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The game isn’t without moments.  For a couple of minutes at the beginning of the fourth quarter, DeAndre Jordan looks unreal.  He opens the period by unfurling a beautiful post sequence on the left side against a good defender, Chris Andersen.  Jordan catches the ball in the post, faces up, then takes a hard drib[...]

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The Clippers are parachuting into Denver without Al Thornton, Chris Kaman, and Marcus Camby, so I don’t expect tonight to be much of a game. The Nuggets’ frontcourt rotation is composed of legitimate big men — Nene, Kevin Martin, Chris Andersen, and Renaldo Balkman.  They don’t engage in a lot o[...]

With the Clippers playing out the string and college basketball at center stage, it’s time to take another look at the Clippers’ prospects in the upcoming draft. Back in January, we briefly discussed the Clippers’ needs, but didn’t take more than a cursory look at the field. More than two months[...]

Imagine it’s Spring 2008.  You’re a 22-year-old basketball cautionary tale. A year earlier, you were booted off your college squad for disciplinary reasons.  You managed to put together a solid campaign for the Idaho Stampede of the D-Leaguer, but Boise is still a long way from the L.  In transit to Des Moi[...]

David Thorpe has a new feature up at ESPN.com, in which he assigns each rookie a veteran to study.  Eric Gordon’s homework: Gordon is already a beast to defend with the ball in his hands. But to make himself even more difficult to defend (and prepare for), he’ll need to learn how to play without the ball. H[...]

One number jumps out from the box score: The 24 turnovers. Squandering more than a quarter of possessions signifies a sloppy team– and by a fair measure, the Clippers are pretty sloppy tonight.  Somehow, though, this game stirs an earnest hope. Gutsy performance would be the rote characterization, but the feeling[...]

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