From ESPN.com: The makeover of the Los Angeles Clippers may include a former scoring champion. The team is in “very serious” talks with Allen Iverson on a contract, the Los Angeles Times reported on Monday. ESPN.com’s Marc Stein reported on Sunday that the Memphis Grizzlies have been pursuing Iverson,[...]
The Clippers fill out their assistant coach corps with Tony Brown. From the release: “Brown joins the Clippers after last serving as an assistant coach with the Milwaukee Bucks during the 2007-08 campaign. This will mark Brown’s third stint under Dunleavy, serving as an assistant coach on Dunleavy’s staff in Port[...]
From the Memphis Commercial Appeal: Although neither team has reneged, an agreed-upon trade between Memphis and the Los Angeles Clippers that would put power forward Zach Randolph in a Grizzlies uniform wasn’t made official Wednesday for several reasons ranging from accounting to player physicals… It could [...]
The Clippers, by any measure, have helped themselves greatly for the future thanks to their good fortune in the draft and the Randolph trade. But they’re still in desperate need of some defensive help on the perimeter. Eric Gordon has the makings of a solid, straight-up base defender for his small size at the sho[...]
Sources close to Dahntay Jones have confirmed that preliminary, but substantive, conversations between the Denver guard’s camp and the Clippers are underway. The source emphasized that the Clips are among a few teams looking at Jones, but that the most likely scenario has him returning to Denver. Although Jones d[...]
The Clippers currently hold their mid-level exception, as well as a traded player exception worth between $7-8M. Clipperblog spoke to a source inside the Clippers organization who offered the following: The Clippers are in no hurry to use their trade exception. They feel that the exception will only increase in value b[...]
Those guided by superstition have traditionally characterized the Clippers’ misfortunes as preordained — as if management, a willingness to invest, talent evaluation, and coaching had nothing to do with a team’s performance during its first 25 years in Los Angeles. But even hard-boiled empiricists wou[...]
You’ll notice a few familiar names, along with a slew of wild cards: Eric Gordon (SG) — Clippers Why he’ll be in Vegas: The Clippers’ 2008 first-round pick is the backbone of the Clippers’ youth movement. Gordon’s powerful two-pronged offensive attack consists of a deadly perimeter s[...]