30 Teams, 30 Days: LA Clippers Draft Preview
The Clippers' disastrous 2008-09 season culminated with a lottery win and a new hope for the franchise.
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Decisions Get Tougher After Landing Griffin
The Clippers took some drama out of the equation by publicly stating that they will select Blake Griffin, but there will be plenty of intrigue surrounding the way they alter their roster this summer.
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What Hope For The Clippers?
How bad can it be for the Mike Dunleavy-era Clippers? Bringing in Isiah Thomas sounds like a move in the right direction to some.
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Woodson Impressed With Clippers
The Clippers have been decimated by injuries, but are far more talented than their record indicates.
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Scouting Cancer With Matt Meiners
Matt Meiners isn't your average NBA scout. Over the last fourteen months he has been working for the Clippers and dealing with a very rare form of cancer.
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Clippers' Youngsters Getting Heavy Minutes
As a perennial lottery team, the Clippers have had many chances to strike gold but have yet to do so. But Eric Gordon and Al Thornton represent a promising future.
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Dunleavy, Clippers Have Work Cut Out For Them
Just when it seemed the Los Angeles Clippers were starting to turn the corner, they returned home.
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Alive And (Relatively) Well
Although most NBA observers were administering Last Rites on the Los Angeles Clippers’ season 96 hours ago, the team’s demise appears to have been greatly exaggerated.
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A Brutal Beginning
Despite a horrible start that has them amongst the league's worst in virtually every category, there remains reasons for optimism for the Clippers.
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Don’t Count Out The Clippers
Although it may take a while for the team to gel, the Clippers have enough talent and firepower to finish with a 45-37 record in a highly competitive division. If Baron, Camby and Kaman can all play seventy or more games (admittedly a tall order), then the Clips could even go 52-30 and contend for a 6th or 7th seed.
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Not Even Your Brother's Clippers
In a conference of bullying titanics, the Clippers have, more or less, made themselves relevant, thanks to a few off-season moves that has remade the roster. But will it be enough to win?
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Auditing The Clippers 2007-08 Season
Chris Kaman and Corey Maggette had good seasons but there was little else to celebrate during Elton Brand's absence.
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Lottery Summit: Los Angeles Clippers
Fans of the Clippers agree on three things - Chris Kaman is legit, Elton Brand should be locked up for the long-term and help is needed on the perimeter.
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Clippers Reel As Celtics Roll On
After the game – a 104-76 Celtics romp– the Boston locker room resembled a raucous Hollywood party, the type that only winning teams attract. Seth McFarland, creator of the sitcom “Family Guy”, brought the house down with “Stewie” impressions. “Cheers” star Ted Danson chatted with Ray Allen. Ex-Laker (and Celtic) Rick Fox hugged Kevin Garnett. And then – in walked Sam Cassell.
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Mobley: Clippers Lack Identity
Sounding almost envious, Cuttino Mobley cited the Spurs as a prime example of everything the Clippers are not at the moment.
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More Than Ever, Clippers Need Kaman
This year’s version of Chris Kaman is faster, more mobile, and more versatile. Against Shaquille O’Neal and Alonzo Mourning, he has demonstrated an arsenal of moves, from the feathery jumper to the quick spin in the lane. He now routinely draws double and triple-teams, which the Nets deployed unsuccessfully in a recent Clippers win. Don’t be shocked to see him make the All-Star team.
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30 Teams, 30 Days: L.A. Clippers Draft Preview (14th)
Acie Law would be a perfect fit, and aside from giving them valuable depth, he’ll provide heart and enthusiasm for a club lacking both.
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Anatomy Of A Playoff Run
Only a week ago the Clippers appeared to be in trouble. They had begun the month of March like a lamb, losing seven of nine. They had lost three of their first four games of a make-or-break road trip. They had dropped out of the No. 8 spot in the West, trailing the Golden State Warriors by a full game. And they were facing four games in the next five nights, three of them against playoff teams.
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Spring Forward? Not For Clippers
In an all-too-familiar scenario that’s become as predictable as Bill Murray waking up each morning to “Groundhog Day”, the Clippers showed little life, forgot to show up for the second half, and put up minimal resistance in losing to the Detroit Pistons, 98-80 at Staples Center.
