Woj article on near disaster this summer

[Roscoe Sheed]

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nba--clipp ... 46814.html

If this is true, yet another black eye for Sterling. What is wrong with this man

[Ranma]

If it were any other franchise in any other sport, this would be dismissed as absurd...but with Donald Sterling, it actually "makes sense". Good grief. Sterling needs to go...yesterday (if only it could happen).

[Wammy Giveaway]

This is similar to the Butler/Ariza trade that Sterling killed during the deadline because he did not want to ruin team chemistry last season. But it's different in that it involved repairing a glancing weakness which was shooting which required giving up a luxury item.

You have to remember that Donald Sterling helped Dr. Jerry Buss buy the Lakers in 1979 with a $2.7 million check. My thinking is Sterling still had ties to the Buss family, and he wanted to help them.

[mttwlsn16]

Gotta love DTS

[Neddy]

actually, i see this as a huge positive and a sign of 180 degree changes in our franchise.

can you imagine vinny del negro, neil olshey, or mike dunleavy telling donald to sit down and shut up? they would either bend over or quit at the first chance they get, or both. doc stood his ground and made his owner to do something that no other clipper headcoach have been able to do, which is to let the basketball decisions be made by basketball people.

it surely is a new day in clippernation.

[mttwlsn16]

I pretty much just quoted what you said on the old site. i made a new name there so I could talk Yankees and Vikings but occasionally post in the nba forum when it seems deserved

[QRich3]

I wouldn't put too much stock on the details of the story being truth, whenever Woj gets into his fairytale writing style you know he's just spinning things to make someone he doesn't like look bad. He did exactly that with Kahn in Minnesota the last couple of years.

In any case, I bet these kind of things happen all the time with every team and every owner in the league. And it's not like he was asking for something outrageous. I liked the trade when it happened but I'll bet you anything that everyone (Woj included) will be laughing at the Clippers "incompetence" for trading Bledsoe when he explodes into a big time player. All those are laughing right now at the ridiculousness of DTS trying to nix the trade.

[illastrate]

We all know he's a Boston guy who may have an agenda to post this the day before the season started. It's a non-story, but because it's Sterling, it is a story. Bottom line, Doc has a lot of pull and has made his mark with this organization. That is the big takeaway.

[Don Tommy]

actually, i see this as a huge positive and a sign of 180 degree changes in our franchise.
.

I hadn't thought of it this way. I went from being embarrassed to only being slightly embarrassed by this article!

[madmaxmedia]

It shows the organization itself may finally be stronger than Sterling.

Which is good because Sterling is a dumba$$. The one thing I could possibly say in Sterling's defense is that maybe he didn't know that rescinding approval for the trade would kill the Redick signing. But I would imagine the team would have told him that first thing, before he left on his vacation.

[Neddy]

I pretty much just quoted what you said on the old site. i made a new name there so I could talk Yankees and Vikings but occasionally post in the nba forum when it seems deserved

uh, I'm sorry if you thought i was replying to your particular post... i had just read this from CTB when i came in here yesterday, and thought most posters in both forums were responding negatively. i was just explaining why i think what allegedly happened between DTS and doc was a positive message to us the fans, because DTS actually backed out of his own stupidity for once. for a very long time DTS operated as if he was a cheapskate evil twin brother of al davis. good to see changes around here, you know?

btw you are 100% right, gotta love DTS.

I hadn't thought of it this way. I went from being embarrassed to only being slightly embarrassed by this article!

well he may not be dead yet like we all want him to, but at least he is changing his ways, a bit. i have no idea what his eldest son chris is doing nowadays, but his youngest scott died from drug overdose recently, and looks to me his son in law is going to inherit the team. hope they do better than his father in terms of managing a winner, sorta like an anti-buss family.

[mkwest]

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Sterling has to trust the staff that is in place. Right now, that means that he's got to give faith to Doc and Gary that they know what they are doing. Instead of trying to overrule them, discuss it and hear them out.

On one hand, Sterling did recognize Bledsoe's potential. Phoenix got a steal (basically Bledsoe for Dudley) and the Clippers probably did not get as much in return as they could have. For that, I understand his reasoning. Nobody wants to get ripped off.

On the other hand, the Clippers got very good fits and the move allowed them to not only bring in 2 starters, but preserve the MLE which allowed them to keep Barnes and add Collison. In other words, he can't see the forest for the trees.

At the end of the day. What's done is done. The trade was made, so I'm not too concerned about what could have happened.

[madmaxmedia]

I think we were all hoping for a big haul for Bledsoe, but anyone with eyes could see that Bledsoe as a impact starting NBA PG is still more potential than reality. There just wasn't enough of a track record yet for us to get the kind of trade we were perhaps hoping for.

That, combined with the fact that everyone knew we would be looking to move him because we have CP3, means teams weren't in a bidding war to get Bledsoe.