Nikoloz Tskitishvili Signs With The Los Angeles Clippers - WTF?

[Euroleague]

http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/239194/Nikoloz-Tskitishvili-Signs-With-Clippers

SEP 10, 2015 2:06 PM

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Nikoloz Tskitishvili has signed with the Los Angeles Clippers.

Tskitishvili was the fifth overall pick in the 2002 NBA Draft and hasn't played in the NBA since 2006 with the Phoenix Suns.

Tskitishvili most recently played in Lebanon.

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[fiddy]

Clippers gon clip

[HylianNightmare]

Stacked

[L8krH8tr]

I cant see him being any different than the last big white guy they had i forget his name

[Rake2204]

Ha, no way. I haven't looked at the tail end of the Clippers' roster but I'm guessing the chances of him making the team are slim. One can hope though. What a crazy, weird flashback. He really messed things up for me with a girl I was trying to date back in 2002.

[FKAri]

I cant see him being any different than the last big white guy they had i forget his name

Blake

[r0drig0lac]

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[qrich]

Under Contract:

CE: DeAndre Jordan | Cole Aldrich
PF: Blake Griffin | Josh Smith | Branden Dawson
SF: Paul Pierce | Lance Stephenson | Wes Johnson
SG: JJ Redick | Jamal Crawford | CJ Wilcox
PG: Chris Paul | Austin Rivers | Pablo Prigioni

Unguaranteed Camp Invite: Chuck Hayes


Yeah, Skita isn't making the team. No spot for a top side for this NBA Scrub/European Stud

[Akrazotile]

NO excuses

[QuebecBaller]

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[HOoopCityJones]

The Clippers are still in the league after last season's travesty?

[ralph_i_el]

I cant see him being any different than the last big white guy they had i forget his name
Kaman

[HoopologyPhD]

He still has potential!

[Euroleague]

Under Contract:

CE: DeAndre Jordan | Cole Aldrich
PF: Blake Griffin | Josh Smith | Branden Dawson
SF: Paul Pierce | Lance Stephenson | Wes Johnson
SG: JJ Redick | Jamal Crawford | CJ Wilcox
PG: Chris Paul | Austin Rivers | Pablo Prigioni

Unguaranteed Camp Invite: Chuck Hayes


Yeah, Skita isn't making the team. No spot for a top side for this NBA Scrub/European Stud

What part of "most recently played in Lebanon" did you not comprehend?

I'm not sure if he's ever even made a rotation in Europe.

[Clifton]

Wow.

The Clippers' story of making roster additions that look better on paper than they are in fact, dating all the way back to Darius Miles and Quentin Richardson, has a new chapter. Or footnote perhaps. What's next, give Darko another shot?

[b0bab0i]

Wow.

The Clippers' story of making roster additions that look better on paper than they are in fact, dating all the way back to Darius Miles and Quentin Richardson, has a new chapter. Or footnote perhaps. What's next, give Darko another shot?
Darko is an NBA Champion! He's a serviceable big

Unless you were talking about Marko Jaric, don't need that guy.

[Maga_1]

I'm going to say this and it's totally true.
I never heard about this game before and i'm european.

[NuggetsFan]

Skita is probably one of the worst NBA players of All-Time.

[senelcoolidge]

What's the big deal, they signed him for their training camp. He's not going to make the team. They will sign other guys to try out for the team just like other teams will do the same.

[BasedTom]

stacked

[Euroleague]

I'm going to say this and it's totally true.
I never heard about this game before and i'm european.

Like I said, I'm not sure if he's actually been a rotation player in Europe. I'm trying to think about it. I think he was several years ago in Spanish League, like a 10 man on a scrub team.

Other than that, he's been an end of bench guy on small teams, or he was playing in Asia or something.

It's perfectly reasonable that you never heard of him. He would not have been in the top 500 players in Europe I don't think at any time.

Which is why qrich's usual trolling of calling him, a "European stud", just once again proves what a clown he is.

[Rooster]

Under Contract:

CE: DeAndre Jordan | Cole Aldrich
PF: Blake Griffin | Josh Smith | Branden Dawson
SF: Paul Pierce | Lance Stephenson | Wes Johnson
SG: JJ Redick | Jamal Crawford | CJ Wilcox
PG: Chris Paul | Austin Rivers | Pablo Prigioni

Unguaranteed Camp Invite: Chuck Hayes


Yeah, Skita isn't making the team. No spot for a top side for this NBA Scrub/European Stud

Remember Marco Jaric:oldlol:

I don't think Clips have much luck with the Euros:oldlol:

[LoneyROY7]

The Clippers are still in the league after last season's travesty?

What travesty was that? Being far and away the best team in Los Angeles?

[morbius]

Remember Marco Jaric:oldlol:

I don't think Clips have much luck with the Euros:oldlol:

Hey, Jaric was actually decent on the Clippers! And they traded him well, too.

[Rooster]

Hey, Jaric was actually decent on the Clippers! And they traded him well, too.

I was just :roll: with the hype before he came over.

He was supposed to be this tall skilled athletic Euro point guard:rolleyes:

But that ballhandling skills was exposed here

He was decent though all around especially defensively :applause: but could hardly shoot:oldlol:

[senelcoolidge]

This Marco Jaric.
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[Fiasco]

I only came in here to tell everyone Marko Jaric is the only person from '02 that deserves to be on this team.

My work has been done for me however.

[HurricaneKid]

What a crazy, weird flashback. He really messed things up for me with a girl I was trying to date back in 2002.

Wait.

WAT?!??

How could a Euro bust mess things up with you and a girl??

[DCL]

this mofo got so many chances in the league

[zeerghit]

WOW its got to be joke or smth..

[Rake2204]

Wait.

WAT?!??

How could a Euro bust mess things up with you and a girl??Spent months in summer of 2002 trying to court this beautiful Lebanese-American tennis pro and future engineering student at U of M. Way out of my league. Somehow gained the inside edge over all other dudes, kind of a There's Something About Mary situation.

Had a party at her house. All other dudes thirsty, but she's giving me these cute looks and knowing glances. I'm on the verge of achieving the impossible.

We play a game where we have to think of famous people with specific initials (ex: For B.R., someone could say Bert Reynolds). We play a few rounds and I dominate. I feel like my pop culture knowledge has to be turning her on.

N.T. pops up as an initial set. Could have just said Nate Thurmond. Decide to drop the mic. No one has anything for N.T., but I do.

"Nikoloz Tskitishvili," I say.

Silence. I'm pretty she's about to take me right then and there. Suddenly, one of her dude friends, who looked like a 5'9'' Wang ZhiZhi, steps up and says, "Nah, I'm pretty sure his name starts with "S".

I could play it cool and let it slide. I don't. We go back and forth. Things get really weird. He finally relents, but the damage has been done. She never looks at me the same.

Kept it real. Things went wrong. Nikoloz Tskitishvili earned a mortal enemy that night.

[iznogood]

Awesome story. Too bad it didn't happen a couple of years later - googling his name would be easier than having an argument with a midget Asian.

I imagined you tried to hit on a girl and she would choose him instead, but this was even better.

[blablabla]

wow as a 3x Euroleague MVP he might be able to add something to this team

[Human Error]

He has been dominating the Lebanon league. I hope he sticks this time.

[Hamtaro CP3KDKG]

Doc Rivers ladies and gentlemen.

He owes all of his success to Thibodeau and KG.

He might be a worse GM than MJ.