Donald Sterling’s long-running legal fight over the $2-billion sale of the Clippers suffered another setback Tuesday when a federal judge dismissed the onetime owner’s antitrust lawsuit against the NBA. In a 13-page order laced with forceful language, U.S. District Judge Fernando M. Olguin wrote...
The directives were spelled out in red and black on a whiteboard inside the Clippers' locker room before the game. Have a defense-first mind-set. Hold the New Orleans Pelicans to under 100 points. Learn from last night. It was a failure on all fronts. The Clippers were granted a do-over against...
The only Southern hospitality Saturday was provided by the Clippers, who didn’t put up much of a fight during a 113-102 loss to the injury-depleted Memphis Grizzlies at FedEx Forum. Here are five takeaways from the game: 1. It was another bad loss for the Clippers. It’s a good thing there’s no...
Zach Randolph stood over Jeff Green as the Clippers forward lay on the court, holding his head with both hands and writhing in pain. Randolph had come to check on Green midway through the third quarter after inadvertently elbowing him in the forehead. The blow left a gash that forced Green from...
DeAndre Jordan wrapped Matt Barnes in a bear hug before the Clippers' shoot-around. Chris Paul held up his phone so that his son could say hello to Barnes on FaceTime. That was it for the reunion between Barnes and his former teammates. Barnes couldn't play for the Memphis Grizzlies on Saturday...
Kevin Love cradled the basketball in his hands as he stood beyond the three-point line, his eyes roaming the Staples Center court until DeAndre Jordan came into focus when he rushed out to defend Love. As Jordan took his long steps from inside the lane toward the Cleveland Cavaliers' power forward,...
News and notes from around the NBA: TRENDING ... NBA adopts "DeAndre Jordan Rule" On Thursday, the NBA and the NBA players union agreed to shorten July's moratorium, reducing the league's dark period by five days. While teams are able to negotiate with free agents as of the first day of July, deals...
The already short-handed Memphis Grizzlies will be another man down Saturday night against the Clippers after the NBA announced it had suspended forward Matt Barnes one game for attempting to enter the Milwaukee Bucks’ locker room Thursday and “verbally challenging” Bucks forward John Henson. ...
DeAndre Jordan wrapped Matt Barnes in a bear hug. Chris Paul held up his phone so that his son could briefly chat with Barnes on FaceTime. But there was something about their former teammate on Saturday that the Clippers didn’t miss: more controversy. Barnes said he did not try to enter the Milwaukee...
One by one, Chris Paul ticked off the names: Matt Barnes, Lance Stephenson, Ryan Hollins, Alex Stepheson. Each played for the Clippers within the last two years. Now they're all Memphis Grizzlies. That makes the game between the teams Saturday at FedExForum something of an alumni reunion. It's...
The Clippers packed their silver linings playbook for the last long trip of the regular season. Fade in the final minutes of a loss to the San Antonio Spurs? No worries. It almost felt as if it never happened a day later, the way the Clippers handled the final portion of their Texas two-step against...
The Clippers made time to boogie as well as slip during their Texas two-step. They routed the Houston Rockets, 122-106, on Wednesday night at the Toyota Center in one of their strongest start-to-finish performances of the season. And it came only a day after a poor finish in a loss to San Antonio....
Austin Rivers was the last Clipper into the locker room Wednesday night, meaning he had to dance to fulfill the team's postgame ritual after victories. The shooting guard tailored his moves to the beat his teammates provided. “I adjust,” Rivers said. “It's kind of like basketball.” Changing things...
The Clippers are making a late-season move on the radio dial, switching to KLAC-AM (570) for their final 14 games of the regular season and the playoffs after signing a multiyear deal with the station. Their first game on their new radio home will be Saturday evening, when they play the Memphis...
The Clippers like to say you can’t win every game on a trip unless you win the first one. That possibility was erased after a 108-87 loss to the San Antonio Spurs on Tuesday night at AT&T Center, and there’s still a chance the Clippers could lose every game on their five-game trip unless they right...
Blake Griffin sat out another game for the Clippers. Curiously, their bench also went missing. The Clippers' reserves were that bad Tuesday night at the AT&T Center, obscuring an otherwise solid bid to become the first visiting team to win here this season. Clippers Coach Doc Rivers put five reserves...
Wilt Chamberlain would be pleased with the state of morning shoot-arounds in the NBA. They're largely becoming extinct. The late center once relayed a message to Lakers coach Bill Sharman that he would show up at the team's arena only once on game day, and Sharman could decide whether it would...
It was a trip that provoked angst in August, seven months before the Clippers would board their charter flight for the first of five stops. "As you get the schedule in the summer and you kind of glance over it," shooting guard J.J. Redick said Sunday, "this trip really stood out." Four of five...
NEXT UP CLIPPERS AT SAN ANTONIO SPURS When: Tuesday, 5:30 p.m. PDT. Where: AT&T Center. On the air: TV: Prime; Radio: 980. Records: Clippers 42-23; Spurs 56-10. Record vs. Spurs: 1-1. Update: San Antonio has won all 32 of its home games this season. The Spurs defeated the Clippers, 115-107, in...
Add Kanye West to the list of people not so fond of the Clippers' recently unveiled mascot, Chuck the Condor. The rapper was apparently watching the team's game against Cleveland on Sunday when he had a thought and expressed it on Twitter, addressing Clippers owner Steve Ballmer by name. Now Chuck...
