Los Angeles Clippers Articles - Page 223

Stephen Curry shows no mercy. Preseason or not, he’s putting guys on skates — just ask the L.A. Clippers‘ Brandon Bass, who received the Allen Iverson special with this double crossover that ended in a teardrop. .@StephenCurry30 showing off that handle! 🔥 pic.twitter.com/0krnufitWy — Golden State Warriors (@warriors) October 5, 2016 Curry had already gotten past Bass […]

The NBA hosts the All-Star Weekend every February where its brightest stars showcase their talents in a variety of contests culminated by the All-Star Game. The starters are selected through fan votes, while the reserves, on the other hand, are picked by coaches from their respective conferences. This is where a player’s actual performance and his team’s standing for the first half […]

Only a week after he announced his retirement, Kevin Garnett is already back at training camp – but this time not as a roster player, but as a coach. Garnett has been working out with the Los Angeles Clippers big men. His role with the team may not be clearly defined yet, but the 15-time all-star […]

It’s been a narrative playing over and again each season for the Los Angeles Clippers. Chris Paul and the Clippers have never been past the second round. Paul in fact has never passed the second round even with the Hornets. Clippers coach and President for Basketball Operations Doc Rivers talked with Broderick Turner of the Los […]

The L.A. Clippers face a monumental decision next offseason as Chris Paul and Blake Griffin will become free agents. Griffin has a player option worth upward of $21 million for the 2017-18 season, while Paul’s player option is $24.2 million. With a salary cap that is expected to rise, it’s expected that both players will opt out of their contracts […]

Paul Pierce is among the three remaining stars from the old generation, along with Dirk Nowitzki and Vince Carter. All future Hall of Famers. While the two aforementioned names do not have a timetable on their retirement plans, Pierce has already stated that this will be his final year of playing in the NBA. His […]

For years now, Blake Griffin has been a problem for opponents to deal with. The L.A. Clippers power forward has progressed his game from being just an athletic dunker to an all-around superstar at the four spot. He’s increased his free-throw percentage, developed a solid jumpshot, learned to get his teammates involved, and has led […]

Kevin Garnett hasn’t even been retired for a week and already has job offers to coach. In 2015 when asked if he would ever coach an NBA team, he answered in typical Garnett fashion. Just recently, the future Hall of Famer joined the Los Angeles Clippers in training camp on Thursday to do a little […]

The Minnesota Timberwolves lost a great veteran leader last week when future Hall-of Kevin Garnett opted to end his 21-year career as a player. Now, there are reports that Garnett will be staying around the game of basketball, either as a coach or an assistant. According to Jason Lloyd of hte Akron Beacon Journal, Cleveland […]

Despite the Golden State Warriors adding one of the best players in the world, Kevin Durant, to their already stacked roster, Los Angeles Clippers head coachDoc Rivers isn’t ready to hand them the Larry O’Brien trophy just yet. Rivers believes that his team can go toe-to-toe with the Warriors and renew an old rivalry with […]

The NBA will lose another one of its legends. Paul Pierce announced on The Players’ Tribune Monday morning that he will retire after the 2016-17 NBA season. Here’s a video The Players’ Tribune tweeted out of Pierce announcing the decision. This offseason, @paulpierce34 had one question on his mind. Today, he has his answer. pic.twitter.com/iV6mELiIE0 […]

L.A. Clippers coach Doc Rivers had very successful stint coaching recently-retired forward Kevin Garnett. Rivers, who coached Garnett during his time with the Boston Celtics and saw an NBA championship together in 2008, grew a bond with the future Hall-of-Famer and revealed that he had plans for the 21-year veteran if he secured a buyout […]

Los Angeles Clippers coach Doc Rivers grew up with his father who is a police officer. Rivers is familiar with both law enforcement and everyday citizens. He, like many others, has been disturbed by the trend of events that have taken place over the summer between police officers and black male citizens. Chris Paul, LeBron James, and […]

