Donald Sterling

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 [...]

I believe back in high school when we had to take statewide exams in English each year that they always used the same sample essay question:  The more things change, the more they stay the same.  Discuss. Has any team been better at collapsing in the fourth quarter than the Clips?  Yeah, yeah, I know sometimes they like to collapse earlier, but that ain’t what I’m talkin’ ’bout here.  Actually, as I was mentioning to my friend Greg last night, the Clips have advanced from last year.  Last year they’d be behind by a bit at the half, but then [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.