Los Angeles vs OKC NBA Hoops Handicapping
Los Angles has won five of its last six and arrive in Oklahoma on Thursday to take on a Thunder team that is perfect at home.
Los Angles has won five of its last six and arrive in Oklahoma on Thursday to take on a Thunder team that is perfect at home.
The Oklahoma City Thunder will make the trip out to the Staples Center in Los Angeles where they will take on the Los Angeles Clippers in a marquee early-season matchup between big time Western Conference opponents. Even with the playoffs an afterthought this early in the season, these are the kinds of games that could make a big impact come April.
The Miami Heat will look to push their winning streak to a modest three games. The Los Angeles Clippers are looking to bounce back after their three game losing streak was snapped in Orlando Wednesday night.
The Houston Rockets are looking to stay undefeated as they take on the high flying Los Angeles Clippers. It’s a great match up between two teams with a lot of star power on the court. Dwight Howard versus Blake Griffin. James Harden versus Chris Paul.
The Los Angeles Lakers will open the 2013 NBA regular season campaign on Tuesday night at the Staples Center, when they host cross-town rivals, the Los Angeles Clippers.
The Los Angeles Clippers are one of the teams out West vying for conference supremacy this year, but they’ve had an inconsistent start to begin the 2012-13 season. The Portland Trail Blazers are a young group looking to win off of energy and excitement, and they’ll play host to the Clippers Thursday night on TNT.
The San Antonio Spurs and the Los Angeles Clippers are considered legitimate contenders in the Western Conference, but it is the Spurs who have started their season perfect with a 4-0 record, while the Clippers have dropped back-to-back games against fringe playoff teams this season.
The Los Angeles Lakers have started their season in underwhelming fashion following the incredible offseason that brought Dwight Howard and Steve Nash to town. Winless through two games, the Lakers are now set to host the team that shares the same building, the Los Angeles Clippers. This rivalry hasn’t always been headline-worthy on the national stage, but with both teams fighting for contention this year, their contest Friday night will be the primetime matchup on ESPN.
Everyone expected the Clippers to improve greatly last season and they didn’t disappoint. When the Chris Paul saga ended with him in LA for the Clippers Lob City was born and they rode that energy all the way to the playoffs before getting swept by the more experience Spurs.
The Spurs did it again, winning in impressive, albeit different fashion. This time, like a cat playing with a mouse they let their opponents think they were in the game, getting down by as many as 24 points before turning it on and winning going away.
The Spurs proved again in game two that they are on fire.
I suppose it could be said that the fact that the Los Angeles Clippers made the playoffs and won a round is a fine accomplishment for a franchise without much history of success…but at least go out with your pants on.
The Clippers needed all seven games to put away the Memphis Grizzlies in round one.
THE STORY: The Memphis Grizzlies barely edged the Los Angeles Clippers for the No. 4 seed and home-court advantage, putting them in position to host Sunday’s winner-take-all Game 7.
The Memphis Grizzlies won game five by roaring out of the gate and dominating the first quarter. After that they played the Clippers pretty evenly which doesn’t exactly lead one to believe that this team is going to extend the series to another game.
The Memphis Grizzlies are on the verge of being eliminated by the Los Angeles Clippers.