The only sports team we can talk about with confidence other than USC Football is the best basketball team on the west coast. The LA Clippers. That's right The happless Clippers of years gone by are not your fathers Clippers anymore. With the likes of perennial (screwed out of an All Star spot) All Star Elton Brands' 20-20 every freaking night, Corey Magette, veterans Sam Casell and Cutino Mobley playing with an axe to grind the Clippers are becoming one of the better teams in the land of parody called the NBA.

Who would have thunkit? A game between Miami and LA in December would mean so much and it has nothing to do with the Lakers. Well tonight the Clippers will show who they are as a team against one of the East giants.