Desperate times call for desperate measures.
The Los Angeles Clippers can hardly be considered one of the NBA's more desperate teams—not yet, anyway. They currently sport a 14-8 record, good enough to lead the Pacific Division by two games.
The Clips, though, had good reason to dip into the market for a fresh body on the wing.
LA came into the 2013-14 season knee-deep in perimeter depth, but they have since seen that depth tested with injuries to J.J. Redick, Matt Barnes and Reggie Bullock. Jamal Crawford, Willie Green and Jared Dudley are all ready, willing and able to do the job for Doc Rivers with the former three out.
But the Clips could ill-afford another injury to a swingman.
Naturally, Doc, who doubles as LA's senior vice president of basketball operations, took that development as his cue to replenish the team's ranks with...Stephen Jackson?
"We need him in a pinch and we need him like now," Rivers said of Jackson on Tuesday, via Broderick Turner of the Los Angeles Times. "And that's a guy that you can bring in and hopefully he can give you something right away with Re ...
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