After today’s game, Mike Dunleavy offers an interesting comment to the Los Angeles Times‘ Broderick Perkins: “When guys get injured, typically you have agents that are going to tell them, ‘There’s no reason to hurry back. Make sure you’re 110% healthy before you c[...]
This morning’s scouting report of the Clippers in the Dallas Morning News notes that the Clips “are a pitiful rebounding team.” The Clippers have a rebound rate of 47.2. That ranks them 29th in a 30-team league, ahead of only New York. The Knicks have an easy excuse: Mike D̵[...]
Ramona Shelburne has it: The Clippers’ proposed trade with the New York Knicks has gone through, a source close to the team said Tuesday afternoon. The Clippers traded Cuttino Mobley and Tim Thomas to the New York Knicks for Zach Randolph and Mardy Collins. The deal had hit a snag Monday night[...]
The way things unravel in the closing minutes should, by all traditional standards of sports fandom, make this a tough loss to swallow. But with Zach Randolph in the mail, you have to view it through an entirely different prism. This is a transitional game for the Clippers, one in which they play [...]
The Clippers have likely improved their fortunes this season, though they’re still unlikely to play games in late-April. Who gets the really tough defensive assignments on the perimeter now that Cuttino Mobley is gone? Let’s use Dwyane Wade next week as the case study. Ricky Davis and Er[...]
Ramona Shelburne of the Los Angeles Daily News reports that the Randolph deal will be done in short order: The Clippers have agreed to a trade for New York Knicks forward Zach Randolph in exchange for guard Cuttino Mobley and forward Tim Thomas, a league source told the Daily News Friday afternoon. [...]
I generally don’t entertain trade speculation because I don’t find it all that fun as a parlor game. But there are enough reputable voices now suggesting that the Clippers are in serious conversations to acquire Zach Randolph for Tim Thomas and Cuttino Mobley. Randolph coming to the Cli[...]
Fans — particularly those jonesing for a win — are often inclined to overvalue a W against an inferior opponent. But sometimes there’s a counter-tendency among cynics to discount the victory because it’s a cheap win. Yes, OKC is a sloppy team, but the Clips make some real [...]