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The game between the Clippers and Warriors in Oakland wasn’t televised in Los Angeles or on the web.  I wasn’t able to listen to the game on radio, and can only glean so much from the box score of the Clips’ 108-101 loss to GSW. The Red Flags 16 offensive rebounds for Golden State. That means the Clip[...]

We’ll have an idea by Thanksgiving whether the cautious optimism that’s brewing in Playa Vista is rooted in reality, but one thing is certain: It exists. And it’s more optimism than caution. The Clippers believe they’re a pretty good team. They feel like they have as many as 14 rotation players [...]

Quiet day in Playa Vista as the Clips wrap up their first week of training camp: Blake Griffin is day-to-day with a bruised left patella.  He worked out and performed some shooting drills today, but seems generally frustrated as a bystander.  He won’t play Sunday evening in Oakland when the Clippers’ take t[...]

I’d read recently on Kevin Pelton’s Statistical Analysis Primer that “Effective Field-Goal Percentage was invented by current L.A. Clippers Coach Mike Dunleavy.” Dunleavy as statistical innovator came as some surprise because the Clippers aren’t regarded as an organization on the vanguard [...]

For updates, please subscribe to Clipperblog’s Twitter feed. Blake Griffin sat out practice with a bruised left patella. It appears to be nothing serious, and there was no visible swelling on his knee. He spent the morning working out on the elliptical machine and the like. The Clippers have a 15th roster spot if[...]

An NBA team’s media day isn’t unlike the first day of school. Although nothing of consequence happens, the two-hour photo shoot and schmoozefest mark the start of the NBA season. The official training camp roster is handed out like a syllabus. Players and beat writers who haven’t seen one another in m[...]

K.A. ran a post over at TrueHoop today where he experiments with Brett Hainline’s new efficiency swap machine: Yesterday, we made mention of Brett Hainline’s swap machine, which uses a player’s offensive and defensive efficiency ratings to determine how swapping one player out for another would improv[...]

From Lisa Dillman of the Los Angeles Times: The idea of hiring John Lucas had been percolating in Mike Dunleavy’s mind for quite a while, and finally it came time to put it out there. “It was one of those ideas,” said Dunleavy, the Clippers’ general manager and coach. “Hey, unless I ask hi[...]