The Ship of WTF: Your 08-09 Clippers

don't get hurt, baron!

oh wait it's already happened.

this is gonna be one weird team. two great defenders inside and a sieve on the perimeter. could al thornton break out for reals? ricky davis on the clips seems like he's just fulfilling his destiny but also like a flashback to the clips' bad old days. cat mobley is basically walking dead but is eric gordon ready to start?

i feel like they're going to be the most exciting 36 win team ever and beat great teams occasionally then lose by like 30 to OKC and the wolves

so like they will be A TEAM LED BY BARON DAVOSSSSSS

truf

i kind of can't wait to see them in person though and the clips ticket office calls me, like, daily even though i'm only on some mailing list and never personally bought a ticket

Games it took for BD to get injured = 1.25

beaten to ten losses only by the okc durant-os

jeez this team is bad. any owner less cheap than sterling would have fired dunleavy's tony-soprano-lookin ass instead of handing him the gm keys too

corey maggette we never knew how much we would miss u

dunleavy's actually a pretty decent coach. rly. but it will take more than that to overcome the jinx on the Clippers. he needs to look into black cat bones and john the conqueror.

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/fatal_staples_center_collapse

The Clippers are making a coaching change, with Kim Hughes taking over for Mike Dunleavy, according to ESPN's Marc Stein.

Dunleavy is expected to remain in his GM capacity and it's unclear right now if he stepped down or was told to vacate his head coaching position. The Clippers are 21-28, seven games out of the final playoff spot in the Western Conference. Hughes has been Dunleavy's top assistant and the Clips' summer league coach for the last several seasons. The Clippers' scheme and rotations should not change much.

About time.. Isnt Dunleavy the teams de facto GM too?

kind of anticipating simmons' article about this

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=mc-davisclippers121210

I just bought clippers tickets today to see blake griffin dunk all over golden state

Clippers owner Donald Sterling has told Baron Davis, "You're out of shape."

baron should be like "look in the mirror u heap of burnt silly putty"

http://l.yimg.com/a/p/sp/tools/med/2010/12/ipt/1292228087.jpg

Beginning to think Griffin needs to stop trying to singlehandedly (or really double-handedly with Gordon) win games they just can't win. He's getting himself all banged up for nothing. I mean it's a tough balance because he obviously wants to show his stuff for max leverage as a free agent, but he should watch out for injuries.

THE MOST EXCITING 11-24 TEAM IN THE NBA!

"While ignoring my suggestions and isolating me from decisions customarily reserved for general managers, the Clippers attempted to place the blame for the team’s failures on me," Baylor said in the declaration. "During this same period, players Sam Cassell, Elton Brand and Corey Maggette complained to me that DONALD STERLING would bring women into the locker room after games, while the players were showering, and make comments such as, 'Look at those beautiful black bodies.' I brought this to Sterling’s attention, but he continued to bring women into the locker room."

Plantation owner mentality.

Yeah I feel like having a cartoonish supervillain as an owner prevents me from fully embracing the clippers..

The Los Angeles Clippers put an ad in the newspaper to celebrate Black History Month, but the seemingly well-intentioned act has raised some questions.

The full-page in the Sunday Los Angeles Times featured the photos of owner Donald Sterling and star Blake Griffin and said that the date of the celebration is Wednesday, March 2. The problem is that Black History Month has been in February for the past 35 years.

As part of the celebration, the team says it will "admit 1,000 underprivileged kids for free." It remains to be seen how the team will determine whether the African-American children who show up with the ad are underprivileged.

"This event is another successful, well-intentioned effort on the owner's part to ensure that we give something meaningful back to our community," the Clippers said in a statement, according to the Los Angeles Times. "It's as simple as that. That's what matters. Parents will accompany their children at no cost and hundreds of families will benefit."

Sterling has been in the center of a number of controversies regarding race. In 2009, he agreed to pay a record $2.73 million to settle allegations by the government that he refused to rent apartments to Hispanics, blacks and to families with children.

Longtime executive Elgin Baylor sued Sterling and the Clippers that same year, saying he was forced out due to age and racial discrimination.

A judge said Wednesday he wants jury selection in Baylor's lawsuit to begin Friday or Monday.

More recently, Sterling was accused of heckling Clippers guard Baron Davis at games. Davis, who is black, has since been traded to the Cavaliers.