Cavs Get Jamison in Three-team Trade

The Cleveland Cavaliers acquired Antawn Jamison from the Washington Wizards in a three-team trade Wednesday that sent Drew Gooden to the Los Angeles Clippers.

NBA No. 1 Pick Done for the Season

Blake Griffin of the Los Angeles Clippers, the top-pick in the 2009 NBA draft and the reigning college player of the year, will miss the rest of the season because of knee surgery.

No. 1 Draft Pick to Miss NBA Opener and More

The Clippers say that a knee injury apparently suffered during Friday's final preseason game will keep No. 1 draft pick Blake Griffin out of the lineup for up to six week.

Elgin Baylor is out as Clippers general manager

By Art Thompson III / The Orange County Register

LOS ANGELES — Elgin Baylor’s two decades in the Clippers’ executive office apparently has ended, as the team’s longtime vice president of basketball operations and general manager no longer is performing those duties.

The Clippers confirmed the move late Tuesday afternoon when it was announced that Coach Mike Dunleavy was adding the title of general manager, replacing Baylor. Neil Olsey, the team’s director of player personnel, was promoted to assistant general manager.

"We greatly appreciate Elgin’s efforts during his time with the Clippers and we wish him the very best," Clippers owner Donald T. Sterling said in a prepared statement.

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NBA free agents: Sixers to sign Elton Brand, Warriors will get Corey Maggette

Kyle Hightower

Just before the clock passed midnight this morning to begin the free-agents signing, a trio of the NBA's most prized free agents all found new homes.

L.A. Clippers teammates Corey Maggette and Elton Brand have been on several clubs' wish list over the past two weeks and in the end both wound up in different conferences. After opting out of the final year of his deal with the Clippers, Fox Sports reported late Tuesday that Maggette would officially accept a five-year $50 million deal but stay in-state with Golden State.

Meanwhile, according to theLos Angelese Times, Brand will travel east for a five-year $80 million offering from Philadelphia.

Maggette reportedly drew attention from Boston, San Antonio, Detroit, Utah and Orlando. Golden State apparently offered more money and a longer term than most of Maggette's suitors, who mostly couched their offers at the mid-level salary-cap exception.

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Baron Davis leaving Warriors for Clippers

By Geoff Lepper
Bay Area News Group

In 14 months, the Warriors have gone from being the toast of the league to just another NBA club in search of an identity.

Point guard Baron Davis - the heart and soul of a squad that in May 2007 became the first No. 8 playoff seed to knock off a No. 1 in a seven-game series - agreed in principle to a five-year contract worth a reported $65 million with the Los Angeles Clippers.

Davis will leave the Warriors after 3 1/2 seasons in which he helped return them to relevance and led that stunning playoff victory over the Dallas Mavericks but was unable to push Golden State into the Western Conference's upper echelon.

"It's tough, but you have to do what's best," Davis said Tuesday evening at a San Francisco screening of "Made in America," a documentary he produced about gang life in Los Angeles. "You just have to do what's fair. I'm happy with where I'm going."

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