3 Point Buzzer

It has to be a curse. It just has to be. No other team in basketball has worse luck than the Los Angeles Clippers. Sometimes I feel it may be the ghost of Donald Sterling cackling over torn ligaments of star players. Sometimes I feel that the hideous new mascot, Chuck the Condor, brought this misery upon the franchise. Then I realize that it has been this way since the dawn of time, way back to the Michael Olowokandi days. From 1998-2010, the Clippers had managed to work their way into the lottery every single year. They were incompetent for 12 straight years and kept busting on draft picks and cycling coaches under a racist owner (though nobody knew he was one yet). Then Blake Griffin was drafted, and everything started to change. Once Griffin evolved into an all-out star (of course after missing his entire rookie year due to injury, because... they're the Clippers), Chris Paul came to town in 2011. With two stars plus an emerging DeAndre Jordan on board, the Clippers were r...

Boy, do circumstances change quickly. This time last year Los Angeles, the second largest market in the country, did not have a football team. It was actually pretty funny. Fast forward a whole year and now our city has two: the Rams and now the Chargers as well. Currently, it’s pretty sad. With the Chargers announcing their move last week to flee to LA and leave charming San Diego behind, nobody has benefitted from this relocation. Chargers fans are rightfully infuriated with owner Dean Spanos uprooting their lone football franchise of 54 years. Spanos had the option to self finance a new stadium in San Diego, where the NFL would lend him $300 million to help out with the move. He refused, instead trying to make the citizens pay for it out of their own pockets. They rightfully declined, since it is ridiculous that in 2017, billionaires are still trying to persuade cities into paying for their own stadiums. The worst part is that cities benefit minimally from stadium profi...