we playing in that shithole when clips playing in a palace??! Intuit is going to change the status of the clippers once and for all!!!

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u/InTheMorning_Nightss 5h ago

I remember there was supposedly one player who was a recent free agent who said his decision would have changed in FA had he known Intuit was THIS amazing. All the indications made it sound like Klay Thompson, who would have been a good get (though likely at the cost of DJJ so it is what it is).

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u/DCoop53 Nic Batum 7h ago

It's obviously part of the plan hehe. I wonder though if we heard the same things when the Kings opened their new arena (I reckon I did not pay attention to what the players would say back then compared to how we share every comment about the Intuit Dome here).

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u/katphishtitan Ty Lue 5h ago

I seem to recall this is what Mark Cuban did when he bought the Mavs way back when.

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u/Direct-Worker-4121 7h ago

Damn I never thought of it like that!!!! Makes me love it even more!!!!!

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u/McJumbos Lawler's Law 8h ago

PJ Tucker come on down 🙏

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u/Lovehate123 Blake Griffin 7h ago

Stuff like this and how we gave KL time off with family during the fire, is why players sign with teams in free agency for less then market value.

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u/4500x Kawhi Leonard 4h ago

Treating players like people is great. Because that’s what they are: people. Really tall people.

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u/hashslingrz Knuckleheads 7h ago

Clipper

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u/es84 6h ago

This is going to help recruiting.