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LOS ANGELES - The LA Clippers have unveiled their schedule for the 2021-22 regular season, presented by Agua Caliente Casinos. The team will tip off on Thursday, Oct. 21 at the Golden State Warriors at 7 p.m. PT on TNT before opening up at STAPLES Center on Saturday, October 23 vs. the Memphis Grizzlies at 7:30 p.m. PT. The Clippers finish October at home against the Portland Trail Blazers and Cleveland Cavaliers before traveling to Portland.

Individual game tickets go on sale today at 2:30 p.m. at www.clippers.com/tickets, and Clipper Nation MVP members will have access to an exclusive presale starting at 12:30 p.m.

Marquee home matchups for the Clippers this season include facing the Los Angeles Lakers on February 3 and March 3, Golden State Warriors on November 28 and February 14 and Brooklyn Nets on December 27. The 2021-22 schedule includes four series, with the Clippers playing two games apiece at Minnesota, Dallas and Houston, and two games at home vs. Dallas. The schedule includes 14 back-to-back games.

The Clippers are slated to play 27 games on TNT, ESPN or NBATV this season, and Bally Sports SoCal will televise Clippers games not airing exclusively on national TV. Games on Bally Sports will also be streamed live via the Bally Sports app and BallySports.com, with Clippers CourtVision powered by AWS offered there as well.

The Clippers will host two preseason home games at STAPLES Center, Monday, October 4 vs. the Denver Nuggets and Wednesday, October 6 vs. the Sacramento Kings.

The Clippers’ 2021-22 schedule is available HERE.

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About the LA Clippers
Led by Chairman Steve Ballmer, the LA Clippers have competed in 51 NBA seasons and appeared in the Playoffs in nine of the past 10 seasons. The Clippers are committed to the city of Los Angeles and through the L.A. Clippers Foundation, provide resources and opportunities that make a positive difference toward leveling the playing field for youth in Southern California. Visit the Clippers online at www.clippers.com or follow them on social media @LAClippers.

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Clippers Release 2021-22 Schedule

The L.A. Clippers will spend the next three weeks giving back to the community at five holiday events across Los Angeles and the surrounding areas. During this season of giving, the Clippers' aim to alleviate the financial pressure and stress on families during the holiday and provide a joyful season for everyone involved. In total, the five events will impact more than 4,000 community members, providing available funds for essential items and make a significant difference in a family's livelihood. These events will also provide thousands of children with a place to play for years to come.

The Clippers Season of Giving will tip-off on Monday, December 16, as the team will host the 14th annual Adopt-A-Family event at the Salvation Army Siemon Family Youth &amp; Community Center. Clippers players JaMychal Green, Montrezl Harrell, Rodney McGruder, Patrick Patterson, and Landry Shamet will surprise 34 families with holiday gifts, food, and much more. The families will also participate in a reading segment, in which the players read holiday books to the children.

On Wednesday, December 18, Clippers guard Patrick Beverley and the L.A. Clippers Foundation will unveil a newly renovated Clippers Community Court at Mid Valley Family YMCA, courtesy of supporting partner 99 Cents Only Stores. Following the ribbon-cutting, Pat, along with volunteers and season ticket holders, will distribute holiday gifts, including a new bicycle, to all 100 children attending the event. The Mid Valley YMCA is the leading area community center for youth, families, and seniors, serving over 5,000 youth and adults per year in structured programs.

Also taking place on December 18, Clippers forward Paul George and the Paul George Foundation will host his 3rd Annual "Paul George Christmas Celebration" at Dave &amp; Buster's for ten local families who have been impacted by a stroke within their family. Paul will spend the evening distributing bags filled with jerseys, gear, and a pair of his latest signature Nike sneakers, the PG3, and challenge the children to arcade games. He will also share stories from his personal experiences of his mother suffering a stroke when he was six years old and how it impacted his life growing up.

Clippers forward Rodney McGruder will visit Cedars-Sinai Hospital on Friday, December 27, to spread some holiday cheer with patients and their families.

To close out this Season of Giving, on Sunday, December 29, Paul George will return to his hometown of Palmdale to unveil new and refurbished courts at Domenic Massari Park. To mark this event, The City of Palmdale has declared the day "Paul George Day," and will host a festival with booths and activities for families, and the Clippers will hold a youth basketball clinic and shooting contests on the new courts.

In addition to these events, this week, the L.A. Clippers Foundation, led by Clippers mascot Chuck the Condor, will distribute 3,500 toys to five Watts elementary schools, and the L.A. Clippers Foundation, along with presenting partner 99 Cents Only Stores, are holding an in-arena toy drive to benefit local youth organizations. Please bring a new, unwrapped toy to our upcoming home games on Tuesday, December 17, against the Phoenix Suns and Thursday, December 19 against the Houston Rockets, and receive a coupon for 15% off L.A. Clippers Merchandise at the Team LA Store.

