denver being owned by LA

response from the la la rillies

from keith el otro
to oaktown nutty block & denverite loco keno

I dunno, (denver fan who shall not be named) was repping the nugs back when the clips pwned(!) them back in 05 (a series I still relive daily)

and he was repping nougat with keith (NOT moi) WAY back in 96 going to stan sheriff to watch shaq & co. romp on they silly asses (dear readers: in Honolulu, preseason, I was there, and he pointed at Jerry Buss and said "are you gonna pay me now????")

btw eff the lakes, er, ok, shit, i dunno, crazily, i was rooting for denver on this one... that hallway rivalry iz a beyatch (rivalry? more like bastard stepchild hatred toward the favored sons)... how can you not love a team owned by someone as lovable as donald Tokowitz Sterling silver, the NAACP loves him! (& his scrilla)

but elway gets the gasface all places all times all scenarios, from el segundo to aloha stadium....

blake griffin for president, someone find some garlic & a stake for dunleavy's bitch ass, assalamalakum, feed your head....

O-Town aint' just my fave boyband, they're lake killahs, you'll see, lebron gonna be lickin some toads at disney world

seacrest out

From: oaktown la la fan
To: denverite who shall not be named
Subject: denver being owned by LA
Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 03:18:06 +0000

Ok, I know your hillbilly-ass never claimed the Nuggets very hard.

You weren't quite man enough to claim such a crappy team (clippers/Whaler).

But none the less, the fact that John Elway showed up at a game and is now hanging his bitch-ass-losing-superbowl-record-(2-5)-head MAKES ME HAPPY.

LAKERS ALL THE WAY BABY.

Don't hate the player, just the game......

elgin baylor RIP

eff the lakes, all the way strait to hell... ok, not to hell, purgatory? but the lakes should be good this year... clips? get on board the mystery wagon, who the eff knows... and BD won't need surgery, thank allah, and camby should be healthy too, should be an interesting year, and as for EB, i'm reminded of a certain NWA skit with benedict arnold getting a haircut and an unforeseen encounter with a household appliance… or was that ren's romantic paramour... irregardless.... & just sayin…note: yes, I am directly contradicting my post below in which I try but cannot hate he #42 who must not be named. But elts let a short bald man full of hate emasculate the golden state, and for that a retroactive justice based hate must rate. btw if my credentials ring untrue to you simply check the files, no beyonce, to the right, globbin clipper claptrap since dub trey.... salud, selah, donald sterling, I hate you, I love you, let's make a movie together, how's your mother, etcetera acres, gratzi...oh and yes, you heard, or not, the door is shut on the shaun Livingston in clipperville era, sad state of affairs, but he’s at least another year away from actually doing shite, so, uh, get all Cuban over there kid, best of luck to ya, no broom closet for you, best wishes and caviar dishes…

adios EB & Maggs, howdy pards Boom Dizzle & "Mr." Marcus Camby, or how I melted Han Solo & rebuilt him into Luke Skyywalker

Marcus Camby signed by the clippers for just about nothing… wow, a real and actual coup, smart move, brains being showed, by elgin Baylor and mike dunleavy… next up in tonight’s news, flying pigs with semi-automotic machine guns reign fire down on the Glendale gallery and ala moana mall subsequently in one of the most ill advised yet brilliantly choreographed acts of animal vs. human war in our or anyone’s lifetimes…

From the Rocky Mountain News:

The Nuggets and the Clippers started talking last week when Elton Brand, who had opted out of his contract, left Los Angeles for Philadelphia.

"We sent word to teams over the luxury tax that we could take money off their hands," Clippers coach Mike Dunleavy said. Dunleavy said Camby, the 2006-07 NBA Defensive Player of the Year, might end up being a "better fit" than Brand.

He spoke with Camby on Tuesday. "It was a shock to him at first, but I think he knows he's a great fit," said Dunleavy, who plans to start Camby alongside incumbent Clippers center Chris Kaman.

