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The Works: The Clippers Come Around Again

By Bethlehem Shoals and Eric FreemanJan 21st 2011 – 9:00AM

Today in The Works: everything you ever wanted to know about players' eating habits and the Suns take a field trip. But first, the cosmic significance of the Clippers. We Are All Clippers Fans The Clippers are a weird team, to say the least. By general consensus, it's the worst organization in basketball, and likely the...

Weekly Planner: Blazers Down, Hawks Up, That's the Way We Set Our Lineup

By Tom LorenzoNov 19th 2010 – 2:30PM

It hasn't been a very good week for the Portland Trail Blazers. First they lost Greg Oden for the season and now it seems like they won't have their superstar shooting guard fully capable of playing plus-minutes all season long. It might only be a matter of time before they lose Brandon Roy all together. Well, have no...

Greg Oden Done For the Season; Chris Bosh's Season Just Beginning?

By Tom LorenzoNov 18th 2010 – 1:00PM

I can't seem to find the right words to describe the Greg Oden situation in Portland. And since this is a fantasy hoops blog I will not even bring up the 2007 NBA Draft. I'll merely speak to the implications of Oden's season-ending surgery as it impacts the fantasy game. Really, that's the easiest part of this...

Blake Griffin Healthy and Excited About Young, Hungry Clippers

By Sam AmickOct 8th 2010 – 3:45PM

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Blake Griffin isn't the expressive type. The Clippers rookie forward is a steady communicator -- polite and well-spoken, but far from dynamic. So when he said before Thursday's win over the Kings at Arco Arena that he was ecstatic to be playing again after a stress fracture in his left kneecap kept...

Clippers Stay Low-Key With Ryan Gomes, Randy Foye Deals

By Tom ZillerJul 9th 2010 – 6:45PM

The old Clippers were just bad, all the time, every day. These new Clippers, post-Elgin Baylor, make some good decisions -- like drafting Eric Gordon, Blake Griffin and Al-Farouq Aminu -- and like signing Ryan Gomes to a three-year, $12 million deal. But they still make some really confounding ones, like hiring Vinny Del...

Al Farouq Aminu News From the Web

  • 04/21/12 New Orleans Hornets forward Al-Farouq Aminu talks... Source: NOLA.com - New Orleans LA Al-Farouq Aminu scored 17 points and grabbed eight rebounds in Thursday night's 105-99 victory against the Houston Rockets.
  • 04/20/12 Landry goes for 20 & 10; Aminu comes alive - Carl... Source: Rotoworld.com Landry has the propensity to disappear, but he has now provided mid-round value over the past five games on the strength of 14.2 points, 7.4 rebounds, and 1.2 turnovers in 25 minutes per contest with a 61 percent mark from the field and 95 percent mark from the line.
  • 04/20/12 Hornets win 20th Source: ABC - WBRZ 2theadvocate.com - Baton Rouge LA Eric Gordon scored 27 points, Carl Landry had 20 points and 10 rebounds, and the New Orleans Hornets dealt a blow to Houston's playoff hopes with a 105-99 overtime victory Thursday night, the Rockets' sixth straight defeat.

Background on Al Farouq Aminu

Al-Farouq Ajiede Aminu (born September 21, 1990, in Georgia, United States) is an American basketball player for the New Orleans Hornets.

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