There wasn’t a lot to take away from the Clippers’ 91-88 win Friday night over a Hornets team playing without both Chris Paul and Emeka Okafor. The Clips had a better night on the glass and were more careful with the ball, but despite playing hard, the game had a very preambulatory feel [...]

There’s a certain optimism currently surrounding the Clippers, and it’s managed to infiltrate the mindset of even some of the most hardened and bitter of the Clippers faithful. Lucking into a lottery win and subsequently Blake Griffin has a lot do with that, but the excitement this offse[...]

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Quiet day in Playa Vista as the Clips wrap up their first week of training camp: Blake Griffin is day-to-day with a bruised left patella.  He worked out and performed some shooting drills today, but seems generally frustrated as a bystander.  He won’t play Sunday evening in Oakland when the Cl[...]

Is this the first domino? Warrick’s deal with the Bucks is reportedly a 1yr/3mil deal. This appears to signal that the Bucks are going in a different direction.  Bruce Bowen’s contract becomes guaranteed for four million instead of two million tomorrow, so the Bucks probably aren’t[...]

Although the possibility of signing Sessions is still out there, the trade that netted the Clippers Sebastian Telfair, Craig Smith and Mark Madsen should bring some sense of finality to a surprisingly wild offseason. Yes, there are still a few holes that could stand to be filled, but as a whole the [...]

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[...]

The Minnesota deal does not preclude a Sessions acquisition. Those conversations will continue, according to sources on both sides of the discussions. The Clippers still hold a trade exception, which is a nice chip to have and gives them another way to structure any potential deal. Craig Smith is a [...]