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Clippers Bring Their “C” Game
In a loss that was not as close as the final score indicated, the Clippers were blown out at Staples Center by the Phoenix Suns, 115-90, offering what could be a disturbing preview of the second half of their season.
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Last-Second Heroics Favor Clippers
Vince Carter did everything he could to destroy the Clippers. But in the end, it was an ill-timed defensive switch that cost his Nets a victory. Cuttino Mobley’s 3-point shot with half a second remaining gave the Clippers a thrilling 102-101 win, returning them to .500 (21-21) and vaulting them over the Timberwolves for the final playoff spot in the West.
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Nothing Like Knicks To Cure Clippers Woes
After handily winning the first two games of a three-game homestand, the Clippers had no trouble handling the Knicks, a team that shoots worse than Dick Cheney. Their 90-80 victory moved them to within two games of .500 (14-16) and one game of the No. 8 playoff seed.
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Clippers Need The Answer
For whatever his other flaws, Allen Iverson would supply at least one important body part the Clippers seem to be missing these days: heart.
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Rare Clippers Sighting At Staples
Spotted at Staples Center on Tuesday night: the real Clippers. You remember them. Team with high expectations? Supposed to go deep in the playoffs? Supposed to be better than the Lakers? That team had apparently left the building for the past few weeks, but they’ve returned with a vengeance.
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Rumors of Brand’s Demise Greatly Exaggerated
Elton Brand reasserted himself on Sunday with 22 points on 8-12 shooting, and 10 rebounds against the Hornets. “They’re going to have to fine me to get me off the court,” Brand said after the game.
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Clippers Answer Back
The NBA decreed that the Clippers would play two of their first three games against the team that defeated them in last season's Western Conference semis, and since they'd already lost the opener in Phoenix, last night became an early test of the Clips' manhood.
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Clippers Force Showdown In The Desert
After the most demoralizing loss in franchise history, the Clippers needed some new heroes to step up. Quinton Ross and Corey Maggette were only too happy to oblige.
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Clippers Go Small And Play Big
The 1-2 punch of Cassell and Brand fueled a 114-107 victory that tied the series at 2-2. With each game surpassing the next as the ‘most important’ in Clippers history, the Clippers are in uncharted waters, but after the pall that hung over the team two nights ago, tonight’s win—on Mother’s Day, no less – the locker room was a joyous place to be.
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Clippers Fall To The Occasion
With the eyes of Los Angeles upon them, with Kobe Bryant on an early summer vacation and the Clippers having Staples Center all to themselves in May, they couldn’t capitalize against a Phoenix Suns team that was there for the taking.
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“Everything’s Going As Expected”
By winning Game 5, the Clippers will remain in Los Angeles for what comedian Billy Crystal has already dubbed “The Hallway Series” against the Lakers, a series that promises to polarize the city like no other. That’s assuming the Lakers can close out the Phoenix Suns, which few Clippers seemed to doubt they would do.
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Clips’ Ferocious Start Buries Nuggets
The Clippers didn’t just win, they dominated completely. Any hopes the Nuggets had of building off the momentum of their near-comeback in Game 1 disappeared faster than Kenyon Martin fleeing reporters.
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Clippers Survive Game 1
The Clippers could’ve easily been forgiven for bowing to playoff pressure and their own sorry legacy. With 1:08 to go in the fourth quarter, the Denver Nuggets had scored the last of 10 consecutive points to tie the score at 87, and the demons of Clippers teams past seemed to rise up from among the anxious sellout crowd of 19,000-pluis.
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Spurs Administer Reality Check To Clips
“We’ve got to use this as a learning experience,” said Corey Maggette, but this familiar lament is getting old. In this most successful of Clipper seasons, their biggest challenge will be dealing with the relentless pressure of a seven-game playoff series, when teams can’t afford to take a night off. With three weeks left in the season, the learning should be almost complete by now.
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Clippers Send Spurs A Message
Both coaches downplayed the playoff implications, but make no mistake – the Clippers needed to send a message that they could protect their home court against a top seed. And if they continue to pay attention to what’s written on their blackboard, it should make for an interesting post-season.
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Clippers Would Be Better Off As No. 6 Seed
The Clippers’ 102-83 victory restored confidence to a team that had lost its focus during a five-game losing streak. Considering they’ve had to endure the last two-and-a-half months without their second leading scorer, Corey Maggette, it makes the Clippers accomplishments look all the more impressive. “It’s not about a city thing,” said Elton Brand. “It’s about the playoffs. This was important.”
