Drove through a few flooded freeways to catch the Blake Griffin vs. Houston Rockets game tonight.
Can't beat these seats. 3rd row. Same tickets at a Lakers game would cost a fortune.
Of course Yao's injured. Not even traveling with the team unfortunately. The media's trying to bury him right now but he'll be back. (After all, he's Chinese)
Refs were more awful than usual. Lost my voice before halftime.
Clippers played horrible most of the game. I worked for the Clippers as a Photography Intern one year while I was in college. My first day on the job, I had a conversation with one of the staff photographers about the club's record of failed draft picks. Someone in the front office overheard us and confronted me. I was kind of surprised like 'Wait, you're upset with me for simply talking about this? Why don't you fire the guy who chose Michael Olowokandi over Dirk Nowitzki and Paul Pierce? Right? Why don't you get mad at the person who took Lorenzen Wright over Kobe and Nash?'
'I just take pictures of the cheerleaders and sponsor signage. It's not my fault you guys selected Chris Wilcox over Amare Stoudemire.' (P.S. So they ended up finally firing their VP of Operations, Elgin Baylor, a couple years ago. Dude was 74 years old. He then sued the Clippers claiming he'd been underpaid and terminated solely because of his age and race. I'm reading about this in the paper thinking 'How about the fact that you ran the losingest franchise in all of sports for 22 years? Maybe that had something to do with them letting you go buddy.')
Anyway, Blake had 24 and 18 including a few ridiculous dunks. Not too bad. Maybe the Clippers will turn things around. I really doubt it but at least now they have a kid who makes Sportscenter every night.
