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For those selling the Portland Trail Blazers-Los Angeles Clippers rivalry, Damian Lillard isn’t buying it. Lillard was asked about the so-called “rivalry” between the Western Conference foes ahead of the latest Blazers-Clippers matchup. In a rather savage response, the All-Star guard questioned the premise of the question. “I thought a rivalry was built on the […]

The re-tooled Brooklyn Nets hit a major speedbump early in their 2020-21 NBA campaign when shooting guard Spencer Dinwiddie’s MRI revealed an ACL injury. Although the tear was deemed partial, the 27-year-old is expected to miss the rest of the season. Dinwiddie emerged as the top scorer for the overachieving Nets squad last season with […]

Sunday’s blowout loss against the Dallas Mavericks was definitely one that the Los Angeles Clippers and head coach Tyronn Lue would like to forget–and fast. After being down a whopping 50 points at halftime, the Clippers still weren’t able to cut it by the end of regulation, as the Mavs went on to win the […]

LOS ANGELES — For most people around the world, Christmas Day came on Dec. 25, when they spent time with family and friends to celebrate at the tail end of what has been a grueling year. For Paul George, Tyronn Lue, and the Los Angeles Clippers, Christmas Day was celebrated on Dec. 26, a day […]

Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks showed what they were really made of Sunday, putting a 51-point beating on the Los Angeles Clippers for their first win of the season after starting 0-2. Doncic made it a point to tell everyone that the Mavs’ first two games were only a fluke. “We showed who we […]

It didn’t take long for the Los Angeles Clippers to become the laughingstock of the NBA once again. After starting off strong against both the Los Angeles Lakers and Denver Nuggets for the 2020-21 season, it appears that the team’s luck has run out against the Dallas Mavericks. Going into halftime, the Mavs owned a […]

Kawhi Leonard sustained a laceration to his mouth during the LA Clippers’ Christmas day matchup with the Denver Nuggets. According to Tomer Azarly of ClutchPoints, Leonard will miss Sunday’s contest versus the Dallas Mavericks due to his mouth laceration. Kawhi Leonard will not play today, per Tyronn Lue. Luke Kennard will start in his place.#Clippers […]

LOS ANGELES – The LA Clippers may claim that they’re not trying to send a message to start out the 2020-21 season. Heck, that may even be true. It’s evident, however, that these Kawhi Leonard and Paul George-led Clippers are a much better version than last year’s. In their first two wins against the Lakers […]

LOS ANGELES – The LA Clippers dodged a bullet after Kawhi Leonard went down bloodied late in their Christmas Day matchup with the Denver Nuggets. With 6:10 remaining in the fourth quarter and the Clippers leading the Nuggets 108-97, Leonard went for an offensive rebound, but met his face with Serge Ibaka’s elbow in the […]

Kawhi Leonard is down. The Klaw was rendered immobile after taking a huge elbow to the face from his Los Angeles Clippers teammate Serge Ibaka. Leonard got gashed pretty badly by the errant elbow, leading to a particularly messy ordeal in Denver. Here’s the brutal scene that forced Kawhi to return to the locker room: […]

Since the Los Angeles Clippers blew a 3-1 lead in the second round to the Denver Nuggets, there has been no shortage of finger-pointing as to who was to blame for the debacle in the NBA bubble. Paul George took the brunt of the blame, considering his poor performance in Walt Disney World. George averaged […]

After missing the season opener against the Lakers, Los Angeles Clippers forward Marcus Morris will be sidelined once again for LA’s Christmas Day contest with the Denver Nuggets, per Tomer Azarly: Marcus Morris won’t be available tomorrow, but every other Clipper will against the Nuggets. — Tomer Azarly (@TomerAzarly) December 24, 2020 Morris missed all […]

Lebron James and the Los Angeles Lakers received their championship rings on Tuesday night, but the absence of the late Kobe Bryant loomed large over the ceremony at Staples Center. Sure enough, Black Mamba’s memory was present in the thoughts of LeBron, who earned his first ring as a Laker over the summer after leading […]

Former Los Angeles Clippers head coach Doc Rivers recently shed light on a handful of allegations that haunted the team last season. A good number of the issues came firing at the direction of both Kawhi Leonard and Paul George who reportedly received preferential star treatments in their first campaign with the Clippers back in […]

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Clippers decided to hang back inside their locker room and avoid watching LeBron James, Anthony Davis and the Los Angeles Lakers celebrate their 2020 NBA championship. Then, Kawhi Leonard, Paul George, and the Clippers sent a message to their crosstown rival. The Clippers defeated the Lakers 116-109 to open […]

The Chuckster is at it again. On Day 1 of the 2020-21 NBA season, Hall of Famer Charles Barkley made another bold, yet familiar, prediction on TNT: the Portland Trail Blazers are winning the Western Conference. The former league MVP even placed a hefty bet, a hundred grand at that, for Portland to make the […]

While Los Angeles Lakers forward Markieff Morris was at the free-throw line, his teammate LeBron James had his back turned and casually talking to the Los Angeles Clippers bench. What James was saying and to who remains a mystery. But the clip shows that it looked like they were having some fun. From the looks […]

One of the biggest headlines to come out of the Los Angeles Clippers camp last offseason was how seemingly unhappy some of the members of the team were with how their other teammates had some sort of ‘preferential treatment‘ during the 2019-20 NBA season. Unsurprisingly, it was first-year team members Paul George and Kawhi Leonard […]

Los Angeles Lakers fans collectively held their breaths when superstar LeBron James had an injury scare during opening night against the Los Angeles Clippers on Tuesday. The King had to leave the game in the fourth quarter after spraining his ankle in an attempt to block Ivica Zubac’s shot. As seen in the replays, James […]

