How in the world is Matt Barnes making the veteran’s minimum? To put it in perspective, the Clippers are paying Barnes a salary that is about five times less than the one they are paying Ryan Gomes. Yes, Ryan Gomes. You remember him? That three-point specialist who shot 13.8 percent from long range [...]

The setting is modern day Los Angeles, inside a building begrudgingly shared by diametrically opposed basketball teams. Exposition: After playing three games in four nights, the Los Angeles Lakers are a bit weary. They are carried into the game by their aging yet rejuvenated superstar, Kobe Bryant, [...]

Special guest Brian Kamenetzky from Land O’Lakers Blog and I talk ball about tonight’s teams and matchup. Know thy opponent: Breene Murphy: The Lakers front line is thin right now, Pau’s playing lots of minutes, so how have they defended opposing bigs? What has been their weakness?[...]

Six things to keep in mind for tonight’s game: The Lakers have won 9 straight against the Clippers, averaging an incredible 20.1 point margin of victory in those 9 games. The 9 game winning streak for the Lakers is the third longest in the rivalry’s history. Surprisingly, the Clippers ac[...]

The devastating combination of length, agility, and passing ability among the Lakers’ bigs makes it difficult to be too frustrated by their dominance over the Clippers up front.   The Lakers score 70 points in the paint tonight, the majority of which belong to Andrew Bynum, who finishes with 4[...]

During his tenure as the Clippers’ head coach, Mike Dunleavy has always preferred a more controlled offense. To a large extent that’s due to his natural inclinations, but it’s also been a function of the Clips’ personnel.  There wasn’t a member of the Cassell-Mobley-Mag[...]

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No team is returning fewer roster members than the Clippers.  Can you name the five guys in uniform who logged minutes for the Clips last season? Four olympiads from four different countries are on the two rosters.  Name ‘em. Kobe Bryant, Baron Davis, and Derek Fisher played in all 82 games in[...]