The Los Angeles Clippers have been awash in controversy and struggle in the past month, but their issues have been brewing for a long time before the NBA dropped the hammer on the organization.

Kawhi Leonard is an easy figure to point toward when it comes to finding blame for the downward spiral the Clippers have been suffering, but many issues can also be linked ti Paul George, whom the Clippers traded for from the Oklahoma City Thunder in a massive trade deal that cost the Clippers many first-round picks and future MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.

But George's negative impact on the Clippers could be felt on an interpersonal level as well, as one former teammate of George touched on.

In an interview with ScoopB.com, Montrezl Harrell, who played with the Clippers from 2017-2020, was asked to say something positive about George, who played with the Clippers himself from 2019-24 after a blockbuster trade from the Oklahoma City Thunder, but Harrell was not interested.

"Me and that boy don't see eye-to-eye and we ain't on no terms, so I don't make comments on him," Harrell said of George. "I stated in the tribute interview I did as well, regarding how me and him got into that bubble situation. I feel like that had a strong trajectory on why the Clippers didn't sign me back the following season."

The situation that Harrell touched on was a reported altercation between him and George during the 2020 COVID-19 bubble that reportedly ended in Harrell threatening to "knock out" George, which certainly didn't help the Clippers' chemistry.

Harrell wasn't brought back by the Clippers after the 2019-2020 season and played for four teams in three seasons before an ACL injury essentially ended his NBA career. While George can't be pointed to for how the rest of Harrell's career went, it is interesting that Harrell places so much blame on George himself.

George was a newcomer on the Clippers in the 2019-20 season, whereas Harrell had already been with the Clippers for two seasons prior to the arrival of both George and Kawhi Leanord.

But there was an obvious power dynamic between George and Harrell that Harrell was never going to win. While he was more of a veteran of the Clippers than George was at this point, Harrell was ultimately a role player that mostly came off the bench while George was the superstar that the Clippers altered the future of their franchise to trade for. 

Tension between a superstar and a role player is never going to end well for the latter, which Harrell found out and is clearly still passionate about years later.