Michael Olowokandi is a lock to land in Miami according to Sam Smith of the Chicago Tribune. Olowokandi, who was supposed to command a salary near $10 million dollars a season, has watched his stock plummet due to inconsistent play and injuries.
Pat Riley, who has always coached teams with a dominant post player, is said to covet the seven-footer.
Olowokandi meanwhile, is said to have already purchased a home in Miami.
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Mar 30, 2003 10:00 AM EST
Miller is 27 and will become a restricted free agent this summer. He could sign for big money with another team — say, if John Stockton retires in Utah, where he played college ball — and the Clippers easily could deem it too expensive to match, and he's gone. End of Miller experiment. After one season.
"Who knows?" Miller said.
Elgin Baylor is the Clippers general manager who thought Miller would be the perfect addition. Which is not to blame Baylor. Most everyone else figured it was a smart deal.
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Elliott Teaford of the Los Angeles Times reports: Elton Brand wants to play again before the regular season ends and hopes to re-sign with the Los Angeles Clippers this offseason.
Brand, who has missed the past month with a stress fracture above his left knee, hopes to be cleared to play again on Monday.
He also hopes to return to the Clippers next season with a big-money deal.
"The thing is, with me, everything seems to work out. Even with the tough times we've had this season, there's a light at the end of the tunnel."
Finally, Brand thinks their is a chance that Clippers Owner Donald Sterling will finally open up his wallet this summer.
"I think, if there's ever a time, it could be this summer," he said. "I know the Clippers' track record isn't good. I know everyone is not going to be here next season, but if we could keep this core group together ... "
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Clippers Mar 2003 Archive
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Los Angeles Daily News | Mar 26, 2003
Steve Dilbeck of the Los Angeles Times reports: Andre Miller was thought be the piece that would put the Los Angeles Clippers over the top but things haven't worked out.
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Deseret News | Mar 23, 2003
Jerry Sloan didn't want to hear about the Los Angeles Clippers' woeful shooting, or the Jazz's comfortable advantage throughout much of Saturday night.
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Standard-Examiner | Mar 23, 2003
The Los Angeles Clippers' free agent tour rolled into Utah Saturday night, fresh from a visit in their last game by the Denver Nuggets.
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Standard-Examiner | Mar 23, 2003
The last time an NBA team was this bad, they folded.
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Salt Lake Tribune | Mar 23, 2003
From the moment he walked into the locker room Saturday night, Jerry Sloan could see this one coming.
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Los Angeles Times | Mar 22, 2003
Elliott Teaford of the Los Angeles Times reports: Clippers interim head coach Dennis Johnson isn't going to worry as to whether or not he gets to keep his job on a full-time basis next season.
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Orange County Register | Mar 22, 2003
The Clippers make their final visit this season to Salt Lake City on Saturday to play the Utah Jazz.
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Standard-Examiner | Mar 22, 2003
The latest incarnation of the Jazz, the one that has showed up the past two games, looks like a team poised to make a playoff run.
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Los Angeles Times | Mar 21, 2003
Elliott Teaford of the Los Angeles Times reports: Clippers free agent center-to-be Michael Olowokandi is mum on what he will do this offseason.
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Rocky Mountain News | Mar 20, 2003
Chris Tomasson of the Rocky Mountain News is reporting that the Clippers 91-78 victory over the Denver Nuggets wasn't just any regular season matchup between two non playoff teams.
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Jason Walker/RealGM | Mar 10, 2003
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| Mar 9, 2003
Bill Cartwright has always been wary of games in which the opposition is undermanned, K.
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| Mar 9, 2003
While Boston coach Jim O'Brien didn't want to take any chances when a gagging gas was released behind his team's bench against the Los Angeles Clippers, NBA officials - working with Boston police and FleetCenter security - decided that the substance sickening the players and the fans sitting behind them was most likely Mace or pepper spray released as a prank.
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ESPN | Mar 6, 2003
Jim Armstrong of ESPN's page 2 writes about how bad a franchise the Clippers have become.
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| Mar 4, 2003
It was a suprise that it took this long, but Clippers coach Alvin Gentry was finally shown the door today in Los Angeles after yet another disappointing season.
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| Mar 3, 2003
It was a suprise that it took this long, but Clippers coach Alvin Gentry was finally shown the door today in Los Angeles after yet another disappointing season.
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| Mar 1, 2003
The news keeps getting worse for the Los Angeles Clippers, who learnt yesterday that leader Elton Brand has a stress fracture just above his left ankle.
