Los Angeles Clippers: team history with more bad luck in the NBA
January 17, 2010 by bumeral
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Since his move to Los Angeles, the Clippers have not only had to drag the nickname ‘poor brother’ in LA, because the other NBA team in the city were the Lakers, but have also suffered a multitude of episodes, as lesions, which made, when fate began to smile, it would give them back and they returned to reality, as usual for this team, which makes them a fixed within the group of losers league American basketball.
The year was 1988 when the Clippers selected the No. 1 draft pick (a position that usually occupy the best young player of the year). The choice was Danny Manning, a promising forward who would turn on the reconstruction project Clipper.
In just two years saw their two stars most promising is badly injured
I had not been 30 games (out of 82 regular season) when Manning, after jumping around the basket, he began to limp leg unable to support. He had broken ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) injury that supposed to be, at least six months out. He missed the rest of the season.
Far from sinking, thought the Clippers the following season. Signed one of the most promising guards in the NBA. A young man named Ron Harper, who came to be the scoring star of the Cleveland Cavaliers.
The effect was immediate. The Clippers started at full throttle the next season. And when everything seemed to work Ron Harper took the ball for a counterattack twisting his knee when he went up to the hoop. It just smashed the knee and say goodbye to the season. Another year and another lost project.
Manning and Harper, out of the Clippers
Both Manning and Harper left a few years later transferred to other computers. The first one he recovered and caught on big season in the teams he played for (in Atlanta was the undisputed leader and Phoenix Suns came to be awarded Best ’sixth man’ or best bench player in the NBA).
What Harper was even better. Ron eventually won NBA titles (five in total) at Chicago Bulls (with Jordan and Pippen) and the Lakers (with Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant). All under the tutelage of Phil Jackson. His last, and glorious years were spent in LA but the gold was taken by the Lakers and the Clippers not.
Beginning of s. XXI: The jinx continues
Harper was not the only case in which a promise of future triumph just another team in town. Lamar Odom is another example. The current Lakers player (and winner of the ring last season) began his career with the Clippers. Their behavior problems, but especially knee injuries for several seasons running was not allowed to provide all the quality and advancement within the workforce of the Clippers. It ended up being traded and that was when he began to prove itself.
In both Harper and the Lakers have won titles Odom, the Clippers were injured both his knees
Odom was gone and with it another 1 draft pick, a call center Michael Olowokandi, who never show anything in the NBA. Nothing went as expected with the Clippers and every time she tried to put a up a project team Sachse Well I missed something on the ground. But bad luck had not disappeared …
Livingston’s knee is torn
In 2004, the Clippers tried again. They had Elton Brand, consolidated as NBA star, but very lonely on the computer. They chose as number four in the 2004 draft, to a promising foundation named Shaun Livingston, who many compared to a legend, Magic Johnson, for his height and easy on the eye and base positions near the basket.
Livingston had problems with injuries since his first year, but the worst came in February 2007. After a bad fall in a counterattack, Livingston shattered a knee, one of the most shocking injuries that are remembered today in the NBA.
Blake Griffin, the last case, this year
“It’s the new Karl Malone,” claimed many specialists from the league. The last No. 1 draft pick, Blake Griffin, was seen as the new Malone (player who has the second Meor scoring mark in NBA history, outstripping even stars like Michael Jordan).
The last case has been this season: the best rookie in the league will not play or a season game due to injury also
But Griffin could not debut in the regular season with the Clippers, nor will. The power forward will miss the entire course after his knee injury (produced in preseason) has worsened, forcing him to undergo surgery and will keep four to six months low.
He writes a new chapter in the book of the misfortunes of a team that, moreover, has to live with adjective ‘poor brother’ of Los Angeles, a city where the Lakers and Clippers laugh cry.
Anthony Parker, another luxury companion for LeBron
July 15, 2009 by bumeral
Filed under Basketball rumors
CLEVELAND .- The Cleveland Cavaliers made an official recruiting U.S. escort Anthony Parker, free agent hitherto active member of the Toronto Raptors, and that’s going to join the new ring to assault the franchise in Ohio.
“Anthony will be a good addition to our staff. It is a very good player, smart and comprehensive,” said a statement by the general manager of the Cavaliers, Danny Ferry. “Our technical team appreciated all the good shooting and defense will make the team,” added the former player.
With this contract the Cavaliers, who next year to renew their star LeBron James, go a step further in its subsequent attempts to encircle the eaves of a strong group that lets you choose the title of league. Adds to its signing of Shaquille O’Neal, enhanced interior luxury for the game.
