Before we start, here’s a crazy stat they threw out during the broadcast: throughout history the Celtics and the Lakers have so dominated the league, that there is only one decade in which neither team won a championship.  The league started in the 40’s, so we’re talking seven decades.  That’s insane.  If you wanna know what decade it was, the answer’s at the bottom.
It wasn’t always pretty, but sometimes winning ain’t pretty.  And often that’s the only way to beat a top team like Boston.  The Clippers struggled with Marcus Camby out, having to rely on DeAndre Jordan more than [...]

The Short White Boy will out of the country for the next week, so you’ll have to get yer Clipper jollies elsewhere.
Hope everyone has/had/is having a happy holidays!

***[Hmm, it seems like for some reason this was never posted when I wrote it 10 days ago.  If it was, sorry for re-posting it.]
This was a Wizards team that’s down in the dumps.  They’d lost several close games, a couple of them because Gilbert Arenas inexplicably couldn’t hit his free throws.  Arenas, normally a 80%+ free-throw shooter, went 1 for 6 in one of those games.  He’s said how he thought if he were to have any problems this season that it would’ve been with his thrice-fixed surgically repaired knee.  Instead he’s been shocked to find that it’s all [...]

Being a Clipper fan is not about rooting for a winning team.  It’s about hope.  Praying things will get better.  Thus to look back at this past decade, I present The Top 10 Most Hopeful Clipper Moments.  Of course, as you’ll see below, every time of hope… has been followed by disaster.
1.  The decade started off with a bang for Clipper fans.  Yes, Lamar Odom was drafted in 1999, but it was in January 2000 that he had his most productive month: 19.1 points, 9.1 rebounds and 3.6 assists on 47% shooting.  Other highlights from his rookie year?  He tied [...]

The FanSided network (for whom I write this blog) is thinking about doing some “Best Of The Decade” stories.  One of the proposals was that for each sport have bloggers from two teams debate which one was the Worst Franchise Of The Decade.  Naturally, for basketball they instantly knew the Clippers would have to be one of those teams.  So that’d be me.  The other team clearly had to be the Knicks.  Which is my true hometown team.  Yup, that’s how my decade’s been.  In fact, since I believe our Knicks’ blogger is on hiatus, they may want me to [...]

The last few weeks the Philadelphia Seventy-Sixers have lost so many games that even the Nets turned and went, “Damn, that’s pathetic.”  Yes, they lost their young up-and-coming point guard, Lou Williams, as well as solid contributor, Maarreesseee Speights, to injury.  To help with those losses they re-acquired their former franchise player, Allen Iverson, The Answer.  Still they lost the next two games even with him.
However, finally, after twelve straight losses, Iverson helped the team win in his third game back.  Earlier in the year, when the Nets finally ended their 73 game losing streak, they justifiably celebrated.  The Sixers?  [...]

What have we loyal Clipper fans done to deserve such misery?  It almost was easier last year when the team was goddawful ‘cuz we knew not to expect jack (unless we were playing the Lakers, then Mr. Nicholson would show).  Even when we get shellacked as we did last night, the Clippers are cruel enough to just show us moments of hope and potential.  With seven minutes left in the first half, we were already down by 25, yes, 25 points.  55-30.  And these weren’t the Phoenix Suns or the Golden State Warriors who hit the 50 point mark after [...]

Welcome to the penultimate part, aka part six of what will eventually be a seven part article.  This is the analysis of a fantasy bball draft, based on what I thought at the time of the draft.  However, it happened so long ago that it no longer is about who made the best choices, but rather whether I was right or wrong in thinking they made solid choices.  Anyway, as a reminder again, those players with a (K) next to their names are keepers, thus making them pretty much all good choices so they won’t be analyzed.
Round 10
1. Stephen Curry [...]

Like with many of their recent games, there were times the Clips looked great last night and there were times they looked…  well, let’s just say that Patrick Ewing was at the game last night (he’s an assistant coach for Orlando) and there were times when he looked pretty compared to what the Clippers were doing on the court.  And as everyone knows, Ewing, although I love him, is co-captain with ex-Clip Sam Cassell (who I also love) on the All-Ugly Team.
That said, what initially killed the Clips, who lost 97-86, is that the Magic were on-fire from behind the [...]

This summer we traded the hot potato better known as Quentin Richardson to the Minnesota Timberwolves in exchange for Sebastian Telfair, Craig “Rhino” Smith, and Mark “Mad Dog” Madsen.  Only two of them made it to the regular season.  Coach Mike Dunleavy Sr. waived Madsen so that the team could go into the season with his usual number of 14 players, leaving one spot open for flexibility during the year.  However, after Kareem Rush’s impressive showing during pre-season, we ended up not having that flexibility anyway.
While Madsen’s enthusiasm would’ve undoubtedly been huge for the locker room, on the court he [...]