Seems like a year ago, James Singleton was a cupcake in the Clippers' batch of future goodness. But things didn't quite work out for Singleton in the NBA (blame Mike Dunleavy Sr.'s rotation), and he ended up signing with Tau Ceramica this summer. But he won't play in Spain for a while... because he tore his ACL in the Spanish league preseason tournament.This might not be notable had David Berri, bearer of basketball's statistical lightning rod, not just this week named Singleton as one of NBA's 'distant future stars' based on his L.A. performance. (Also, on the list: Sean May [indeed], Amir Johnson [sure!], Justin Williams [erm...] and Shavlik Randolph [ha ha ha].) Shoals took exception to the idea at Free Darko, arguing if no NBA team saw fit to value Singleton's offerings, then his offerings are by definition not of value to the NBA. It's a highly valid point.
Either way, it extends proof how little of an idea the Clippers have with regards to what they are doing. They had some level of young, solid player in Singleton, and let him leave (after Elton Brand went down, I might add). If Singleton had any value in the NBA (and I think he does), it'd be with short-staffed, capped-out, familiar Los Angeles. They draft Yaroslav Korolev in the lottery and decide two years later he's not worth even a pittance on the rookie scale. They use up their whole cap a summer after they overachieved to lock up players who most understood would not maintain their performance. (That'd be Tim Thomas and Chris Kaman. And hell, throw Dunleavy and Sam Cassell into that category as well.) At least Indiana has blown itself into oblivion with some wacko trades... the Clippers went to Hades by way of boredom.
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