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Mentioned it a while ago, but I’ve moved over to Substack. You can catch all my comings and goings over there. Give it a follow (or read, or whatever) if you’re at all interested in Clippers content and other random musings. Greatly appreciate all of you.
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Someone said Kawhi Leonard talks like Dave Chappelle's Prince skit come to life and I can't get that out of my head.
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Pacers won an NBA Finals game that they led for 0.3 seconds. Thunder led for 46:25.
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Anthony Edwards is the last player left after Team USA Camp day one. Still shooting.
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Kai Jones, who had a really good night with 8 points, 6 rebounds, and 5 blocks, does postgame with David Pingalore, and even breaks out into a little song.
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Reggie Miller said the Warriors were 1st in defensive efficiency and 1st in steals. They weren't 1st in either.
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A win is a win, but if I’m Denver, I treat this like a loss. Heat really figured something out putting Highsmith on Jokic. That’s one of those somewhat small adjustments that can win a series.
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“It’s unfair. It’s not right,” Steve Ballmer says about the regular t-shirt toss you see at NBA games. So what did the Clippers do? They put t-shirt cannons on the Halo Board that can apparently hit every seat in the arena so no one is left out. No, I’m not kidding!
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I'm such a fan of the announcer camera. Adam Amin, Kara Lawson, and Rebecca Lobo are national treasures.
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"How did *this* guy win DPOY?!" we shout as the 3-time MVP and reigning Finals MVP has an incredible game.
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Anthony Edwards, an hour into his shooting workout, drilling corner 3s for about a minute straight.
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A goose was on the field in Detroit during a rain delay, and then they tried to get it off the field. So it flew away. And smashed into a video board.
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Kawhi Leonard has not lost a regular season game to Jimmy Butler since Dec. 8, 2016. Won the last 8.
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Nah man, the last dunk is one of the greatest I've ever seen. Hands down. My word.
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The fact it took like 11 games for anyone to even notice that the Dallas Mavericks weren't playing the national anthem at games should make everyone realize it doesn't need to be played at sporting events and you won't miss it if it's gone.
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Wow. LeBron handpicked his team and still can't beat Dirk. Some things never change.
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Steve Kerr finished his presser 30 minutes ago. And Anthony Edwards is the lone player left in the gym. Getting up shots.
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Kevin Durant looking like, "sigh, only 15 more of these damn games to go and then I can leave this corny dude."
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Bucks haven't won a title since 1971.
Hawks haven't won a title since 1958.
Clippers and Suns have never won a title.
This is actually awesome. Enjoy this, everyone.
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Woj going on ESPN and saying there's a rift between Gobert and Mitchell and how the Utah locker room is basically pissed at Gobert is a huge thing. They should be pissed at him. It's nice that he was apologetic but apologizing for being an idiot still means you were an idiot.
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Boston Celtics have to win 24 of their final 8 games to reach the 67 wins Bill Simmons promised us all.
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Jalen Brunson has scored at least 37 points in four consecutive playoff games. First player to do that since Michael Jordan in 1993.
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I got bored and turned the Moneyball scene with Brad Pitt into a Clippers related situation. You're welcome.
There was a lot of talk this offseason about how the Clippers would replace the scoring that Paul George supplied last season (22.6). Answer was to do it in the aggregate. The 19.2 uptick from Harden/Powell/Zubac combined with the 3.1 from Coffey basically gets you there (22.3).
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Two of the wildest stats.
• Kawhi Leonard has more career steals than fouls.
• Anthony Davis has more career blocks than fouls.
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I asked James Harden postgame tonight about his relationship with Stephen Curry and going head-to-head for 15 years.
"I really feel a type of way about him, you know, just because they got the best of us. ... Hopefully true basketball fans could understand it and appreciate it."
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Oh wow. Shohei Otani is opting for the MLB instead of Japan. 18 years old. Throws 99-100. This could be interesting.
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Brandon Boston Jr. on his offensive arsenal: "I don't know what I'm going to do so there's no way the defense knows what I'm going to do."
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This is a nuts pass. Fox fakes a pass to a rolling Len and then hits Monk with a no-look all while floating in air. Insane.
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It seemed like De'Aaron Fox made an insane pass to find Malik Monk, but I could have also been tricked by the camera angle. I need a replay of that.
