I spent the weekend at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston. Last year, the same conference was held in a small academic building on the campus of MIT in Cambridge for 400 attendees. This year, the numbers exploded — one thousand individuals wore name tags, along with 400 people[...]

For the past twenty one years, Clippers games in Salt Lake City have come to resemble traditional Japanese Kabuki theater.  Fans would enter the venue, secured in the knowledge of the storyline and how it will end.  There are no surprises and no suspense, the joy of spectacle lies in small deviation[...]

The Oklahoma City Thunder has been a good measuring stick for the Clippers the past two years.  In the final game of the 2009 campaign, the 23-win Thunder team hammered the Clippers at the Staples Center by 41 points, 126-85.  In a nightmare season, marred by injuries, the 2009 Clippers walked off t[...]

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Readers of ClipperBlog are aware that for the better part of the last two seasons, D.J. Foster has been doing the heavy lifting at this site. In that role, D.J. has done far more than just write up recaps and offer the combination of pathos, guarded optimism and hard-boiled x’s & o’s[...]

From ESPN Los Angeles: It’s DeAndre Jordan’s lucky day. Typically after practice concludes, Jordan continues his painful daily ritual of making 200 free throws. For a guy like Steve Nash that’s no big deal. Maybe an hour, tops. But for Jordan, a 36 percent career free throw shooter[...]

With Eric Gordon assigned to Steve Nash for the bulk of the night, both Jason Richardson and Grant Hill are eager to post up Baron Davis and give the Clippers’ guard a little taste of his own medicine. That’s what Hill  does at about the 7:40 mark of the third quarter in a half-court seq[...]

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