Paul Pierce, Los Angeles Clippers
Everyone has an uncle who’s memory is a little off. It’s the uncle who had to walk five miles in the snow to school every day, uphill both ways. The uncle who — no matter what you do — swears up and down that he did it better.
Paul Pierce is the NBA’s version of that. Heck, sitting on the Clippers bench, he even looks like someone’s uncle.
Over the last year is when Pierce has really gone from NBA legend to annoying hypocrite.
Pierce has been a critic of the concept of “super teams,” which you can read about here. Apparently he believes that his Boston Celtics teammates were more noble when they signed contracts and whined their way out of them than free agents who changed teams.
Pierce’s most-recent feud with Draymond Green (more on him shortly) has also exposed more of his hypocrisy. After Green mocked Pierce for not getting a great ovation, Pierce took to Twitter to respond.
73 wins and u thought u was gonna win a title that yr 😂😂😂3-1 lead oops
— Paul Pierce (@paulpierce34) February 24, 2017
Okay, it wasn’t unprovoked. Still, let’s think about a few things.
Is blowing a 3-1 lead really worse than blowing a 3-2 lead when your opponent fails to score 90 points in either game, you had a 13-point second half lead in Game 7, and the other team’s best player (Kobe Bryant) was only 6-for-24 in that game?
Additionally, how do Pierce’s Clippers teammates feel about the 3-1 jabs? They did blow the same lead to the Houston Rockets only two years ago, right before Pierce signed in Los Angeles. They also blew a 2-0 series lead against Portland last season.