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I've actually been following the Bucks fairly closely so far. Ridnauer hurt his back, and Brandon Jennings got hurt like 2 minutes into the first game, so South Dakota State 2nd round draft pick Nate Wolters has actually got to play quite a bit!
He's held his own, considering he didn't even really expect to be playing.
The Bucks could have a nice team down the road if they keep them together...Larry Sanders, John Henson, and I love the "Greek Freak" their first round pick, and no I'm not going to attempt to type his last name here. Not sure how good they'll be this year, as they have alot of new players and a new coaching staff.
Lakers at the Mavs could be fun tonight. Neither team plays much defense."...of course that's just my opinion, I could be wrong."
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Did Booing Dwight Howard Prove Clippers Fans Are Really Just Cheap Lakers Fans?
Going back to a time before they had the second best coach in the league next to Gregg Popovich, the best point guard, and the most athletic collection of young supporting talent, the Los Angeles Clippers were the team you watched when the Lakers weren't playing that night ... or you couldn't afford Lakers tickets ... or you just felt like rooting for an underdog.
Back in my day, a USC student could walk to the decrepit Sports Arena with his friends, pay 8 bucks for general admission, and then claim one of the many empty seats near courtside to watch Michael Cage, Benoit Benjamin, Quintin Dailey and other forgotten names of that woebegone Clippers era take on Michael Jordan, Dominique Wilkins and other visiting NBA luminaries (yeah, I'm gettin' old). It was the pro sports equivalent of "slumming it." You watched the team you really cared about, the Lakers, on TV, occasionally shelling out for a "big league" game at the Forum.
More than 20 years later, and now playing in the same downtown arena as the Lakers, the Clippers now match their NBA big brother in amenities, and they have finally surpassed them in terms of coaching and talent. But watching a Clippers crowd on Tuesday, Nov. 4 passionately boo the Houston Rockets' Dwight Howard, the free-agent center who jilted the Lakers in July, I had to wonder: Do many of the Los Angeles-area sports fans who fill the seats during Clippers games still care more about the Lakers?
Doesn't it seem like truly passionate Clippers fans would cheer a player who shunned a crosstown rival?
I mean, would New York Jets fans boo an NFL star who abruptly abandoned the Giants? Would Mets fans take to task a guy who left the Yankees?
In the search for answers to the perplexing "why'd they boo Dwight?" phenomenon, you have to consider that, as a sports town, Los Angeles is a tricky place. It has a large, native fanbase, much of which grew up in the sprawling suburbs. These tend to be folks who root avidly for specific teams. They still have their No. 34 Shaq jersey from 2001.
But there's also a large, transient group, people who arrived from some place else not as sunny -- the group that seems to form the identity of the city, for better or worse, and which gets behind whatever local team seems headed for the deep rounds of the playoffs. They're casual Los Angeles sports fans. To them, Dwight dissed the city, not just a team.
Digging deeper, with Howard also alienating Orlando and the entire state of Florida before he arrived for his short stay in L.A. during the summer of 2012, there does seem to be a broader D12 dissonance brewing. Howard was, after all, booed over the summer during an exhibition in the Philippines.
Meanwhile, Q Scores, a research company that evaluates the public's reaction to celebrities, now ranks Howard as the least-liked player in the NBA.Hashtag thepowderblues
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HOUSTON -- Dwight Howard downplayed any talk about his former team as the Houston Rockets prepared to play the Los Angeles Lakers for the first time since Howard left L.A. for Houston in July.
"Our team is on a mission so we can't concern ourselves with one game," Howard said after Thursday's shootaround. "We're trying to accomplish something big and can't be too high or too low in any game. We got to stay even keeled and try to go out there and win."
When a reporter followed up by asking Howard what it would be like to face his former teammates, he repeated the same refrain.
"It's another game," Howard said. "Just go out there and play, have fun and get a win."
Obviously you couldn't concern yourself with one game.Hashtag thepowderblues
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Kobe Bryant wasn't surprised that Clippers fans booed ex-Laker Dwight Howard on Monday.
"They are undercover [Laker fans]," Bryant said. "The city of L.A. it's like whether you're a Clippers fan or a Laker … they take it personally no matter what," Bryant said. "Now it's more maddening. I don't expect any Lakers fans to be at Clippers games if we're not playing them."Hashtag thepowderblues
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