ROFL. Sterling and the Clips are such a joke. Here's my question: Would the Clips surrender their 2011 or 2012 first round draft pick lottery unprotected for somebody to take Davis off their hands?
Adrian Wojnarowski's theory about the Sterlings and the Shinns of the NBA is that Stern tolerates them as long as they keep on voting in favor of Stern's decisions at the owners meetings (or whenever they vote for stuff in the league).
I hear you, but what saves Sterling's bacon is the Clips being in Los Angeles. Answer me this: If you had to collect an NBA paycheck from a guaranteed sorry team for a few years, where else but in LA? That appeal is significant. If Sterling's Clips were in Minny, Nawlins, Memphis, Milwaukee, even Indy, somebody would have made a leverage play by now. Living in LA makes it very tolerable.
Really. You almost sound like a Laker fan. Sterling won't let that happen. This team has loads of talent but Davis needs to shape up fast.
How is he a bad owner if he's making money? Unlike some owners who buy teams as toys, his primary motive might be profit, rather than rings. Nothing wrong with that.
There's no leader. When you ask someone, who is the clear-cut leader of the Clippers? You'd get varied answers. Unless either Griffin, Gordon, or Davis take control and tell these young guns what to do; the Clippers are a lost cause.
well BD is outta shape, has been. why i dont condone sterlings racism,inhumanities towards however,and shrewd cheap-ness as a owner. I do love his approach to whoring and women though.
Wrong forum for a grease-palmed Randian spank session. Purchase a clue with your hard-earned capital you will find that Irrelevance: You has it.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=AgH8ljpKzAs4ABiXOkilNKu8vLYF?slug=aw-griffinclippers120910 Not that they dont' deserve it, but this is apparently a part of the "Crap on Sterling Week" for Yahoo Sports. Wojnarowski just got done trashing the team a few days ago now his colleague Spears joins in.
It's sad to see how far Baron has fell since leaving Golden State. He was such a beast with the Warriors!!
I think this is done so we can have some sort of change in LA. No one wants to lose Blake to the curse of the Clippers. That stink never comes off...
Clippers owner Donald Sterling has some choice words for Baron Davis — during games Sterling has been heckling the Clippers' highly paid point guard from courtside at Staples Center, according to a published report and confirmed by sources to The Times. And Davis isn't the first player Sterling has targeted. By Lisa Dillman The NBA's most dysfunctional team, the Clippers, was back at it again when it was revealed that owner Donald Sterling has been taunting and heckling players. Not other teams' players. His own. Sterling has reserved special ire for Baron Davis, taunting the point guard from his courtside seat at Staples Center, according to Yahoo Sports. Yahoo cited several sources in the story, and multiple sources, including injured Clippers center Chris Kaman, confirmed the account to The Times on Monday. Kaman, who has been sidelined because of an injured left ankle, also confirmed that Sterling has directed verbal shots at him, seeming more amused by it than angered. "All kinds of stuff," Kaman said. "Some stuff like, 'Oh, dunk the ball.' He owns the team. What do you want me to say? He's my boss. He signs the check. He owns me. "Not really, but you know what I'm saying. My rights to my basketball skills for five years." The Clippers are 5-20 this season, and Kaman and Davis are making a combined $24 million. Davis has two years left on his contract after this season and Kaman has one year remaining. "What he really wants is to not pay the guy [Davis], and they told [Sterling] he can't do that. . . . I know he wants to do it, but obviously he couldn't do it," said a league source who has worked closely with Davis and required anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly for the player. "He used to tell Baron, 'You're terrible. You can't shoot threes. Why do you shoot threes?' " The Clippers, asked to respond, declined to comment. Davis has had issues almost from the moment he arrived in Los Angeles. He was rarely on the same page with general manager/coach Mike Dunleavy his first two seasons, and didn't thrill new Coach Vinny Del Negro with his off-season approach to conditioning. "I really don't have any comment on it," said Davis, who says he is down to 209 pounds. "I have to continue to engage [with] my teammates and my coaches. Right now we're playing a lot better basketball and our chemistry is getting better. . . . I think the most important thing right now is for me to block everything out and focus in on this team." There were different methods of handling Sterling's behavior. Team employees would try to talk to the owner about the comments but felt it was an exercise in futility. The Yahoo report cited a source close to Davis as saying it was taking a strong toll on the point guard. That seemed obvious, the league source interviewed by The Times said. "That would be something that would bother anybody," the source said. "It doesn't matter. First of all, it kind of fuels the fire of the fans, potentially. Players talk about it all the time. Your morale is taken down by it. "That's the M.O. If you have the lowest payroll, or one of the lowest payrolls, in the league, how does that translate into a playoff team? The facts are always there. Teams that get into the playoffs spend the most money." That last comment was a reference to Sterling's having told Times columnist T.J. Simers in August that he wouldn't have signed Ryan Gomes and Randy Foye, whom the Clippers did sign in free agency. (Sterling couldn't even remember Foye's name.) Kaman has plenty of years of perspective on Sterling and his woebegone franchise. "He's an interesting guy," Kaman sad. "He likes to watch us play. He's very into it. Very into the decisions from what I understand. He's frustrated like anybody. ". . . The only thing I can say is that if it is negative at all, it's out of frustration. We're not trying to lose games. We're not trying to play bad. It's part of life. It's part of basketball." lisa.dillman@latimes.com twitter.com/reallisa http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-clippers-sterling-20101214,0,4379483.story
Hahahaha. He totally deserves it. Baron Davis hasn't played hard at all since he signed that contract. He's been out of shape and has given half-assed efforts ever since he signed there. Good for Sterling
Don't get me wrong, I can't stand Sterling, but he's the one paying the players millions. Frankly, he can say whatever he wants to because he's the boss.