By halftime Sunday, the Clippers might have been rooting for some technical difficulties to prevent the national broadcast of their game against the Cleveland Cavaliers from continuing. They were that bad during a 114-90 defeat at Staples Center that represented their largest margin of defeat this...
Phil Jackson received a warm ovation at the end of the first quarter at Staples Center. Kurt Rambis was also there, along with Sasha Vujacic, all representing the New York Knicks one way or another. Times change. Coaches and players leave the Lakers. Once-mighty franchises drop precipitously and...
A soundtrack of Clippers home games this season wouldn't be complete without some audible unease. It was perceptible throughout the second half Sunday at Staples Center, the only sustained cheers generated by fans swathed in the wine and gold of the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Clippers looked lost...
Clippers rookie forward Branden Dawson was arrested Sunday morning on suspicion of felony spousal abuse at a residence in Playa Vista, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Dawson was detained in lieu of $50,000 bail before being released in the early afternoon. Dawson would face at least...
Doc Rivers made a pregame joke about the potentially detrimental effects of the L.A. nightlife on the Cleveland Cavaliers, who have been in town since Wednesday. “Let’s go L.A.!” Rivers chanted in jest as he departed the interview room before his Clippers played the Cavaliers. It was actually the...
The calls between Cleveland Coach Tyronn Lue and Clippers Coach Doc Rivers have become more common now, the two exchanging ideas, encouraging the other and just simply checking on the other's well-being. When Lue became the head coach of the Cavaliers on Jan. 22 for the fired David Blatt, he called...
The Clippers defeated the New York Knicks, 101-94, on Friday night at Staples Center. Here are five takeaways from the game: 1) The Clippers called on Jeff Green to play heavy minutes because Luc Mbah a Moute (cut left eyelid) and Paul Pierce (sore right big toe) were both out with injuries. Green...
Make it a double-double. Or double figures. The Clippers needed six players to score in double figures to defeat the New York Knicks for the eighth consecutive time. Led by double-doubles from Chris Paul and DeAndre Jordan and a big-time three-pointer from J.J. Redick, the Clippers pulled out a...
Over the course of his eight-year career, Jeff Green's performance, game to game, has been impossible to predict. The Clippers have seen the uneven play from Green more often than not in his first nine games in a Los Angeles uniform. The last four games before the Clippers played the New York Knicks...
Former Clippers owner Donald Sterling and his wife, Shelly, have decided not to divorce, according to a filing in Los Angeles Superior Court. “Notwithstanding all the difficult events of the last two years, the Sterlings have resolved their differences,” Donald Sterling’s attorney, Bobby Samini,...
Wesley Johnson heard the crowd, felt the energy, marinated in the vibe during two recent games against the Oklahoma City Thunder. He could still not bring himself to use the P-word. The only player on the Clippers' roster besides rookie Branden Dawson and recent call-up Alex Stepheson never to...
It wasn’t so much a showdown as a showup. Oklahoma City outclassed the Clippers for most of a 120-108 victory on Wednesday night at Cheseapeake Energy Arena that put more distance between the teams in the Western Conference standings. Here are five takeaways from the game: 1. The Clippers literally...
There was no coming back from this.Try as they might, the Clippers could not wipe out another massive deficit against the Oklahoma City Thunder.At least the Clippers could spare themselves an autopsy after a 120-108 loss Wednesday night at Chesapeake Energy Arena that wasn't nearly that close....
They slept tight and the bedbugs didn't bite. The Clippers wouldn't let them. Fully aware of Cleveland guard Kyrie Irving's experience with the tiny creatures at the 105-year-old Skirvin Hilton here last month, the Clippers booked the nearby Sheraton before their game against the Oklahoma City...
Here they go again. Only seven days after a memorable ending involving the Clippers and Oklahoma City Thunder, the teams will meet once more. There doesn't figure to be prayers for the Clippers as part of the Thunder's pregame invocation Wednesday night at Chesapeake Energy Arena, but guess what?...
It looked like the Clippers might be headed for another defeat in the Big D, trailing late in the third quarter. Then a blitz of Chris Paul baskets and some defense that put the Mavericks in stoppage time for a quarter’s worth of basketball carried the Clippers to a 109-90 victory Monday night...
Chris Paul always plays with a tight scowl. This was something different, an intensity in his eyes that his teammates recognized immediately. "If you don't know him, it's a little scary," Clippers shooting guard J.J. Redick said. "Fiery is probably the best word." Fiery. Passionate. Focused. They...
There he was, the player Mark Cuban envisioned. Shaq-like. DeAndre Jordan was that dominant Monday night at American Airlines Center. He soared for dunks, grabbed rebounds and even made more than half of his free throws. It was everything Cuban wanted to see from Jordan in a Dallas Mavericks uniform....
DeAndre Jordan's return here will allow the Dallas Mavericks to fantasize once more about what it might have been like to add the coveted center to their roster. Meanwhile, the Clippers can ponder the doomsday scenario that would have been — losing Jordan at a time when they were also without Blake...
The Clippers closed a home-heavy portion of their schedule looking like a team in need of a getaway. They couldn’t defend or make the shots they needed in the final minutes of a 107-97 loss to the Atlanta Hawks on Saturday night at Staples Center. Here are five takeaways from the game: 1. The Clippers...