It hasn’t even been 48 basketball minutes since his season tipped off and Paul George memes have already taken over Twitter. The Los Angeles Clippers forward has been at the receiving end of a ton of criticism and jokes over the past few months and was hoping to start anew this term as he suits […]

Los Angeles Clippers superstar Paul George has submitted an extremely early entry for Shaqtin A’ Fool in the 2020-21 NBA regular season. Early in the first quarter of their opening night game against reigning NBA champions Los Angeles Lakers, George tried to give an extra pass to a supposed wide-open teammate on the corner. But […]

The Los Angeles Clippers had a front-row seat as they watched their heated rivals Los Angeles Lakers receive their 2020 championship rings at the Staples Center on Tuesday. While it’s understandable that Clippers players were pretty peeved before tip-off of their season opener, it was the complete opposite for Marcus Morris. The Clippers forward was […]

The NBA wasted absolutely no time kicking things off. The league has a pair of colossal matchups slated for Tuesday evening. With the 2020-21 regular season officially getting underway on Tuesday evening, the Brooklyn Nets and Golden State Warriors will be followed by the defending NBA Champion Los Angeles Lakers and the rival Los Angeles […]

The Los Angeles Lakers will be receiving the team’s championship rings from a season ago on Tuesday evening. The heralded Western Conference franchise will host the crosstown rival Los Angeles Clippers. Not only that, though, but it appears as though veteran NBA point guard Dennis Schroder, a Lakers newcomer who was not part of the […]

In the 2019-’20 season, the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers gave us four thrilling regular season matchups. Now, with the new season about to tip-off with another matchup between the inner city rivals, we’re exciting to look at the NBA odds and make a Clippers-Lakers prediction. This Clippers-Lakers showdown is sure to enthrall […]

On Tuesday, Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid was asked about a report from The Athletic’s Bill Oram and Joe Vardon, which asserts that the All-Star center opposed the hiring of Tyronn Lue during the Sixers’ recent head coaching search. The article, which chronicles how Lue ended up as the head coach of the Los Angeles […]

The start of the 2020-21 NBA season came pretty fast, hasn’t it? Just over two months since the Los Angeles Lakers were crowned NBA champions for the 17th time in franchise history, the NBA is back on Tuesday night. The action kicks off with Kevin Durant facing some of his former Golden State Warriors teammates […]

The Los Angeles Clippers will play their season opener against the Los Angeles Lakers without a key piece in Marcus Morris. The veteran forward will be missing their first game due to right knee soreness, per ESPN. Morris failed to suit up in each of the team’s three preseason games. The Clippers ultimately snagged an 0-3 […]

Before the Los Angeles Lakers finally settled on Frank Vogel as the team’s new head coach prior to the start of the 2019-20 season, Tyronn Lue was actually the frontrunner for the high-profile job. As it turns out, however, Lue and the Lakers brass did not see eye to eye during contract talks, which ultimately […]

Now that the Doc Rivers era is about to unfold with the Philadelphia 76ers, change is coming. One of the things Doc wants to zero in on is his former player Tobias Harris, with whom he’s reuniting with in the City of Brotherly Love. Both Rivers and Harris both joined forces back in 2017 to […]

If you were expecting Montrezl Harrell of the Lakers to take the high road following his odd breakup with the Los Angeles Clippers this offseason, guess again. The Clippers front office banked on their future Monday after signing Luke Kennard to a four-year, $64 million extension. While the news is on par with what the […]

It has been a topic of discussion recently on whether or not the Los Angeles Clippers tampered with Kawhi Leonard before signing him ahead of the 2019-2020 season. Despite launching an investigation into the matter, Adam Silver doesn’t seem to believe he’ll find anything that shows the Clips committed any wrongdoing. “All I can say […]

The Los Angeles Clippers are making sure to set themselves up for the present and future as they continue their dealings before the 2020-21 NBA season begins. Per ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the Clippers and guard Luke Kennard have agreed to a four-year, $64 million extension on Monday. Los Angeles Clippers guard Luke Kennard has agreed […]

LOS ANGELES – LA Clippers star Kawhi Leonard is focused on the 2020-21 season and the team’s pursuit of an NBA Championship, not his impending free agency. His co-star in Paul George committed to the franchise longterm last week when he signed a four-year extension, but that’s because he was eligible for one. Leonard isn’t. […]

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver published an op-ed in USA Today on Monday addressing why the 2020-21 regular season will begin this week, as COVID-19 continues to surge throughout the United States. While Silver praised everybody who participated in the successful bubble in Orlando, he explained why a campus-like environment was unfeasible for the upcoming season. […]

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Clippers plan to use Kawhi Leonard in the same ways the Chicago Bulls used legend Michael Jordan and the Los Angeles Lakers used legend Kobe Bryant. Clippers head coach Tyronn Lue spoke with members of the media prior to Sunday’s practice, where he said he has been implementing more […]

James Harden’s dissatisfaction with the Houston Rockets has had the rumor mill spinning like crazy over the past few weeks. The 2018 MVP and reigning back-to-back scoring champ has been the most cryptic character in Houston this offseason and the current narrative suggests that he might have played his last full season in Clutch City. […]

The NBA could have been very different, if Paul George and Anthony Davis had teamed up with the Pacers instead of splitting up to the Clippers and Lakers. Davis has confirmed what George told the All The Smoke podcast, that George and Davis had conversations about Davis going to the Pacers and joining George. Anthony […]

The NBA is investigating the Los Angeles Clippers and Jerry West in the team’s pursuit of Kawhi Leonard last summer after a man named Johnny Wilkes claimed he was promised $2.5 million to help lure “The Claw” to L.A. Wilkes told TMZ he received a voicemail from West in July of 2019 in which the […]