Commentary, predictions, rumors, maybe some smack on sports in Los Angeles
“You can’t stop him, you can only hope to contain him.” – Dan Patrick
That was the idea for the Los Angeles Clippers when game-planning a defense for New York Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony. He entered Wednesday night’s Thanksgiving Eve match-up between NY and LA as the second leading scorer in the Association averaging 27 points per game.
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A couple of teams heading in those proverbial opposite directions early in this NBA season tip-off in a pre-Thanksgiving day match-up at Staples Center in Los Angeles Wednesday night.
Winners of seven of their last 10, the Los Angeles Clippers host a reeling New York Knicks team that’s lost eight of its last 10 including six straight – the longest losing streak in the Carmelo Anthony era.
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Win or lose – and they mostly win – the Los Angeles Lakers are the gold-standard for NBA franchises. The purple & gold fan base is one of the most passionate and loyal in all of sports.
The “perfect storm” came together Tuesday night at Staples Center for the 10th Annual Lakers All-Access event put on by the Los Angeles Sports & Entertainment Commission.
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The gauntlet of playoff-caliber teams the Clippers are opening this season against is a daunting one, indeed.
They have already played the Miami Heat, Golden State Warriors, Houston Rockets twice and the up and coming Minnesota Timberwolves.
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After losing the season-opener to the corridor-rival Los Angeles Lakers the Los Angeles Clippers have reeled off two straight wins and look to get a third tonight when they host ex-Laker Dwight Howard and the Houston Rockets (3-0).
It’s Howard’s first visit to Staples Center since leaving the Lakers. He’s averaging 15 points, 17 rebounds and two blocked shots per game for the Rockets.
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It was supposed to be a changing of the guard in Los Angeles professional basketball.
The Los Angeles Clippers were now the hunted while the cross-corridor Los Angeles Lakers were the hunters.
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First year head coach Doc Rivers wants to make sure these Los Angeles Clippers aren’t your parents’ Clippers.
That’s assuming, of course, your parents were fans during that era of futility which is 90% of the Clippers history.
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The “baby blue” UCLA pipeline to the NBA is a well-traveled one with 15 Bruins currently on NBA rosters entering the upcoming season – the most of any college program.
In fact, UCLA has delivered the most players to the NBA with Shabazz Muhammad (UCLA 2012-’13) being the 83rd Bruin headed to the show this season with the Minnesota Timberwolves where he’ll team up with another former Bruin, Kevin Love (UCLA 2007) .
A third of all the currently active Bruin alums in the Association reside, appropriately enough, in Los Angeles.
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With all its National Championships in various sports – 108 of them which is by far the most of any NCAA school – a baseball championship by UCLA’s Bruins wasn’t part of that impressive national title total.
It is now.
National championship number 109 for UCLA comes via the baseball diamond thanks to the Bruins (49-17) 8-0 win over Mississippi State to sweep the best two out of three title series at the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Jim L. Mora is a coach of the people. That was made evident to me after this year’s annual UCLA Spring Game. Signing autographs mobbed by Bruins gridiron faithful on the Rose Bowl turf, I asked the second year head coach if he’d mind answering questions while he inked helmets and jerseys for the fans.
He politely said, “I really apologize but I’d like to give my full attention to these people because the fans are who really matter.”
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