well, i really felt glad when i saw the scores of PHOENIX SUNS and the LA CLIPPERS, 3 minutes to go in the 4th quarter. it was a GAME 7 victory as the SUNS won against the CLIPPERS.


nice shot. really, really nice.

they had beaten the LA AGAIN. haha. =D let's go back to the first round, they had beaten the LA LAKERS with a big lead and now they had beaten the LA CLIPPERS with a big lead AGAIN. =D watta game, SUNS?! i so love it.

go BORIS!!!

the SUNS finished off the CLIPPERS, 127-107 final score. i'm really happy with their victory because PHOENIX SUNS is one of my favorites eh. =D i so love BORIS DIAW. he played well though he only made 14 points, still, i do idolize him. hehe. =D he was a big help to the team talaga. still, STEVE NASH lead the team to the WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS, by having 29 points and 11 assists.



well, they should ready themselves for the next round because they will be facing the DALLAS MAVERICKS, who kicked the SAN ANTONIO SPURS out of the series. it was a nice game also but knowing that the defending champs were defeated by the MAVS, just made me laugh. hehe. =D

"texas here we come!"

anywei, i just wish the SUNS the best of luck as they face the terrible MAVS. i hope they will be the WESTERN CONFERENCE CHAMPS. =D

i love BORIS!!!

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I like to introduce myself. My name is Tollis and I am the News editor for the blogger. Not really an editor of any type, but more like a media rat that finds Clippers related news. I will periodically find post for all my fellow Clippers. Today is a game day so it is time to get hyped up for the game. The best way to start your pregame ritual is by reading Pinto's Preview by matt pinto. It will give you a lot of insight on the match ups and what to expect.http://www.nba.com/clippers/news/pp0506_MIN_060313.htmlAfter watching the game, come back to the blogger and get Jordan's report after the game. On none game days you will see more of me and there is are great info in the LA Confidential http://www.nba.com/clippers/news/pp0506_MIN_060313.html and Around the cooler http://www.nba.com/clippers/news/atc0506_060311.html Don't forget to catch up on more Clippers news on hoopsword where Eric Pincus is on point.http://www.hoopsworld.com/CLIPPERS.shtmlSo we got all your Clippers news so that you can get your fix.-Tollis

Clippers Advance for First Time in 30 Years

LOS ANGELES, May 1 (Ticker) -- The Los Angeles Clippers are headed to uncharted territory.

Cuttino Mobley and Corey Maggette scored 23 points apiece as the Clippers advanced out of the first round of the playoffs for the first time in 30 years with a 101-83 victory over the Denver Nuggets.

IF David Stern Had a Time Machine

Stern just announced that the NBA will be, barring approval, changing the playoff format for next season, due to the shortsightedness of allowing the division winners to have the top 3 seeds. Now, a division winner can only go as low as the 4th seed. Of course, I would have gone for broke, and allowed division winners to be seeded as low as 8th. However, Stern wants to give some credit to the division winners, and this is certainly a big difference. This certainly does solve the problem of teams having an incentive to LOSE, as there was this year (the Clippers lost a bunch of games to finish in the 6th spot to face the Nuggets, and avoid playing Dallas in the 4-5 game). Even if you wanted to finish in the 5th spot, as opposed to the 3rd spot in the new rules, that seems like it would be difficult to do, and would require the loss of too many games, because the 6th seed would have a LARGE incentive to get into the 5th spot to play a weak 4-seed.

Anyway, the important question is what would have happened this season if David Stern had a time machine to change the rules. For instance, the Western conference would have turned out completely different. Let's just explore what would have happened:

1-San Antonio vs. 8-Sacramento – same outcome, with the Spurs winning in 6.
4-Denver vs. 5-Memphis – Eeesh. This could have been a wild series. As a matter of fact, instead of Denver GM Kiki Vandewegehe losing his job, he would have had his job 2 extra weeks until the Nuggets got bounced in the 2nd round. Memphis would have also won their 1st and 2nd playoff games, resulting in Memphis’s minute coach Mike Fratello going out and getting wasted because he usually performs poorly in the first round. And by the first round, I mean the playoffs in general. Fratello must be the "Czar" of regular season coaches who can't succeed in the post-season. He may even be worse than Marty Schotenheimer, who at least appears in conference championship games. I mean, Fratello had Dominique Wilkins in his prime!

3-Phoenix Suns vs. 6-LA Clippers – Aye carumba! This would have been a wild and wacky 1st-round series. Of course, the argument could be made that the LA Clippers would have actually won more games down the stretch to avoid the Suns. Phoenix in 7 (who knows?).

2-Dallas Mavs vs. 7-LA Lakers – This would have resulted in the Lakers getting demolished, as opposed to witnessing some of those insane Laker-Suns games that we saw this year. Dallas in 5.

San Antonio over Denver in 5. Carmelo Anthony tells everyone he's proud that he's not the next Tracy McGrady, because he can at least win in the playoffs.
Dallas over Phoenix in 6. Mark Cuban is finally happy, as his new, young PGs outplay, outwit, and outlast MVP and former Dallas Maverick Steve Nash.

And then San Antonio would have had more momentum, possibly, to overtake Dallas because Dallas’s secret weapon, Devin Harris, would already have been exposed and then exhausted, from dealing with Nash and Barbosa in Round two! Could the David Stern time machine have allowed San Antonio to make it to the NBA Finals??? The world may never know.

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Clippers Win: See You Next Week

Seriously.

Why doesn’t the NBA just postpone the playoffs until Kurt Thomas and Amare Stoudemire are healthy and ready to go? The NBA playoffs are now drug out longer than American Idol. We will announce the winner of the division series between the Suns and the Clippers…right after these messages.

The Suns have played something like 13 games in the past 25 days, but whose fault is that? Maybe if the Suns hadn’t fallen behind 3-1 to the Lakers, they wouldn’t be complaining about getting a day off.

But it is the small things like this that remind people why they were turned off to the sport in recent years. Everybody says that the NBA is back and that this postseason is fun. And it is. Little innocuous things, though, continue to bug. Like Sam Cassell mugging for the cameras instead of getting the ball over half-court in eight seconds. And the league still stretches out playoff series to nauseating levels. It’s a cheaper stunt than a two-part finale to Dancing With the Stars (only that show was less rigged than your typical NBA playoff game).

No matter, the Clippers will end this thing on Monday night. And gear up for the conference finals—slated to begin in June.

The St. Louis Local Organizing Committee will be hosting the 2005 NCAA Final Four at the Edward Jones Dome on April 2 and 4, 2005. The committee is a partnership between the Missouri Valley Conference, St. Louis University, the St. Louis Convention and Visitor's Commission, and the St. Louis Sports Commission.

The City of St. Louis, which is hosting it's third Final Four in 2005 has played a prominent role in the development of the NCAA Division Men's Championship. In 1973, Bill Walton and UCLA met Memphis at the old St. Louis Arena in the first ever Monday primetime national championship game.

Here's a list of FREE activities that will be taking place on Laclede's Landing throughout the four-day Championship Weekend, April 1-4, 2005: