Clipper fans rejoice! The Dunleavy era is over…sort of.

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.

Clippers beat Wizards, JameSon Curry doesn’t play.

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 [...]

***[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 [...]

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 [...]

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 would [...]

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 [...]