Clippers reach new depths of horrible in losses to T-Wolves, Clippers.

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

For those who missed the first four installments, click here for one, two, three and four.  This is supposed to be 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 7 [...]

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 [...]

It wasn’t pretty — okay, it was ugly — but the Clips finally got their first win.  After possibly making history by losing 4 games in October (since the season starts the end of October, I dunno if any team has ever even played 4 games in the month before), they broke on through to the other side.  This has been a tough stretch to start the season.  First, learning the day before the season starts that Blake Griffin is seriously injured, and then having to play 5 games in 7 days is insane.  Particularly considering the first four teams [...]

This second part got delayed, so some of the initial thoughts I wrote below have already changed, so in brackets I have my revised thoughts also for The Trailblazers & The Wizards.  If you missed the first part, check here.
Milwaukee – Everyone’s talked about how awful this team will be after they gave away Richard Jefferson, Charlie Villanueva & Ramon Sessions, but we all forgot one thing.  Scott Skiles is a damn good defensive coach.  Yes, eventually his players grow tired of him, but before that happens he’s great at making his guys give it all on every single defensive [...]