Guard Patrick Beverley became the second Clippers player to leave the NBA bubble, departing Tuesday because of an emergency personal matter, according to ESPN’s Malika Andrews and confirmed by a league source. The Clippers now appear to be missing four players: Montrezl Harrell also left Orlando last week to tend to an urgent family matter,…
Clippers’ Patrick Beverley leaves bubble because of personal emergency — Press Telegram
You might have noticed, Patrick Beverley is serious about winning. Like, ravenously so. Or … so he thought. Beverley recently described the three weeks he spent working out with Kawhi Leonard during the NBA hiatus as life-changing. And Leonard suggested Tuesday that, after the two spent that time training together, Beverley has come back from…
Patrick Beverley says training with Kawhi Leonard ‘changed my whole life’ — Daily News
Clippers center Montrezl Harrell left the closed NBA campus to deal with an urgent family matter, the Athletic’s Shams Charania reported and league sources confirmed Friday. Harrell plans to return to the NBA restart at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida, at a later date. Prior to the restart, the NBA and its…
Clippers’ Montrezl Harrell leaves NBA bubble for urgent family matter — Daily News
In his first virtual meeting with reporters since joining the Clippers just before the coronavirus pandemic interrupted the season, veteran center Joakim Noah on Saturday shrugged off any natural reticence about playing basketball in the Orlando bubble. He didn’t even mention the food on campus at the Walt Disney World’s ESPN Wide World of Sports…
Clippers’ Joakim Noah is healthy and not taking anything for granted — Daily News
With so much movement happening on the social justice front, last month Lou Williams said he wasn’t sure whether playing basketball this summer would distract from those issues. And, he said, he didn’t know whether he should join the Clippers in Orlando as they seek to finish off what they hope is the organization’s first…
Clippers’ Lou Williams goes from on the bubble to in the ‘bubble’ in Orlando — Press Telegram
It’ll be a long, fraught road before the Clippers or any of the 21 teams in Orlando can claim Mission Accomplished. But even as they awaited the arrival of Kawhi Leonard later Friday, with the first 36 hours of solitary quarantine out of the way, Doc Rivers’ squad was eager to get down to basketball.…
Awaiting Kawhi Leonard’s arrival Friday, Clippers are on a mission in Orlando — Press Telegram
With approval from the team, the Clippers’ star Kawhi Leonard did not travel with his teammates Wednesday to Orlando, Florida, according to Yahoo’s Chris Haynes and confirmed by a league source. The two-time two-time NBA Finals MVP and Defensive Player of the Year is expected to join the squad in a few days at the…
Kawhi Leonard doesn’t travel with Clippers to Orlando, is due to arrive in a few days — Daily News
Judging by the large piles of footwear pictured on his Instagram feed, Clippers sneakerhead/center Montrezl Harrell is just about ready to go. He and his Clippers teammates will join the 21 other NBA teams bound for the Orlando bubble this week, where the league will finish its 2019-20 season that was interrupted by the coronavirus…
Clippers facility shuttered, but players exhibiting enthusiasm online — Press Telegram
The Clippers have signed on Joakim Noah for the NBA’s restart to the season beginning next month. The 6-foot-11 center was signed to a 10-day contract shortly before the season went on hiatus on March 11. A source confirmed to Southern California News Group that Noah had signed a contract for the rest of the…
Clippers sign Joakim Noah for restart with an option for next season — Press Telegram
The Clippers had just signed him to a 10-day contract before the season shut down.
Joakim Noah reportedly to sign with Clippers for restart in Orlando — ProBasketballTalk | NBC Sports
As 22 NBA teams prepare to restart their engines July 31, L.A.’s two-pronged championship chase picks up anew — in accordance with a wildly unprecedented plan that’s being unfurled in the midst of the national uprising happening during a global pandemic. “Basketball offers no vaccine, no cure,” Paul George said as he narrated a video…
Lakers, Clippers can again begin plotting route in NBA championship pursuits — Press Telegram
The Clippers announced Sunday evening that they will be the latest NBA team to reopen their practice facility on a limited basis, opening the doors at the Honey Training Center in Playa Vista on Monday for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic suspended the NBA season March 11 and subsequently shuttered team practice facilities.…
Clippers plan to reopen practice facility Monday for voluntary workouts — Press Telegram
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