There may not be a bigger testament to Mike Taylor’s worth than the emotional response elicited from fans and teammates upon hearing the news late Friday night. No one seemed more hurt by the news than Taylor’s best friend on the team, DeAndre Jordan, who briefly commented via Twitter. D[...]

“Amazing tools, amazing skills, amazing potential but still doubts about his game. That’s the current status of Yaroslav Korolev. In a perfect world, a kid like him wouldn’t be thrown into the NBA so early” -Luis Fernandez of DraftExpress, August 23rd, 2005. Unfortunately for Korolev and[...]

You can find videos of Thursday’s various press conferences — Craig Smith, Sebastian Telfair, Mark Madsen, and Mike Dunleavy — at the Clippers site. I caught up with Telfair afterwards for TrueHoop: No kid in the history of high school athletics saw his young career chronicled with[...]

DeAndre Jordan continues to impress. You always have to offer a qualifier in Summer League, because many of Jordan’s easy routes to the hoop won’t be there when long, speedy NBA help defenders in the regular season slide over to cut off DJ’s path to the rim, but here in Vegas, he&#[...]

I’ll have more on Griffin’s debut over the next several hours. This is what I filed for TrueHoop: Moments prior to Blake Griffin’s NBA debut, the Los Angeles Clippers’ brass was lined up courtside, smiling widely like expectant parents. And if the Thomas & Mack Center in [...]

In the last installment of the Clipperblogger summit, Steve Perrin got to the heart of the matter when he wrote … That’s a pretty astounding collection of talent on paper. So why did they only win 19 games last season? And why are expectations so low for this season? If the Clippers’ cur[...]

Nothing earth-shattering: Dunleavy could see Blake Griffin playing the 5, which makes a whole lot more sense when you consider Griffin’s skill set. Dunleavy concedes that Griffin won’t be as effective as a 3 until he refines his outside shot. This is somewhat of a revision of Neil Olshey[...]

Previous entries: Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six To: Steve Perrin From: Kevin Arnovitz Date: June 17, 2009 I don’t want to belabor the Randolph trade debate, only to say that there are creative ways to clear minutes for a young player that don’t involve having [...]