I wish I had some poetic words for you; some great analogy to really capture everything. Some infinite basketball wisdom. I don’t have any of those things. I guess all I can really muster is that if you’re anything like me, you struggle to appreciate the moment while you’re in it. [...]
Contest has ended: [tminus t="2013-1-4 17:00:00" style="carbonlite" weeks="week" seconds="dunks" /] ClipperBlog Holiday Giveaway Contest Winner! Thanks to everyone who entered the contest. There was some amazing creativity and if it was based just on that, then there were several winners. Con[...]
11 wins in a row? Just tying a franchise record. No big deal. Third youngest and fifth fastest to 5,000 assists? Cool story, bro. Top rated team in Hollinger’s Power Ranking formula? Yawn. Currently best projected team to win the title? Just another day in Clipper Nation. Buzzer Reaction New O[...]
Blogging can often be thankless. You get accused of being a Lakers fan masquerading as a Clippers fan for the “all the money we make” (what?), or you get told to pack up and move to Omaha. You put your life on pause, kick sleep to the curb, and ignore family and friends just so you can p[...]
The career path of Chauncey Billups has been a fascinating one, and Jonathan Abrams of Grantland penned a beautiful, in-depth piece on Billups and his role with the Clippers that you’ll definitely want to read. We’ll excerpt it here, but to read the full piece, please visit Grantland her[...]
We talked about this a little bit in Milwaukee, but one of the nice things about a winning streak is that it provides meaning to each game. It’s like seeing how long you can rally in ping pong — every hit you’re extra focused, and you don’t want to be the one who ruins it all[...]
Buzzer Reaction L.A. Clippers 111 Final Recap | Box score 85 Milwaukee Bucks No Dime tonight, so I wrote you guys a Haiku about the game instead: The paint’s greatest wall Is formed with the mind; not size The blocks were mental Streak Check 9 wins a row A new Clippers record!!! But not[...]
Here’s an excerpt of a piece I wrote over at ProBasketballTalk about just how good the Clippers point guards have been. To read the full piece where I fawn over Eric Bledsoe in a manner that would even make our main man Charlie Widdoes blush, please click here. -D.J. *** A quarter of the way t[...]