The L.A. Clippers had one of the toughest seasons to date last year, in part due to Blake Griffin. Not only did the Clippers fail to make the second round of the NBA playoffs after a pair of devastating injuries to Blake Griffin and Chris Paul in Game 4 of the first round, but everyone […]

The L.A. Clippers suffered a huge blow to their season last year when Blake Griffin missed nearly five months of action with a broken hand and a torn quad tendon in his leg. The most disappointing part of last season for fans was how Griffin broke his hand: by punching a team equipment manager. Griffin […]

In a hilarious but random Instagram roast, Los Angeles Clippers teammates Austin Rivers, Blake Griffin, and DeAndre Jordan teased each other Thursday night. It may have started from an inside joke, but the players took the jokes onto the internet for more laughs. Austin posted the first picture with the caption: @blakegriffin32 and @deandrejordan6 will […]

The start of the 2016-17 NBA season is just over a month away, and fans of the LA Clippers won’t have to worry about not being able to watch their team. According to Broderick Turner the L.A. Times, the team has reached an agreement with Fox to keep the games on Fox Sports Prime Ticket […]

The LA Clippers have made solid strides towards improving their roster for the big 2016-17 season ahead of them. Re-signing free agents Jamal Crawford, Wesley Johnson, and Austin Rivers was key to start their summer, and the additions of Brandon Bass as well as Marreese Speights only bolstered their already solid frontcourt of Blake Griffin […]

The Memphis Grizzlies were hit by an influx of injuries last season and had to file for the NBA hardship exemption to sign players to suit up for them during games. Their main players last season with the likes of Marc Gasol, Mike Conley, Mario Chalmers and Brandan Wright were all forced on the sidelines to watch their […]

During his time in the league, L.A. Clippers star forward Blake Griffin has become the next Peyton Manning of commercials. His calm, witty and effortless charisma has seen him grace ads from GameFly to Call of Duty to Kia. Griffin is back in his comical ways, starring in an ad for Red Bull Sound Select: 30 […]

Phoenix Suns rookie big man Marquese Chriss has lofty goals coming into the 2016-17 season, and he is looking to start things off with a bang. Chriss has been eyeing DeAndre Jordan of the Los Angeles Clippers, but it’s not to pattern his game after Jordan. The 6-foot-9 forward recently told FanSided’s Ian Levy in a that one […]

Matt Barnes had plans of returning to the Los Angeles Clippers this summer, but they didn’t work out the way he envisioned it. Barnes spoke on The Vertical Podcast about his conversation with Clippers head coach Doc Rivers who said he’d keep a roster spot open for him if he wanted to return. “Doc and I were […]

If you’re a fan of slick crossover moves, buttery-smooth finger-rolls and rainbow threes that end up being four-point plays, worry no more — Jamal Crawford is here to stay. The L.A. Clippers shooting guard apparently plans to be in the league for another half a decade, per his reply to a fan on Twitter. "@iam_almighty_: Wanna meet […]

It was an emotional trip to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame for Chris Paul. The L.A. Clippers point guard was honored with the Mannie Jackson Award for his humanitarian and charitable efforts. “That trip to Springfield was something I’ll never forget,” Paul told Rowan Kavner of NBA.com. “Springfield was pretty memorable in that it […]

The L.A. Clippers have started their team bonding by getting out of an escape room. Center DeAndre Jordan shared a photo of the winning team, holding the clues to their escape. https://www.instagram.com/p/BKZk253g8y7/ Jordan, Raymond Felton, Wesley Johnson, Paul Pierce and Luc M’bah a Moute won and had a free dinner courtesy of the losing team consisting […]

Doc Rivers doesn’t think much has changed. An extremely eventful NBA offseason in which the 73-win Golden State Warriors acquired former MVP Kevin Durant was not enough to convince the Los Angeles Clippers head coach that the landscape of the league has changed. Simply put, Rivers was already prepared for the Warriors to be one […]

