Raymond Felton danced around an Ed Davis screen, attached himself to C.J. McCollum’s hip and then reached up to block McCollum’s mid-range jump shot with the Clippers’ clinging to a slim fourth-quarter lead against the Portland Trail Blazers on Monday night. The Clippers eventually squeaked past...
Clippers guard Austin Rivers suffered a mild concussion during the team’s 133-105 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans Saturday night at Staples Center. That now means that Rivers will enter the NBA’s concussion protocol. Rivers was hurt late in the third quarter when Pelicans forward Terrence...
The Clippers were looking to get back right again while missing a key component in Blake Griffin and then seeing his replacement, Austin Rivers, have to leave the game for good in the fourth quarter. Though Griffin missed the game against New Orleans on Saturday night because a sore right knee,...
The chairs come out on the Clippers’ practice court and form a semicircle for the players to sit for the video session that’s about to take place. In many ways, this is their classroom setting, the place where the Clippers will see all their good and bad from the video Coach Doc Rivers will present...
The Clippers will be without starting power forward Blake Griffin when they host the Pelicans at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday night. Clippers Coach Doc Rivers said on Friday that the team was watching Griffin’s knee, which has been sore in recent days. Griffin also had swelling in his right calf earlier...
Clippers forward Blake Griffin has a sore right knee and his availability for Saturday night’s game against New Orleans at Staples Center will be determined at game time, the team announced Friday. The Clippers also said the injury wasn’t serious. Before the media was escorted out of the team’s...
Clippers Coach Doc Rivers said Friday that it will be a game-time decision whether Blake Griffin will play Saturday against the New Orleans Pelicans. Before members of the media were escorted out of the early morning practice, Griffin, who is dealing with issues with his right knee, could be seen...
His comments following the Clippers’ soul-searching loss to the Golden State Warriors on Wednesday night left Marreese Speights in the awkward position of having to explain what he meant. So as he stood before the media with his back against a wall before practice Thursday, Speights said he wished...
The game’s best highlight was the Warriors in a nutshell. Already leading by three touchdowns in the third quarter, the Warriors’ dizzying ball movement made the Clippers, well, dizzy. Klay Thompson dumped the ball into the post, then caught a pass on a cut before kicking it out to Draymond Green,...
The Clippers dropped their seventh consecutive game to the Warriors (19-3) on Wednesday night, falling 115-98 at Staples Center. The Clippers have now lost five of seven games and failed to reach 100 points for the sixth time this season. Below are five takeaways from the game. 1. Early and often...
The sound was exactly what everyone envisioned on this first big night of the season, Staples Center filled with screams and shrieks and wonder. But the noise was coming from Golden State Warriors fans. The sight was exactly what everyone predicted, a desperate team making a bold statement against...
The look of bewilderment crossed the faces of the Clippers in the first quarter, all of them looking startled at what was already transpiring against the Golden State Warriors. A 20-point deficit will do that to you. And it would only get worse, the stunned looks by the Clippers resurfacing when...
All Chris Paul can do is wait for the moment when the Clippers will force the All-Star point guard to sit out a game. Paul said he hasn’t had a conversation with Clippers Coach Doc Rivers or Jasen Powell, the Clippers’ director of media services and head athletic trainer, or Mark Simpson, the team’s...
Clippers backup point guard Raymond Felton will not play against the Warriors on Wednesday, and could miss additional time because of family reasons. “Obviously, he would be great to have, but it’s family thing,” Coach Doc Rivers said before the Clippers’ game against Golden State on Wednesday....
The Clippers are talking about practice. Not a game. Practice. An unrelenting early schedule made it impossible for the Clippers to practice in the first six weeks of the season. Before Monday and Tuesday of this week, the Clippers hadn’t had back-to-back off days since late October. That left...
It’s just one of 82 regular-season games the Clippers will play this season. But their opponent Wednesday night at Staples Center is the Golden State Warriors, and that strongly suggests that this game means a lot more. For the Clippers, it’s about ending a six-game losing streak against the Warriors....
There was no backbreaking run this time in the Clippers’ latest loss, only a gradual run for the other team. Earlier this season, the Clippers could count on their second unit for energy and for the most part to generate a lot more points than whatever they gave up. But that was not the case...
The Clippers fell to the Pacers, 111-102, at Staples Center on Sunday night. The defeat was the Clippers’ fourth in six games after they started the season 14-2. Below are five takeaways from the action. 1. Tale of two spurts The Clippers led by as many as 15 points in the first quarter and held...
A week later, nothing had changed between the Clippers and the Indiana Pacers where it mattered most. A more energized start and a frantic comeback could not compensate for the Clippers’ shortcomings during the balance of their 111-102 loss Sunday night at Staples Center. The Clippers’ reserves...
The schedule made it look like it might be a good time to rest a Clippers starter. The advanced metrics indicated everyone should be available to play. Clippers Coach Doc Rivers went with the more contemporary gauge of his players’ fatigue levels Sunday night at Staples Center, deciding not to...
