Los Angeles Clippers

Veteran guard to sit out Tuesday night's exhibition at Oklahoma City. Flu season, or some close imitation of it, appears to have hit the Clippers a bit early.

By Massacre The Lakers don’t play again until Saturday, when they host the two-day exhibition shootout at Staples Center. With so much time off this week, Jackson saw no reason not to push the practice session. And by the way, the Lakers will be back at it Tuesday morning.

 CA - Baron Davis left practice a few minutes early today, trudging off the court with little bounce in his step. Then came word from Coach Mike Dunleavy: Davis ...

This post is taken from: Official Sports Betting.com. Haier Play of the Day: Baron Davis. Watch Baron Davis pull some sleight of hand during the Clippers game against the Lakers on Thursday night. Copyright (c) 2008 NBAE.

 CA - I mean last year Elton Brand was hurt all year after big expectations for the upcoming year. This year Baron Davis signs and the Clippers catapult into a ...

By BRIAN PERDUE Jonathan Abrams writes about a sore spot with Clippers fans: Elton Brand’s departure. It initially seemed that Brand was going to re-sign with the Clippers in the offseason, but the All-Star foward abruptly signed a five-year, ...

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Cuttino Mobley should do ads for Avis. If he were a politician, his biggest dream might be to become vice president.

Brand] was on the verge [of re-signing with the Clippers], focusing on the fine print with Clippers Coach Mike Dunleavy, who also had the role of general manager, a title recently made official by the team’s parting with its longtime vice president for basketball operations, Elgin Bayl...

By Basketbawful Innies: Baron Davis, DeAndre Jordan, Eric Gordon, Jason Hart, Marcus Camby, Mike Taylor, Ricky Davis Outties: Brevin Knight, Corey Maggette, Josh Powell, Elton Brand, Quinton Ross, Ruben Patterson, Shaun Livingston, Smush Parker

By noreply@blogger.com (Nugg Doctor) lt;div align="justify">(Boulder-CO) Today's date is October 12th, and on this day:</div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify">'79- Chris Ford of the Boston Celtics scored the first three-point basket in NBA history with 3:48 left in t...

emerged from the tumult of the Clippers' offseason as second to only Chris Kaman in longevity with the Clippers.  In this morning's Los Angeles Times, veteran columnist Bill Dwyre pens a glowing portrayal of Mobley as an unheralded former second-round pick who, for his workmanlike cons...

Clipperblog exchanged emails with Michael McCann, Sports Illustrated legal analyst, law professor at Vermont Law School and Boston College Law School, and contributor to Sports Law Blog. I asked McCann whether Elgin Baylor would have an actionable age discrimination suit against th...

By Massacre Suffice to say that the whole “Lights Out” thing the Lakers have stuck with has done wonders for setting the right atmosphere at Staples. You don’t appreciate it until you see what it used to be like. On to the big thing, the longer minutes of Odom, Gasol and Bynum on the court.

Whatever they get or don’t get from the bench, the Clippers will succeed or fail this season on the shoulders of Baron Davis.  Last night, Davis dispensed, in the words of Lisa Dillman, “a heavy dose of vocal leadership.”  He also dished out seven dimes – three to Tim Thomas, two to Al Thornton...

By J.E. Skeets Art Thompson III, Orange County Register: "Elgin Baylor's two decades in the Clippers' executive office apparently has ended, as the team's longtime vice president of basketball operations and general manager no longer is performing those duties. The Clippers confirmed that news in...

By ClipperSteve The Los Angeles Clippers today announced that Head Coach Mike Dunleavy will assume the additional role of General Manager, replacing Vice President of Basketball Operations, Elgin Baylor. Dunleavy, entering his sixth year as Clippers’ Head Coach, has manned dual roles before: he was...

By dberri If you lived in Boston or Detroit - or any team playing the Lakers in the 1980s (other than the Clippers) - this is a cheer you often heard.   Magic Johnson, James Worthy, and the entire Showtime cast were clearly the enemy.  And five times in the 1980s, the enemy took the title (yes, I am a Piston...

By Brett Edwards Up north where the Golden State Warriors play, it won't be pretty either, at least for the first few months of the season. That's because their best player (apologies, Mr. Maggette) decided to engage in low-speed moped riding during the off-season (this still amazes me ... the moped = injury pa...

By Brett Edwards Across the Staples Center hallway, we have the city's other NBA team, the Los Angeles Clippers. (Seems a bit more regal when you say it like that, I think, than simply, "the Clippers.") After another season was derailed by injuries, the team has undergone wholesale changes during the summe...

