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• Clippers make biggest gamble in NBA history on James Harden
Clippers owner Steve Ballmer has built a fantasy basketball team, trading a handful of draft picks and another filled with expiring contracts to the 76ers for one-time NBA MVP James Harden, but has he compiled it five years too late?...2023
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• VIDEO: Clippers owner Steve Ballmer’s heartbroken reaction to Paul George free throw miss
The Los Angeles Clippers fell short in Game 4, and nobody’s more disappointed than their team owner Steve Ballmer. With the Clippers down three points with just a shade over six seconds remaining, Paul George had two free throws to potentially inch LA closer to overtime. Unfortunately, PG was a little short on the attempt, […]
The post VIDEO: Clippers owner Steve Ballmer’s heartb...2021
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• Clippers might be Knicks' toughest competitors in free agency
Today’s game with the Clippers barely mattered to the Knicks; it’s the summer battle over free agents that’s going to be important, writes Marc Berman of The New York Post. There have been whispers around the league that New York is in good position to land Kevin Durant and another elite free agent after clearing tons of cap room with the Kristaps Porzingis trade. However, the Clippers could be th...2019
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• LeBron James, Dwyane Wade interested in eventually owning NBA teams
Michael Jordan is the only former NBA great who currently serves as the majority owner of one of the league’s 30 teams. However, LeBron James – who is often mentioned alongside Jordan in discussions on the league’s all-time best players – would like to join the former Bulls great in the ownership ranks someday. And, as Joe Vardon explains in an interesting piece for The Athletic, James is uniquely...2019
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• Blake Griffin denies snubbing Clippers’ owner
Blake Griffin insists he wasn’t deliberately avoiding Clippers’ owner Steve Ballmer when he sprinted to the locker room prior to this afternoon’s game in Los Angeles, relays Ben Golliver of The Washington Post. In a video that quickly went viral, Ballmer approaches his former player for a pre-game handshake, but Griffin turns and runs away. “For nine years now, as soon as I’m done with my pregame ...2019
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• Report: Clippers Considering Trading Up In Draft For Michael Porter Jr.
The Los Angeles Clippers have assets to move in the upcoming 2018 NBA Draft with the 12th and 13th picks, and Kevin O’Connor reported that a move up in the lottery is likely with former McDonald’s All-American Game MVP Michael Porter Jr. being a potential target. O’Connor noted that Clippers owner Steve Ballmer is a […]
The post Report: Clippers Considering Trading Up In Dr...2018
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• Steve Ballmer: Clippers traded Griffin to move towards ‘modern NBA’
Steve Ballmer spoke at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference on Saturday about the controversial move to trade Blake Griffin. According to ESPN.com’s Kevin Arnovitz, Ballmer said at the conference that trading Griffin was a “was a very difficult decision.” However, it was a decision needed to create “a greater distribution of responsibility.”“[Blake] is obviously a superstar player. But if you...2018
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• Clippers Moved Griffin to ‘Adapt to Modern NBA’
Before the NBA trade deadline, the Los Angeles Clippers would move on for Blake Griffin. But according to owner Steve Ballmer, there’s one particular reason why.“(Griffin) is obviously a superstar player. But if you look at what happened injury-wise, if you look at the kind of chemistry we were getting on our team, the thing you can see at the high level with the numbers when I started – one guy g...2018
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• Steve Ballmer isn’t interested in sharing LA with Lakers
The Lakers have been on a downswing over the past few years, and the Clippers have benefited as a result.New owner Steve Ballmer has said that the Clippers are LA’s team now, and whether he’s right or wrong, their record speaks for itself. The Clippers have been a playoff team, while the Lakers appear to be tanking for draft picks.For now, it’s been working, but the Lakers may soon land both LeBro...2017
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• Clippers owner Steve Ballmer was in total disbelief after Joe Johnson shot
Steve Ballmer was in total disbelief as he watched Joe Johnson bury his team once again.Johnson made a jumper with 19.2 seconds left to put Utah up 102-97 on Ballmer’s Clippers during Game 5 of their playoff series on Tuesday night in Los Angeles.Here was Ballmer’s reaction: Johnson had 14 points and 8 rebounds in the 96-92 win. He had 28 points in Sunday’s Game 4 win over the Clippers, as he went...2017