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The Clippers add Jason Williams : The Los
Angeles Clippers made arrangements Thursday to bring in yet
another new player by reaching terms with free-agent point guard Jason Williams. Williams' agent, Bob Myers, told ESPN.com that the 32-year-old ...
As we mentioned, with the exception of the imbalance in games played vs. Western Conference opponents, the season schedule is a fixed entity. But the contour of the schedule can have a huge effect on how a season proceeds. A successful trip back east can energize a team. Getting off to a slow start can ignite turmoil and self-doubt. Too many blocks of ...
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You can find the complete schedule here . Since the league expanded to 30 teams, the same structure has prevailed: Divisional Opponents: 4 games [2H, 2A] Eastern Conference Opponents: 2 games [1H, 1A] The floating variables come with non-divisional conference opponents. As usual, the Clips will play six of those 10 teams four times apiece [2H, 2A]. But they'll face four of those ...
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Mark your calendars: October 29. Elton Brand and the Sixers will spend New Years Eve at Staples Center. The full schedule will be released later this morning.
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I point this out only because I was there , and attending a Great Alaska Shootout because I had nothing particularly better to do for Thanksgiving still ranks among the more ridiculous expressions of basketball geekdom. Other notables on the court for the 2005 GAS Championship: Renaldo Balkman. The Houston Chronicle : The Rockets expect to trim their roster and their bloated ...
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I have to confess that prior to very recently, I didn’t really care if the Clippers re-signed Shaun Livingston. There were far more important items on the agenda and far more valuable players in the free agency pool. I probably harbored the small, irrational instinct as a Clipper fan to allocate a little blame Shaun’s way for being yet another draft bust – even ...
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Chad Ford at ESPN.com ranks the Clippers among the off-season losers: The Clippers once held the coveted title of most dysfunctional franchise in the league and they made a lot of strides toward reclaiming it this summer. Everything started off so well. They shocked many by quickly coming to terms with Warriors free agent Baron Davis -- filling a big need at the point. Pairing Davis with ...
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More than seven years after he was dealt
-- along with the rights to Tyson Chandler --
to Chicago for Elton Brand, 32-year-old power forward Brian Skinner returns to the Clippers . In the intervening period, Skinner has played for 26 of the ...
The Clippers have spent a good part of the past couple weeks shoring up a roster that – less than a month ago – had exactly five players under guarantees contract. Four weeks later, the Clippers have emerged with measurable depth and a fairly capable nine-man rotation, which will be expanded to ten with the addition of another frontcourt body (either Josh Powell or, if the ...
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According to ESPN.com , the deal includes a player opt-out after the first year, which should guarantee at least a patina of effort from Davis, who's still only 28 (which surprised me at first blush). Davis is a mercurial talent who makes Maggette's defensive instincts seem like those of Shane Battier, but he's a capable catch-and-shoot scorer off the bench. He can also start on ...
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Elton Brand gives USA Today 's Chris Colston five reasons he chose Philadelphia: 1. Being closer to family. My wife (Shahara) is from Newark, N.J. and I'm from Peekskill, N.Y. We're expecting our first child soon so it's good to have a family support group reasonably close by. 2. The passion of the Philadelphia fans. That can propel you to winning. We have our own city; we're not sharing it ...
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From the Associated Press : OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Kelenna Azubuike will return to the Golden State Warriors after the club matched the Los Angeles Clippers' three-year, $9 million contract offer for the shooting guard on Thursday. Azubuike averaged 8.1 points and 4.0 rebounds in 81 games last season with the Warriors, who signed the former Kentucky guard out of the NBA Developmental ...
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From Ross Siler at the Salt Lake Tribune : The Jazz swapped backup point guards Thursday with the Los Angeles Clippers, trading Jason Hart for 11-year veteran Brevin Knight. Hart finished the 2006-07 season with the Clippers, nearly helping lead the team to the playoffs. He signed with the Jazz as a free agent last summer but lost his job to ...
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What does this mean to you, the consumer?
The fact that Golden State would commit 3 years/$6.4M
to a 6'5" swingman might be a harbinger of their willingness to let Kelenna Azubuike walk.
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Andrew Kamenetzky has a nice summary, with embedded
sound bits, over at SportsHubLA : Camby expressed numerous
times his enthusiasm at the notion of teaming up with Davis, Chris Kaman, Gordon and Al Thorton, whom he described with a laugh ...
Via Maurice Brooks : "If he was a stock on the market, you could pick him up at a pretty low price right now. I just don't think his future looks bright as a second-round pick because they don't have a lot of incentive to invest time with him. His 11 rebounds look great, but most of them came right to him. I don't think that he has got any rebounds out of area. It doesn't impress me that ...
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From Marc Stein : The Los Angeles Clippers have identified the latest target in their recovery from the free-agent loss of Elton Brand by agreeing to terms on an offer sheet with restricted free agent Kelenna Azubuike of the Golden State Warriors . NBA front-office sources told ESPN.com that the Clippers have extended a multi-year offer using their estimated $3 million in salary-cap space ...
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Kelly Dwyer (with supporting testimony from some quality analysis at PickAxe & Roll) challenges the prevailing opinion that Marcus Camby is a defensive standout: The guy doesn't leave the paint, he doesn't fight through screens, he won't show on a pick and roll, and he can (as it has been since 1996) be bullied in the low post. This fine post from Pickaxe and Roll leads to a series of ...
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As widely documented over the past 18 hours, plucking Marcus Camby off Denver's salary scrap heap is a sensible choice for the Clippers. But more than that, it creates some interesting schematic choices for Dunleavy. Camby is sort of a unique big. Offensively, he's more comfortable around the elbow as a facilitator than he is as a brute muscling down low. Camby's ...
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Marc Stein over at ESPN.com has it: Sources told ESPN.com that the Clippers will only have to surrender a future second-round pick to acquire Camby, who is being jettisoned into the Clippers' salary-cap space vacated by Brand to generate payroll relief for the Nuggets. A trade call with the league to approve the deal has been completed, sources said, clearing the way for the teams to ...
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