One of my closer friends is a musical conductor and through osmosis, I’ve learned a teeny bit about musicology. He once lent me composer/conductor Pierre Boulez’s “Orientations: Collected Writings” when we were stranded on a rainy beach in West Africa, both completely out of [...]

Yesterday I was asked by a friend if I thought Mike Dunleavy was a bad basketball coach. It was a good question. Dunleavy’s tenure with the Clippers is tough to ignore. He’s had one winning season in six years and one of the worst overall winning percentages in NBA history during that ti[...]

The Isiah Thomas rumors are categorically false. Kim Hughes is all aboard the Baron Davis Express. “My style would be running,” Hughes said. “I think we can run.” Hughes drew some contrasts between himself and Mike Dunleavy. “[Dunleavy] called a lot of plays for our guy[...]

The Clippers made a decision Thursday many have been calling for since the 2007-08 season. Mike Dunleavy is no longer the head coach of the team. I’ve long been conflicted about Dunleavy’s tenure as head coach. There’s a tendency to forget how bad things were 10 years ago, how Dunl[...]

More from the Clippers: In defining the move, Dunleavy said, “I’ve had several conversations with our owner (Donald T. Sterling) concerning what we think is best for the team overall. We have discussed the possibility of my concentrating only on Basketball Operations. That option has always been ava[...]

Here’s a piece I wrote recapping the game for ESPN Los Angeles. A couple of additional points, before going to the video of the final possession: It’s a strange game. Strange insofar as the Clippers, whose collective eFG on jumpers is 42.3 percent, drained 11 of 17 shots between 16 feet [...]

Hours before the Clippers knocked off the Lakers on Wednesday, I asked Mike Dunleavy how a coach can tell the difference between real, permanent growth and the fleeting illusion of improvement. “You ask yourself, ‘Is the team able to do what it wants to do?’” Wednesday night,[...]

There’s a sequence late in the fourth quarter of tonight’s game where Baron Davis is leading the break up the middle of the court. He’s flanked by Eric Gordon on his right, who trails behind Baron only slightly. Baron separates from the pack, and then does something that evokes mem[...]