April 5, 2012. Blake Griffin aggravates Pau Gasol, the world's nicest person, by gloating after a dunk. "You have to be respectful, too. Otherwise, you probably will instigate retaliation or a bad, violent reaction," Gasol said. This isn't the first time Gasol got pissed off by a Clipper.
A history of everyone in the NBA hating the Clippers
Here’s a comprehensive (but likely incomplete) history of NBA players, coaches and organizations expressing their disgust for the Clippers.
April 6, 2012. DeMarcus Cousins says Griffin is “babied” by the league and refs and gets away with taunting players.
April 2012. Zach Randolph gets in Griffin's face in Game 4 of the first round. He then punches him in Game 7. (To be fair, Zach Randolph does this to a lot of people.)
Nov. 4, 2012. David Lee to Griffin during a game: "Stop flopping."
Jan. 3, 2013: Then-Warriors coach Mark Jackson drops the line of the night on Griffin’s flopping. “He’s a great actor. I’ve seen those Kia commercials.“
Jan. 20, 2013. Griffin elbows young Wizards forward Trevor Booker in the face. “He should’ve got kicked out of the game for it,” Booker said.
March 3, 2013. Ibaka ... well, you be the judge.
May 2, 2013. Randolph shows no sympathy for an injured Griffin. “Banged up?” Randolph said of Griffin. “I’m banged up. You forgot about my ankle? Banged up. My ankle is as big as a balloon.”
May 9, 2013. Randolph tweaks his adversary by saying then-Thunder big men Kendrick Perkins and Serge Ibaka are much tougher than Blake.
Oct. 31, 2013. The Clippers refuse to share chapel service with the Warriors, for some reason. "Man, they don't want to have chapel with us?" one Warriors source asks. "I never heard that before, but OK." That same night, Griffin bumps into Jackson on the sidelines and the two exchange words.
Nov. 13, 2013. Serge Ibaka gets tangled up with Griffin and a scuffle breaks out. One of Ibaka's teammates says "there's a little bad blood between them." Perkins went one step further.
RT @KendrickPerkins That's was terrible. Serge did nothing. That's wrong
— Royce Young (@royceyoung) November 14, 2013 Nov. 23, 2013. Cousins refuses to let Isaiah Thomas shake Chris Paul's hand after the Kings lose to the Clippers.
Dec. 13, 2013. Booker says he doesn't "get along" with Griffin and complains about Griffin getting the superstar treatment.
“He pushed me, I pushed him back. I got the tech. That’s how it goes. Superstar never gets that tech.”
Jan. 24, 2014. Cousins calls Chris Paul and the Clippers “cheaters” and says he doesn’t respect them.
March 13, 2014. Then-Warriors big man Jermaine O’Neal confronts Griffin in a hallway after a game.
April 15, 2014. Klay Thompson is asked about Griffin on a radio interview. “How can a guy that big and strong flop so much?”
April 21, 2014. O'Neal and Doc Rivers exchange words during a playoff game. "I kept telling him I loved him," Rivers joked.
May 2014. Marreese Speights says it’s all Paul’s fault.
"It's not really Blake Griffin; it's all Chris Paul for real. Chris Paul starts all of that stuff. Before Chris Paul came here, the team was not like that."
Oct. 18, 2014. Booker commits another hard foul on Griffin during a preseason game. The two scuffle.
Feb. 6, 2015. Paul criticizes official Lauren Holtkamp after she gave him a technical foul, saying “this might not be for her.” The referees’ union calls his remarks “personal and unprofessional.”
March 2, 2015. Kevin Garnett pushes Austin Rivers and then keeps going.
March 9, 2015. Dahntay Jones purposely bumps into Draymond Green during a postgame interview for some reason. Draymond calls Jones irrelevant after the game. "If [Dahntay Jones] gets suspended, they may not even notice."
March 10, 2015. Rivers defends Jones and said Green is a fake tough guy. Green: “Cool story, Glenn.” Glenn is Doc’s given name that he hates to use.
April 5, 2015. Chris Kaman tweets a photo of Paul punching him in the groin.
July 2015. DeAndre Jordan reneges on a verbal agreement to sign with the Mavericks to return to the Clippers in free agency. Mark Cuban dismisses his apology. “When is an apology not an apology? When you didn’t write it yourself.” He later compares the Clippers’ last-minute push to keep Jordan to “makeup sex.” Chandler Parsons calls Jordan’s decision “unethical and disrespectful” and said he was “scared.”
Sept. 23, 2015. Rivers lambastes Cuban for complaining about Jordan’s decision. Cuban fires back: “It shows you what someone will do when their entire future is vanishing in front of them.”
Oct. 10, 2015. Rivers suggests the Warriors were lucky to not have to play the Spurs or Clippers on their way to winning the championship. Thompson:
Klay on Clips: "Didn’t they lose to the Rockets? So, that just makes me laugh. That’s funny. Weren’t they up 3-1 too? Tell em I said that"
— Ethan Strauss (@SherwoodStrauss) octubre 9, 2015 Oct. 28, 2015. Cousins admits that he “honestly” hates the Clippers.
Oct. 29, 2015. Cuban says he doesn’t give a s*** about the Clippers.
You can change the owner, you can change the players but the Clippers are who they’ve been for the past 30 years.
Oct. 29, 2015. A brave arena employee puts Cuban and Clippers owner Steve Ballmer on the Kiss Cam. It was ... interesting.
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