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The Clippers’ non-starting units are a collective -56 for the young season, but reserve forward Craig Smith has had a couple of productive outings, particularly opening night against the Lakers. Rhino bangs inside with impunity but he’s also been effective in pick-and-roll situations, particularly with Seba[...]

From the Chicago Tribune: LeBron James held an engaging pregame session with reporters, alternating between humor and eloquence about his impending free agency. Besides facing the Bulls, James on Friday makes his only trip this season to New York, where the Knicks are another team that could have ample salary-cap space[...]

If you speak to executives who use advanced analytics to make player personnel decisions, many of them will tell you a similar story about such stats: We like to look at the performance of specific units as much as individual players. Since opening night, the Clippers have fielded five units that have played collective[...]

Back in the day, Chris Kaman was essentially a post-up player who needed the ball at a specific moment in a specific spot in order to work effectively. One of the revelations about his jackrabbit start to the season is how diverse his repertoire has become in the half-court. Monday night against Minnesota, the Clippers[...]

As unnecessarily stressful as this win is for the Clippers against an unimpressive Minnesota club, I was reminded of Michael Lewis’ piece last year in the New York Times about Shane Battier and the Houston Rockets. Lewis watched the second half of a Lakers-Rockets regular season game with Houston vice president o[...]

Game 5 7:30p PT Fox Sports Prime 980 AM Clipperblog Twitter Feed Join us for our live interactive in-game chat below! Minnesota at Clippers[...]

After compiling some promising offensive numbers over their first three games, the Clippers turned in a lackluster performance in the second half Saturday night. In 41 possessions after halftime, the Clippers scored an infinitesimal 29 points — a 70.7 offensive efficiency rating that would make even the Charlotte[...]

The Clippers were shown yet again that basketball is a game of runs and droughts, this time suffering a 93-84 loss at the hands of the Mavericks. The inability to stop runs has been one of the themes of the young season, and the Clippers were hit again tonight with a Mavs 18-3 3rd quarter run and a 4th quarter drought [...]