Los Angeles Clippers

Donald Sterling is out. Floyd Mayweather wants in. Because, of course. New NBA commissioner Adam Silver dropped the hammers of all hammers on Tuesday afternoon when he banned the Los Angeles Clippers owner for life while laying out his intent to force Sterling into selling the team. All of this comes after Sterling was recorded [...]

“Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it’s perhaps far more terrible than it’s ever been,” Author and former Professor Angela Davis said during an interview in 1999. On the heels of the racially charged and offensive comments made by Nevada Cattle Rancher Cliven Bundy, [...]

Houston Rockets owner Leslie Alexander wants to stick it to Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling. And we should all love him for it. Ever since Sterling’s (alleged) closed-door, racially charged tirade was made public, calls to action have come in volume. Commissioner Adam Silver dropped the hammer on Tuesday, banning Sterling from the NBA [...]

Sunday was just the beginning for the Los Angeles Clippers. One day after TMZ released audiotape of owner Donald Sterling allegedly making racist remarks, the Clippers took the floor against the Golden State Warriors. They took it in symbolic fashion, leaving their warmups at half court. What came next wasn’t pretty. The Clippers were pummeled [...]

This is so Mark Jackson. During his time as head coach of the Golden State Warriors, Jackson has rarely hesitated to speak his mind or talk in hyperbole. That’s what we love about him, because it’s so entertaining. That’s what Warriors management may hate about him, because it’s too damn entertaining. Of all the things [...]

Folks, you made it. Congratulations. The NBA regular season is over. It’s done. Finished. Finito. And good riddance. Don’t get me wrong, this season was crazy. Downright exciting. But it also sucked. It sucked so freaking hard. More than it’s sucked in the past few years. Did it rival the 2011-12 lockout-truncated season? Shit, I [...]

Things are getting tense in the NBA. Months of playing and winning and losing and tanking and contending and injuries and comebacks and other stuff have come down to this: two-plus weeks of season-defining basketball. Some teams are battling for postseason seeding. Others are fighting for playoff survival, looking to snag a last-minute berth. A [...]

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Glen Davis’ night was cut short on Saturday after he was pulled early in the second quarter and then banished to the locker room by head coach Doc Rivers. Davis was yanked by Rivers at the 10:21 mark of the second quarter and had something to say to his head coach on his way to [...]

Put your trust in this week’s edition of NBA Power Rankings. With the regular season drawing to a  close, it’s really time to start putting things in perspective. Quite randomly, I stumbled upon the idea to develop an unpolished trust meter for every team, good and bad, tanker and contender, the Philadelphia 76ers and San [...]