Clippers won't offer Del Negro new deal as coach
Vinny Del Negro is out as coach of the Los Angeles Clippers after their first-round playoff exit.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Vinny Del Negro is out as coach of the Los Angeles Clippers after their first-round playoff exit.
The Los Angeles Clippers have reportedly decided to part ways with head coach Vinny Del Negro after three seasons.
The future of 14 teams hang in the balance Tuesday night when the Draft Lottery takes place.

Amare Stoudemire will go into next season with $45 million left on his contract and no guarantee of a starting job.
The Toronto Raptors have decided to make changes in the front office and will create a new position of general manager while Bryan Colangelo will concentrate on his duties as club president.
Bryan Colangelo is still president of the Toronto Raptors, but he's no longer the club's general manager.
The San Antonio Spurs will try to take a commanding 2-0 lead over the Memphis Grizzlies in the Western Conference finals Tuesday night at the AT&T Center.
Dwyane Wade watched Kevin Durant against Memphis, and it was like watching a flailing man drown, wave after wave crashing upon him until he had no breath to give. Durant averaged 29 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists per game in the series that ended his season. Those were not merely better than the averages Durant posted in this, the best regular season of his young life. Those were not merely better averages than the ones that just won LeBron James his fourth NBA MVP award. Those were better averages than the ones that represent Michael Jordan's entire career. But Durant's season is over now, and Wade watched it happen through what felt like a rearview mirror.
OAKLAND, Calif. -General manager Bob Myers personified the comfortable disposition of the Warriors. Relaxed in his gray suit, no tie, his shirt suavely unbuttoned, he reclined in a chair and breezed through questions from the local media.
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Erik Spoelstra, mad chemist that he is, started Dexter Pittman in Game 3 of the 2012 Eastern Conference semifinals against the Pacers.
Most San Antonio Spurs possessions start with Kawhi Leonard setting up in the corner.
Terrence Williams, who has played the past four seasons in the NBA, wore shackles and a red jail jump suit Monday as he stood before a judge in a courtroom at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center.
Five days after the NBA denied his attempt to purchase the Sacramento Kings and relocate the team to Seattle, Chris Hansen said he was disappointed in the league's decision and vowed to continue plans "bringing the NBA back to Seattle."
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - For the better part of three years, they had one of the most thankless jobs in the industry, trying to sell season tickets when your franchise is forever on the move?
One of the many questions about the Kings this offseason will be answered Tuesday.
The Charlotte Bobcats will reportedly change their team nickname to Hornets.
Erik Spoelstra's message to Chris Bosh was clear: What goes up must come down. And then go up and come down again. And again. And again.
Two brothers allege that people standing near Portland Trail Blazers point guard Damian Lillard assaulted them after one of the victims took a photo of the NBA Rookie of the Year.

Dwyane Wade's rookie season ended with a playoff loss to the Indiana Pacers. The next year, the Miami Heat were headed to the Eastern Conference finals and certain that an NBA championship was in their sights.
A judge has set bail at $25,000 for Boston Celtics basketball player Terrence Williams after he was arrested and accused of brandishing a gun around the mother of his 10-year-old son during a visitation exchange.
MIAMI - The Heat gets who in the NBA Eastern Conference finals? Indiana? What, no (censored) Knicks?
Mike Conley wouldn't let Zach Randolph take the blame for the Memphis Grizzlies' blowout loss in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals.
Monta Ellis was part of an eighth-seeded team that stunned a heavily favored top seed during the 2007 NBA playoffs.
If this whole coaching thing doesn't work out, Frank Vogel probably has future in fight promotion.