I Forget - Were the Clippers a Suitor For LeBron James?

It’s nice to feel like I’m not blowing this out of proportion because you’re absolutely correct, it’s just weird for ESPN not to be thorough. They’re thorough with just about everything else, but when it comes to this, they’re very consistently.. well, as you said, “either sloppy or mean.”

It is what it is, and some of it is deserved.

Honestly, probably most of it.

Someone posted a poll about a month ago asking if we would be better off with a new owner (David Geffen) or Lebron James. At the time, I thought the question was silly.

Maybe it’s not.

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Steve, I agree 100%!

I have been a Clipper fan since the early San Diego days and this treatment by ESPN is insulting and embarrassing (for the network)! The Clippers finished 3rd in their division last year! 3rd! Not last. They have some exciting young talent and a very underrated center in Kaman. Throw in this year’s rookie of the year in BG and I feel the team is deserving of some recognition and respect…however slight it is.

Unfortunately, as long as the Donald owns the team, the Clipps will get laughed at. This is eerily similar to the Raiders treatment under Al Davis. For many years I have commented to friends that as long as Al owns the Raiders, they will get no respect and this is also true of my Clippers.

I can only take solace in the fact that when the team turns the corner and pehaps wins a championship, it will be EXTRA sweet to see the talking heads at ESPN jump on board and stumble through how they all saw it coming.

Unbelievable letter:

http://bit.ly/9MjmNZ

As others have pointed out, if the Clippers were owned by someone else other than Sterling, the Clippers would get more respect from the media, especially ESPN.

Freaking brilliant Steve…

As Clipper fans, we’re obviously all taking the more difficult path in the life of a fan but this chosen “plight” we all share has no doubt been intensifying over the last couple of seasons and we’ve reached something close to a boiling point this summer with our pursuit of Lebron. Everyone’s had their chance to take their cheap shots at us and unsurprisingly few have had our back, but the most glaring disrespect of all has been with the routine failure of ESPN to even acknowledge our existence.

For many of us, the shot at LeBron was our chance at the ultimate in revenge, or at the very least it was our chance at getting some solid recognition. Madgloves’ thread on the Clippers “pitch” was an extreme but very real example of how much this pursuit mattered, even in knowing defeat was all but guaranteed. This was the Clips getting some major attention, and for the most part we got bullied and pretty majorly messed with.

Of course it’s just going to energize our desire for this team to succeed. We’re going to debate the upcoming issues with greater ferocity, and in a more unprofitable manner, we’re going to continue to debate why we got into this situation to begin with. The net net of it is that we’re on the ground floor of one of the most massive underdog stories in all of sports. The occasional highs are that much higher, the lows are brutal, and maybe some of us have become junkies to an extent. Heck, a psychologist might even prescribe some sort of medication for a typical Clipper fan if they only knew what we’ve been through.

So let the fight continue, and let’s hope the players and coaches understand what’s going on and the opportunity they have to stick it to all this east coast snobbery and cowardly piling on.

Freaking brilliant Steve…

As Clipper fans, we’re obviously all taking the more difficult path in the life of a fan but this chosen “plight” we all share has no doubt been intensifying over the last couple of seasons and we’ve reached something close to a boiling point this summer with our pursuit of Lebron. Everyone’s had their chance to take their cheap shots at us and unsurprisingly few have had our back, but the most glaring disrespect of all has been with the routine failure of ESPN to even acknowledge our existence.

For many of us, the shot at LeBron was our chance at the ultimate in revenge, or at the very least it was our chance at getting some solid recognition. Madgloves’ thread on the Clippers “pitch” was an extreme but very real example of how much this pursuit mattered, even in knowing defeat was all but guaranteed. This was the Clips getting some major attention, and for the most part we got bullied and pretty majorly messed with.

Of course it’s just going to energize our desire for this team to succeed. We’re going to debate the upcoming issues with greater ferocity, and in a more unprofitable manner, we’re going to continue to debate why we got into this situation to begin with. The net net of it is that we’re on the ground floor of one of the most massive underdog stories in all of sports. The occasional highs are that much higher, the lows are brutal, and maybe some of us have become junkies to an extent. Heck, a psychologist might even prescribe some sort of medication for a typical Clipper fan if they only knew what we’ve been through.

So let the fight continue, and let’s hope the players and coaches understand what’s going on and the opportunity they have to stick it to all this east coast snobbery and cowardly piling on.

I’m cancelling my ESPN and save some dough.

if you’ve followed this team for any length of time (bandwagon jumpers from ‘06 don’t count), you should have developed impervious elephant hide-ish skin from all the bad press and ridicule and even jokes your buddies have laid on you at your expense. i noticed the slight too, and just chuckled. it comes with the territory.

win some f’n games and it’ll change eventually.