From pickaxe & roll:

The real prize in this trade is the Nuggets have received a trade exception of $10.1 million dollars that they can use anytime between now and July 14, 2009 to acquire a player, or players, whose salary will fit into that exception.

Basically this trade is Marcus Camby for a swap of 2010 second round picks and a player to be named later.

You will hear a lot of bellyaching about how the Nuggets gave Camby away for nothing, but in all seriousness you cannot judge this deal until you see what they do with the trade exception.

While the clippers had to essentially give up nothing, it’s not that the Nuggets didn’t get anything. It’s really perfect from LA’s Bastard Stepchildren’s point of view. They get Camby, give up nada, and Denver still happily does the deal, which is why I’m quite impressed with Dunleavy today. Shockingly so. I’d rather have Camby for a rental, to tell you the truth, than take a chance (and a big chance it would be) on Josh Smith or Emeka Okafor for ungodly sums of cash (the clips would have had to throw huge contract offers at either one.)

I’m hoping they use the couple million left over (or some of it, at least) to sign back Shaun Livingston. Don’t we owe it to ourselves to see where he’s at and whatever production there is left, have it be in a clipper uniform? I just can’t give up on the kid.

Aloha, Elton Brand

Wow. So Elton’s goners. And I guess now we go after Josh Smith. Ok. Younger, extremely athletic, but, hmmm, that price tag. Atlanta will match just about anything. Is it really worth it? But what’s the alternative? I really don’t know if I can handle watching Tim Thomas “try” to bang with the league’s 4’s for another 82 games, Baron Davis or no Baron Davis. Tim Thomas, he, he saps my soul at anything beyond 20 minutes a game and spot duty as a hot shooter, decoy, what have you. He, he hurts me.

As for Elton. You, how could you, I, you, you son of a, you piece of, sigh, I can’t, I can’t denigrate the greatest clipper ever, good luck EB, in all you do, even though I hope phillie never wins another game and you rue the day, you put in good work and were the centerpiece of the greatest clipper season ever, and nobody else really comes close, which is moreso a reflection of your greatness and secondarily a reflection of the suckiness that is LA’s bastard stepchildren. Salud, selah, all of the above.

Quoth ESPN: Baron Davis = LA Clipper

Per the worldwide leader's Marc Stein it’s a done (verbal) deal.

"Sources told ESPN.com that Davis, 29, will receive a five-year deal worth an estimated $65 million.
Forward Elton Brand also opted out of his contract with the Clippers on Monday, and speculation quickly began that the team would try to keep Brand and sign Davis. This scenario is only possible if the Clippers renounce the rights of Corey Maggette and Brand takes a slight pay cut.
Sources say the Clippers are expected to do just that and quickly reach a verbal agreement to bring back Brand."

I don’t know how, but I knew it. It just made too much sense, while at the same time making none. Jinkies, Zoinks, et al.

Holy Smokers

I’m in a shits & giggles windstorm. Cosmic fluxidization has conflugrated to enable the possibility of bringing Baron Davis, the boom dizzle, into the clipper fold, and possibly at a bro discount due to the kind hearted and lofty champ aspirations of one Elton Brand. Wowsers. To think that the Clippers, yes, Don Sterling’s wayward bastard stepchildren, could be the recipient of some type of “let’s play for a discount for a shot at a ring” scenario is just the bass ackward championship Olympics featuring big mouth bass kleghorn on the waterjug. My brain is swirling, twirling, doing a double dip, triple entendre, the whole 9 yards.

