Even God Can't Bring Them Together

[THE HCP]

CBSSports

Chapel is a tradition before every NBA game. Players from both teams come together for a pre-game prayer session, usually in a side room at the arena. And typically, both teams share chapel. Basketball is a brotherhood, or whatever.

But apparently the Clippers were not so welcoming Thursday night in LA to the visiting Warriors.

According to multiple sources, the Warriors were surprisingly given a separate, earlier, time for their own chapel services. The Clippers held their own private chapel.

“Man, they don't want to have chapel with us?” one team source asked. “I never heard that before, but OK.”

The bad blood between the Clippers and Warriors extend back to last season, when Golden State took 3 of 4 against Los Angeles. One of the biggest victories of the last season was an upset of the Clippers at Staples Center in the third game of the season. It was the game after Brandon Rush was lost for the season with a knee injury, and the Warriors responded with a spirited performance.

The Clippers took exception to the Warriors' celebration antics.

Once, the Warriors bench went crazy laughing at Blake Griffin clanking a 3-pointer off the side of the backboard in Oracle. Another time, a few Clippers expressed dislike of Curry's galloping down court after a big three-pointer late in another win.

Several members of the Warriors organization took that as a continuation of last year's heated rivalry.

via Warriors-Clippers Bad Blood Extend to Chapel Services? - Inside the Warriors - with Marcus Thompson.

This shoud add juice to what is likely the rivalry for the Pacific division this year. It seems like a pretty petty approach, though. I mean, players come and players go, but getting in between a man and his faith seems like an unnecessary jab no matter how much trash the team talks. (And the Warriors are a mouthy bunch.)

There's a legitimate California rivalry erupting and it has nothing to do with the Lakers.

-AMEN

 

[dviss1]

Warriors>Clippers.

 

[BrianFromWA]

we should be in that division. Eff a bunch of MIN/OKC/DEN/UTH. We should be playing most of games against teams you can fly Horizon Airlines to.

 

[Yoda_of_the_MODA]

The Clippers seem like a soft and mentally fragile team (other than Chris Paul) to me. I can't stand Blake Griffin, think he's soft, and that he solely relies on his freakish athleticism to succeed. This story does nothing to disprove my opinion of that team.

 

[OneLifeToLive]

I disagree with Chuck though.

The Clippers can get it done with Blake Griffin playing from the outside. He doesn't give Doc Rivers enough credit on his defense. He will have this team playing hellacious D by the end of the year. And as the Mavs proved a few years ago, a jump shooting can win it if they are an outstanding defensive team.

Doc will get them playing D.

 

[OneLifeToLive]

The Clippers seem like a soft and mentally fragile team (other than Chris Paul) to me. I can't stand Blake Griffin, think he's soft, and that he solely relies on his freakish athleticism to succeed. This story does nothing to disprove my opinion of that team.

I think they will be a tougher bunch after one full year with Doc

 

[Yoda_of_the_MODA]

we should be in that division. Eff a bunch of MIN/OKC/DEN/UTH. We should be playing most of games against teams you can fly Horizon Airlines to.

Yep.

Every team in the Pacific Division is closer to Portland than Minnesota or OKC, and the Bay Area is closer to Portland than Utah and Denver.

Throw PHX into the "Midwest", and let Portland play with LAC/LAL/GS/SAC. From a time zone perspective, it makes more sense.

 

[Strenuus]

lol. How utterly sad.

 

[FromWayDownTownBang]

lol. How utterly sad.

Is that a cow joke?

 

[jlprk]

Is that a cow joke?

NOW you're catching on to what this board is all about. Odders' stupidity.