Los Angeles Clippers

Clippers tonight AT DENVER When: 6 p.m. PST. Where: Pepsi Center. On the air: TV: Prime Ticket. Radio: 980. Records: Clippers 4-15, Nuggets 11-6. Record vs. Nuggets: 0-1. Update: The Clippers have lost all eight of their road games this season, the closest call coming in the double-overtime loss at Utah on Nov. 6. Still here on Denver's roster, incredibly, is Carmelo Anthony; the Nuggets' star has been the subject of countless trade rumors.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Bring on the next bunch of disappointing, underachieving, gagging local athletes. And so it goes with our Trojans, Lakers, Clippers and even the Bruins losing their last three. So much promise, raised expectations and then a quick goodbye to all. The Kings? The who? Oh yeah, I hear they're down already, 2-0. Thank heavens for the grandchildren. They are waiting at home, in for a visit from Arizona, and they don't give a lick about the power trip referee Joe Crawford is on, disturbed fans in Memphis or a visit with the Choking Dogs on Monday night.

The city of Burbank and a developer have selected three sites in the city for a proposed 20,000-seat sports arena that they hope the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team will make their new home. The basketball team has said it would move from the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena in Exposition Park unless that facility is rebuilt. The team is also considering a site near Union Station in downtown Los Angeles.

I'm thinking the best place for Dwight Howard's statue outside Staples is right beside Oscar De La Hoya's 7-foot likeness. That way they can keep the guys together who have been beaten up the most in the building. De La Hoya was 0-1 in Staples and so Mitch Kupchak probably has it right: Dwight really doesn't need to do all that much to get his own. But now what do they do if Chris Paul completes one of the greatest turnarounds in sports history and leads the Clippers to an NBA championship?

Clippers today vs. Phoenix When: 12:30 p.m. Where: Staples Center. On the air: TV: Prime Ticket; radio: 980. Records: Clippers 27-43; Suns 34-33. Record vs. Suns: 1-1. Update: Clippers Coach Vinny Del Negro said DeAndre Jordan has a viral infection, which limited him to about 20 minutes in the Clippers' win against Cleveland on Saturday. Jordan went scoreless and had six rebounds, attempting just one shot. The Clippers' bench, led by Craig Smith's 12 points, outscored the Cavaliers, 28-18.

In trading for Benoit Benjamin, the Seattle SuperSonics obtained a franchise player. Unfortunately for them, the franchise is the Los Angeles Clippers. JEFF BERKE Los Angeles

PEPSI HOTSHOTS PLAYOFFS: More than 200 youngsters ages 9 to 18 from 50 youth service agencies throughout Southern California will take to the basketball courts today at South Gate Sports Center. Twelve finalists will advance to the Area Finals to be played during halftime at the Los Angeles Clippers game on Feb. 13.

The National Basketball Assn. may be able to restrict the movement of its teams, a federal appeals court ruled today in a decision that revived the league's suit against the Los Angeles Clippers. Despite its rulings in the Los Angeles Raiders antitrust case, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said the NBA could go to trial on its claim that its restrictions on team moves were valid under antitrust laws and were violated by the Clippers' 1984 move from San Diego to Los Angeles.

The Los Angeles Coliseum Commission on Wednesday authorized $500,000 for new planning for renovation of the facility. The move came after the chairman of the Coliseum's renovation committee, N. Matthew Grossman, declared that plans made in the last two years by the facility's private managers, the Spectacor partnership, are defunct.

Ticketmaster, a Los Angeles-based unit of USA Networks Inc., has appointed Edward Millman as chief financial officer. He previously worked in several senior financial posts at Advanta Corp. * Three executives from Southern California companies have been named to the board of the National Assn. of Manufacturers. They are Larry D. Brady, president and chief operating officer of Woodland Hills-based Unova Inc.

If the NBA has eight wonders in its world, four of them were on display at Staples Center on Monday night. It was the Oklahoma City Thunder versus the Los Angeles Clippers. Both are assured playoffs spots -- the Thunder (44-17) hanging around the top spot in the Western Conference for much of the season and the Clippers, certain to get their own in the last six games but given the final mathematical nudge when Houston lost earlier in the evening. At stake was the ongoing battle for home-court advantage for the Clippers.

Technical fouls went flying in the third quarter of what ended up a 98-92 victory by the Clippers against Oklahoma City on Saturday night. The Clippers rallied from a 16-point first-half deficit and even trailed by a point as late as the final 1:32 before pulling away in the final minute. Word of the day: Technical. Question of the day: What is it about the Staples Center basketball court, anyway? The temperature didn't come close or quite match the heat generated between the Lakers and the Mavericks from the other night here, but the Clippers and Thunder managed to concoct a genuine level of mutual dislike.

Clippers today vs. Phoenix When: 12:30 p.m. Where: Staples Center. On the air: TV: Prime Ticket; radio: 980. Records: Clippers 27-43; Suns 34-33. Record vs. Suns: 1-1. Update: Clippers Coach Vinny Del Negro said DeAndre Jordan has a viral infection, which limited him to about 20 minutes in the Clippers' win against Cleveland on Saturday. Jordan went scoreless and had six rebounds, attempting just one shot. The Clippers' bench, led by Craig Smith's 12 points, outscored the Cavaliers, 28-18.

Clippers tonight AT DENVER When: 6 p.m. PST. Where: Pepsi Center. On the air: TV: Prime Ticket. Radio: 980. Records: Clippers 4-15, Nuggets 11-6. Record vs. Nuggets: 0-1. Update: The Clippers have lost all eight of their road games this season, the closest call coming in the double-overtime loss at Utah on Nov. 6. Still here on Denver's roster, incredibly, is Carmelo Anthony; the Nuggets' star has been the subject of countless trade rumors.

The Justice Department on Monday filed a discrimination suit against Los Angeles Clippers owner and real estate mogul Donald Sterling, accusing him of favoring Korean tenants while seeking to exclude African Americans and families with children from his apartment buildings in Los Angeles County. The suit, which was filed in U.S.

Perhaps the power of a prepositional phrase could have vaulted "New Coke of the Coca-Cola Co." to commercial success. We're kidding. We hope the Angels are too. Let this one roll off your tongue for a while -- the Los Angeles Angels ... of Anaheim. Team officials hope the new moniker will attract more national attention, more TV revenue and more corporate sponsorships by claiming a larger slice of the Los Angeles media market's 16 million people.

The crowd roared as Los Angeles Clippers forward Dominique Wilkins outpaced his contenders to score two points on a perfect layup. But instead of cheers from stands packed with season ticket holders, Wilkins was lauded by a sea of Glenoaks Elementary School students who lined up in the afternoon sun Wednesday to participate in a basketball clinic.

In a year of rising housing costs, Los Angeles lawmakers and advocates pushed through measures to help tenants and homeowners keep roofs over their heads. The effort, and its success, signal the growing realization of the difficulties that poor and moderate-income families face in their attempts to find affordable housing. Los Angeles has more renters than any other U.S. city except New York, and tenant groups tried to make lawmakers aware of their numbers in 2003.