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Deveney: Elgin Baylor's exit from Clippers only matter of time
Clippers coach Mike Dunleavy has been acting as a de facto GM for some time, so the only surprise surrounding Elgin Baylor's departure is why it didn't happen sooner.
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ClipperBlog.com Blog for the Los Angeles NBA Clippers Fans — ... leave in a messy divorce. Instead, we're looking at the usual unsavory parting of owner Donald Sterling and one of his leading basketball men, requiring the intervention of lawyers to negotiate a resolution. The Clippers might actually run more smoothly without Baylor, because it reduces their management muddle from three factions -- (1) Sterling and team president Andy Roeser; (2) Dunleavy and trusty aide Neil Olshey; (3) Baylor -- to two. Sean Deveney: In October 2003, just a few months after ...

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