Disaster averted

Wow this takes some real guts by Tough Juice, hope he can come out and contribute.

I guess Vinny wants to keep the bench intact, I'm not sure how I feel about this. It is pretty clear the Young will get the majority of the minutes but just won't start.

So I guess he replaces Foye in the starting lineup. I have feeling that Foye is going to get some minutes at backup 3 as a lot of his minutes as backup 2 are going to go to Bledsoe as long as he keeps playing well.

Well I guess broken noses must be contagious right now. Will be fun watching CP3 play in a mask, hopefully it doesn't effect his game.

He has since been picked by Shaq whose team now consists of Blake Griffin, Jeremy Lin, Ricky Rubio, and Landry Fields.

The worst scenario has been realized as the injury is in fact a tear, while the severity is not given Billups is most definitely done for the season. This injury is a big blow to the clippers but I think they can move past it as we have depth at the two with: Mo, Foye, and hopefully a returning Bledsoe. It would be nice to add a fourth player to that list though.

The roster now stands at 14, most of us saw this coming. This also opens the door for one more player to be added.

This is good news, Monday is a lot earlier than I thought he would be ready, regardless of China issues. We can definitely use him against Orlando against Dwight and Big Baby.

this is great news, so barring any last second tightness we can safely assume that CP3 will be playing, no mention of any time limit but I would have to imagine that he wouldn't be starting if he was playing with a time limit. This is not to say that they will play him a full 35+ minutes but I think it is safe to assume there is no hard limit on his minutes.

Interesting, I thought for sure that Bledsoe would come back and be a rotation player but I guess Vinny has other plans. Edit: from the new article on ESPN LA it is clear this as some people said just a conditioning assignment, the team wants to get Bledsoe some low pressure minutes before he returns to a full speed game.

This is big news while I don't think we need Evans to win tonight his rebounding will definitely be a welcome addition.

It is a non-guranteed contract. I know absolutely nothing about Jones, but the article states he is considered athletic. Really anyone 6'11'' + will probably help.

- Edit 7:29 pm: The tweets from Brad Turner. Jones' Basketball Reference stats are here... Raffo

9:12 pm - C. Another Son of Mike Smith had the LA Times link with this tidbit: "The Clippers also still have interest in Antonio McDyess, even though he retired in December after 16 years in the NBA."

Wow, I didn't expect ESPN would shift off their Laker love so easily. But there it is a majority of 17 to 13 voters predict the Clippers win the division. If the Clippers do win the division it would be the first time in team history.

Kobe has torn a ligament in his wrist is day to day and won't play tonight.

It looks like the clippers have made their roster adjustments heading into tonight's game.

I'm not sure how I feel about this, obviously Hill had a great season last year. But I don't know how much of his new found health is him finally overcoming injuries or if it is more the magic of the Suns trainers who have proven that they can keep veteran players from being injured (Nash,Shaq, and Hill). I don't have the same faith in Powell.

I know many are worried that DJ may choose to go back home and play for the rockets, but it seems like they are looking elsewhere. There are still other places that may put up an offer on DJ but at least we know that there is a good chance that DJ won't be facing an opportunity to play for his home team.

For those wondering when the NBA will finally release its full season schedule they announced that it will be released 4P.M. (Pacific Time) on Tuesday on NBA TV. Although I expect there is a good chance that games will begin leak out before then.

The second Blake Griffin skit, this reminds me a little of the twilight zone episode Talking Tina.

It looks like when the vets and BG talked about doing workouts and keeping the team together during the lockout they weren't messing around. According to the article the summer league was the idea of BG, Mo, Foye. Not only is it great from the stand point of providing basketball for us fans to watch, but it also evidence of the strong chemistry this clippers team has. This is exciting stuff. The league is set to begin September 12th.
Edit: found a more detailed article, according to the article the teams would only be able to be 7 players (of course that could change), and the games may be streamed online.

The first step in Blake Griffin conquering the comedy world, next step is hosting SNL.

So much for all the trade speculation, this also means that those stupid Laker fans that said everything was going to be alright because they were going to dump their garbage for Howard are going to have to find a new delusion.

Of course this is all dependent on the lockout, interesting note though that the clippers will play a game in San Diego and one in Bakersfield.

I know this isn't clipper related, but it is always good to laugh at the Lakers when they screw up this bad.

I guess he must have felt good during shoot around. Good news for the clips!