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Blake Griffin and Chris Paul, Comedy Duo

Aug 01, 2012
by Charlie Widdoes




He couldn’t make it to London because of an unfortunate knee injury, but not to worry! While recovering thousands of miles away, Blake Griffin is doing essentially the exact same thing he’d be doing at the Olympics (you know, minus the basketball playing): giving teammates the business over silly stuff.

In this case, it just so happens that the recipient is his actual teammate, which is always fun for those of us banking on a strong bond between the two stars to keep Chris Paul in a Clippers jersey past this year:

It’s a nice little bit they have here. With chemistry and wit like this, they just might have what it takes to make it in This Town.

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  • DeMote DeAndre

    More bad news on the DeAndre Jordan front. According to Hoopsworld, Jordan’s contract has a 15% trade kicker in it, which means any team who Jordan would get traded to would have to immediately pay him a lump sum of 15% of the balance of his contract. That would be a lump sum payment of about $5 million the new team would have to immediately pay Jordan. That’s in addition to the $33 million they’d also have to pay him on his contract over the next three years.

    This is going to make the very difficult task of getting rid of Jordan even more difficult.

    I’d always thought the clueless soap opera actor was a bumbling fool. Now I see he’s even more of a bumbling fool than I’d realized.

  • DeMote DeAndre

    The huge mistaek with Jordan wasn’t drafting him in the late second round and seeing what he turned into while paying him $800, 000 a year.

    The big mistake was to foolishly install him as the starting center over Kaman and then telli people Jordan was this great athlete who was going to be a foundation of the Clippers along with Griffin and Gordon and then loudly announce to all other teams that the Clippers would match any offer given to Jordan.

    The result? The Clippers are now in the second year of paying Jordan $44 million over four years, when in reality most of the back up centers who are paid the veteran minimum are better than Jordan.

    But the clueless soap opera actor, who got his main training in basketball on an intramural team after he was cut from his high school team because he was too short (or at least so he said, but he probably colodn’t jump m,ore than three inches off the either and also probably ran slow), thought it was a great idea to pay a guy who was tall and could jump and could run fast the kind of money a sensible GM would pay to a center who actually was good at basketball stuff, like scoring and playing defense.

    Olshey knew the Clippers should have a good center and so he thought if he’d just pay Jordan the kind of money a good center gets, then that would mean Jordan was a good center.

    What a stroke of brilliant creativity. That’s a man with a vision.

  • DeMote DeAndre

    I do like the humorous connection that Griffin has with Paul. It seems to be a real one.

    But it’s not hard to be worried about how Paul and Carmelo Anthony are hanging around London and the Olympics together, along with Tyson Candler who is the favorite center Paul has ever had as a teammate, and will win a gold medal together . . . and how Paul made the toast at Anthony’s wedding about playing together on the same team, and how a year ago Paul was telling everyone he wanted to play for the Knicks, where both Anthony and Chandler happen to be under long term contracts.

  • http://barmapla.com FD

    Kaman also had that trade kicker, but Kaman is also a lot better than DeAndre. I guess if a team is wanting to meet the minimum team salary requirement the trade kicker won’t be a big deal. That would probably be the only way to get rid of him anyway.

    I hate to say it, but the Clippers have to continue to play DeAndre 20 mintues a game. Well maybe not the very important games, but they need to get him as much playing time as possible for 2 reasons. First to increase his stats so it’s easier to trade him and 2nd there’s a 0.001% chance he might improve.

  • Closstastic!

    Demote,

    I’ve got three players for you:

    Player A: Plays 25 MPG, has a .496 FG % w/ 5.7 rebounds, 2.4 blocks, and 7.2 points
    Player B: Plays 27 MPG, has a .632 FG % w/ 8.3 rebounds, 2 blocks, and 7.4 points
    Player C: Plays 29 MPG, has a .474 FG % w/ 9.6 rebounds, 2 blocks, and 5.7 points

    If you guessed that one of the players is Deandre, you’re correct for once in your life.