It was a moment that at first made all the Clippers pause, a quick snapshot that eventually caused them to celebrate the significance of what they had just witnessed. Luc Mbah a Moute had just blocked a shot in the second half, and then the Clippers’ defensive savant did something un-Luc like....
The Clippers beat the Pelicans, 114-96, on Friday night in New Orleans. Here are five things we learned: 1. Since getting a game off for rest, Blake Griffin has been playing at a high level. He was on top of his game Friday night against the Pelicans, scoring 27 points on 12-for-22 shooting. He...
At the start of this six-game excursion, when the Clippers were still on a high because of their optimized play, none of them would have imagined that by the end they’d just be hoping the salvage the trip. But that was the fate they had to accept after a 114-96 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans...
J.J. Redick got the tap on the shoulder this time, getting informed by Coach Doc Rivers and his basketball support staff that the 6-foot-4 guard wouldn’t be playing against the New Orleans Pelicans on Friday night because of rest. Redick said that he wants to “play every night,” but he also knew...
Are you kidding me that Bill Plaschke honestly thinks these aren’t the L.A. Rams? This is just a new version of the losers who left this city 22 years ago. The L.A. Rams never won anything and please don’t count that lone title in the ’50s; the NFL was a joke back then. It’s the same old, same...
1. The Clippers had to be happy to see J.J. Redick get off to another strong start Thursday night against the Cleveland Cavaliers in a game that the Clippers won 113-94. Redick had nine points on four-for-six shooting, one-for-two on three-pointers in the first quarter. He had a total of 21 points...
Welcome back, Clippers. It had to feel good to see those early-season Clippers return, the ones who played unyielding defense, who came with the right approach to the game. And it had to feel extra special for the Clippers to break their three-game losing streak with a rousing 113-94 victory over...
Clippers Coach Doc Rivers was fined $15,000 by the NBA on Thursday for verbally abusing a referee and not leaving the court in a timely manner after he was ejected from Tuesday night’s game against the Brooklyn Nets. With 18.6 seconds to play in the first overtime of a double-overtime Clippers...
Before the Clippers participated in their shoot-around early Thursday afternoon, they watched a lot of film of their recent transgressions. The purpose of the session was to try and identify why the Clippers have had so many hiccups in their last three losses and how those could be fixed before...
Did success get inside the heads of the Clippers? Did all the accolades after a 10-1 start to the season in which they had the best record, best defense and a strong bench make them full of themselves? Center DeAndre Jordan pondered those questions after the Clippers lost their third straight game...
1. Everything about the Clippers’ 127-122 double-overtime loss to the Brooklyn Nets bothered Coach Doc Rivers. He didn’t like being issued two technical fouls in succession in the first overtime and being ejected. He didn’t like seeing Nets guard Sean Kilpatrick carve up his team’s defense on his...
Way back in August, when the NBA first released its 82-game schedules, Clippers Coach Doc Rivers and his assistants and the personnel in charge of biometrics had already decided to rest some of their players during the season. For Blake Griffin, that moment came Tuesday night, when Rivers gave...
The two technical fouls called on Clippers Coach Doc Rivers in the first overtime almost sealed their fate. The 18-point lead the Clippers blew in the third quarter almost sealed their fate. They survived both harrowing events — until Sean Kilpatrick retook control of a game he had taken control...
At the beginning of a season the Clippers sensed was filled with promise, they set the lofty goal of not losing consecutive games. They were unable to fulfill that pledge. After back-to-back defeats to the Detroit Pistons and Indiana Pacers, the Clippers will look to end the losing streak Tuesday...
The Clippers had set high standards during training camp and had met them early this season with a 14-2 start. Now they have lost their last two games, each by double digits, and there has been slippage in their overall play. This has become a source of consternation for Clippers center DeAndre...
The Clippers lost their second game in a row when the Indiana Pacers held them to a season low for points. Here are five takeaways from the Clippers’ 91-70 loss in Indianapolis: 1. Could the Clippers have been any more carefree with the basketball? It had to be maddening for Clippers Coach Doc...
En masse, the Clippers were simply awful Sunday night. En masse, the Clippers were uninspired to play basketball. En masse, the Clippers didn’t play with the “spirit” they always talk about. So the onus for the Clippers’ 91-70 inexplicable defeat to an Indiana Pacers team dealing with injuries...
Every few seconds while Blake Griffin stood in the locker room talking to the media after the Clippers’ surprising loss to the Indiana Pacers, he shifted his weight off his right leg. During the game, Griffin had worn a black sleeve on his right leg with a small compression pad on his knee for...
Days before the Clippers stumbled Friday night at Detroit, Coach Doc Rivers had informed his coaching staff that the team would practice Saturday when they arrived here. Rivers insisted he has never “made up my mind before the game” to practice because it could be “out of anger” and not because...
Here are five takeaways from the Clippers’ 108-97 loss to the Pistons in Detroit on Friday night. 1. He wanted the basketball, and the Clippers made sure J.J. Redick got it in the third quarter. And why not? Redick was killing it in the third, scoring 18 points in the quarter. It was the most points...