From Clippers.com: Los Angeles Clippers’ guard Eric Gordon and DeMar DeRozan of the Toronto Raptors will compete in the NBA All-Star Slam Dunk-In to determine one of the participants in the Sprite Slam Dunk, the NBA announced today. The NBA All-Star Slam Dunk-In will air live on TNT, which will televise the T-Mobile Ro[...]
Blake Griffin was available to the media today at Playa Vista. He was in generally decent spirits for the cameras and microphones. Among the prevailing themes of his remarks was his acceptance that, in the back of his mind, he always knew that surgery was a possibility. That resignation made the news that he’d mi[...]
I really lucked into my first car. I was just a punk sixteen year old, and as such I was definitely not deserving of the beautiful automobile that was handed down to me. In addition to being a punk I was also pretty damn dorky, so when I first leaped behind the wheel of my new ride I couldn’t help but think my so[...]
The Clippers’ size is one of their great advantages and one of the primary ways they’re able to control basketball games for sustained stretches when they’re playing well. When that asset isn’t on the floor, the Clips are easier both to score on and to guard. Both last night at Memphis and tonight at New Orleans,[...]
From my piece at ESPN Los Angeles: Blake Griffin would never admit it, because entitlement isn’t part of his mental makeup, but he deserves to be playing professional basketball right now. When prognosticators said he’d be a lottery pick after his freshman season at Oklahoma, Griffin bucked the current one-[...]
Blake Griffin will undergo season-ending surgery. From the Clippers’ release: After experiencing some discomfort during his recently-accelerated rehabilitation program, Clippers’ forward Blake Griffin was examined Tuesday afternoon by Dr. Neal ElAttrache in Los Angeles. As a result of that examination, it has bee[...]
The Clippers boarded their chartered jet on Monday brimming with optimism, eager to ride that euphoria into Memphis against a Grizzlies team that’s been basking in the warm glow of .500hood. Respectability? The Grizzlies have been at that party for the better part of two weeks. Recent road wins at Phoenix and Por[...]