Certain things in sports are pretty much automatic: Kobe will take the last shot in a close game, the Yankees will buy the best free agent during the off season, the Detroit Lions will never win a Super Bowl, etc.
Along the same vein, sports writers are somewhat predictable as well. I'm not a betting man, but if I were, I would have joined Pete Rose in dropping some coin on the likelihood that some writer would berate the Clippers start to the 2010-2011 season as "Same 'Ole Clippers."
"New coach, new general manager and new star in the making. Same old result for the Clippers." That's how the AP summarized the Clippers game last night.
Of course, the Clippers have no one to blame but themselves. Along with the consistency of a Kobe last second shot, Yankees deep pockets and Lions ineptness, the Clippers have proven to be a perpetual laughingstock.
Until this year.
Yes, I know they lost. Yes, I know they played defense with the intensity and interest of Donald Sterling at a racial sensitivity conference. Yes, I know they blew the game in the fourth and I even noticed that their bench was pretty much non-existant.
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