I spent more time Wednesday thinking about the Los Angeles Clippers than I wanted to.  Tuesday night’s loss combined with the Sterling incident, and Chris’ bitching have produced a sulfurous funk, what Simmons calls the stench, around the team.  Clippers fans, with rare exceptions, are a[...]

If you care to subject yourself to another viewing of the final set, here’s the video [go to 2:00 mark]: Here’s Mike Dunleavy’s explanation of what he designed in the huddle: We ran a side out-of-bounds play, trying to get the ball into Baron to set up our last play of the game.  W[...]

I’ve been traveling non-stop this week and haven’t been able to devote the time to the Donald Sterling fracas that I’d like. No matter, because Steve at Clips Nation has written the definitive manifesto on the matter.  Read the piece in its entirety.  Twice. Steve’s conclusio[...]

If you want to do some scouting on the Spurs today, you should head over to 48 Minutes of Hell, the dynamite Spurs blog run by Graydon Gordian and Timothy Varner.  How good is 48MoH?  Their powers of persuasion are almost enough to make you appreciate Bruce Bowen. Prior to Spurs games, 48MoH likes t[...]

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[...]

From Lisa Dillman at the Los Angeles Times: Warriors swingman Stephen Jackson spent some quality time with Davis, his buddy and former teammate, over the weekend in Los Angeles, bonding and talking about old times. Jackson said that Davis wants to return to the Warriors. “That’s all we t[...]

From the Philadelphia Inquirer: An unfortunate coincidence. That’s the vibe that seemed to fill the Wachovia Center last night after 76ers forward Elton Brand, clutching his dislocated right shoulder, walked off the court midway through the third quarter of a 93-88 win over the Milwaukee Bucks[...]

At Wages of Wins, Dave Berri looks at Elton Brand’s declining numbers, and how they might have cost Mo Cheeks his job: “Brand’s WP48 [Wins Produced per 48 minutes] is 0.075 this season.  And last season it was only 0.058.  Both marks are below average and not exactly consistent with the [...]