This was a pretty funny article from Simmons, with a lot of info I didn't know about. I know I've joked about Arco being built over a Native American burial ground or something, but the Clippers history is too strange to be fiction...
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/090624&sportCat=nba
Dear Blake,
Run. Just start running. Run for your life. Run like the star of a horror movie. Don't turn around. Run and keep running.
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Jennifer Pottheiser/NBAE/Getty ImagesThis was one of the worst things to ever happen to Blake Griffin.
I think you should play in Greece. Or Italy. Or Spain. Or anywhere else. You should play anywhere but for the Clippers. Your agents and advisors are in denial. They don't want you to seem like an ungrateful jerk. They want you to be as marketable and likable as possible. They have talked themselves into the following scenario: "If Blake can turn the Clippers around and become a star in the No. 2 TV market in the country, only good things will happen to him."
See, this is where they are wrong. The odds are overwhelming that bad things will happen to you until you leave. And you will. The Clippers are cursed. They have been cursed for 33 consecutive years. It's a real curse, not a "Curse of the Bambino"-type hex manufactured to sell books. There has to be a legitimate reason why the Clippers franchise has been falling apart like Jon and Kate for three-plus decades, right? We've seen too much losing, too much incompetence, too much bad luck, too many freak occurrences. There has to be an answer.
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http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/090624&sportCat=nba
Dear Blake,
Run. Just start running. Run for your life. Run like the star of a horror movie. Don't turn around. Run and keep running.
[+] Enlarge
I think you should play in Greece. Or Italy. Or Spain. Or anywhere else. You should play anywhere but for the Clippers. Your agents and advisors are in denial. They don't want you to seem like an ungrateful jerk. They want you to be as marketable and likable as possible. They have talked themselves into the following scenario: "If Blake can turn the Clippers around and become a star in the No. 2 TV market in the country, only good things will happen to him."
See, this is where they are wrong. The odds are overwhelming that bad things will happen to you until you leave. And you will. The Clippers are cursed. They have been cursed for 33 consecutive years. It's a real curse, not a "Curse of the Bambino"-type hex manufactured to sell books. There has to be a legitimate reason why the Clippers franchise has been falling apart like Jon and Kate for three-plus decades, right? We've seen too much losing, too much incompetence, too much bad luck, too many freak occurrences. There has to be an answer.
continued in the link.
