Hollywood Blvd. News – Los Angeles Clippers Edition
- Updated: October 29, 2014
We like to start our day searching the web and reading articles about our beloved LA sports teams. It’s easy to get lost in the depth of the inter web, but luckily for you we have compiled a list of the most interesting and pertinent news stories for your morning reading pleasure. For this edition, let’s dive into the news surrounding the Los Angeles Clippers.
The Los Angeles Clippers have had their most successful seasons as a franchise in recent years.
“They have been known as the “other” Los Angeles team, rightfully so. However, they won the Pacific division title the last two years and have opted not to hang those banners in the Staples Center.
The Clippers have elected to hang up the banners in their practice facility instead. Hanging a divisional title banner is a tradition that most NBA teams take part in, but not in Los Angeles. The Clippers share the Staples Center with storied franchises like the Lakers and LA Kings, both with multiple championship trophies.
Head coach Doc Rivers won a championship in Boston and looks forward to the Clippers raising what he told Arash Markazi of ESPN.com a “real banner” next year.
Rivers had this to say about the banner situation according to ESPN.com
“We have no history,” Rivers said Tuesday. “You might as well start parading something. It’s nothing deeper than that. I don’t love them. I hope someday we can remove them all and put the real banners up but right now we have to start from somewhere. I think anything that associates yourself with winning anything in this organization is important.
The Clippers have a loaded roster and championship aspirations for this season. They will have to go through the defending champion San Antonio Spurs to get there, and many feel that Clips will be able to do it. Arash Markazi had this to say about the Clips title chances”
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It sounds like a scenario that could exist only in the mind of a tech savant.
“A fan at Staples Center wants to see his favorite Clipper dunk on the overhead video board during a timeout. He accesses a website with his mobile phone, picks Blake Griffin from a lineup of players and selects a dunk from a list of shots.
Five seconds later, Griffin throws down a vicious one-handed windmill on the video board, with the fan’s name accompanying the highlight.
This could all happen as soon as the Clippers’ season opener against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Thursday.
New Clippers owner Steve Ballmer vowed to enhance the fan experience at Staples Center and he has teamed with Second Spectrum, a start-up tech company that provides the Clippers and six other NBA teams with analytical data generated by its proprietary software system.
“Steve really wants to give his fans access to the most cutting-edge stuff as soon as possible,” said Rajiv Maheswaran, co-founder of Second Spectrum.
The Los Angeles-based company developed software that will allow fans to pick highlight plays and have them shown on the video board on what’s being called Clippertron during timeouts. ”
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