The Clippers apparently have so many rock heads on their team the organization has taken to putting up signs everywhere in Staples Center this season to remind them, "It's game time."
In yet another daring move, they also have this printed on the hallway wall outside their locker room: "We are what we repeatedly do, excelling, then, it is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle."
We already know they don't listen to Coach/GM Mike Dunleavy -- you think they're going to pay attention to a guy who might be a soccer coach for all they know?
A new season, and the Clippers come back with the same depressing story line, yahoo radio guy, lots of injuries and a druggie in their locker room just to remind Clippers' fans they will always settle for the bottom of everyone else's roster.
"You're a clown," Ricky Davis is telling me before Monday night's game and he's the druggie -- suspended last season for testing positive.
It takes a lot these days to get anyone to attend a Clippers game, and the last thing they need is a reminder of the very worst kind of players the NBA has to offer.
Why would you bring such a contaminant back with youngsters such as Eric Gordon, Al Thornton and Blake Griffin in the room? As Chris Kaman said before the game, the chemistry wasn't any good last year, so why not weed out, so to speak, the guys who let everyone down a year ago and got suspended?
Maybe if he has Manny Ramirez's talent, it's different, or maybe if he has Manny Ramirez's fan appeal, but who buys a ticket to watch Ricky Davis?
"And why is it that I always seem to have a problem with the drug guys in town, first Gary Matthews Jr., and now you?" I asked Davis.
He went silent like Matthews, and I'm beginning to wonder if that's one of those side effects that come when linked to drugs.
I asked Davis if he played very much, Thornton sitting next to him and a little surprised that I wouldn't know, which would mean watching a Clippers game.
The question seemed to baffle the druggie too, a Clippers' spokesman stepping in to say he does play, stats later revealing that Davis has played in two of the team's first seven games and has scored seven points.
Thanks for the memories.
No, you don't hear anyone around here talking about winning with good character guys.
The only reason the druggie is here is because Donald Sterling owes him $2.4 million -- but then money well-spent has never been Sterling's forte, agreeing recently to pay $2.725 million to settle a housing discrimination lawsuit.
