Los Angeles Clippers’ Blake Griffin, the No. 1 overall pick in this year’s NBA Draft, will miss four to six weeks with a broken kneecap. The Clippers have a history with failed No. 1 picks (Danny Manning, Michael Olowokandi) and have had only two winning seasons in the last 30 years. Are the Clippers cursed?
There are no curses in sports. I don’t care if it’s been 100 years since you’ve won a championship or if you have never won a championship at all, curses just do not exist. What does exist is incompetent ownership that makes horrible decisions about what is best for a given team. The Clippers are one of the most poorly run organizations in all of sports and have a general manager in Mike Dunleavy that makes Isiah Thomas look like the Billy Beane of the NBA. It is a shame for Griffin to miss time with an injury, but the Clippers have been miserable for years with or without injuries
-Derek Robbins
Of course there are curses, Derek, as a Cubs fan you should know this. What, were the 102 years of futility just because of an astronomical amount of poor managing? You’re crazy. Anyways, Donald Sterling has proven himself to be an almost Billy Goat-like presence in Los Angeles. Anything he touches turns into embarrassment. On the bright side, Sterling still makes great money.
-Ryan Voyles
Yeah, they have to be cursed. I mean they are about as cursed as the Cubs or even the Pittsburgh Pirates. Either way, no matter which sport it is, these teams are nothing more than utter failures. I think it gets to a point where management doesn’t even matter and superstition becomes the most feasible way to explain why a team has become the laughingstock of the league.
-Ryan Simonin
Banter: Are the Clippers cursed?
Published: Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Updated: Tuesday, October 27, 2009
