lets sign Marbury

1. Jason Hart just became a much more significant player on the roster.
2. The Livingston dream lives on. Can’t seem to kill it—so at least there’s that.

Does anyone know if he had any injury issues? His best days may be in the past but he still seems too young and useful to be retiring.

In any case, moving on…

…does this mean re-signing Livingston is a possibility again?

I wonder if he failed a pre-camp physical: it turns out his bad knee just isn’t functional, perhaps.

The question of whether Jason Williams gets paid is only slightly interesting. It’s hard to believe that he would.

It does seem as if this retirement makes for a cozy means to slip Livingston onto the roster. The Clips have their elite-level PG in BD, who is going to hog all of the minutes he can handle. They have a solid backup in Hart. It would have been fun to have JWill backing up BD, but only if JWill still had significant game, and apparently he doesn’t. There’s Taylor, who they swapped picks to get, but he seems like an emergency 3rd stringer at best. I’m more interested in the way in which this retirement raises the possibility for Gordon to take some deep backup PG minutes—that’s another possibility, although my preference is for Gordon just to hit open shots at SG.

So all of that suggests that the Clips have the backup situation fairly well covered, and they still have an open roster spot.

Some would like that spot to go to a PF who is better than Brian Skinner, a better rebounder and defender, but Skinner is probably already behind Tim Thomas on the depth chart. It’s unlikely that that guy is out there. I think Skinner will be fine.

It almost seems as if the fates have conspired to give Shaun Livingston one more shot at playing for the Clippers.

The fact that there have been no takers elsewhere, however, creates a major reason to pause. He has definitely had all sorts of opportunities to find a spot on another team, and it hasn’t happened.

But part of the reason for this may be that he won’t really be ready to play for at least a couple of months, and a one-year minimum deal could end up having very little benefits. Most teams want guys who can play now, and they’ll pick up and add guys later in the season as the time comes.

At any rate, we know that Livingston has progressed in his rehab and he would be ready to come to training camp and participate almost to maximum capacity. If he could be a solid backup for the Clips for the last 25 games, and also play a role as a solid wing defender, it might work.

I thought he looked good both days. He’ll look like a string bean standing next to BD, but he seemed aggressive taking the basket to the hole. RDavis played with him and seemed to help him out on the court, give him pointers, etc. Plus he had a sweet shot… at least during the scrimmages I saw…

Not a bad option as the third PG.

I am getting sick of the SL drama, but at the end of the day he has the kind of potential it is worth betting a minimum contract on. With the leverage we have, we can probably get a team option as well. Since Mike Taylor seems to be playing so well and there are no PF’s available that are better than Tim Thomas, he seems to be an acceptable risk considering the enormous upside, Fate seems to have played its hand. I have known from the time I first saw SL play that he was going to be part of the Clippers bright future.

That is why I am a Clipper fan.