No, there was no power shortage at the Clippers’ hotel that prevented their alarm clocks from waking them up.  They weren’t told the game would be later & thus had to scramble.  Nor did some foul fiend slip the whole team mickeys to knock ‘em out.  The game was in L.A., so they weren’t all in the same hotel and of course didn’t all eat together, so that rules out foul play from an outsider.  The team was even at the court on-time to prepare beforehand, yet somehow they still managed to sleepwalk through nearly 40 minutes of the game.
Those [...]

No sugar coating: we’ve had a sad start to the season due to injuries to two key players and disappointing loses.  However, while some view being a Clipper fan as a form of self-masochism (and not in that kinky fun way), really being a Clipper fan is all about hope.  About faith.  About believing things will get better.  We refuse to give up, and somehow we always believe that tomorrow will bring better days.  That if we gut it out, our day will come, and ohhh, then it will be all the sweeter (ie. see Red Sox; Winning World Series [...]

Friday night the Clippers actually had a nationally televised game.  Most likely it was due to the fact that they drafted Blake Griffin, and thus could be interesting to watch.  Unfortunately, with Griffin out, plus up-and-coming soph Eric Gordon, and the team sucking, it looked like the scorching hot Denver Nuggets would have an easy blowout.  The Nugs came out strong, and within the first quarter they were already up by 12.  Nugget & Clipper fans everywhere started thumbing through the TV Guide to see what else was on.  However, early-MVP candidate Carmelo Anthony sat down, and the Clippers’ second [...]

After stinking it up in the previous game, Baron came back last night determined to make amends.  Unfortunately, the rest of the Clippers came out determined to play crappy defense and do their best imitation of last year’s pitiful team.  Memphis, who earlier this week had only won one game but had lost eight, shot an astounding 54% against your LA Clippers.  Offensively, the Clippers were fine, they shot 47.6% which should be enough to win most games.  Their three-point shooting is still off, as they shot only 20% for the long ball.  The free-throw shooting was a pitiful 61% [...]

Last night the Clippers went up against a team, the New Orleans Hornets, that not only has been sucking all season, but that was also missing its MVP candidate, its motor, its sole consistent player this season: Chris Paul.  This is a team that is known for having a lack of depth.  It should’ve been a Clippers’ win.  Unfortunately no one remembered to tell LA that.  Or maybe the Clips were told that & thus they came out assuming they’d win.  That’d explain the lack of hustle.  As proof of that hustle-ness-less, look no further than these stats posted by [...]

We now continue with my examination of my fantasy basketball draft.  In case you missed ‘em, here are the earlier bits: Part I, Part II & Part III.  I seem to babbling more and more, so this time we’re down to an analysis of only one round.  Anyway, same rules/caveats as usual:
-Players with a “(K)” next to their name were Keepers so they pretty much won’t be discussed ‘cuz they’re usually darn good.
-These comments are based on how I felt at the time of our draft.  Meaning no one knew Brandon Jennings would score 55 points & be a general [...]

The Clippers stand at 4-7 and they’ve had several disheartening losses that they could’ve/should’ve won.  It sucks, but the truth is that both the team and the coach keep taking steps in the right direction.  In the first of the last three games, the Clippers choked in the fourth quarter against Oklahoma City, highlighted by Chris Kaman driving under the basket so he had nothing available, then jumping in the air and passing it to Kevin Ollie.  It was painful.  Kaman got a lot of crap for that in the blogosphere, but c’mon he’s been the one reliable player all [...]

Mark Stein reports in  ESPN’s Weekend Dime:
One source plugged in to Clipperland insists owner Donald Sterling has already flirted seriously with the idea of dismissing Mike Dunleavy immediately, [...] despite the fact that Dunleavy still is owed $5 million next season on top of this season’s $5 million.
Doubts persist about Sterling’s willingness to let Dunleavy go with that much money left on his contract, but attendance is flagging, and the offseason addition of John Lucas as an assistant coach appears to give Sterling an easy and inexpensive option for an interim replacement with NBA head-coaching experience.
We have all assumed that [...]

Over the weekend the Clippers won 2 games, getting their record up to a respectable 3-4.  They whupped Golden State first, but then had a tough game against Memphis.  The Grizzlies lead for most the first three quarters, but the Clippers hung tight, showing they’re a different squad than last year by pulling out the game in the end.  However the odd thing was that the Clippers looked pretty darn good and yet the game was so tough.  Kaman shot 50% from the field for 26 points.  Baron Davis, who’s not known for shooting well and had been shooting in [...]

According to Bloomberg.com, L.A. Clippers’ owner Donald T. Sterling Settles Housing Bias Lawsuit:
Donald Sterling, owner of the National Basketball Association’s Los Angeles Clippers, agreed to pay $2.73 million to settle a U.S. government lawsuit in which he was accused of housing discrimination.
The payment is the largest ever obtained by the government in a discrimination case involving apartment rentals, the Justice Department said today in a statement.