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From Marc Stein: In more definitive transaction news involving the Clippers, L.A. has offered a coaching position to famed skills guru Tim Grgurich in hopes of convincing Grgurich to walk away from longtime boss George Karl. The Nuggets are working to convince Grgurich to stay. In NBA circles, the notoriously taciturn [...]

DeAndre Jordan continues to impress. You always have to offer a qualifier in Summer League, because many of Jordan’s easy routes to the hoop won’t be there when long, speedy NBA help defenders in the regular season slide over to cut off DJ’s path to the rim, but here in Vegas, he’s winning every[...]

Last night’s showcase of Blake Griffin and Eric Gordon at the Thomas & Mack Center should have been the halcyon moment in the Clippers’ rebirth as a franchise. With the Clippers’ brass beaming on the sideline, the team’s featured 20-year-old offensive stars ran a clinic, establishing themsel[...]

I’ll have more on Griffin’s debut over the next several hours. This is what I filed for TrueHoop: Moments prior to Blake Griffin’s NBA debut, the Los Angeles Clippers’ brass was lined up courtside, smiling widely like expectant parents. And if the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas weren̵[...]

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[...]