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LA Clippers announcer Brian Sieman on the Luka Doncic trade: "In a related story, because the Mavericks are now focused only on defense, they gave up 50 points in the first quarter to the Cleveland Cavaliers."
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I thought you were laying on some thick hyperbole but nope. This is actually exactly what transpired lmao
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Memphis Grizzlies interim head coach Tuomas Iisalo compares Draymond Green to legendary Italian central defender Paolo Maldini: “I know we’re on the wrong continent but there used to be a great central defender for the Italian national team in soccer called Paolo Maldini.”
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Asked Clippers guard Bogdan Bogdanovic last night about the human element of being traded and saying goodbye to Trae Young’s son.
Bogi: “We’re all humans. It’s tough. … I have to go to his house, see his kids again, tell him we’re going to see each other again. That’s life.”
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My biggest takeaway from this video is why does the Suns arena have opposing players walk through a common fan area to get back to the court? That seems ... peculiar.
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And here's a photo of every single Pittsburgh Pirate trying to stop Amir Garrett from murdering Chris Archer.
(Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
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For the Clippers …
Kawhi Leonard: 6’7” to 6’6”
Kobe Sanders: 6’6” to 6’8”
Derrick Jones Jr.: 6’5” to 6’6”
Jason Preston: 6’4” to 6’3”
Jordan Miller: 6’7” to 6’5”
Patrick Baldwin Jr.: 6’9” to 7’0”
Yanic Konan Niederhauser: 6’10” to 6’11”
Nicolas Batum: 6’8” to 6’7”
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At shootaround today, LA Clippers coach Tyronn Lue said that Mason Plumlee approached him recently to tell Lue that he doesn’t want to “mess up” the “good thing” the Clippers have going as the team has won 17 out of their last 22 games, and will gladly sit behind Daniel Theis.
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For those who wanted it, here is Ralph Lawler's call of Landry Shamet's go-ahead three-point with 15.9 to go tonight.
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D'Angelo Russell, postgame on television: “They had guys that sat out and thought it was sweet to come back and play against us. It ain’t sweet.”
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Tyler Skaggs' mom, Debbie, strolls to the mound to throw out the first pitch, and fires a strike.
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Draymond Green is 1-for-17 from three since saying "my shot working now" after Game 1 against the Clippers.
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Through 2 games of Clippers-Nuggets.
Points
LAC: 215
DEN: 214
Turnovers
LAC: 31
DEN: 31
Games with stars who had 7 turnovers
LAC: 1
DEN: 1
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The USA Select Team has defeated Team USA in the first two open scrimmages we’ve been able to see today. The second one saw Cade Cunningham and Jalen Duren of the Detroit Pistons look quite formidable.
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Cannot WAIT for a team to play a game in New Orleans and then have to fly and play the second night of a back-to-back in like Phoenix or Los Angeles or the Bay Area. Tremendous stuff.
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This is an insane illegal screen to let go (which the L2M Report says should have been called but wasn't).
L2M reports for qualifying games played yesterday have been posted on official.NBA.com.
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Giannis really had a three year stretch where he went MVP, MVP, DPOY, Finals MVP, Champion. All before turning 27. Pantheon level stuff.
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James Harden and Chris Paul won as many games against the Golden State Warriors as Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Landry Shamet did.
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Clippers assistant coach Jay Larranaga created what he calls the EZ Rim, which helps with shot arc and form for players. Larranaga went to a welder to have it made and unveiled it this year after working on it for a while.
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Here’s a few of the snippets from the second scrimmage game which showcased Cade Cunningham and Jalen Duren of the Detroit Pistons:
The USA Select Team has defeated Team USA in the first two open scrimmages we’ve been able to see today. The second one saw Cade Cunningham and Jalen Duren of the Detroit Pistons look quite formidable.
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When I saw Nicolas Batum in Los Angeles last weekend, I told Batum that he didn’t tell me one lie about Victor Wembanyama when I sat down with Batum for a story two years ago. Batum’s response last weekend? “I tried to warn everyone of what was coming.”
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This pitch to end the game was WAY off the plate and Randal Grichuk of the Toronto Blue Jays let the home plate umpire know it.
Randal Grichuk: “Are you kidding me?! That was six inches off the plate! Oh my god! You’re terrible! God damn!”
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