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Clippers Players Pay for Coach's Cancer Surgery

NBA players live in the public eye, but several Los Angeles Clippers managed to quietly pay for a coach's life-saving operation seven years ago. Their good deed only recently came to light. Kim Hughes, then assistant coach to the Clippers, learned he had prostate cancer in September 2004. His doctor wanted to do surgery a...

Clippers' Kim Hughes Just Keeps Hanging Around

Kim Hughes already apparently has been fired by the Clippers before being brought back. And now his contract will expire at midnight Wednesday. But do you think Hughes will be showing at the Clippers offices on Thursday? Of course, he will. "I'll be there,'' Hughes said in an interview Wednesday with FanHouse, joking...

Kim Hughes in Good Spirits Despite Clippers' Firing

Shortly after 7 a.m. Thursday in Los Angeles, after interim coach Kim Hughes had been fired by the Clippers, team president Andy Roeser seemed surprised by Hughes' reaction. "You're not upset?'' Hughes said of what Roeser asked him. "No,'' was Hughes' response. "I appreciate that you guys gave me the opportunity of a...

Once-Hopeful Clippers Season Ending Miserably

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Showers were optional for most of the Clippers on Thursday night at Arco Arena. Effort and energy are typically a prerequisite for perspiration, meaning that for these most miserable Clips after a 116-94 loss to the Kings, a few swipes of deodorant would have done the job. Even if they hardly did...

Clips Dump Dunleavy, Bench Davis and Hope for LeBron

ORLANDO, Fla. -- It was another wacky day in the weird world of the Los Angeles Clippers, one of the most confounding franchises in NBA history. The Clippers fired -- or as they said, "severed ties'' -- with general manager Mike Dunleavy, and announced it during a game in which they never were competitive. In making the...