Free Agents officially sign/Press Conference 7/10 @ Noon

[mttwlsn16]

I am going to miss Michael Eaves, he was really good as the Clippers Pre/Post / Half Time host.... Good Luck!

Where's he going?

[mike3]

everyone seemed real happy to be here, some good quotes.

I like Barnes toughness one, hopefully everybody takes that on board.

Really excited for this season to get started!!

[Quake Griffin]

watching the presser.

sorta pissed dudley called CP one of the best PGs in the NBA.
THEE BEST!

get it right dudley

[Quake Griffin]

excited about Doc and Alvin Gentry implementing offense.

I am excited as hell to see this team play.
and more importantly, with a positive outlook, I am excited as hell to see them gel.

[mttwlsn16]

Nice rhyme quake

[mkwest]

Chris Paul Interview

Spoiler:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeVV7SZyo5A[/youtube]

Darren Collison Interview

Spoiler:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at5WGBGpi9c[/youtube]

Jared Dudley Interview

Spoiler:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmmdZQnl8NM[/youtube]

JJ Redick Interview

Spoiler:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gDvJy6JVgU[/youtube]

Matt Barnes Interview

Spoiler:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdp4RFwxzus[/youtube]

Ryan Hollins Interview

Spoiler:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwGijXbfPvc[/youtube]

[mttwlsn16]

Just watched it. Good stuff. Best part-Roeser saying they're grateful for DTS. Who'd have ever thought those words would be said haha

[mkwest]

INSIDER: CLIPPERS NEWS CONFERENCE A SYMBOL OF UNITY

“The fact that we’re having this press conference and all these guys are on the stage tells you we’re trying to build a team. And a serious team,” Clippers Senior Vice President of Basketball Operations and Head Coach Doc Rivers said.

The idea of unity seemed formulated by Rivers, who successfully banded the 2007-08 Celtics together en route to the NBA championship using a motto of Ubuntu, the southern African humanist philosophy that is characterized, in part, by togetherness.

“It kind of shows you the togetherness that this organization is trying to bring,” Dudley said. “I think it starts with Doc and how he’s trying to bring his style to the organization.”

The style has meshed with the idea of team that Vice President of Basketball Operations Gary Sacks and other members of the front office have preached. It’s about the team and continuity and family and pieces fitting together.

“It shows the level of commitment that everybody has,” Sacks said nearly an hour after the unprecedented news conference had turned into a miniature media day, “not just to themselves but to the team and that’s huge.”

Eric Patten, Clippers.com

Clippers role players are perfect fits

When Doc Rivers joined the Clippers as the team’s head coach and senior vice president of basketball operations, he was looking for guys to fit his system. He was looking for outside shooters who were good system defenders and void of any ego. He targeted Redick and Jared Dudley and ended up getting both in a three-team deal for Eric Bledsoe and Caron Butler.

“They’re great fits,” Rivers said. “They add shooting number one. They get who they are, all of them. They’re over themselves, which is so important in our league when you have guys who understand who they are and they usually stay in their lane. They’re over themselves and they have really gotten past that stage in their careers. They’re just trying to win and doing whatever it takes. That’s important for teams. When you can add guys like that to a talented group, it’s really important.”

“It was just a perfect fit,” Redick said. “Doc’s thing is all about putting yourself below the team, putting the team first and being about winning and those are the things that I’m about. It’s team first and building towards a championship.”

“This press conference is special,” Paul said. “It was me along with five other guys. There's no one person that's more important than the team and I absolutely mean that. That picture there of all of us up there is one I'll probably hang up in my house.”

Arash Markazi, ESPN Los Angeles

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[mkwest]

Just watched it. Good stuff. Best part-Roeser saying they're grateful for DTS. Who'd have ever thought those words would be said haha

The Donald has had a reputation that far precedes him. Financially, he's put his money where his mouth was for the past decade. He was still getting called cheap and there were still skeptics that expected him to relapse into his old frugal ways. I don't think anyone can say anything about that anymore moving forward.

He still needs to step his game up in being more selective of what he says and who he says it to Baby steps I guess

[mkwest]

Doc is in Los Angeles, and Clippers feeling good

"Everybody got interviewed at the same time," Rivers told USA TODAY Sports by phone afterward. "And you know what's funny is that the questions were about even. I thought that was great, but it surprised me. I was concerned going into it that every question would go to Chris. Shoot, everybody was asked about an even amount of questions.

"Having all those guys on the stage, and understanding that Chris is the key guy on stage today but they're all key to us winning, I thought that was very important. None of them are going to do it alone, and doing it as a group is what we have to do to be good."

"I think the chemistry and how quickly we can all come together is going to be key. Obviously the top two teams (Miami and San Antonio), the reason they're so good is they have star power and they've played awhile together. We have star power, but we haven't played (together) a while. But Doc will help with that transition."

Sam Amick, USA Today

[2Mas]

The 1-3 are looking awesome, but you def need 2 more bigs. Hollins in a straight 3rd stringer & with no LO or Ronny, there's legit holes up front.

Still a long ways to go & you guys done a damn good job so far.

[mkwest]

[Quake Griffin]

Sorry MK.

But I have a feeling Dudley is going to be a glue guy and potentially my favorite Clipper this year. As much as it annoyed me watching him get in Griffin's face, I can see him being the first one protecting Griff and CP3.

I mean, I see him being the 1st one to protect them in situations where Matt Barnes isn't on the court.