Tag: Los Angeles Clippers

NBA Playoffs: Future Looks Cloudy for Clippers, Lose Game 7 to Jazz 104-91

EBC Sports International Los Angeles Bureau Written By: Kenneth Cruz Photos By: Jaina Pallasigui “Clips gonna Clips” has been a saying adopted by the LA Clippers as they’ve lost a playoff series after leading for the 5th straight year. Once again, the Clippers finished their season underachieving as they lost in Game 7 to the Utah Jazz 104-91. Chris Paul was dominant all series and entered Game 7 averaging 27.3 points and 10 assists per […]

NBA: Utah Jazz vs Los Angeles Clippers Playoffs – Round 1, Game 5

Written By: Kenneth Cruz Photos by: Jaina Pallasigui Gordon Hayward led the Utah Jazz with 27 points as they secured Game 5 versus the Los Angeles Clippers 96-92. Hayward sat out the second half of Game 4 with food poisoning, but returned to the starting line up tonight and showed no signs of illness during his play. After the game, Hayward did admit, “I was definitely tired. There was a time I didn’t have legs.” […]

Denver Nuggets vs. Los Angeles Clippers

By Kenneth Cruz Eagle News Service, EBC Sports (Eagle News) — It was like deja vu for the Los Angeles Clippers (21-8) who found themselves in the same spot as last season by playing without their All Star Power Forward, Blake Griffin. Griffin missed significant time in the 2015-2016 season with a quad injury and then right (shooting) hand injury he sustained from an off-court incident. In his absence last season, the Clippers went 30-15. […]

NBA: Clippers win hard-fought season opener

LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The Los Angeles Clippers opened the season with 114-106 win over Portland on Thursday, wasting no time getting back into the trenches with the team that knocked them out of the playoffs. Blake Griffin and Chris Paul each scored 27 points in the Clippers’ regular season debut at the Moda Center arena in Portland, Oregon. Tempers flared often in an emotional and physical battle that included a number of […]

NBA: Paul out indefinitely, Griffin season over for Clippers

LOS ANGELES,United States (AFP) — Los Angeles Clippers star Chris Paul faces an indefinite injury layoff with a broken hand while Blake Griffin will miss the rest of the season, the NBA team announced Tuesday. A statement on the Clippers website said Paul, who broke his hand against the Portland Trail Blazers on Monday, had undergone surgery to repair the fracture. “Paul will be out indefinitely,” the Clippers said in an injury update. Another statement […]

NBA: Thunder roll over Mavs, Paul breaks hand

LOS ANGELES,United States (AFP) — The Oklahoma City Thunder punched their ticket to the second playoff round, but the Los Angeles Clippers’ chances of following suit were dealt a big blow when Chris Paul broke his hand on Monday. Paul broke his right hand in the Portland Trail Blazers’ 98-84 game four win as the Clippers guard became the second NBA star to suffer a serious injury in as many days. Earlier Monday, the Golden […]

In L.A. Clippers case, court does dirty work for NBA

(Reuters) – The National Basketball Association was navigating uncharted and possibly treacherous waters, first when it banned Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life for racist remarks and then when it demanded the team be sold by September. A court has thrown the league a big life preserver by clearing the way for the 80-year-old real estate billionaire’ s estranged wife to complete the $2 billion sale of the franchise to former Microsoft Corp […]

NBA sets wheels turning for Clippers sale; Oprah in wings

(Reuters) – Several luminaries from sports and show business, Oprah Winfrey among them, signaled interest on Wednesday in buying the Los Angeles Clippers as the NBA set a first meeting to weigh removing Donald Sterling as owner over racist remarks attributed to him. A day after Sterling was banned for life from the National Basketball Association, two of the league’s 29 other team owners, including the governing board’s chairman, said they expected to reach the […]