- After an incredibly hard-fought series, the Clippers must’ve enjoyed celebrating around this gift from the Memphis fans quite a bit.
- Adrian Wojnarowski, on Vinny Del Negro, who he says deserves credit, and a contract beyond this season, because of his team’s performance yesterday: “On his walk to the bus, Del Negro talked about wanting Paul and Griffin to engage him with ideas, with the proper plays to run at the proper moments. Hey, this guy’s in foul trouble. Let’s attack him with this play or that one. ‘That’s the next level for us,’ he said.”
- Some Clipper quotes from the win.
- The league has rescinded the bogus technical that referee Marc Davis assessed Reggie Evans for high-fiving Blake Griffin. As Kelly Dwyer noted, regardless of the outcome of that game specifically of the series in general, Davis has a lot of explaining to do.
- Andrew McNeill of the fantastic Spurs blog 48 Minutes of Hell takes a look at how the next series will come down to which team is able to get shots from the area(s) it wants, while preventing the opponent from doing the same. In short: watch the rim and the corner three. Also, take a look at the picture on the post and tell me it doesn’t say a thousand words about the gap in stability between these two franchises — every Spur is still a Spur, and no one on those Clippers is still with the team.
- Check out the series page on ESPN.com. You will notice a few things, including: every “expert” picked the Spurs to win. Jon Barry represents the most pessimistic view of the Clippers chances, while Kevin Arnovitz, and three others, picked the Clips to take it to seven games. You’ll also notice if you take a peak at the series schedule that Games 3 and 4 at Staples will be played back-to-back, on Saturday afternoon and Sunday night.
