In their effort to acquire a center corps composed exclusively of former Denver Nuggets, the Clippers acquired 7-foot-1 Senegalese center Cheikh Samb from Denver on Monday for a conditional second-round draft pick.
Samb was drafted by the Lakers in the second round of the 2006 Draft — 17 picks after Paul Davis. He was immediately traded to Detroit, from whom he was loaned back to WTC Cornellá, his former team in Spain.
He played in four games for Detroit last season before being sent to the D-League. He was the forgotten piece in the Billups-Iverson deal back in November. He’s been with Colorado 14ers, where he’s averaged 12.4 points, 7.1 rebounds, 3.8 blocks in 25 minutes/game.
So far as my previous conclusion about DeAndre Jordan benefiting from the day’s transactions…you can nix that.
UPDATE: Ramona Shelburne has a good summary of the transactions, and the monetary and contractual considerations behind them here and here.
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Camby will probably be traded now.
tk. Reply:
January 5th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Nah. Camby likes it here.
Clipper Nation loves him too.
amize Reply:
January 5th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
They better not get rid of Camby. He’s the only consistent positive in the whole clipper universe…besides the cheerleaders, they’re pretty consistent.
Posted on January 5th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Good move. He deserves a real chance to play in NBA.
Clippers might have given up hope on Kaman. They should try to trade him to Dallas. His pal Nowitski need him over there I guess.
Only recently Dunleavy praised Paul Davis. Waiving him wasn’t in their plans. What happened?
Fred Jones situation is unfortunate. His injury situation might have caused the decision. They can’t afford to have too many injured players on the shelf.
Camby needs some help too. He shouldn’t be playing more than 30mpg.
Posted on January 5th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
WHAT WITH ALL THESE NY DAILY NEWS RUMORS OF TRADING CAMBY FOR RAEF LAFRENTZ AND OPENING CASH FOR 2009? THEN AGAIN, IF THE RUMORS CAME FROM NY, IT’S PROBABLY FALSE
Posted on January 5th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
If the teams like Spurs, Celtics or Pistons show interest in Camby, we can do it. Get some young talent in return.
Camby should be playing for a contender. He’s so much fun to watch. I’m sure Celtics and Spurs will do everything to get him.
Posted on January 5th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Perhaps its an inability of Dunleavy’s to decide what kind of team he wants to coach/GM. You’d think with a PG like Davis and players like Thornton and now Gordon, he would run a little. But, all the moves seem to focus on bigs, favoring MD’s inclination for a slow methodical offense. He loves calling those plays, and having bigs really favors that.
Posted on January 5th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
Samb…Davis…Jones….I dont think there is one player if you combined all thier talents into one…This is really going to help the Clippers???Powell is better than any of these players…You will never win with Hart,Taylor,Jordan,Jones,Davis(Ricky)Collins …Those are all below avg. NBA players….
Posted on January 5th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
i don’t get this unless a deal for kaman or camby is around the corner.
or maybe some underperforming 2nd yr pg for deandre?
Posted on January 5th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
anyone who hasnt, read ramonas blog from the link
Posted on January 5th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
We should sign Marbury and let the whole clipper nation implode on Dunleavy!
Posted on January 6th, 2009 at 12:29 am
Livingston has been waived… you think the Clips are going to sign him?
Posted on January 6th, 2009 at 4:55 am
A DISGRACE. How can you be a team with such a revolving door of players. 6 guys on the IL? Injured = I don’t want to play for Dunleavy. What a nightmare. Team wont win 5 more games all year. Sad thing is with the right coach, they would make the playoffs.
Posted on January 6th, 2009 at 7:33 am
Fred Jones will be back. Clippers had no choice but to waive him because the shelf is over crowded with injured players. They waived him now only to make room for an active player.
Darius Miles is available. Clippers didn’t sign him then because of active roster issues. Memphis might have done a favor to Clippers by signing him to meet initial suspension period.
Corey Maggette is back. I’d tolerate his game over Baron & Al Thornton. Atleast Corey is consistantly productive.
Where is Ralph Lawler? He used to comment lightly on Maggette’s method of scoring. Atleast he knows how to attack & draw fouls.
Posted on January 6th, 2009 at 8:15 am
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