Owner Steve Ballmer on whether Clippers can contend for an NBA title for the upcoming season

Ste what what still gives you what still gives you the faith that you guys can be a competing team we lost two key players in Kawai Kawai apiz and in Russell why do you think you guys will still be in the top six Championship Contender look the West is is TP it's going to be competitive we still have two Hall of Famers MVP and finals MVP on our team let's face it you know most people would be salivating to have guys like that on their team and we have a lot of good great players actually that fill in play defense play top the guys we picked up I mean just take Derek Jones Jr man everybody saw what he was doing to us in the playoffs he's our guy now he's our guy now or or Terrence Chris Don who we picked up tough Defenders having patum B not only a great teammate but a heck of a Defender I think I think we're going to be a very good team and I'm going to concede the West is very tough you got a pretty good coach I think we got a great coach I love our coach and our coach going to be around a long time what's the best thing about your Club about sorry the best CL the best thing about your Club well I'm expecting us to be able to be pretty hardcore pretty gritty um you know starting from you know our longest 10e top player that's who Kawai is James James is is in basketball not only is he a basketball genius he's a basketball Zealot there's nobody who works harder I bet in the whole NBA than James Harden does you start with that tone on the top I think that's the character of our team Steve given all that given all that what's your expectations on whether the team can contend for a championship next season I think we're going to be a very very good team we're going to contend we we'll see how far it takes us you there's like I said there's a lot of good teams in the west let alone you got the Celtics Etc in the East but there's a lot of good teams I think we are one of them and if we stay healthy if we play well I think every team's got to get a little bit of luck but you know our two guys are at the top are pretty good and I'll take I'll take our guys that we flank around them um you know just take a look at Dallas they rode the backs of you know two great players and a bunch of other very very good players and you know we we certainly have that St and why do you think you guys are still be in the top six look the West is is tough it's going to be competitive we still have two Hall of Famers MVP and finals MVP on our team let's face it you know most people would be salivating to have two guys like that on their team and we have a lot of good great players actually that fill in play defense play tough the guys we picked up I mean just take Derek Jones Jr man everybody saw what he was doing to us in the playoffs he's our guy now he's our guy now or or Terence Chris Don who we picked up tough Defenders having patum back not only a great teammate but a heck of a Defender I think I think we're going to be a very good team and I'm going to concede the West is very t [Music]