The L.A. Clippers feature Chris Paul and Blake Griffin as its main stars. Outside of them, DeAndre Jordan sits by himself, not knowing if he can put himself in the category where those two belong, or wait one more year before finally getting recognized. Curiously enough, Jordan has been the Clippers’ starting center for years. […]

New Hall of Fame inductee Allen Iverson has been the role model for many NBA guards of today. His tenacity, fearlessness and reckless abandon were some of his most admired traits. L.A. Clippers point guard Chris Paul reflected on the 76ers star’s influence in the game. “I’ve always said Allen Iverson had the biggest effect on […]

Former Boston Celtics and current Los Angeles Clippers head coach Doc Rivers recently revealed that Boston legend Paul Pierce is still undecided about if he will play his 19th NBA season in the 2016-2017 campaign. Rivers, who was back in Boston to host an ABCD Hoops Dream fundraiser at the TD Garden, believes that the […]

For a large chunk of last season, mostly when he was injured, Blake Griffin was reportedly on the trade block. Well, it was never confirmed by head coach and president of basketball operations Doc Rivers or the LA Clippers, but the trade rumors were out there and were sparked by Griffin’s off-court incident with a […]

About a couple of months left before the NBA regular season begins, but social media knows no offseason. It’s absolutely true and it gets taken to another level when official team accounts are the ones roasting each other. Just recently, the L.A. Clippers’ Twitter account posted a poll, to which the Portland Trail Blazers’ respective […]

Brandon Armstrong aka ‘The NBA Impersonator” is back and this time his newest victim is L.A. Clippers star Blake Griffin. Take a look for yourself: Armstrong has his motions down to a science — from the over-exaggerated pump fake and his short follow-through to his super athletic style of driving to the basket. But his best […]

Blake Griffin‘s 2015-16 season was very disappointing in his eyes. He had the off-court incident along with nagging injuries that made it hard for him to remain on the court. Griffin played only 35 games last season for the Clippers and is hoping to play much more this time around. The Clippers forward appeared on […]

In a point guard-dominated era of the NBA, where the likes of Stephen Curry, Kyrie Irving, and Russell Westbrook often grab the headlines, people seem to have forgotten the late 90’s and early 2000’s where shooting guards and small forwards were the premier talent in the league. Among those top wing studs was L.A. Clippers swingman […]

L.A. Clippers forward Blake Griffin came back to his alma mater for Saturday’s Alumni Legends game, and he didn’t turn up empty-handed. The Oklahoma University alum made a huge donation toward the High Performance Center Addition project at Lloyd Noble Center. The project is a 16,000-square-foot addition that will enhance strength training for Oklahoma basketball. The additions include indoor […]

In a random and quite humorous note, L.A. Clippers sharpshooter J.J. Redick shared a tweet that had other NBA players and followers chime in. https://twitter.com/JJRedick/status/770629821793640448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Chicago Bulls forward Doug McDermott soon followed suit in his reply: https://twitter.com/dougmcdermott/status/770641931919429632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Of course the Clippers marksman had to give McDermott a hard time for it. https://twitter.com/JJRedick/status/770642396279218176 Charlotte Hornets forward/center Frank Kaminsky did […]

Jamal Crawford owns the Seattle Pro-Am basketball league. And now he owns the rights to another sick basketball move as well. The Clippers guard showed out during the league’s championship game as per usual and despite the contest coming down to the wire, Crawford effectively stole the night with this insane move earlier on in […]

It’s hard not to notice when Glen “Big Baby” Davis comes to the courts. The former NBA player made a special appearance over the weekend in the Venice Beach basketball league. Davis’ performance was very familiar for those who remember his time in the NBA. There was a lot of backing down, using that size […]

Bill Walton, a Hall of Famer, active as an NBA player from 1974-1987 with the Blazers, Clippers and Celtics carries a heavy mental weight about the fate of San Diego basketball. The former two-time champion with Blazers and Celtics, and league MVP is a San Diego native. He represented the Clippers in the era when they played at […]