Archive for September, 2009

Enthusiasm for our team has now swept to Colorado where Benjamin Hochman of the Denver Post writes: as the upcoming NBA season peeks its head around the corner, may I make a potentially preposterous proclamation? The Clips could crack the playoffs this year. He praises Blake Griffin & Eric Gordon, but he believes: it all comes down to point guard Baron Davis, who shoots too much and doesn’t pass enough. He quotes Kevin Arnovitz (who writes the great ClipperBlog) as saying the key is: Davis’ willingness to stop shooting off the dribble, where he’s one of the league’s three least [...]

Yahoo Sports has a nice article on how Summertime Is No Vacation For Players Taking On New Roles: It has been an offseason of big-name transactions, so some key players have landed in new spots. Of course, every time a player goes to a new team, he leaves an old team behind-and that puts pressure on the guy who is called on to fill a new role. It’s always inspiring to hear about the off-season work some players put in (because the pessimist in us tends to assume these multi-millionaires slack off as much as possible in the off-season, all [...]

Steve Perrin from Clips Nation writes this funny piece on Tim Thomas Trivia, which includes bits like: Name an NBA player who received multi-million dollar contract buy outs from the same team twice? Answer: Tim Thomas. For those who don’t know what team that was, check out the post for that and more.  Oh, and no, the former Clipper was not bought out by us even once.

My mom intelligently asked me what my favorite movies have to do with the Clippers.  I tried to explain that the Clippers used to be in San Diego and were obviously named after those namesake ships which used to be made of “wood.”  And then since Clippers starts with a “C” which rhymes with “G” which is the letter next to “H” which makes me think of “Holly” we clearly get “Hollywood.”  Plus, after all, now the team plays in the shadow (sunlight?) of Hollywood.  So plain as day it’s all clearly connected, right?  No, she didn’t buy it.  She [...]

On the network’s main page there was supposed to be (& may eventually be?) a post where several of us FanSided bloggers each list our top 20 films of the last 17 years.  Why 17 you ask?  Because the list was put together in honor of something Quentin Tarantino did to promote the release of his newest flick, “Inglourious Basterds.”  For the LA Weekly, he picked his 20 fave films created since his first film, “Reservoir Dogs,” came out in 1992.  Or in other words, top films that’ve come out since he himself became a filmmaker.  From his contemporaries if [...]

There’s an interesting article in the New York Times today where Bob Thate, former shooting coach for the Nets, compares the tennis serve to shooting free throws in basketball: He views free-throw shooters and servers as practitioners of essentially the same art — one more positivist than impressionist, its strokes predicated on rhythm and routine. “There’s a great correlation,” he said Monday night from Dallas, where he was summoned by the point guard Jason Kidd to deliver a weeklong free-throw tutorial. “You’re not going up and down the court or side to side, you’re standing at the line and 10,000 [...]

Peter Mehlman, a Seinfeld writer who penned such classic episodes as Yada Yada and Spongeworthy, does a wonderful deadpan interview with Blake Griffin.  Griffin, who to my incredible disappointment got my boy O-Dog in a bit of trouble for my post on his lost credit card, redeems himself to me a bit here.  It’s good to know that not only is Griff a gamer on the court, but he can also be game off it.  Sure, his deadpan responses are sometimes undercut by the fact that you can see him trying to suppress a smile or laugh, but at times [...]