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Expectations seemed to finally catch up with Vinny Del Negro, who was fired by the Clippers.

The Los Angeles Clippers enjoyed their best season in franchise history, winning their first division title, a record 56 games, going on a 17-game winning streak and sweeping the Lakers for the first time. Their postseason, however, wasn't as memorab...

Los Angeles Clippers general manager Gary Sacks wasn't in a mood to say much about any of the major decisions hanging over the franchise this summer in the first few moments after the Memphis Grizzlies knocked the Clippers out of the playoffs.

PLAYA VISTA, Calif. -- The Los Angeles Clippers were still in shock Saturday. They didn't expect to be out of the playoffs just two weeks after they started. Chris Paul didn't have any plans on his calendar until after June. He doesn't know how he...

With their storybook season on a lifeline, the Los Angeles Clippers had perhaps their gutsiest performance of the 2013 playoffs, but it simply proved too late. "We took too long to come to fight," Chris Paul told reporters following the Memphis Gr...

Los Angeles Clippers general manager Gary Sacks wasn't in a mood to say much about any of the major decisions hanging over the franchise this summer in the first few moments after the Memphis Grizzlies knocked the Clippers out of the playoffs.

The greatest season in Los Angeles Clippers franchise history wasn't supposed to end this way. A season in which the Clippers won a club-record 56 games, 17 straight, their first division title and swept the Los Angeles Lakers ended with a far too...

After Los Angeles' first-round elimination from the playoffs Amin Elhassan analyzes the next steps for the Clippers.

Story | Conversation | May 03, 2013

Clippers forward thinks night and day about how to improve his game

The Clippers are looking at Tuesday's Game 5 as a "must-win."

Here are three ways the Clippers can bounce back in Game 5: Lean on their stars more It's not uncommon to see superstars play 40-plus minutes a night in the playoffs, as most teams don't have enough depth to remain viable with their bench playe...

As the Los Angeles Clippers celebrated their blowout win in Game 1 of their first-round series against the Memphis Grizzlies, there was a simple message written on the dry-erase board in the locker room: "9 min. left 77-76. End game on 35-15 run!"...

After Monday's buzzer-beating, game-winning shot in Game 2, Los Angeles Clippers guard Chris Paul was hailed as perhaps the best closer in the NBA. Three days later in Memphis, Paul was never put in a position to close Game 3 and he had as much to do...

Noah Graham/NBAE/Getty ImagesChris Paul: The All-Star point guard that dare not speak its name. The unspeakable At Grizzlies practice on Wednesday, Tony Allen was asked very generally what adjustments his team needed to make in Game 3. Allen catalo...

Harry How/NBAE/Getty ImagesThe Grizzlies can't -- and probably won't -- get pummeled on the glass as they did in Game 1. The Glass Finding signs of encouragement after a 21-point loss can be like leading a search party in the dark, but if the Grizz...

PLAYA VISTA, Calif. -- Los Angeles Clippers guard Eric Bledsoe had a coming-out party during last year's playoff series against the Memphis Grizzlies. If the beginning of this year's series against the Grizzlies is any indication, it could be the beg...