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Noah Graham/NBAE via Getty Images The Sam Cassell-for-Marko Jaric trade in 2005 set into motion a series of bizarre and historic events. Almost seven years ago, the Minnesota Timberwolves and Los Angeles Clippers swung a trade on a sleepy August da...

There's even a 'different vibe' in practice and shootaround for the Clippers.

AP Photo/Danny Moloshok How much can we take away from the Clippers' stellar performance on Monday night? It was all so odd. Not just that the Clippers trampled the Lakers in a preseason game, or that the media scrum outside the Clippers' locker...

Melissa Majchrzak/NBAE/Getty Images A new study says a Chris Paul-for-Deron Williams trade would've helped both New Orleans and Utah. Before Allan Maymin, Philip Maymin, and Eugene Shen introduce their new basketball metric, "Skills Plus Minus," th...

As the Clippers establish themselves as sexy up-and-comers in a league that loves promise, the loss to the Heat was a pointed reminder that their learning curve will be steep.

From T.J. Simers of the Los Angeles Times: A couple of months ago this was going to be the summer of all summers for the Clippers, a fresh start, a chance to hire a new coach, $17 million in cap space to go after LeBron or other big names like hi...

More good stuff on the positional revolution, this time from Jesse Blanchard of 48 Minutes of Hell. Blanchard writes that defensive roles are much harder to define than offensive ones, which makes reclassifying (or declassifying, so to speak) defensi...

Have the Clippers finally solved their elusive small forward problem?