This Clipperblog post is especially pertinent: (I’ll cheat and transcribe the last bit here, but read it all, truss):

”Could a Clippers team with both Elton Brand and Baron Davis chase the Lakers into the ides of March? Could sinking half of the team’s payroll into dual contracts for a couple of guys who will turn 30 this spring be ruinous going forward? All good questions, but ones whose worst-case scenarios shouldn’t preclude the Clippers from rolling the dice. Having tasted 47 wins, the Naçion will happily settle for pretty solid. “

HELLZ YEAH we’ll settle for pretty solid. After years and eons and decades of Rick Brunson and Pooh Richardson at the point, I’ll take Baron and a bag of chips, let alone hanging on to EB as well as an emerging Thornton and the intriguing rook Gordon. (Clipper Steve had a nice piece on that new piece (peace), and he made a hugely good point about how his #’s went down only after the injury to his wrist and once Indiana’s season started heading south like Joanie lovin Chachi.) I agree, Eric Gordon could be huge mondo, remember those 3 different slam covers that one month, beasley, rose, and Gordon, who was gonna be the first pick in the draft? Recuerda todos, mein freunde.

Read Yahoo's Kelly Dwyers' take on things, too. And, as always, scan true hoop for all the pertinent links, I must have read everything that mentioned Baron Davis, Elton Brand or both from Hank’s bullet and morning cup sections. Wild morning. A fascinating story about Baron opting out meets Elton opting out and fingers crossed they turn into some wacky hey your chocolate bumped into my peanut butter type antithesis to a fiasco and voila! The clippers might be an actual NBA team again. Suh-weet.

let's keep sea-town in the mix, por favor

lots of people are giving rat’s asshole burgers about this save our sonics dillio, myself included. When I say giving rat’s asshole burgers, that’s a high compliment of insanely huge proportions, ie it’s gigantically important to many people in the know. Saying “no one give’s a rat’s asshole (burger)” is essentially the opposite of the current scenario.

Supersonicsoul threw up a bell clamoring post today, and it’s expressive of a movement issuing planetquakes through the innernet. We gotta stop stern Bennett and the croney-ites from ass raping the pacific northwest, stat.

Props to the south florida fan blog for propagating further plethorization. Clickety clack. Sonics Central of course critically criticizing the supposed status quo. Certain segments of the mainstream media and their hooliganistic fertilizer eaters cannot be allowed to ramrod a false presupposition down our throats. Ball Don’t Lie is on the loop, as well, conglomerizing contact info for the NBA owners. Accountability counts, count on it.

Let’s not just roll over for this crap, folks. 40 years in sea-town can’t just go the way of the dodo bird without at least 83 firm bitch slaps. Man up, America. Salud.

I should type something here, theoretically

Yup, this blog still exists, sorry in arrears. The Clippers’ season? Not so much. Well, I guess, yeah, they go out and play the games, what scant refugees they happen to be able to scrape off the locker room floor five minutes before tip-off, but I don’t know if I’d call it an acual team.

Watching the semblance (that has a nice ring to it) for intermittent moments against the mavs yesterday, amid watching all the other games live & streaming, I was struck with just how awful and unwatchable the clips are this season. TERRIBLE.

90% of the NBA gametime I’d perused this year had been clips games. With 2 kids under 2, I barely have time to keep tabs on them, let alone the rest of the association. Then yesterday, in a fit of pique, I loaded up on NBA during slow times at work, (gracias to an amazing website that streams all the games that I won't link here, but email me or drop a comment if you want the info) and was amazed at the quality of basketball being played, even (actually, especially) by Chicago & Atlanta, two BARELY east playoff teams (Chicago prolly not, but) and they looked amazing compared to the la bastard step… oh, you know the rest. The Hornets were... as the guy from Everything is Illuminated would opine, proximally premium. Chris Paul is nuts and Peja, damn.

As far as our Clips, sad, sad, incredibly depressing season. But I won’t let it ruin my love for the roundball, or the clippers. Better times are on the horizon, and I still stand by Donald Sterling's wayward mishmash brigade, albeit not quite as much with their fake homeless center propagandizing owner. I hereby can only watch tiny sporadic bursts of clipper games the rest of the season, it’s too emotionally draining. Instead I will watch all the other teams when I get spare minutes. Teams that actually have something to fight for. Teams that actually have point guards not named Brevin Knight or Dan Dickau or (shudder) Smush Parker. Teams that pass the ball and get fast break points. Teams that… don’t sap my soul of its last remaining vestigal juice.