Hollywood Blvd. News – Los Angeles Clippers Edition
- Updated: November 16, 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.
According to Bleacher Report, the Los Angeles Clippers are searching for the key to a championship:
“Right now, the Los Angeles Clippers don’t appear to have anyone who fits any of those bills all that cleanly.
Matt Barnes (42.1 percent from the field, 31.8 percent from three) has scuffled out of the gate, affording opposing defenses the freedom to cheat off him and, in turn, pack the paint for Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan. According to NBA.com, Barnes has been left wide-open nearly 40 percent of this time, but he has converted just 20 percent of those shots so far this season.
As a result, head coach Doc Rivers has recently taken to starting Jamal Crawford over Barnes on the wing. The reigning Sixth Man of the Year has responded with 15 points per game in his last two on one end, while getting torched by bigger, stronger and younger counterparts on the other.
“I don’t think we’ve had great play there,” Rivers said prior to practice on Friday, when asked for his assessment of the Clippers’ situation on the wing. “I think we’ve been better lately. I think Matt’s played much better. I think Jamal and JJ haven’t been a bad combination. We just need to keep working on it and probably go game to game and see where we want to go with it.”
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The Ballmer’s are no stranger to spending money, and they are at it again:
“Today, the couple announced a $50 million gift to the University of Oregon and an undisclosed donation to double the size of Harvard’s computer science department.
The gift to Harvard will allow the school to expand its computer science faculty from 24 to about 35. Ballmer, who retired as CEO of Microsoft MSFT -0.04% last February, earned his undergraduate degree at Harvard in 1977. It’s also where he met classmate Bill Gates, whom he later joined at Microsoft, leading the company for 14 years.“I think Harvard’s got a unique opportunity in computer science. It’s got the Harvard student body — the most fantastic student body in the world! It needs to grow,” Ballmer said in a video accompanying the announcement.
“Your future’s so bright, you gotta wear shades,” he added.
Half of the gift to the University of Oregon, which Connie graduated from in 1984, will fund scholarships for up to 500 financially disadvantaged students each year. Another $20 million will fund a multidisciplinary research initiative on obesity prevention. The final $5 million will go toward a branding effort expected to launch in January. The couple’s donation is the first major gift to the school since it announced a campaign to raise $2 billion last month.”
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