I owe Caron Butler (and Neil Olshey) an apology.

When the Clippers originally signed Butler, I panned the signing pretty hard. Butler was an injury-prone player coming off a season-ending knee surgery with a habit of using a lot of possessions. He was a career 31 percent 3-point shooter. It just seemed like an awful lot of money for a pretty big risk, and I just didn’t understand the reasoning behind it.

With nearly half of the season completed, I’ll gladly eat some crow here and admit I was wrong about Butler being a bad signing.  More...

After being down as much as 18, the Clippers stormed back and beat the Blazers in Portland, 74-71. This game was so confusing and unexpected that we had to bring in a fourth to run a 4-on-3 on these questions. Your contributors tonight: Nick Flynt, Jovan Buha, Jordan Heimer and Michael Shagrin.

1. What was the key to the Clippers big comeback?

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