Eric Gordon

Kaman proves that stats aren’t as important as winning when it comes to selecting All-Stars; Eric Gordon chosen for Sophomore team.

Clippers lose to Celtics after being up at halftime; trade with Hornets that will send Bobby Brown to the Clippers in exchange for a conditional second-round draftpick expected to be approved by league office tomorrow.

Checked out the blog and I had some technical difficulties with the second half posts last night, my apologies. I’m still learning Word Press and think I figured out what went wrong with the site. What went wrong with the Clippers last night is probably an easier diagnosis. They’re a team that plays poorly on the  road, they were playing a team with the second-best home record in the NBA and were playing short-handed, as Eric Gordon’s toe and Sebastian Telfair’s groin wouldn’t allow either to play last night. Dunleavy is hopeful that Gordon will be able to play in the [...]

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 [...]

***[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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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, 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. [...]