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Howdy, I’m your host, Houston Mitchell. Let’s get right to the news.From Andrew Greif: Heads down, walking past fans in free orange T-shirts, the Clippers retreated to their locker room underneath Footprint Center’s stands knowing precisely where their season ended.Then they boarded a short flight to Los Angeles to begin a long offseason. It will be reserved for pinpointing how, exactly, this season’s championship aspirations went awry long before Tuesday’s final game.With Kawhi Leonard and Paul George healthy, the…

PHOENIX —  Heads down, walking past fans in free orange T-shirts, the Clippers retreated to their locker room underneath Footprint Center’s stands knowing precisely where their season ended.Then they boarded a short flight to Los Angeles to begin a long offseason reserved for pinpointing how, exactly, this season’s championship aspirations went awry long before Tuesday’s final game.With Kawhi Leonard and Paul George healthy, the Clippers began this season with hopes of establishing a franchise first: advancing to their…

His play was striking. Even more so was how he presented himself after the Clippers’ 112-100 loss to the Phoenix Suns on Saturday.Russell Westbrook was calm. He was philosophical. He was everything he wasn’t with the Lakers.Now on his fifth NBA stop, the 34-year-old Westbrook has found an unlikely late-career calling as the leader of an overmatched team making its final stand.With Kawhi Leonard and Paul George sidelined, the Clippers are circling the same drain they did last year and the year before that, but Westbrook…

One way or another, the Clippers will be returning to Los Angeles on Wednesday.They have one more game to decide whether that trip home will precede a sixth game in their first-round playoff series, or to clean out their lockers for the season.By losing 112-100 to Phoenix at Crypto.com Arena on Saturday, the Clippers are down to their last gasp, a first-round exit looming for a franchise that began this season with championship dreams. Game 5 is Tuesday in Phoenix.Russell Westbrook scored 37 points to lead the Clippers,…

They played huge, outmanned but not outhustled, overrun but never overwhelmed.The Clippers Curse played bigger.They stayed with the heavily favored Phoenix Suns into the final frenzied moments, clinging to within a couple of baskets in the final few ticks of the clock, hanging around as the crowd roared with desperate hope.The Clippers Curse hung around longer.The Suns held off the Clippers, 129-124, Thursday at Crypto.com Arena to take a two-games-to-one lead in their first-round playoff series while the game’s dominant…

Howdy, I’m your host, Houston Mitchell. Let’s get right to the news.From Andrew Greif: Kawhi Leonard pulled up to Crypto.com Arena 95 minutes before tipoff Thursday.In front of his locker, a red-and-black pair of his New Balance signature sneaker sat expectantly.Yet the All-Star wing around whom the Clippers have oriented their franchise for four years did not suit up – and the Clippers left Game 3’s 129-124 loss against Phoenix not knowing whether he will again this season.Leonard sprained his right knee late in the…

Kawhi Leonard pulled up to Crypto.com Arena 95 minutes before tip-off Thursday.In front of his locker, a red-and-black pair of his New Balance signature sneaker sat expectantly.Yet the All-Star wing around whom the Clippers have oriented their franchise for four years did not suit up — and the Clippers left their 129-124 loss against Phoenix in Game 3 not knowing whether he will again this season.Leonard sprained his right knee late in the team’s series-opening victory against the Suns on Saturday and played 39 minutes…

Howdy, I’m your host, Houston Mitchell. Let’s get right to the news.From Andrew Greif: For all of Phoenix’s scorching shooting Tuesday, the kind of offense the Suns dreamed about upon acquiring Kevin Durant in February, it had left them ahead by just six points with 3 minutes 13 seconds to play in the second game of this first-round playoff series.Somehow, the Clippers had not been done in by Phoenix’s offensive brilliance.Instead, they lost their chance to take control of this series through their own mistakes.The next…

PHOENIX —  For 36 minutes Sunday, Russell Westbrook struggled mightily to make a shot.By thwarting Phoenix’s last shot, the Clippers’ midseason addition more than made up for it.Amid a three-of-19 shooting night, Westbrook never hesitated when Kevin Durant’s long-armed defense denied an easy entry pass to Kawhi Leonard with 17 seconds left, backing down Phoenix’s Devin Booker in the post before drawing a foul with 17 seconds to play. Walking to the free-throw line for the first time on the night, he made both to push…

Samsung introduced many new and useful features with One UI 5.1, but some debuted exclusively on the Galaxy S23. However, that exclusivity is running out, and the company recently confirmed it wants to expand those features to older Galaxy phones and tablets. One such feature is the Image Clipper in the built-in Gallery and Samsung Internet apps. It should now be available for the Galaxy S22 series running the April 2023 security patch, and it will also land on more phones. Check the list below for more information on…