Posted by Kevin Arnovitz On July 12, 2009 at 1:00 pm
- The Clippers fill out their assistant coach corps with Tony Brown. From the release: “Brown joins the Clippers after last serving as an assistant coach with the Milwaukee Bucks during the 2007-08 campaign. This will mark Brown’s third stint under Dunleavy, serving as an assistant coach on Dunleavy’s staff in Portland (1997-2001) and as an advance scout in Milwaukee from 1994-97. This also is a return to the Clippers for Brown, who averaged 4.7 points in 22 games played for Los Angeles during the 1991-92 season.”
- NBA TV caught up with Marcus Camby in Las Vegas for a quickie interview.
- In the Las Vegas Review Journal, Blake Griffin reiterates his position that he doesn’t need to be a savior for a team with as much talent on the roster as the Clippers: “‘I don’t put any pressure on myself,’ Griffin said. ‘We have players who are talented. I just need to fit in with them, work hard and help make the team better.’”
- Spoke to one of the foremost capologists in Vegas about the Clippers’ spreadsheet going forward. Here’s his assessment: “They’ve helped themselves as much as any team in the league this offseason. They shed $17M off their cap number for next year. Anytime you can do that…that’s impressive.” Some specific details:
- For 2010-11 (provided the Randolph trade goes through), the Clippers have $37.4M committed to seven guys.
- If the cap goes to $53.6M in 2010-11 — which is the consensus — the Clippers would have $16.2 available.
- But, the Clippers will also have a mid-to-high first-rounder whose contract they’ll have to put toward the salary cap. That brings the total number of players to eight. Figure the cap hold for the Clips first-round pick will cost, let’s just say, $2.25M. That would bring the available cap space to just south of $14M.
- Since 12 roster positions are required, the Clippers would need to add four roster charges of at least $473,604. So that’s roughly another $1.9M, bringing the available cap space down to around $12 million for the 2010 offseason — a pretty nice number all things considered.
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Nice number for next year at $12 million, but sad to hear Dunleavy hired another one of his minions. How good can a Bucks scout be, seriously, just another person who will bow down to the Dunce.
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Posted on July 12th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
I could really care less about the cap space. Many of the same guys that we could get for 12 million we could go out and get right now with the TPE, the MLE , and Camby, Q-Rich, and Ricky’s expiring contracts.
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Posted on July 12th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
cant you grab minimum salary players even if we have no cap space left ?
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Posted on July 12th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
sick ass ridiculous line from summer league belongs to Marcus Williams (one of the guys i secretly root for)
7 points, 17 assists, 1 to.
Be back later. Gotta change my underwear.
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Posted on July 12th, 2009 at 11:29 pm
Is that the same Marcus Williams who ‘had a cup of coffee’ w/ LAC in 06/07?
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Posted on July 13th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
I loved Marcus Williams coming out of UCONN… I thought he had a chance to be a great player, but I’ve heard he has attitude problems… Maybe he’s got his act together…
It’s a different Marcus Williams than the Clippers had… This Marcus was drafted by NJ and traded to the Warriors where Nelson found no use for him.
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SamMays Reply:
July 13th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
He’s a 6′3″ lefty PG who can do everything you need a PG to do… If he chooses to do it.
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bongstradamus Reply:
July 13th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Yea, the other Marcus Williams is a G/F who i think played for SA and IND and was here for like 2 weeks and dropped last season.
I’ve been secretly pining for the Clippers to sign THE REAL Marcus Williams from UCONN, who fed Rudy Gay and Emeka Okafor on the break. He’s a pass-first guard who looked like he would be taking over NJ from Jason Kidd before Kidd got traded to Dallas. I thought last season Nelly was a perfect fit for him, especially with Monta out but he never let the kid play. He ended up being another resident in the Nelly doghouse. He got dropped by GS at the beginning of the year and played in Puerto Rico for a stint. It looked like he might never come back.
After last nights game, he should be on someones radar. If Memphis passes on him, and I dont think they will because he already knows how Rudy Gay likes to eat and sets the table for him, we should snap him up. The kid can ball.
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Posted on July 13th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Anyone watch any of the vegas games streaming yet? I’m probably going to throw down the $15… but if the quality is crap then I won’t watch it anyway.
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FireDunleavy .com Reply:
July 13th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Yeah, it’s better than last year, but not like TV. Resolution improved a little, but the frame rate what you get from internet streaming. A little fuzzy and blurry when people are running.
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Posted on July 13th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Holy Crap, Clippers are signing AI? I love AI, but he’s worse for Dunleavy’s system than Barron Davis. Good GM move if they get him.
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Gordon for President Reply:
July 13th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
Are you kidding? Did you not just see what he did to DET? “I’d rather retire than come off the bench”. AI is finished, he’d only be taking minutes from EJ and, less of a deal but still pretty lame, BD.
I hope MIA gets suckered into taking him. Don’t sign The (Not) Answer!
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Clipper Speakeasy Reply:
July 13th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
Agree with Gordon for President – AI was poison in Detroit. If that’s not reason enough to pass, it is difficult to see how his style fits here with the current players and Dunleavy as coach.
If AI is signed, this is further proof that Dunleavy subscribes to the Dan Snyder/Jerry Jones model of team building — sign a bunch of talented players without considering how they fit together as a unit.
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Posted on July 13th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
On Facebook, Ralph Lawler says that the reports are exaggerated, and the Clips have been talking to a lot of different players, including AI. From Facebook:
“Ralph Lawler for the record, clips are talking to a lot of people. Iverson among them. reports are a little over-blown.”
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MG Reply:
July 19th, 2009 at 8:39 am
Saw you at Summer League, you are one funny guy. My son saw you at Staples and thinks you are hilarious.
And we are not clipper fans, we are warriors!
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Posted on July 13th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
i am a jazz fan just visiting this blog and i want to tell you the clips look awesome next year and the next. honestly, i think lebron, if he were smart, would go to LA. davis, iverson, lebron, griffin, kaman?! with gordon, thorton and ricky davis off the bench…awesome.
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Posted on July 13th, 2009 at 10:37 pm
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