Let’s roundup the action from last night’s victory over the defending champs before we get to the recap:

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• Here’s the Hoopdata.com box score. Best nugget: Mo Williams had a True Shooting Percentage of 81.9% last night. If you had to hand out the 6th Man of the Year Award today, it has to go to Mo, right?

• One of the cooler aspects of the Clippers rise to prominence is the amount of voices now chiming in on the team and its players. Here’s an excellent piece on Los Angeles, Chauncey Billups and how it all fits together by Kate Perkins for The Classical: “Waived by the Knicks in order to acquire Tyson Chandler from Dallas, Billups openly displayed the kind of self-pity and resentment of a player well aware of his own waning light. There’s no great promise, in any case, in the dismissal “Go west, old man!” Dusk is lowering over Chauncey Billups’ career. But that, he surely knows, makes it all the more urgent for him to shine.”
• Henry Abbott of TrueHoop on the NBA Today Podcast talking Chris Paul vs Kobe Bryant in the clutch. This is required listening, mainly because it will help you deal with that Lakers fan in your life.
• Mike Downey revisits the Clippers hilariously depressing past for ESPNLA.com. Make sure to check out Shelley Smith’s video as well, if for no other reason than to hear Ralph Lawler’s best “oh me, oh my” moment of all-time.
• Kevin Arnovitz and Jordan Heimer are predictably awesome in their new podcast for ESPN.  Their guest this week was basketball genius David Thorpe . Can’t recommend this highly enough, especially since they kick it off with a little Pharcyde. Bravo, gents.
• Lastly, a little housekeeping. Right after the buzzer of every game, we trot out the Lob City Ledger at ESPNLA.com. We also do ClipperBlogLive, which you can participate and listen to live a few minutes after the game right here on ClipperBlog. You can also find us creeping around in ESPN.com’s Daily Dime Live during most games, so feel free to join us there. And if you really, really like us, follow our accounts on Twitter. Self-promotion, ahoy!

Plenty more coming on the way. We’ll have a 3-on-3: Clippers-Lakers edition coming to you shortly.

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• The estimable Steve Perrin at Clipsnation with a breakdown on Eric Gordon’s 18 point performance against Greece on Wednesday: “In the first game where he wasn’t worrying about his spot on the roster, Eric Gordon led Team USA with 18 points.  He also had two steals, and could have been credited with more than that by my reckoning.  He probably had eight deflections on defense.  EJ was feeling it from the moment in checked in, getting a steal and a tough finish on his first sequence”

In case you haven’t noticed or happen to be in hibernation from the Clippers, the coaching carousel is starting to turn a bit. We’re not quite at defcon level Ramon Sessions yet, but things seem to be slowly heating up around the league. Let’s take a look at the latest names to be floated around.  More...

• The estimable Steve Perrin over at ClipsNation breaks down the coaching situation and makes some sense out of locking up a coach sooner rather than later. The LeBron James fantasy is fun, but passing up dates with attractive candidates in hopes that the supermodel has your phone number isn’t the smartest strategy.

• In case you missed it, Jan Vesely pulled out of the 2010 NBA Draft to work more on his game before coming to the NBA. Although he was unlikely to be taken before the Clippers pick or by the Clippers themselves, stranger things could have happened.

• We’ll talk a ton about the Clippers’ lottery pick in the next few months, but what about the second round? Due to some earlier trades and pick swapping, the Clippers will select near the tail-end of the draft at pick 24. I’ve been trumpeting his case all year, but why not take a chance on Cal’s Jerome Randle? He was nearly a 180 shooter his senior of college, shooting over 40% from three and 93% from the free throw line. He was also the MVP of the Portsmouth Invitational last month. Draftexpress takes a look at Randle and decides it might not be wise to dismiss him because of his height. Other than dunking ability and a bestselling jersey in the league (ugh), what’s Nate Robinson have that Randle doesn’t?

• Where in the world is Ricky Davis? Turkey. I don’t know why I find the prospect of Ricky Davis in Turkey fascinating, but I do. Get buckets, Ricky. Get buckets.

• Someone will need to make the first move in free agency for the fireworks to start. Will it be Chris Bosh choosing a home first? As much as the player movement will depend on that first domino, coaching movement might be the same way. Avery Johnson is going to talk with New Orleans and Philadelphia about their openings. New Orleans has also been rumored as a destination for Dwane Casey, one of the Clippers top candidates, so that’s a situation to keep a close eye on.

• Speaking of Bosh, he’s asking his followers on Twitter for some help on his “decision” this summer. Bosh has always struck me as a guy who desperately craves the limelight. Wherever he goes, I think he wants to be “the guy.” Feel free to make your case to Bosh in 140 words or less, but beware the Raptor Truthers. They (with good reason) aren’t handling this whole thing too well.