NBA.com  - One team that has a standing offer on the table is his former team, the Los Angeles Clippers. "We're definitely interested," said Coach Mike Dunleavy. ... Gordon agrees to qualifying offer NBA.com all 3 news articles

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By ClipperSteve Well Stein's ESPN colleague John Hollinger has released his Western Conference previews, and he has the Clippers ranked 12th in the Conference.  Behind the Warriors AND the Timberwolves.  Seriously.  That's what he wrote.  He's predicting 30 wins.

By ClipperSteve So what about those other teams?  With training camps opening across the NBA, Livingston remains unsigned.  Here's the latest, as far as I can tell.  For a couple weeks, the rumor has been that Portland, Miami and Minnesota were interested, and that he would sign with one of those three.  Por...

By mfrank(noreply@blogger.com) The Sixers, meanwhile, had to trade Rodney Carney, Calvin Booth and their 1st-round pick to Minnesota in order to go from $11M to $14M in cap space to get Brand. It should be noted that Brand turned down a $90M deal with Golden State, as well as the Clippers' $80M offer. The Clips thought they we...

By ClipperSteve A star at the University of North Carolina, David Noel was drafted by the Milwaukee Bucks in the second round of the 2006 NBA Draft and averaged 2.7 points in 68 games for the Bucks in 2006-07. Noel suffered from a sprained right wrist last season, while with Milwaukee. Noel averaged 20.8 points...

Perhaps the injuries were to be expected. Lamar Odom only played 29 games the season before. Corey Maggette normally misses a handful of games every year. Up until that point though, Quentin Richardson wasn’t injury-prone. Elton Brand just didn’t have enough help.

By ClipperSteve Of course, the changes this summer went way beyond the departure of Elton Brand and the arrival of Baron Davis.  Gone from the Clippers' 2006 playoff team are Brand, Corey Maggette, Shaun Livingston, Sam Cassell and Quinton Ross.  There have been lots of references to 'Baron for Brand' or '...

By ClipperSteve Speaking of Portland, there was a comment in a recent thread questioning whether they should be considered a likely playoff team, as in fact most predictions say.  There would seem to be seven 'safe' Western Conference picks - with Dallas and Phoenix being less certain than others.  But fo...

The fanfare of the Clippers’ frenetic offseason is behind us.  Baron Walter Louis Davis (Crossroads ’97) has arrived home.  Elton Brand is gone.  Eric Gordon is the chic pick for Biggest Draft Day Bust…two months after Al Thornton emerged as The Best 2007-2008 Rookie Not Named Kevin Durant....

By noreply@blogger.com (FLCeltsFan) The Celtics announced today that they have signed 6'9" free agent forward Darius Miles to a non-guaranteed contract. He was originally drafted with the third overall pick in the 2000 NBA draft by the Los Angeles Clippers. After 2 years with the Clippers, he played 1 year with the Cavaliers and then was traded to the Portland Trailblazers 67 games into the following season. He averaged a career high 14.0 points and 4.6 rebounds in the 40 games before his injury. He missed all of the 2006-07 and 2007-08 seasons after having microfracture surgery on his right knee. Discuss this topic on the Celtics Green Forums!]   [read the full post]

By noreply@blogger.com (FLCeltsFan) The Clippers re-signed unrestricted free-agent center Paul Davis, giving them three players named Davis on their roster. They lured Baron Davis away from the Warriors and signed former Celtic Ricky Davis as a free agent. Maybe they should go to first names on their jerseys instead of last. The only other Davis listed in the NBA.com players list is the Celtics' own Big Baby Davis. The Clipps seem enamored with players named Davis and I wonder what the chances are of the Clippers making a play for Big Baby. Paul Davis averaged 2.5. points and 2.1 rebounds in 22 games with the Clippers last year before a season-ending injury to his right knee Dec. 21. Discuss this topic on the Celtics Green Forums!]   [read the full post]

By citizen zhiv Cuttino Mobley, the first significant Clipper free agent, has been pulling yeoman duty for some time on the Clips.  Known in these parts as Dunleavy's security blanket, a healthy Mobley got off to an extremely fast start in 07, but he was quickly banged up and played at a substandard lev...

Coming back from a long MVN hiatus, picking one single Clippers topic from this summer for my first post back in action was a bit challenging. With the departures of Corey Maggette and Elton Brand as well as the arrivals of Baron Davis and Marcus Camby plus all the drama surrounding every one...

