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The Fundamantals
Published 7/9/2008 by Hoffman at ballerblogger.com
Kevin Arnovitz of ClipperBlog :  “I don’t know how fair it is to judge Elton.   Only a small collection of people know for certain what was said and not said in the confines of meetings, emails, formal and informal negotiations.  Should a group of strangers’ potential grief dictate a decision as important as where a person should live and whom he has to work for? That’s asking a lot.  Was Elton deceptive and insincere, or was his decision based on an honest desire to be close to family and work in an environment most to his liking?  My guess is the truth — as it usually does — ...

Free Agency’s Normal State is Chaos and Murder: Rescue Dawn Producer Escapes to Philly
Published 7/9/2008 by David Roth at Can't Stop The Bleeding
My choice to become a Clippers fan while at college in California was more reflex than anything else. Even in those days of the early Internet, I could’ve opted to follow my hometown New Jersey Nets and simply sit out an L.A. basketball scene dominated by the unbearable Lakers and their equally unbearable fans. But the part of me that roots for losing franchises — what my recent ambivalences about this sort of thing leads me to believe is kind of a pathological tendency — latched onto the Clippers. That late-’90s/early-’00s team was terrible, and the sporadic KCAL9 broadcasts were ...

Branded.
Published 7/10/2008 by lilnemo at SportsFilter
A Postmortem. The Scenarios. Kevin Arnovitz (of Clipperblog) recaps Elton Brand's defection and what it means to Clipper fans. Read Story.