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Clips Re-Sign Novak

Posted by Kevin Arnovitz on September 11, 2009 at 10:31 am

From the Clippers’ release:

The Los Angeles Clippers today announced that the team has re-signed restricted free agent forward Steve Novak. Per team policy terms of the deal were not announced.
In 71 games played for the Clippers last season, Novak averaged 6.9 points in 16.4 minutes per game. Completing his third NBA season, the sharpshooter out of Marquette connected on 119-286 three-pointers (.416) on the year.

Novak personifies specialism.  He’s one of only 21 players in the NBA whose true shooting percentage exceeded 60 percent in 2008-09, and he was top in that category and in turnovers among the league’s 60 qualified small forwards.

In short, Novak is a catch-and-shoot virtuoso, something that will come in handier than ever in 2009-10 as defenses will have to attend to both the interior (Blake Griffin, a presumably healthy Chris Kaman on the right block) and exterior (Eric Gordon, a possibly recommitted Baron Davis).

7 Responses

  1. avatar Clipper Derrick Said,

    STEVE NOVAK! YAY! I’m glad he’ll be playing for us next season.!

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    Posted on September 11th, 2009 at 11:10 am

  2. avatar clippman Said,

    send him to the corner and feed him the ball. watch the 3′s rain!!!!

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    Posted on September 11th, 2009 at 11:48 am

  3. avatar Peter Said,

    I can see it now ; Ball dumped into Griffin, he dances around his defender, gets to the rim and finishes with a slam!

    Now Griffin draws a double team, kicks out top to Baron, Who then passes to Novak on the corner for a 3!!

    Baron walks up court, holds at top of the key. Hands of to Gordon and moves away. Gordon goes 1 on 1 , blasts past his man, goes to the hoop. +2

    I am making it sound too easy.

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    Posted on September 11th, 2009 at 11:54 am

  4. avatar rodbreyes Said,

    dats cos scoring this year will be easy

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    Posted on September 11th, 2009 at 12:22 pm

  5. avatar Clipped12 Said,

    Great signing Clippers. Novak is one of the best shooters in the league and every great team needs a shooter.

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    Posted on September 11th, 2009 at 12:31 pm

  6. avatar NRM Said,

    We have some good 3 point shooters on this year’s Clippers squad. Between Novak, Butler, and Gordon, thats some good Bingos.

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    Posted on September 11th, 2009 at 9:04 pm

  7. avatar Ian Said,

    i hope to god that this means less AL Thornton.

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    Posted on September 13th, 2009 at 12:55 pm

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