“Just when we thought things couldn’t get any worse,” as one of us ClipperBloggers put it, after the latest Donald Sterling story. The Clippers were already well into a frustrating first half of December, putting together a string of pretty good winless basketball. That’s one of the problems of bein[...]

Heckling is an inherent part of any sport. The barbs and pointed shouts can create a toxic environment for opposing teams to play on the road. Players hear some of the screams and coaches have to yell their instructions over repetitive onslaught of derogatory exclamations of crazed fans. The fans fe[...]

The Clippers only played well enough to lose to the Orlando Magic by a respectable 9 points. The struggling Magic regained their mojo, ran out to a 35-14 lead after the first quarter and the Clippers never came all the way back. They did outplay the Magic in the last three quarters but they never go[...]

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?[...]

Should the Clippers have blown the Kings out? Should the Clippers have lost? Was it just right? Yes to all of those. The Clippers oscillated between looking terrible, like coherent team and like a team just good enough to beat the Kings. On the whole the Clippers are still just good enough to beat a[...]

The road has not been good to the Clippers this year and last night was just another example. The Clips came out flat and fought their way almost all the way back only to make stupid mistakes in the final minutes to lose the game. Their confidence in tight situations on the road doesn’t seem t[...]

Clipper fans might remember following the 2008 Rookie of the Year contest in microscopic detail. It was quite a sweepstakes. Derrick Rose and OJ Mayo jumped out to an early lead, both starting and getting big minutes and big usage. Around this time two years ago, between 10 and 20 games in, Russell [...]

Clipper fans are used to being hopeful in the midst of dysfunctional and desperate situations. We all knew that his would be a tough season, with some promising young players on the roster along with Chris Kaman and Baron Davis, while the gaping hole at small forward wasn’t filled by some free agent[...]