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Not Much Fight In Nets As Clippers Cruise
Good teams beat the teams they’re supposed to beat. The Clippers may not be able to bring out the whooping stick on the Mavericks or Suns, but they had no problem handling the listless New Jersey Nets at Staples Center, 90-77. It was the Clippers’ third win in a row and lifted them to a 23-16 record, only two games behind the division-leading Suns.
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Clippers Still Not In Suns Orbit
Here’s what the Clippers could’ve accomplished with a win against the Phoenix Suns on Wednesday night at Staples Center: They would’ve been only 1 ½ games behind the Suns for the Pacific Division lead, and even in the loss column. They would’ve enjoyed their first four-game win streak of the season. They would’ve been 4-1 on the current homestand. They would’ve taken a step closer to feeling like they belong with the NBA’s elite. Unfortunately, elite teams have a habit of rudely crushing the aspirations of teams like the Clippers.
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Pistons Firing On Five Cylinders, Spoil Clippers' Homestand
On Sunday night in Los Angeles, the Clippers didn't play badly. In fact, power forward Elton Brand scored
36 points and grabbed 10 rebounds while three other Clippers scored in double-figures. But it wasn't enough to beat the formidable Detroit Pistons tandem of guards Richard Hamilton and Chauncey Billups, big men Rasheed and Ben Wallace, and small forward Tayshaun Prince.
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View From Atop The Staples Center: Clips Turn Down Heat
At first, I didn’t understand why the guys in white – normally the home team – looked nothing like the Clippers. Then I realized that the Clippers were wearing throwback Buffalo Braves road uniforms, in honor of NBA Hardwood Classics Night, and also in honor of Heat assistant coach Bob McAdoo, who scored many thousands of points in those uniforms. Even the cheerleaders wore Buffalo outfits, and danced to 70s soul music.
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Rejuvenated Clippers Defeat Cavs
At times rising to a fever pitch, the excitement at Staples carried the Clippers to a needed victory over the visiting Cleveland Cavaliers, 102-90.
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Clips Are Best In the West After Routing Bucks
It’s almost as hard to believe as the Red Sox and White Sox winning the World Series in back-to-back years. The Clippers — along with the San Antonio Spurs - are on top of the West. Granted, the season is a mere eight games old, but after dismantling the Milwaukee Bucks, 109-85, the Clippers, at 6-2, are off to the best start in the history of the franchise.
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At Least For One Night, Sam’s The Man For Clippers
All pre-season long, Sam Cassell talked the talk. “This is not going to be the old Clippers from the past,” he told reporters before the Clippers’ opening night game in Seattle.
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Clippers Steal Road Win From Sonics
The Los Angeles Clippers opened the 2005-2006 NBA season in very promising fashion with a fourth quarter 37-18 trouncing en route to 101-93 comeback road victory over the Seattle Supersonics.
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This Just In… The L.A. Clippers Just Don't Get It
Can Cuttino Mobley lead the Clippers into the playoffs or will it be another year of Clipper mediocrity?
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The Pursuit Of A Big Name
They still have loads of cash, and have reportedly made a run at Shareef Abdul-Rahim, who is also being scouted by the New Jersey Nets. Shareef has already turned down a contract offer worth 47 million from the Bucks, money that the Bucks later used to sign LA’s own Bobby Simmons.
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Clippers Wear The Pants In LA
Currently the Clippers have a team full of potential, but they seem to have a team full of ‘potential’ every year and yet still end up nowhere. I do see a lot of potential in this team though. They came quite close to a playoff berth, the last Clippers team to accomplish that was the Loy Vaught led 1994-95 team. They were awful.
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Lost Weekend Leaves Clippers Just About Out
As Chick Hearn might’ve said, the door’s closed, the lights are out… and the Clippers’ 2005 playoff hopes are in the refrigerator, soon to be discarded after its due date.
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For Clippers, Another Night In Heartbreak Hotel
If life on the road can get any more painful for the Clippers, they don’t want to know.
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Fan Article: Clippers Fans Are For Real, Win Or Lose
One thing you have to love are your fellow Clippers supporters, there are very few bandwagon fans.
