Comments on: Blake Griffin: 3 Weeks Away from Basketball-Related Activity

By: MannyA

MannyA — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:44:51 +0000

I think simmons is spot on. He’s a jerk sometimes when it comes to the Clippers, but he’s usually right. I’m starting to hear that the cap is not go be as low as projected. If we trade Kaman for expiring contracts, plus move either Bassy or Thornton, we can be close to having room for 2 max contracts. I think Lebron would be more inclined to come to the Clippers if we go after him and Bosh. Rumors are Bosh wants to join a team with another superstar.I know other teams like the knicks for example will try to go after 2 max contract superstars, but they won’t have a cast like the Clippers to offer. Gordon and Griffin + Lebron and Bosh with Baron at the point. How can ANY team make a better offer than that? We would have to get a new coach most likely though!

By: clippafan4life

clippafan4life — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 04:58:32 +0000

Blake may be one of the best dunkers ever. This guy can elevate which is dangerous because most guys who dunk this powerfully usually get injured (stoudemire, mcdyess, carter) WE HAVE TO KEEP HIM HEALTHY when he gets back. Blake in the starting lineup we win games end of story. We really don’t need a player that is gonna stop the development of all the young players we got. In 1-2 seasons I see Gordon/Thornton/Griffin out playing any other combination of young players. Baron and Kaman anchor our half court offense and this is all we need to make the playoffs. We might want someone else to be a sixth man that can help out butler off the bench. Once Blake gets back hopefully we can defend the quick pfs in the league who have given us fits (Landry, Lee, Millsap) cuz we are better than those teams I think. This is all I really want for christmas!

By: D.Han

D.Han — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:18:54 +0000

I wonder how Griffin will affect the Clipper’s final record.

Looking at the Clipper Schedule, they have 19 games from now till Feb, given the 3 weeks till he’s “cleared” and then a few more weeks to really be affective. Eleven of those games are against winning records, but 2 of those are against Portland (19-12, with lots of injuries) and a 14-12 Miami team.

The Clippers are currently 12-16. Lets say they can go 9-10 in that stretch and be at 21-26. That leaves about 35 games in the season. If they just win all the games against teams with losing records (17 games) they could end the season 38-44.

IF Griffin has the huge impact that we’re all hoping for, maybe they could upset a few of those winning teams and end up .500. I don’t think an additional 3 wins a la Griffin are too much to hope for. But then again, maybe Griffin’s 3 wins will be among the 17 games that the Clippers are supposed to win.

What was the Clipperblog preseason predition on this year’s season? Is 41-41 too out of reach? Is 38-44 even doable?

By: Chris McDougall

Chris McDougall — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:20:01 +0000

In my own imaginary world Lebron would sign with the Clippers just to spite the Lakers and Kobe. Now that he has an extremely solid team to back him up they’d take the championship. Clipper fans would finally be happy and show everyone once and for all that they aren’t crazy masochists. And LA will finally have no reason to ignore their “other basketball team.” Laker band wagoners would be very confused.

This is crazy and would never happen for all the reasons stated. The Clippers don’t necessarily NEED Lebron to start winning, at least on paper. But if he did sign with the Clippers they would definitely be championship contenders. He’s done it with Cleveland, afterall.

By: kenji

kenji — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:21:10 +0000

here here!

By: kenji

kenji — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:20:27 +0000

i don’t understand why everyone thinks that trading away a all-star calliber player just because he has a big contract (kaman) to free up cap space is the solution to landing a lebron. look at the knicks. they’re getting rid of anybody with a spec of talent just to have cap space to get 2 max contract players. Ok, so lets say they do that. what about the rest of the roster? they’d of spent all their money on 2 players that those two players are again surrounded by a bunch of scrubs becase the team couldn’t afford anything more than minimum contracts. So a lebron, for instance, is again stuck on a team that will not contend for a championship.

trading away kaman just for more cap room makes no sense. camby is gone after this season. so is it worth it to give up a guy like kaman (who has been a beast this year) just to have ROOM for lebron? we’d be losing our anchor inside with no guarantee that lebron would even be interested in the clippers. lebron is going to sign wherever he wants regardless of the offered contract, so everybody needs to stop wanting to dump any clipper contract larger than $5M 2yrs. let all these other teams with absolutely no realistic shot at lebron dump their quality players so we can scoop them up and build a great team.

if lebron was really a team player and focused solely on a championship, he’d forget about a max contract eating up his teams salary, and take a smaller dollar contract so that the team can afford to bring in the type of players he cries about needing to win.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:17:44 +0000

Agreed bongstradamus, we have an enticing line up on paper, and LA would be an excellent venue for a player like LBJ, but there’s so many other factors to consider, like coaching, ownership, family, etc. It’d be nice to see him want to come here, but I’m not holding my breath on that.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:12:09 +0000

You got a link?

By: mike

mike — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:20:10 +0000

Wow! Come on Blake please get 100%. I enjoyed watching his power on the court in college and can’t wait till he arrives on the nba court.
The news about LeBron interested to join the Clips, exciting and thrilled.
A while back the Clips owner was ready to sign Kobe, I bet he is ready to get LB.
No question about it, and I bet he is planning with Dunleavy to do it.
Watch!! That is all I have to say.

By: Isaac

Isaac — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:15:36 +0000

i think simmons’ take on the clippers are usually pretty solid, but this is totally wrong. if we’re giving away Camby (who’s playing fantastic) why would we dump him for expiring contracts??? HE IS AN EXPIRING CONTRACT. a late first round european being stashed in europe? sounds like korolev 2.0.

if the clippers plan is to get a superstar player in the off-season, trading away your biggest expiring contract is the worst thing to do.

I’d only trade Camby if we’re getting a quality SF, like Battier or Ariza. then i’d use the cap space to build up the bench in the off season.