Who is our backup for our clumsy Kaman?

A guy named Marcus Camby, actually Camby should be the starter. Kaman can back him up.

hopefully q outplays bricky @ sf

goodbye 2010 playoffs. hello cap space.
im just glad we didnt get rid of kaman!
i guess dunleavy's starting a rookie for the first time in his coaching career.
btw, its only fitting that we brought on a very injury-prone player in return.


pg-baron,collins,taylor
sg-gordon,ricky,taylor
sf-thornton,Q,novak
pf-griffin, camby, novak
c-kaman,camby,jordan

We still have Baron. Besides you'll find somebody else to bash.

goodbye 2010 playoffs. hello cap space.
im just glad we didnt get rid of kaman!
i guess dunleavy's starting a rookie for the first time in his coaching career.
btw, its only fitting that we brought on a very injury-prone player in return.

As if we are a playoff team WITH Z-Bo . I don't expect anything from Q-Rich, he can take an 82 game vacation for all I care. It's the 9.4M expiring contract and 7.4M trade exception that I'm in love with.

What he said.

And I'm not sure, but I think Q's contract is $8.4M.

Can we shop Q Richardson for money?

He's fat and unmotivated and does NOTHING on defense.

Never underestimate a player going into a contract year, never. Q is going to play his heart out.

I dont know if any of you have seen this but to me baron davis seems kind of sad that z-bo is gone. this was from his twitter

"Sad to see ZBo go. We talked everyday about how we are going to change things around here and have our best year! Very sad to see him go!"

Completelly true...Even Kandiman seemed good in his last year contract. In fact I think Kandi had everything to become an excellent player except his brain.

So I cant fnd it, but how much free cap space does this give us for THIS OFFSEASON????

I'd TRULY love to have our guys make a big time offer on Ramon Sessions or even Chuckie V.

However I would like to know like I said how much free space this gives us for this season, and what kind of cap space we are looking at in 2010?

I dont know if any of you have seen this but to me baron davis seems kind of sad that z-bo is gone. this was from his twitter

"Sad to see ZBo go. We talked everyday about how we are going to change things around here and have our best year! Very sad to see him go!"

As if we are a playoff team WITH Z-Bo . .

I was not a big Zbo fan, but I kinda felt bad for the guy. His agent spoke for Zbo saying he felt he found a home here in LA. He was looking forward to changing things for the Clippers. How many times have you heard of a player saying they wanted to stay here to help build the team. The bad feelings I had lasted about 10 minutes. Then it was over.

Since the Randolph trade was announced, I've refrained from saying anything more about Zach. Part of it was that I was afraid the Grizzlies would change their mind and I didn't want to jinx it. But the moratorium is being lifted tonight and I guess the transaction is imminent. One more post for Zach.

I stand by all my criticisms. His game is flawed. His defense is bad to the point of being detrimental to his team. And he doesn't do himself or his supporters any favors by getting himself into trouble, whether on or off the court.

When the Randolph trade went down back in November, I was angry, to say the least. Going back to those threads in November, I can see I wasn't alone.
The idea of bringing in Randolph had actually started soon after Brand defected. I tried playing devil's advocate in favor of Randolph, to at least give him the benefit of the doubt. The positives were easy to see: He's an offensive machine, capable of racking up 20-plus points a night, and despite his lack of athleticism, he rebounds well.

What never seems to get mentioned is that Randolph managed to come back from micro-fracture surgery. I've always been amazed how little this gets acknowledged. This surgery is supposed to be career-altering. When citing examples of successful recoveries, Jason Kidd and Amare Stoudemire get their due credit for putting in the hard work and rehabilitating. Zach also put in the hard work. I'd like to think his comeback reflects that he cares about basketball, at least enough to properly rehabilitate himself.

Basically, when we acquired Randolph, these are the things I told myself. I put on my rose-colored glasses and hoped for the best.

As I said, I suspected Randolph was more of a gamer than people give him credit for, and it turned out to be true. He always showed up and played every night. You know what you're getting when he suits up. It was nice to have a player like that in the starting lineup, considering how erratic and flakey Baron/Thornton/Kaman could be. Randolph wasn't always efficient, but he was consistent.

The Admunson suspension was kind of a tough break. Randolph's father was dying, and that Randolph was still on the court and soldiering though would be commendable had it not turned out the way it did. It's not too hard to forgive Randolph for this one, considering the circumstance. Let's face it: who wouldn't want to punch that guy in the face?

The DUI was a boneheaded move by Randolph. If he ever wants to overcome his bad guy image (and he's supposed to be a sweet guy when you get to know him), he needs to stop doing things like that.

Anyway, I read in a Memphis article that the team went 8-8 when Randolph and Camby started in the lineup and each played at least 30 minutes.

First of all: holy effing crap, we only had those two together for 16 games the whole year. Thanks a lot, Voshkul.

Second of all, I think the Memphis situation presents a nice chance for him to shine. A defensive shotblocker like Thabeet is exactly the kind of guy Randolph needs to be paired with in order to be effective. Even with Gasol, Randolph could probably work. The Grizz needed a scorer in the post, and Randolph can provide that, no question.

I'm glad Randolph is gone though because Griffin and Jordan will have more of a chance to develop. And I would feel insincere wishing him luck because he's never really won me over. But Baron and Jordan were both sad to see him go. Randolph's agent says that Zach was disappointed about the trade because he thought he finally found a home. Perhaps Memphis is where he'll finally redeem himself.

Well, sorry but I'm glad he's gone. Uh... Zach I mean, not the uncle. Oh sure, we'll miss the numbers a little. I mean a little because I fully expect Griffin to in large part make up for them once he's in the swing of things. And why shouldn't we? If you look at all of the number 1's since David Robinson, the scoring average for all of them in their first year is about 15.5. And that takes in from the high of Robinson at 24.3 to the low of Kwame Brown at 4.5. Boards Griffin should get. You don't have that body, with those hops and that hustle and not get boards, even in the NBA. Zach was a good rebounder, but I'll hazzard a guess that Griffin gets more boards out of his area in his first two months starting than Zach did in a season. Let me ask you this... how many times did you see Zach dive on a loose ball? Now I don't mean crumble to the floor in a struggle with a guy for a board, or sink to the floor in a pile of guys; I mean flat out dive for a loose ball? See, I don't remember that happening and I watched a lot of games. I will however wager that Griffin dives on a ball in his first summer league game, and on lots of them thereafter. I'm not saying that Zach wasn't a nice guy, or that he was untalented. I AM saying that given the choice, I'd rather build around a player that I know is talented, and whose hustle and effort is unquestioned. Maybe it's passe of me to think it, but I'd like to believe that, especially considering the money they're getting paid, our guys would be willing to actually bust ass on BOTH ends of the court. I honestly think that Griffin is the real thing, a bona fide star in waiting. After a couple of months of him starting, whenever that begins, I'm hoping that most of us will have vague memories of Zach at best. Maybe then we can ALL say nice things about him.

trading a star for in your words to "develop" and say he would flourish in his new home makes u a disgusting kind of clipper fan.. lol

Again, you need to lay off those types of inflammatory comments. This is the second post in the last minute I have come across from you.

You need to stop making things personal.