Hollywood Blvd. News – Los Angeles Clippers Edition
- Updated: November 4, 2014
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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.
According to ESPNLosAngeles.com’s Arash Markazi Darren Collison wanted to re-sign with the Clippers last summer.
“Darren Collison was born and raised in Los Angeles. He went to college at UCLA. His wife, son, family and friends live in Los Angeles, but yet Collison finds himself on the Sacramento Kings.
Last season Collison looked as if he had finally found his basketball home in no other place than Los Angeles. After being drafted in the first round of the 2009 NBA Draft, Collison had been four different teams in five years before making his way to the Clippers.
On the Clippers he found the his role as a backup for Chris Paul, and when Paul went down with a shoulder injury Collision thrived. The Clippers did not miss a beat once Collison was inserted into the starting lineup. They went 12-6 during the span, and Collision averaged 13 points and 7 assists during that time.
After the Clippers were knocked out of the playoffs, Collison opted out of his contract that would have made him less than two million dollars this season. The Clippers decided that they would rather fill the backup point guard position in a cheaper fashion and explored other options. They eventually signed Jordan Farmer, former Laker and UCLA Bruin to replace Collison.
While they found a replacement for Collision the Clippers also decided to use the money they did to sign a stretch forward Spencer Hawes. Hawes received a 4-year 23 million dollar contract.”
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A rivalry in LA? Between whom and whom?
“They say a rivalry is never really a rivalry until the other team starts winning.
Unless, of course, you’re in Los Angeles and winning doesn’t so much mean beating the other team as it does winning championships.
The rivalry between the Lakers and Clippers exists so far as they both share the same city, the same arena and practice mere miles from each other. There is always an inherent rivalry between teams that live and play that close to each other.
In Los Angeles, however, that’s not enough to make a rivalry, and that’s actually something that both the Lakers and Clippers can agree on even after the Clippers beat the Lakers for the fourth straight time and eighth time in the past nine meetings with a 118-111 win Friday night.
“It’s not for me to say,” Clippers coach Doc Rivers said when asked about the rivalry. “I’ve lived here a year and half. Our focus is on tonight, not history. We haven’t made any history.”
That lack of history is exactly why Lakers coach Byron Scott laughed at the notion that the Clippers and Lakers are now rivals. “
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