From Jordan’s Journal at Clippers.com (registration required):
The news spread so quickly that I honestly found out about it because somebody had posted it on Twitter before I had a chance to even talk to him. I was like… huh. So I called him up and he confirmed he was going to have surgery. I’ll be honest, I thought when I talked to him that he was going to be all heartbroken, and he was, but he’s keeping a positive attitude and he really just wants to hurry up and get the surgery so that he can start rehabbing and get ready for next year. That’s Blake…
This road trip has been really weird. We all found out about Blake not long before our game against the Hornets, but that’s not what tripped us up in New Orleans. That was just Chris Paul. Again. I can’t explain it. Oh my goodness. He is awesome. It’s tough playing against him. All eyes are always on him. He can see the whole floor, he’s a great passer and he just makes everybody on his team better…
We let the win in Memphis get away from us on Tuesday. That game was just plain crazy! For those of you who didn’t see or hear about it, the game was delayed about 40 minutes because of a water main break. I have never seen anything quite like that in my life. We didn’t know what the problem was at the time; all we knew was that somebody made an announcement that everybody had to leave the building. Baron was shooting free throws, and he went up to take a shot but then he stopped. He saw everybody get up and run. He said he thought the fans were getting ready to do the wave, but then once he saw everybody start to run out the building he just left the ball and took off. We had to leave the building, so we all got on the bus and waited for about 10 minutes. Then we went back in the building and waited for about five minutes, but then security told us we had to go back outside. So then we were outside for another 15 minutes. Finally we resumed the game and there was about 10 minutes left on the clock. So we played, and then we lost. We should have won that game. No excuses.
I’m scheduled to be an in-studio guest today on KSPN 710 AM at around 5:30p PT. We’ll be talking Lakers and Clippers. Tune in on your drive home or listen live online.