The veteran shooter ended contract with the Canadian franchise at the end of the last campaign and, as happened last summer, it was speculated a possible return to Europe with Real Madrid among his suitors. In its passage through the Old World won three Euroleague with Maccabi Tel-Aviv and was named ‘MVP’ of the maximum continental tournament.
Los Angeles Lakers withdrew the offer of renewal of its wing-pivot Lamar Odom
July 15, 2009 by bumeral
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According to the newspaper Los Angeles Times, the owner of the current champions of the NBA, Jerry Buss, decided to withdraw an offer of renewal for nine million dollars a year it had spread to the wing-pivot versatile, since neither he nor his officer spoke about the offer and it held discussions with two other franchises.
“Yes, we have withdrawn the offer on the table. At the moment, negotiations are broken,” said director of public relations for the Lakers, John Black, but not closed the door to the continuity of the player on the team Phil Jackson . “It is in the possibilities,” he added.
These two possible suitors are the Miami Heat, the team that came in from the transfer of Shaquille O’Neal in 2004, and the Dallas Mavericks, who after the failed attempt to recruit the Polish Marcin Gortat pivot back to level exception available means to recruit another player.
According to the newspaper said, Angelina says the player’s agent as the main impediment to further wearing gold and purple. Continuity is also essential to try to revalidate the title of champions, since leaving the internal rotation of the Lakers suffered a severe setback.
‘It is wonderful to be the best of the best’
June 15, 2009 by bumeral
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* Cavaliers held the title with her parents and younger brother
* Thanks for ‘lucky’ by calling at Lakers
* Stresses that the conditions so that they can repeat that success
ORLANDO (USA) .- At 1:30 am in Orlando, three hours after the final conclusion of the NBA, Pau Gasol had not yet returned to the hotel from the Lakers. A friend of Memphis player and assistant during the season in Los Angeles waiting, room key from Pau in hand, to be ‘liberated’. Neither they, being close, they had still managed to congratulate the champion. It seems that the Spanish had been kidnapped by the NBA for the future operation of a media title “forever” in the words of the player.
“I have a unique feeling of enjoying a moment that I am missing words …. It’s so hard to achieve this,” said the actor in the costume of the Lakers, a skating rink with champagne firm, where they danced also parents and the younger brother of the first Spanish ring that reached the NBA. Do not know when it will, but knows that will come as a result of this miraculous change of air in February 2008. “I was lucky to stop at this great team and this organization, the Lakers. But I try not to think too much in the past. I try to enjoy being champion and be the best of the best, it’s wonderful.”
The regusto is not comparable to any other and has the reach, the possibility of the plate. The current team, is committed to the continuity Odom and Ariza, who is not little. The Spanish hoped to continue both, which is not easy with calculator in hand. “We have a group of players with a high quality and technical staff to be seized. That’s what allows us to be with this cup and this gives us the chance to win more.”
Gasol was in desgañita commended his colleagues, starting with Kobe Bryant and followed by the main ‘threat’, that Lamar Odom accompanying him in the international press. The audience is Marisa Sáez, the mother of the Spanish international, who is not exhausted in the attempt to stop this happy time in your camera. Click, click … It occurs when one of those moments worthy of a portrait. Bursts in the room Derek Fisher, the grandfather. In a step to meet the 35, after winning the fifth game of the final against the Magic (86-99), builds up his fourth ring and, even as it celebrates the first day.
To the right of the table where his companions speak, begins to jump like a wild child, with tight fists in the direction of Gasol and Odom. “I am delighted that so many people proud of us right now,” says Spanish “wanted to win this title since I was nine or 10 years, and I finally completed that dream,” the U.S. is tender, which concludes: ” When I was going to say that it would be champion of the NBA. ” “Well come on, that I” could have completed Pau, already poses new challenges. “I would like to achieve the gold medal in a European, open the box of thunder, and does not say whether it will attempt this summer, against the forecast, or wait for 2011.
NBA: Celtics 92, Magic 88, Boston is the cartwheel
May 13, 2009 by bumeral
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Stephon Marbury scored his 12 points in the final period, keeping the Celtics in the fight after a lackluster 36 minutes in which ended with a handicap of 14 units with 8:49 to play. Orlando was in front 85-75 with 5:39 on the clock, but Boston scored the next 13 points to take the lead 88-85 before the Rashard Lewis free throws with 7.3 seconds remaining.
