Game 14 7:30p PT Fox Sports West KSPN 710[...]

John Hollinger’s capsule on Mardy Collins, written during the off-season: 2007-08 season: Collins was so bad in so many ways that it’s hard to know where to start, but that 32.6 percent shooting mark seems as good a place as any. Collins had the worst conversion rate in the NBA on inside[...]

Kevin Pelton has a fun read over at Basketball Prospectus that classifies NBA head coaches by their lineage, mentors, and influences.  Pelton identifies some of the major luminaries who have spawned a coterie of current coaches, people like Dean Smith, Rick Pitino, and Pat Riley.  Mike Dunleavy does[...]

It’s another transitional game for the Clippers, but one in which their defensive liabilities are on full display. The Clippers surrender 11 3PMs, and give up even more open looks than that from beyond the arc. For all of Marcus Camby’s prowess as a help defender, he’s a liability [...]

Game 13 4:30p PT KTLA 5 KSPN 710[...]

The Elton Brand story — the extent to which it would be strange, or sad, or cathartic for Clips fans to see him as an ‘x’ instead of an ‘o’ on the court — got buried underneath the Randolph acquisition on Friday.  Before the fireworks, Clips Nation posted a nice m[...]

The way things unravel in the closing minutes should, by all traditional standards of sports fandom, make this a tough loss to swallow.  But with Zach Randolph in the mail, you have to view it through an entirely different prism.  This is a transitional game for the Clippers, one in which they play [...]

The Clippers have likely improved their fortunes this season, though they’re still unlikely to play games in late-April. Who gets the really tough defensive assignments on the perimeter now that Cuttino Mobley is gone? Let’s use Dwyane Wade next week as the case study. Ricky Davis and Er[...]