Hollywood Bvd. News – Los Angeles Clippers Edition
- Updated: November 9, 2014
The Clippers’ slow start this season has led to frustration from Coach Doc Rivers, All-Star power forward Blake Griffin and other members of the team. Not to mention analysts and fans. (Ezra Shaw / Getty Images)
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.
ESPN.com reports, new Clippers owner, Steve Ballmer, has made his first hire since taking over the team:
“Gillian Zucker is joining Jeanie Buss of the Lakers as two of the few female chief executives or presidents in major U.S. pro sports.
Zucker spent the last nine years as president of Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, the West Coast’s largest racetrack. The 45-year-old Zucker replaces Andy Roeser, who took an indefinite leave of absence last spring during the scandal involving former owner Donald Sterling.
Ballmer said he met 25 to 30 people in searching for the right person, and described Zucker as “someone with enough intensity, enthusiasm and wisdom to really do this job well.”
Zucker said when Ballmer bought the Clippers in August, she thought running the team’s business side would be a job she would love.
“I’m so excited about what the future holds for the Clippers,” she said.
Zucker said she’s busy learning about the team, adding, “I’m drinking from the fire hose.”
“Even though he owns the team, it really belongs to the fans,” she said.”
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Many say that the Los Angeles Clippers do not live up to the hype that is surrounding them. The Los Angeles Times discusses this in more detail:
“The Clippers must play harder. Blake Griffin should take fewer jump shots. Someone, anyone, needs to step up at small forward.
Everyone, it seems, is playing pop psychologist, diagnosing the problems of a team widely expected to contend for the Western Conference title that has gotten off to an underwhelming start.
With the Lakers winless through the season’s first five games, the Clippers could color Los Angeles red and blue beyond their “BE RELENTLESS” ads adorning buildings and billboards. It hasn’t happened.
“This is a chance for the Clippers to take over the city and they don’t want it,” Hall of Fame shooting guard and TNT analyst Reggie Miller said Friday in a phone interview. “You should have people in the barber shop buzzing about the Clippers. As opposed to talking about their effort, they should be saying, ‘Did you see that play?'”
A more common refrain after the season’s first week: Oy vey.”
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