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Fan Article: Why I Love And Sometimes Hate Los Angeles Clippers
The smaller brother of the great grande Lakers, the underdog for nearly two decades that they have been around, the Los Angeles Clippers continue to trudge on.
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It’s Automatic: Clippers Lose In Utah
After Tuesday night’s excruciating 87-86 loss, they’ve now dropped 31 of their last 32 games in Utah, a stretch that dates back to April of 1989.
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Tim-ber! Clips Cut Down Wolves
Like Odysseus fleeing Troy, the Clippers journeyed to far away lands, encountered brutal adversaries, and finally returned home, battered but not beaten.
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Clippers Season On The Brink
With Kerry Kittles acquired in a trade, with promising draft picks Shaun Livingston and Lionel Chalmers expected to bolster a bright young nucleus led by Elton Brand and Corey Maggette, the Clippers were ready to surprise in ’05.
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Clippers Road Rage Continues
It took Coach Mike Dunleavy 239 minutes and 56.9 seconds of the Clippers’ current road trip to finally reach his breaking point.
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Missing Maggette
Think the Clippers don’t miss Corey Maggette? Their injured leading scorer could only watch helplessly as the Clippers blew consecutive thrillers that came down to the final shot.
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Ready For The Road: L.A. Clips Knicks
The Clippers needed a momentum-builder before heading into a monster road trip. The New York Knicks were only too happy to oblige. Though they shot well and played with energy, they did their usual fourth quarter swan dive, enabling the Clips to escape with a 96-89 win.
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At Least For One Night – L.A. Belongs to Clippers
They talked trash early in the week and finally, when it came time to walk the walk, the Clippers backed up their words.
Tired of the little-brother act, they rose up to deliver a kick in the pants to their older, bigger sibling, the one that always beat on them, stomped them, often humiliated them.
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This Brand Suits Clippers Just Fine
If he played for the Lakers, he’d have his own personalized nickname, like the Mailman. But Elton Brand plays for the Clippers, who share an arena with their famous neighbors and little else-- regional theater competing with Broadway.
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Texas Two Step Becomes a MisStep for Clippers
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Clippers Split Four Games In Five Nights
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The Clippers' 2005 New Year's Resolutions
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Bobby Simmons Quietly Becoming A Household Name
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At The Break
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The Good, The Bad, and the DNP--What Will Happen When Odom Comes Back?
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The Value of Corey Maggette
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MAKING THE NUMBERS ADD UP-HOW THE CLIPPERS CAN KEEP THEIR TEAM TOGETHE
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The Clippers Improved? No Joke.
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Questions and Answers for the Clips
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(MIS)JUDGING HIGH SCHOOL BIG MEN
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PLAYING THE WHAT IF? GAME WITH PLAYERS AND DRAFT PICKS
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LA Clippers: NBA's Most Improved.
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Eric Maynor is an increasingly rare four-year, small college rookie. He sat down with RealGM to discuss how his first few weeks of NBA life has gone and what he has learned from Deron Williams and Jerry Sloan.
The Heat have been plagued by inconsistencies, making it difficult to determine how good they really are this season.
After a week that included wins against Denver and Boston, people around the league are starting to get the feeling that this Hawks team might be better than initially thought.
After losing their first three games of the season, Indiana has rattled off four consecutive victories with their defense being surprisingly as strong as their offense. 
The Warriors unloaded Stephen Jackson before he cratered his trade value and now Don Nelson gets to use a simplified rotation as they try to turnaround their season.
For a team that has every reason to question the direction of the franchise, the New Orleans Hornets are actually saying all the right things.
Arron Afflalo spoke to RealGM about how he is making the most of his new opportunity with the Denver Nuggets.
The 08-09 Blazers transitioned into a young, perennial playoff team and they will need to prove themselves to be a fringe championship contender this season before competing for that distinction in earnest during the 10-11 season.
The Washington Wizards are probably the toughest team to predict in the NBA this season, but we saw good indicators despite a rough night against Atlanta. 
The Lakers have the best team in the NBA by a fairly wide margin and are the prohibitive favorites to repeat. Phil Jackson's toughest job will be to keep a team this good interested for the 100+ games they'll play this season.
The Thunder could find a way into the playoffs, but Sam Presti's refusal to deviate from his long term plans when he had cap space to utilize this past summer makes that an order too tall for the impressively rapid development of their core.