LOLOLOLOLOL!!! you are the reason why the rockets will not improve for a looong time. you should hate San Antonio too....
i dont ever recall billy crystal (proclaimed long time clippers fan) at any clippers games when i lived in L.A. in fact the biggest star in the audience was the big fat guy who would yell,"let's go clippers let's go!!!" in a high screeching voice throughout the entire game.
Billy Crystal was in the audience of the Clippers games the last time they were in the Playoffs and played the Rockets. He has been a Cliipper fan for a long time. I don't care enough about him to want to see him talking about it over the game, but he has been a Clipper fan for many years.
billy is there for a lot of games i was sitting next to "clipper fan" at the clippers rockets game back on valentines day when the rockets blew them out of the building. i was talking mad trash with him the entire game
What was Billy Crystal's biggest movie, City Slickers?? He's a Clippers fan because he can't afford courtside Laker tickets like Jack...
http://www.presstelegram.com/portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=3793824 Waiting finally over for Clippers By Ramona Shelburne, Staff writer Inside SOCAL EL SEGUNDO — Donald Easley was hoping to spend some quality time with his son, Clippers' guard Cuttino Mobley, when he came out from Philadelphia to Los Angeles last week. With the Clippers' in the NBA playoffs for the first time in nine years, he knew quality time might be hard to come by, so he was ready to take whatever time his son could spare. Um, that hasn't been a problem. By the time the Clippers open the Western Conference semifinals on Monday, they will have had an entire week off as the Lakers and Suns unexpectedly took seven games to decide their first-round series. In that time, Mobley and his father have been able to watch all of season one and most of season two of the hit television series "24." "I'd never watched it before, but he's got me going on it now," Easley said Saturday afternoon, as he waited for Mobley after the Clippers' held a short practice at the Spectrum Club in El Segundo. "He's got the whole set on DVD. We've watched a bunch of them. I didn't know they were so long. 24 hours feels like a whole week." Mobley and his teammates have had to find the right balance of resting and relaxing in their time off and staying sharp for the next round. The Clippers took Tuesday off, then went hard on Wednesday and Thursday and a bit lighter Friday and Saturday. "I get anxious, I'm ready to play," second-year guard Shaun Livingston said. "I've been resting my body, trying to get prepared. It's been a lot of down time so I've been watching the rest of the playoffs. I went out and caught the new Mission Impossible the other night." Veteran point guard Sam Cassell is the only Clipper used to such a long layoff in between playoff series. Cassell learned how to deal with the waiting game when he won two NBA titles with the Houston Rockets between 1993-95. Cassell said he's been using the down time to relax and prepare. Prepare for his next career that is. "I'm going to be a coach when I retire," he said. "You got to put the work in. I don't watch basketball like a fan, I watch basketball. I get a little notepad, jot things down that I notice." Asked about his impressions of the games he's watched this week, Cassell said, "Guys are playing hard, holding on for dear life." At the beginning of the week, most of the questions the Clippers were fielding had to do with the possibility of a "Hallway Series" with their Staples Center roommates, the Lakers. By the middle of the week, as Phoenix won Games 5 and 6 and eventually Game 7, the discussion shifted to whether they could run with the Suns. Saturday, forward Elton Brand was asked whether the Clippers' success this year has set them up for a run at the NBA title next year. "With all this down time, from the media aspect, the stories have changed," Brand said. "First it was the Hallway Series, then it was, 'OK, what if you play Phoenix," and now, 'What about next year?" and 'Can you make it to the championship?" But coach has kept us focused on our goal. We've practiced very hard this week to stay sharp and we'll be prepared." Brand didn't say which team he'd rather play in the next round. But center Chris Kaman did, although he seemed motivated by a desire to have home court advantage more than any preference in opponent. "I'd rather play the Lakers so I don't have to get on a plane to Phoenix (Sunday)," Kaman said. Brand offered another reason: "(Kaman) doesn't want to go to Phoenix because he doesn't play as much because they're smaller."
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/sports/basketball/14524811.htm The Suns' players point to the arrival of veteran point guard Sam Cassell as the key new ingredient. "I knew once they got Sam they were going to have a good chance with the guys they already have," Tim Thomas said. "Sam is a proven winner." Nash recalled his rookie season as a teammate of Cassell with the Suns. "I love Sam's game,'" Nash said. "He was the vet that brought me into the league in Phoenix when I was a rookie. We go way back. He taught me a lot. ... He obviously gives them experience. He's a champion, he's a winner and he's a terrific scoring point guard. He poses a lot of problems for us and gives them a lot of confidence and experience."
As if he wasn't my hero already. When in doubt, just channel the spirit of Bauer. That'll pull the Clips through. Down with Phoenix! Go Cat and Sam!
I am rooting for the Clips all the way, but Suns will try to force them to play their style of game, in which case the Suns will win. Clips MUST force the ball inside all the time and slow down the tempo, the Suns have problems playing in that style.
I like both teams but I'm feeling sentimental about Sam I Am and it would be pretty cool to see the Clippers playing in the WCF.
1. Raja Bell will leave these playoffs with the rep of a dirty player 2. phoenix getting some nice home cooking Rocket River
the clippers are still playing it close. keep within 8-10pts of the Suns, they can pull it off in the 4th.