    The other two?

    Eastern Conference Starting All-Star Centers

  • Clipped

    I am leaving this town. Blake & CP3 have taken over my beloved Clippers but I don’t recognize this team anymore.

    OMG, I can’t believe poor team of mine is playing to win championship next season!
    I can’t take it anymore.

    I want my old team back in its original form.

  • griffin

    I want to see the Blake face again

  • Bongstradamus

    kaman is not better. Analyze the numbers

    If you divide the amount of games kaman played while on his contract and compare them to DJ, we paid Kaman more for less overall production. Injuries made his cost per game more expensive than DJ

    Other than ppg Dj has better numbers across the board.

  • Mark

    I see he just did the same thing with Batum.

    What soap operas did Olshey act in?

  • DeMote DeAndre

    This from Wikipedia:
    “A graduate of Le Moyne College, Olshey originally sought to become a professional actor following his graduation from college, and moved to New York City to pursue this career. He appeared in television commercials and print advertisements, and had roles on *All My Children, One Life to Live, and Loving* before moving to Los Angeles.[2]”

    It apparently gave him some useful background for his current job in that he’s able to play the role of a GM well enough to fool people. It’s useful when it come to his schmoozing the press and the Portland owner. But then every once in awhile he can’t escape the actual nuts and bolts of the GM job, like being able to tell which players are actually good and paying them what they’re actually worth.

  • Clipped

    Would be greatly appreciated if we can leave DeAndre alone for a while. He’s still a kid who’s refusing to grow up faster than we’d like him to.

    He’ll be alright. Expensive but it’s OK for now. Let’s foget about it and move on. Please!! There are other lil’ things to worry about.

  • Clipped

    Can’t believe it.

    This post is about Comedy. Can we have some sense of humor here, please.

  • The Blakers

    k bye, ill pack ur bags and maybe cut ur internet line while I’m at it

  • griffin

    I’m guessing A just becuz the lack of rebounds and more blocks. Although I rather have B becuz they rebound way better and has high percentage fgm

  • Bongstradamus

    It’s B. DJ has a sick career fg%

  • griffin

    Yay I’m so glad we have him

  • Jlewis

    “Other than ppg Dj has better numbers across the board.”

    BINGO…Kaman was a good scorer for a center, DJ is a bad scorer at center (but thankfully very efficient). Other than that, not even close except possibly post defense. For an average athlete, Kaman would bang and play relatively smart (for a caveman) post defense. But DJ makes defensive plays Kaman could only dream of.

    And consider the 4 years/$44m JaVale McGee just got. Very similar players with similar strengths and weaknesses. EXCEPT DJ is a quality, likable guy. He may not be a rocket scientist but he looks like one compared to McGee.

    So the Clips have a young, incredibly talented, still improving big tied up for 3 years at what still seems to be the going rate for such talent and ability. Clearly nobody looked at McGee, made the obvious comparison to Jordan, and said, uh, oh, don’t give him that inflated contract.

    Here’s a comparison of career stats for all 3, I’ll take Jordan out of all of them and the price is about right (which means expensive since coordinated 7 footers with 40 inch verticals don’t come along all that often.)

    http://www.thenbageek.com/players/compare?career=1&direction=asc&player_ids%5B%5D=130&player_ids%5B%5D=129&player_ids%5B%5D=343&sort=name&utf8=%E2%9C%93

    Here is the NBA Efficiency comparison for last year (the stat is notoriously skewed to those who shoot a lot, like Kaman and McGee), and still neither rates significantly higher than DJ.

    http://www.nba.com/statistics/player/Efficiency.jsp?league=00&season=22011&conf=OVERALL&position=1&splitType=9&splitScope=GAME&qualified=N&yearsExp=-1&splitDD=

    Bottom line: stop with all the whining about DJ, pray VDN pulls his head out and plays him the minutes he needs and deserves and that he continues to grow with a STRONG supporting cast and moving into the prime producing years of NBA players.


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