Paul Pierce had 19 points, nine rebounds and eight assists, Kendrick Perkins grabbed 11 rebounds, and Glen “Big Baby” Davis, the hero of the fourth game, scored 10 of his 21 points in the final period. Davis also grabbed the rebound and put a pair of free throws after he intentionally failed a Dwight Howard free throw with 5.9 seconds to play.
“Everything revolves around never giving up and have the heart of a champion,” said Pierce.
Howard had 12 points and 17 rebounds for Orlando, which needs a victory in the sixth game on Thursday in order to force the series back to Boston for seventh meeting to define the series.
Lewis scored 19 and Hedo Turkoglu had 18 Turkish with seven assists for the Magic, who almost let her go an advantage of 28 units in the first game, then fell in the fourth on Sunday when Davis dunk a long shot that went before timbrazo sounding of the final.
Davis came back to beat Orlando on Tuesday, but is not expected until the end to do so.
Mickaël Piétrus a ball that turned him Rafer Alston to the actions 77-63 with 8:49 to play, the Magic’s biggest advantage in the match, then the coach of the Celtics Doc Rivers, upset, called a time out .
But Marbury got a triple and then another basket, and after Davis made a pair of dunk, Marbury became a three-point play, making the score stood at 83-75. Turkoglu jumped to squeeze the ring and extended the advantage to 10 points before the Rivers put Pierce at a Perkins and Rajon Rondo back in the game with 4:55 on the clock.
Two baskets by Davis, another of Pierce underneath the hoop and placed over the shares in Perkins 85-83. Davis missed a shot that could have tied the game with 1:55 to play, but Allen is compensated by putting forward to Boston with a triple, only his third basket in the meeting.
The Lakers face the task to finish
April 28, 2009 by bumeral
Filed under Basketball rumors
* Pau Gasol scored 17 points and captured 11 rebounds, Kobe signed so many 31
* Was measured in the conference semifinals to win the Houston-Portland
- The Lakers had to pull the talent of Kobe Bryant to settle to the Utah Jazz (107-96) and advance to the second round of the playoffs. When everything seemed to seen above, the visitors, with an impressive 2-16 in part, the locals were nervous, which ended the suffering ENVIT getting 31 points from its top star. Gasol contributed 17 points and 11 rebounds in a discrete game.
Despite the final effort, the Jazz once again demonstrated its inability to draw something positive in the houses of Angelinos. Were close to them suffer in quantity, but failed at the decisive final game and said goodbye through the back door.
And that things that at first seemed different. With Mehmet Okur on track after his injury was to start another team with more options to do some damage to the Lakers more hesitant to start the series. There is no doubt that the gold and purple did damage lost the third game and see how Cleveland Cavaliers, a priori maximum threat for the title, sweeping the Pistons in Detroit on the fast track. The Turkish pivot started strong and not found anything that attempted in the first quarter to support an initial quintet returned with Kirilenko (14 points).
With Williams going from less to more, Utah managed to get ahead at the Staples Center for the first time in the series (10-14) and restrain the rush of the Lakers-led by Trevor Ariza and a great ending with Lamar Odom 26 points to end the first-quarter tie with a 26 that left the options open to see a disputed.
But the second quarter was a very different story thanks to Jerry Sloan, the Jazz veteran technician who decided to commit suicide for a while Kobe Bryant left in the hands of loose side lightweight. The star angelina moved to ease ball and worked his teammates, who conveniently extended the advantage to 10 points (40-30). Returning to the track of its three stars-Boozer, Kirilenko and Williams, helped to keep up appearances a long, but the party has entered into another dynamic in a team, you will of course go straight to slaughter without even scream.
In fact, Bryant gave a foretaste of what awaited them with a complicated basket on the horn to make the maximum difference in the rest of the game, 13 points for 56-43.
Gasol was silent the first half but with flashes of intelligence, which distills the best Spanish player of all time. He visits a lot of class and where that was not to be missed easy baskets. After reduced its contribution and in general was quite blurred, but had to do in the final game of their own.
The third quarter confirmed the predictions that the Lakers said they found little resistance in some impotent Utah Jazz so far. But then came the backlash of the last of Sloan, who did not want to say goodbye without making some noise. After being down 22 points, managed to cut the difference to 6 (95-89), but they lack cool head in the final game to get oil. They could have taken advantage of some Lakers already have a few drop in this series, losing defensive intensity for a few minutes to stop without experiencing hardship.
If the Portland “Spanish” do not prevent a historic comeback, the Houston Rockets will be the second obstacle to the Lakers Gasol, who at this point to smell the NBA finalists.
