L.A. Clipper Fans (at last!) Can Cheer
Forget the Lakers. Long-suffering Hollywood supporters of the red and blue are suddenly benefiting from the team’s hot surge.
The other L.A. basketball team, those perennially hapless Clippers — who have netted a mere two winning seasons since moving from San Diego in 1984 — is hot off a series of early wins during the recently commenced lockout-shortened NBA campaign. Led by four-time all-star guard Chris Paul, who was traded by the New Orleans Hornets in December, the team swept its fellow Staples Center tenant,wholesale Large Size Men, the Lakers, in an abbreviated two-game preseason. (The two meet for real Jan. 14.) They went on to beat the Portland Trail Blazers on Jan. 1 in a game that saw the 2010-11 NBA Rookie of the Year, power forward Blake Griffin, tally 20 points and 10 rebounds as It girl actress Chloe Grace Moretz cheered. “Omgg sucha crazy .. gameee!! So so so closeee!” she tweeted.