Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Iverson? Will the Clippers Ever Learn?


In professional sports, there are always those downtrodden franchises. The ones that just can get out of their own way. However, every one of those franchises tend to have a few silver linings in their past.

The Los Angeles Clippers really don't have any silver linings. Despite living in a sports world where parity reigns and advantages are given to help teams get up off the mat, the Clippers have managed to stay bad for nearly three decades.

Their stupid move of the week is their flirtation with Allen Iverson.

I can get with this a little. Iverson is a year removed from being one of the league's top scorers. He can bring fans into the arena. And he can be had relatively cheap.

He also is a guy who needs to ball in his hands alot. The Clips already have a guy like that named Baron Davis. Can both of them share the ball with each other? Can they share the ball with their future stars of Eric Gordon and Blake Griffin?

The biggest laugh I've had in all of this was the news today that the Clippers want to look Iverson in the eye and have him say that he's cool with coming off the bench. What? Iverson pissed and moaned about being a bench player for a perennial playoff team in Detroit. Why would you think he'd really be cool with that with the freakin' Clippers.

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