Pau Gasol – We are now more prepared than last year -
April 15, 2009 by bumeral
Filed under Basketball rumors
Ensures that Gasol Lakers arrive in good time to play-off
Ensures that Gasol Lakers arrive in good time to play-off
“Last year we did a good job but not finished,” Gasol said in reference to the role of the Lakers last season, which lost in the finals against the Celtics. “Now we are more prepared mentally,” he added.
“We know what we must do to win and hope to prove in court, no doubt that the experience of last season will help us as well as the additions of Trevor Ariza and Andrew Bynum (injured last year),” the 16 Angelina. “If all this money, it’s a great formula for success in these” playoffs, “he added.
Gasol went on to stress the presence of Bynum and Ariza healthy workforce in California. “Making a difference, two arms are huge for us, it’s great to see Andrew and producing healthy, a great relief. We are happy for him, is a great asset for us and gives us greater potential,” the wing-pivot.
The first game of the Lakers in the playoffs for the title will come this weekend, although the official date, can be Saturday or Sunday, has not yet been realized.
“We’re excited, we know that Utah is a tough team and we will not underestimate, but we are ready and we will do what it takes to win,” said Gasol, who will build these days to “rest”, “psychologically prepared” and let “everything flows”.
“Everybody wants the Lakers to win it’s a challenge every night to follow the best. It’s a pressure that we like, but sometimes do not play to our advantage,” he admitted. “Our approach is that our rivals should be more worried about us than vice versa,” he added.
NO MATTER THE FACTOR CANCHA
Finally, the Spanish said that not having the advantage of a hypothetical field in the final against the Cleveland Cavaliers does not affect the Lakers.
“It’s something that we can weigh in the final against Cleveland, we are excited about the regular season, which statistically is very good, although we have earned for being the best team in the league, but we are excited about what let’s face now, “he concluded.
Lakers have to take care of his legacy in 65 playoff victories
April 15, 2009 by bumeral
Filed under Basketball rumors
The hustle and bustle of 82 matches have finished for the Los Angeles Lakers. Now comes the time of the fair season, which has been waiting for this illustrious team.Andrew Bynum scored 22 points in his best performance since returning from injury and the Lakers won 125-112 to the Utah Jazz on Tuesday to close its regular season as the third team with the most victories in the history of the franchise.
The Lakers added their 65th victory, the same number reached in the 1986-87 campaign. The current team has only been exceeded by the sets of 1971-72 (69) and 1999-00 (67).
“Sixty-five victories with some of the injuries we’ve had is an achievement,” said Kobe Bryant.
The Spanish Pau Gasol added 20 points and nine rebounds, Bryant and Lamar Odom had 16 points each, while Sasha Vujacic contributed 15 for the Lakers, who won for the sixth time in a row at home.
Deron Williams got 25 points and 13 assists for the Jazz. The substitute Andrei Kirilenko added 20 points, Carlos Boozer 16 and Ronnie Brewer 14.
Bynum also contributed with four rebounds and three assists in his fourth game after an absence of 32 by breaking a ligament in his right knee.
“I’m well excited,” he said. “I think my adrenaline is going to decide the first game (of the playoffs).”
The Lakers begin the weekend of playoffs against the Jazz, who finished in eighth and last place to the postseason in the Western Conference.
In what seemed a foretaste of the playoffs, the Jazz did not like what he saw.
“They were inspired,” said Williams. “I got over 20 points, saw the board and I thought that there was a difference of 10 points but was 20. They can enter in a tris.
Meanwhile, the 76ers will be in trouble in the playoffs if they happen to be measured with a Boston team that will be Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett back.
Paul Pierce scored the basket of triumph, totaled 31 points and also undermined the goal of becoming like Philadelphia Pre sixth in Eastern Conference, in which the Celtics 100-98 win over the Sixers got.
Garnett was lost from the process for Boston to rest his knee and Allen purged a date of suspension, but Pierce offset the absence of the two luminaries to cast seven triples.
The Sixers most certainly should have taken the match point and ask how they can bend around sharp Celtics complete a series of first round.
Pre-Boston will be the second in the East and could face the Sixers when the playoffs begin this weekend.
In Atlanta, Flip Murray sneaks 17 points for the Hawks defeated the alternate 81-79 seconds to Miami Heat team in the playoffs abrebocas one that gave the impression of being a pre-season game.
Both teams are measured against each other in the playoffs, with the local Atlanta this weekend, and took him to rest up to their operators. Dwyane Wade, the Heat’s star, is not even uniform to play.
Michael Beasley was the best scorer for Miami with 23 points in just 24 minutes.
