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Alessandro Luigi Maggi: 🚨 Virtus Bologna is close to sign Kai Jones, I am told. The Bahamian big man played 12 NBA games with the Mavs and 28 with the Clippers last season. In the G League, he averaged 12.5 points and 7.3 rebounds in 15 games with San Diego.

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The LA Clippers have signed wing Patrick Baldwin Jr. and guard TyTy Washington Jr. to training camp contract. Both Baldwin and Washington will go to camp with LA, then will likely join the San Diego Clippers of the G League. Baldwin played for both the Clippers and Washington Wizards last season. In 23 G League games, the 6-foot-9 wing averaged 17.3 points, 6.8 rebounds and 1.4 blocks per game. Washington spent last season on a two-way contract with the Phoenix Suns. The 6-foot-3 point guard averaged 21.7 points, 5.1 rebounds and 7.0 assists in 32 G League games.

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Vinny Benedetto: The Nuggets just announced they will play a preseason game against the Timberwolves in San Diego on Oct. 4. Nuggets held training camp in San Diego in 2022 and 2023.

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A fellow former two-way contract player, Izaiah Brockington wowed the crowd with his athleticism, drive-and-kick game, and shooting ability. The 6-foot-4 guard spent multiple seasons with the New Orleans Pelicans and their G League affiliate, the Birmingham Squadron, before he was dealt to the San Diego Clippers. Brockington finished a strong season in the G League and suited up for the Vancouver Bandits of the Canadian Elite Basketball League to follow.

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Michael Scotto: The Golden State Warriors are converting Braxton Key to a standard NBA contract, sources told @hoopshype . Key averaged 16.5 points on 50.6% from the field, 8.9 rebounds, 4.2 assists, 2.6 steals, and 1.1 blocks in the G League for the San Diego Clippers and Santa Cruz Warriors.

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On February 17th, the San Diego Clippers acquired forward Patrick Baldwin Jr. from the player pool.

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The Clippers played several games in the 1990s in Anaheim, hosting the Lakers three times (a win in 1997, and losses in 1998 and 1999). But rather than relocate to Orange County, the Clippers agreed to join the Lakers and the Los Angeles Kings at STAPLES Center in time for the 1999-2000 season. The arrangement made the Clippers a third tenant (after the Lakers and the NHL’s Los Angeles Kings), with the Lakers getting preferential dates and game times compared to the Clippers on an annual basis. The Lakers went on to win a championship in the first year at STAPLES Center, and six titles total while sharing an arena with the Clippers. “It is, in a way, a historic meeting,” longtime retired Clippers broadcaster Ralph Lawler texted to The Athletic. “The Lakers have always had all the key cards in the deck. First it was LA over San Diego, and then the Forum over the L.A. Sports Arena, then the feeling they were ‘letting’ the Clippers be a third-ranking tenant in ‘their’ Staples Center home for 25 years.”

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Adam Zagoria: The Nets announced they will hold training camp Oct. 1-4 in Brooklyn and then Oct. 5-7 at UC-San Diego before playing the Clippers Oct. 8

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Chris Haynes: Sources: Former NBA head coach Earl Watson is joining the University of San Diego coaching staff where he will reunite with head coach Steve Lavin who coached him at UCLA.

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Law Murray: LA Clippers coaching news Amir Johnson will join LAC player development staff. Solid vet for the big men. Darnell Jackson, veteran of 138 NBA games and a 2008 NCAA champion at Kansas, will be on San Diego Clippers staff

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Budinger started playing indoor volleyball competitively at 12 years old before getting into beach volleyball around 14. Throughout high school, Moonlight State Beach in Encinitas became the place to be -- most of the best San Diego area volleyball players grew up there, according to Budinger. He said he was the same, participating in local tournaments. "I would have one of my buddies and we would just go out and do the tournament and try to compete," he said. "I wasn't anything great back then in high school. I was more just doing it for the love of the game."

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The Nets are going back to Cali — at least for training camp. Brooklyn — which will play the Clippers in the preseason — will hold part of the camp in Southern California, as it did three years ago. That Oct. 8 tilt will be at Frontwave Arena, home of the Clippers’ G League San Diego affiliate. The last time the Nets held camp in SoCal was back in 2021 when the Big Three of Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and James Harden had their initial camp together.

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ClutchPoints: “[Kawhi Leonard] is pretty mellow… He likes to fish and loves the ocean. When he won the championship in 2014, we went out in San Diego together and he was getting everything free.” Klay Thompson on his friendship with Kawhi 😅 (via @allthesmokeprod) pic.twitter.com/OY9ev2sL8g

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Marc Stein: The Clippers are bringing back the San Diego Clippers as their new @nbagleague identity. More NBA from me: marcstein.Substack.com pic.twitter.com/vrfT6jbchS

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