Nick Young News

I just wanted to share Nick Young's twitter status with everyone. He posted a picture of himself with a fresh haircut with a Clipper hat! This was posted yesterday afternoon.

The Los Angeles Clippers traded a first-round draft pick to the Cleveland Cavaliers for Mo Williams at the 2011 NBA trade deadline.

It is not that hard to build an NBA championship-caliber roster*.A Take a look at the long history of the league and the teams that have held up the Larry O'Brien Trophy have plenty of lot of common themes in how they were assembled.A In order to win a ring, you need your superstars, defensive stoppers and your Brian Scalabrines.A Using last ... (more)

The Los Angeles Clippers took some time Monday to reflect on what was one of their best seasons in franchise history.A Losing to the San Antonio Spurs via sweep may have been painful for the organization but they've clearly made tremendous progress.

It was quite a remarkable season in Los Angeles, not for the Lakers, but for their lowly cousins, the Clippers.

The Los Angeles Lakers are no longer a championship-caliber team and Nick Young's scoring abilities would take them one step closer to another NBA finals appearance.

One day after links with zero Wizards coverage, we don't have much more. But sill plenty o' playoff action to get to: There are few things basketball-related in which John Wall can compare to Kobe Bryant , but are both, to uneven degrees, victims of their surroundings? [ Wizards Extreme ] Tom Ziller argues that it's Andrew Bynum who needs to get ... (more)

I don't think this season was a failure at all, but more of a success and a step up.

The Clippers as currently constructed went as far as they could in a seminal season that might prove to be the turning point for this formerly tormented franchise.

Jordan Heimer was kind enough to transcribe the pertinent bits of information from last night's ClipperBlog Live.

Since Fred Silva covered the core of it, in the sense of getting better shots over 48 minutes tends to produce favorable outcomes, this will be less a recap and more free association thought bubbles... The observant among you will recognize these numbers as the point totals of our opponents throughout the first seven games of the postseason .

The Los Angeles Clippers will make a decision on whether to pick up the option for the 2012-13 season on coach Vinny Del Negro after they're out of the playoffs.

The Spurs vs. Clippers series has not lived up to the hype, as San Antonio has dominated the series thus far.

Yeah. They are. They really are. In an article of It Could Happens, Andy Hutchins over at the dot com goes into the 16 possible NBA Finals matchups remaining .

May 13, 2012; Memphis, TN, USA; Los Angeles Clippers shooting guard Nick Young , point guard Mo Williams , point guard Eric Bledsoe , power forward Reggie Evans , and power forward Kenyon Martin have a huddle discussion while in a time out during the second half of game seven in the Western Conference quarterfinals of the 2012 NBA Playoffs against ... (more)

A Chris Paul A is one of the best players in the NBA.A He is arguably the best point guard in the NBA.A But in this 2nd round series with the A San Antonio Spurs A Paul has been exposed.A His flaws have been unmasked and he is naked out there in front of the entire nation without even the comfort of an excuse.A The league has finally figured him ... (more)

Here is our daily look around the NBA - links to stories worth reading and notes to check out - done in bullet point form.

Game 1 ended with the San Antonio Spurs controlling the entire game. Winning by double digits is something the Spurs are getting used to in these playoffs and they're making it look easy.

Ever since Chauncey Billups went down with a torn Achilles early in the season, the Clippers have been searching for the right backcourt combination to play.

The arrival of Chris Paul to Los Angeles has given the Los Angeles Clippers another dynamic element alongside Blake Griffin, but is this team set up to be a one-year playoff wonder? With the new collective bargaining agreement really changing the landscape of the league, there are a number of teams that are poised to take a step back moving forward ... (more)