Back in 2001, Jay-Z released arguably his best album, The Blueprint.
Today launches the New Jersey Nets’ campaign to convince LeBron James to come and join his friend Young Hov (Jay-Z’s nickname for you non hip-hop listeners), who is a minority owner of the team. Cleverly thought out, “blueprint” remains a theme in a massive mural that is near Madison Square Garden (remember how the Knicks want LeBron too?).
A bold move by the Nets, who are banking on the rap mogul’s relationship with James to obviously help leverage his decision. New owner Mikhail Prokhorov is going to pull out all the stops to make sure that James signs on that dotted line of his newest investment.
It may have taken a hamstring injury from Brandon Roy, but Chris Kaman is going to represent the Los Angeles Clippers in Dallas for this weekend’s All-Star game. The Clippers big man was selected by David Stern as a replacement for the injured Roy. Kaman is having a career-season for the 21-29 Clippers, averaging 20 points and nine rebounds a game.
Many people felt Kaman, who wasn’t even listed on the All-Star ballots, was one of the league’s top snubs. Chauncey Billups was also in the same company, but thanks to Chris Paul‘s injury, Billups will also be joining Kaman in Dallas.
The Los Angeles Clippers aren’t having a terrible season, they’re only two games below .500 and reports surfaced last week that their No. 1 Draft Pick Blake Griffin would be targeting his NBA debut for January 20. Unfortunately, the Clippers just released a press release announcing that Griffin would undergo season-ending knee surgery.
Griffin averaged 14 points and eight rebounds per game in seven preseason games for the Clippers and is obviously the franchise’s building block of the future. The team is going to have to wait until next season to see what Griffin can do on a full-time basis — granted this is a rough start.
Now the question is, “Who wins the 2011 NBA Rookie of the Year?” — Blake Griffin or John Wall?
Hang in there Clippers’ fans, no matter what happens he’ll be better than Michael Olowokandi was.
Yesterday I went over the much-improved Eastern Conference, and today I’m going to hit you all with my Western Conference preview.
Ron Artest is in Hollywood, San Antonio is healthy and has added a bunch of new talent and Allen Iverson has agreed to come off the bench for the Memphis Grizzlies. The plot thickens out West, but one thing remains, Kobe Bryant is the league’s best player and is chasing after his fifth championship ring.
How will the West play out? I know the answers to all of this, so read the review already.
The Los Angeles Clippers have the absolute worst luck in the world, there is no doubt about it (Washington Wizards’ fans are screaming in outrage).
Clippers rookie forward Blake Griffin, who was drafted No. 1 overall in June’s NBA draft, may miss the first six weeks of the season, according to reports.
Griffin who has been dealing with tendinitis throughout the preseason, broke his kneecap during the team’s final preseason game on Friday. The reports are early, but according to a Clippers spokesperson, the team is going to be conservative with getting the rookie back on the floor.
With Griffin missing at least 20 games already, and the normal 3,000 missed games that Marcus Camby, Chris Kaman and Baron Davis give their teams every season, it’s going to be another rough season for the Clippers and their loyal, yet depressed fan-base.
The Clippers play the championship ring receiving Lakers tonight on TNT, so this should be entertaining (I say that loosely).
All three are great young players. Lee and Robinson were arguably the two best players on the Knicks’ roster last season. Sessions was easily the best point guard in Milwaukee, even though he had to fight with Luke Ridnour for playing time much of the season.
The Bucks are tight on cash too after the recent trade with Toronto for guards Carlos Delfino and Roko Ukic. In addition to Ridnour and Ukic, the team also invested their lottery pick on the highly acclaimed (especially to himself) Brandon Jennings, giving them three point guards already.
Last fall Jason Williams retired from basketball, shortly after signing a deal with the Los Angeles Clippers.
He was a 32 year-old, 10-year veteran with a ring, but he still had some game left in him, which had to have surprised the Clippers. As the season went on, like so many other athletes, Williams showed the urge to play again.
Williams has decided to do his best Brett Favre impression, and make a return to the game.
The 33 year-old Williams has signed a one-year deal with the Orlando Magic, where he will compete with Anthony Johnson as the primary backup to all-star Jameer Nelson.
Williams is a shell of his former self, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. He’s become a very efficient point guard through the years and could serve as a quality backup to Nelson on a very loaded Magic team, if he can stay healthy.
Williams boasts career averages of 11.4 points and 6.3 assists per game.
In his first nine years in the league Quentin Richardson played for three teams, this summer alone, Richardson has been traded four times.
The veteran swingman played his last four seasons in New York before being traded to Memphis on draft night. Since that June night, Richardson has been traded three more times: to the Los Angeles Clippers, then to Minnesota and finally to Miami. Well, I say “finally” in hopes that he can finally unpack his suitcase for a few months. Five teams in one summer, talk about building up your resume, even though he will never compile a stat for three of those teams.
It seems safe to say that Richardson’s crazy summer has come to an end, he should more than likely be wearing a Heat jersey come October.
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