Front Row Seat: Clippers send Chris Paul home
This is no way to treat a franchise legend.
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Los Angeles Clippers
Clippers send Chris Paul packing in a stunning, late-night move - The Athletic
The Clippers are in Atlanta, where they are set to visit the Hawks Wednesday night after a blowout loss Monday to the Miami Heat that dropped their record to 5-16. Paul signified at 2:40 a.m. ET that the Clippers were letting him go, posting on his Instagram stories account: “Just Found Out I’m Being Sent Home” with a peace emoji.
Monday night, Paul was one of four Clippers in uniform who did not play in the fourth quarter of a game the team trailed by as many as 38 points, its biggest deficit of the season. Joining Paul on the bench were former Houston Rockets teammate James Harden, free-agent signing Brook Lopez and two-way contract forward Jordan Miller. While Miller left the game with a back injury, the rest were coach’s decisions, with Lopez remaining out since a loss at Cleveland on Nov. 23 and Harden benched after his fifth turnover.
The Clippers Have Run Out of Rock Bottoms - The Ringer
Endings in sports are rarely pretty, but few arrive under such gloomy circumstances. The Clippers aren’t just bad, they’re screwed: Oklahoma City owns their 2026 first-round pick, a potentially unprecedented case of the rich getting unreasonably richer. This—plus the fact that the Clippers don’t have total control of their own pick until [squints hard enough to make my eyes water] 2030—takes a transparent tank job off the table. But it doesn’t necessarily rule out an intentional step backwards.
San Diego Padres
Padres Sign Longtime Yankees Pitching Prospect in Free Agency - Sports Illustrated
Boyle is a solid addition to the Padres' pitching staff, and while he may not start the season at the MLB level, he could very well come up to help throughout the season. The Padres are low on starters, with Yu Darvish out for the season after undergoing Tommy John surgery and Michael King still a free agent. Dylan Cease, who had spent the last two seasons with the Padres, signed a blockbuster deal with the Toronto Blue Jays on Wednesday.
Might Warriors and Valkyries owner Joe Lacob consider buying MLB’s Padres? - San Francisco Chronicle
Golden State Warriors and Valkyries owner Joe Lacob has previously expressed interest in purchasing an MLB team so it wouldn’t be a surprise to see him reignite his baseball pursuits with the Padres.
Per an NBA source, Lacob is “always interested in looking into new opportunities” and buying the Padres might be something he would explore.
Lacob has at least twice pursued MLB teams, including an attempt to buy the Oakland A’s long before he and Peter Guber bought the Warriors in 2010 for $450 million. Lacob had a “handshake agreement” 20 years ago that went south when then-MLB Commissioner Bud Selig redirected the sale to current owner John Fisher and Lew Wolff, his former fraternity brother.
