Here’s some news from today’s practice (10/05/12): • Just one hour after practice ended — approximately 2 p.m. — the Clippers were headed to board a plane to Las Vegas for their first preseason game tomorrow night vs. the Denver Nuggets. The Clippers will head back to Los Angeles late Satur[...]
Training camp has begun and that means players no one has ever heard of are starting to come out of the woodworks. Every year, fringe NBA hoopsters get invited to camp and work their tails off to try to scratch their way onto a team’s roster. In the case of the Clippers, the training camp invitees probably don’t have m[...]
LOS ANGELES — There wasn’t much to take away from the Clippers’ open scrimmage at Galen Center Wednesday night. It was a sloppy, highlight-filled dunk fest with some 3-point shooting sprinkled in. Chris Paul (thumb), Chauncey Billups (Achilles), Grant Hill (rest) and Trey Thompkins (unknown) didn’t participate. T[...]
The Clippers held an open scrimmage at USC’s Galen Center today, with the bench (white team) tying the starters (blue team) 31-31 after two 12-minute halves. Chris Paul, Chauncey Billups, Trey Thompkins and Grant Hill did not participate — Hill isn’t injured, so he likely sat out for rest purposes. Ke[...]
PLAYA VISTA, Calif. – So far the biggest storyline in the Clippers training camp has not been the status of Blake Griffin’s knee or Chris Paul’s ankle and impending free agency. In fact, it has nothing to do with either superstar. All of the fuss has been about DeAndre Jordan, whose improved offensive repertoire has ga[...]
Here is a tidbit of what Vinny Del Negro had to say after Tuesday’s practice. In summary, he discusses DeAndre Jordan’s offense, how every possession matters in the playoffs, and the new additions to the team’s defense: Follow @JovanBuha[...]
News and notes continue to trickle in as training camp is finally under way. I thought I’d start off this Found Objects with (what I hope) will be the last mentions of the E! Network or reality shows: Alright, the Clippers have good chemistry and are a tight group. We get it! But just in case we didn’t get [...]
Because of their impending trip to China to play exhibition games against the Heat on October 11th (in Beijing) and 14th (in Shanghai), the Clippers got a head start on media day and the beginning of training camp over the past few days. So while players from most other teams are telling stories about how many jumpers [...]