By ClipperSteve The good news is that cap space gives the team a lot of options.  Obviously they can try to sign a free agent.  But they can also use their cap space to make unbalanced trades.  Any team looking to shed money might be willing to send a promising power forward to the Clippers (provided the Clippers...

By ClipperSteve So why then was the Clippers Brand offer being reported as for only 5 seasons?  Even more disconcerting, basketball writers left and right were saying that the Clippers were offering only 5 years specifically because they had to renounce Brand first.  So who's right?

By ClipperSteve The Clippers lineup, as of today, is as follows: PG - Baron Davis, Brevin Knight SG - Cat Mobley, Eric Gordon SF - Al Thornton, Marcus Williams PF - Elton Brand, Tim Thomas, Nick Fazekas C - Chris Kaman, DeAndre Jordan Let the Baron Davis Era begin.

By ClipperSteve Tough Schedule.  Based on last season's results, closing with games against the Rockets (5th in 06-07), Nuggets (6th), Lakers (7th), Warriors (8th) and Hornets (10th) would have made perfect sense for the barely-missed-the-07-playoffs Clippers.  In fact, it would have given them a ch...

By ClipperSteve For now, I guess I have two things after all.  First of all, Dallas is in BIG TROUBLE.  With Kaman hurt, Mobley hurt and Maggette shooting 3 for 15 (0 for 8 on two pointers), and the Clippers as a team shooting 36.8%, they still needed every advantage the referees gave them in order to beat the Clip...

By ClipperSteve It is not unreasonable to suggest that Chris Kaman would not have had the first half he had (before his injuries) sharing the low post with Elton Brand.  Obviously he's getting more touches - though it's more difficult to suggest that he's getting easier looks given that defenses are able t...

I'd like to offer another endorsement of Josh Powell as a bona fide useful NBA piece.  Back at NC State, he was an extremely active frontcourt player on both ends with more quickness than your average power forward.  "Energy player" is a often a euphemism for a guy who is neither a small nor a po...

By ClipperSteve The Clippers are on a 6 game losing streak - their second longest this season, and this has NOT been a good season.  And there's plenty of bad news beyond that.   Sam Cassell is officially a Celtic as of yesterday - which is good news for Sam, but just another reminder of lost opportunities for th...

By ClipperSteve ClipperSteve:  Both the Kings and the Clippers have been hit mercilessly with injuries.  Both of them parted ways with a veteran point guard associated with playoff success.  The Kings have managed to remain competitive, even while Artest and Martin were hurt, while the Clippers are sol...

By ClipperSteve 11/21/07 - Clippers 101 Nuggets 90 (Clippers without Maggette and mostly without Cassell - just a dismal performance by Denver); 11/29/07 - Lakers 127 Nuggets 99 (a buddy invited me to the game at Staples); 11/30/07 - Nuggets 123 Clippers 107

Corey Maggette, the Clippers' leading scorer, is at the center of the organization's top-tier rift. Maggette and Dunleavy have had their disputes, but Tuesday Maggette came to Dunleavy's defense. Cassell said Tuesday that Sterling now seems emotionally tied to the Clippers' success a...

I'm not offering anything original when I suggest that the Clippers ought to run more early S/R with Cassell and Kaman.  Kaman has cultivated the kind of patience in the halfcourt that you want in your big man.  The Clippers should run more through him at about :18, which would force the doubl...

Given the circumstances, the Clippers play a decent game, even on the defensive end where Dallas hits at a 55% clip.  These things happen when you assign Tim Thomas, then Paul Davis, then – with no other recourse -- Cuttino Mobley to handle Nowitzki.  This isn't a knock on the coaching staff b...

By ClipperSteve The good news is that the Clippers are at home tonight, for their only home game in a period of over two weeks.  The bad news is that they've actually been slightly worse at home this season (4-7) than on the road (5-7).  They've also lost 5 straight at home.  It doesn't get any easier tonight - Sam...

By Fran Blinebury(fran.blinebury@chron.com) Rafer Alston took a giant step against the Clippers with 17 points, 9 assists and 5 rebounds. But before we go back to kicking him like a stray dog, Rafer has some point guard skills, even if he shows them as often as Dick Cheney's sunny personality.

 - Sports Network) - The Minnesota Timberwolves try for their season-best third straight win this evening when they host the Los Angeles Clippers at the Target ...

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