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Blake Griffin made a 3-pointer as time expired and the Los Angeles Clippers remained unbeaten with a 104-103 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers on Thursday night. DeAndre Jordan had seven points and 18 rebounds for Los Angeles, which at 4-0 is one of two unbeaten teams remaining in the NBA. Danilo Gallinari and Austin Rivers had 16 points apiece for the Clippers. Continue to Article

October 27, 2017 1:02:am EST

The final two minutes of Thursday night’s game between the Portland Trail Blazers and Los Angeles Clippers had it all: a dislocated finger, a reversed blocking call, and a game-winning shot by Blake Griffin. Portland took the lead with 43 seconds left on a sweet CJ McCollum floater from the right baseline. On the ensuing Clippers possession, LA missed a 3-pointer but recovered the ball for another attempt. Continue to Article

October 27, 2017 12:47:am EST

Blake Griffin went up ... way up against the Jazz on Tuesday night for one of the best dunks of the year, and the finish was Chappelle’s Show throwback we never knew we needed. It might look normal enough, or as normal as any thunderous yamming dunk can be — but it was Blake’s rim hang at the end that makes this one special. Maybe it was intentional, perhaps it was by accident, but it looked an awful lot like the 2004 Chappelle’s Show sketch “Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories - Prince - Uncensored.” Maybe it’s all a coincidence and Griffin never intended to almost-perfectly recreate a 13-year-old sketch — but the moment’s likeness is uncanny. It’s the emotionless backwards hang on the rim Continue to Article

October 25, 2017 8:45:am EST

The Los Angeles Lakers continue to dominate the wider conversation in the National Basketball Association, often for things that have only tangentially to do with shooting hoops. For instance: The Washington Wizards visit Staples Center on Wednesday, and the build-up has focused around a tweet sent out by Wizards center Marcin Gortat. “Man..... pleaseeeeee!!! @JohnWall will torture him [Lonzo Ball] for 48min,” Gortat wrote in reply to a message from LaVar, Lonzo’s father, that said: "They [the Wizards] better beware cause Lonzo ain't losing again. Not in the same week!” The brio and bravado doesn’t come from Lonzo, of course. "I don't pay no mind to it," he said in quotes reported by ESPN on Continue to Article

October 25, 2017 5:34:am EST