Throughout the year, the Clippers work to inspire children through the game of basketball and utilize its unique position to provide resources and opportunities that make a positive difference towards leveling the playing field for youth in Southern California. On the first day of school this fall, Kawhi Leonard, in partnership with the L.A. Clippers Foundation and non-profit Baby2Baby, donated one million backpacks to students in Southern California; the Clippers have also committed to refurbishing 350 public basketball courts in the city; and through a partnership with Vision to Learn, the Clippers are providing free eye exams and glasses for all students in need in three school districts.

Each partnering organization has preselected the families participating in these events.*

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L.A. Clippers Season of Giving to Reach Over 4,000 People in Los Angeles

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Grant Hill Press Conference Photos

The Los Angeles Clippers today acquired guard Willie Green from the Atlanta Hawks in exchange for the draft rights to Sofoklis Schortsanitis.  Per team policy, terms of the deal were not announced.A nine-year NBA veteran, Green has averaged 9.1 points, 1.9 rebounds and 1.5 assists over his career.  In 53 games played for the Atlanta Hawks last season, Green tallied 7.6 points in 17.4 minutes per game.Green was originally drafted by the Seattle Super Sonics with the 41st overall selection in the 2003 NBA Draft out of the University of Detroit Mercy.  He was traded on draft night to the Philadelphia 76ers where he would play for seven seasons before being traded to the New Orleans Hornets prior to the start of the 2010 season.  Green spent one season in New Orleans teaming up with Clippers’ point guard Chris Paul before signing with Atlanta as a free agent prior to the start of the 2011-12 NBA season.Schortsanitis  was drafted by the Clippers with the 34th pick of the 2003 NBA Draft but never played for the team. Schortsanitis  most recently played for Panathinaikos Athens in Greece and Maccabi Tel Aviv in Israel.Green’s line is as follows:

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CLIPPERS ACQUIRE GUARD WILLIE GREEN FROM ATLANTA

A slow start for Team USA in its Olympic opener looked more like a matter of getting familiar with their surroundings than any real cause for concern.

They used an 11-point run to open the second quarter, ratcheted up their defense, and cruised past France, 98-71, Sunday in Group A pool play at the Basketball Arena in London.The United States (1-0) faces Tunisia Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. PT, while France (0-1) takes on Argentina in the preceding matchup.“We played very well,” said shooting guard Kobe Bryant, who had 10 points in 12 minutes. “In the first quarter we gave up way too many free throws. It made the game a little choppy. It was tough for us to generate some momentum. But then after that we were able to get into a good flow.”Kevin Durant led the United States with a game-high 22 points and nine rebounds. Lebron James added nine points, five boards, and eight assists, including a dazzling bounce pass to Durant for a fast-break dunk in the opening quarter.Clippers point guard Chris Paul found Durant for a dunk two possessions earlier after he swiped a bad pass and pushed the ball up the right side. Paul finished with five points, two assists, two steals, and two rebounds in 20 minutes.The team assisted on 27 of their 31 field goals, but committed 14 turnovers and took some time adjusting to the arena, where they’ve been permitted only hour-long practices since arriving in London.Paul said he felt like Team USA will only get better. “We’re definitely a team that can get better as the tournament goes. It seems like we get better as the game progresses and we’ve got to continue to do better to get off to good starts. It’s a lot of shots that we leave out there, seems like every game, and our defense can always get better.”The United States struggled to score the ball in the early going, missing its first six 3-pointers. It also seemed as though the squad needed time to adjust to a high volume of infractions called by the international threesome of officials. The teams were whistled for 23 fouls in the first 15 minutes combined, and Carmelo Anthony and Russell Westbrook were saddled with three fouls apiece in the early third quarter and Paul was among those whistled for palming.Paul’s dribbling violation came in the waning seconds of the first quarter and France’s Yannick Bokolo responded three seconds later with a buzzer-beating 3-pointer from the left wing to cut the U.S. lead to 22-21.From there, Team USA bludgeoned Les Bleus from beyond the arc. Durant, Bryant, and Paul nailed threes in the first three minutes of the second period with Paul’s coming off a kick-out pass from James as he drove baseline and found the All-Star point guard spotted up in the right corner.Much like the five-game exhibition tour in the weeks leading up to London, Paul’s role Sunday consisted of distributing the basketball and applying pressure to the opponent’s point guard. His numbers don’t show it, but Paul was adept at both. He and James were the primary initiators of the offense when the United States made their initial spurt.Paul also disrupted All-Star Tony Parker, who scored 10 points on 4-of-11 shooting and had four turnovers. On one play in the third quarter, Paul harassed Parker into a traveling violation by picking up his defense about 70 feet away from the hoop.The difference in the game may have been that kind of defensive intensity, according to Anthony.  “In the first half [France] did what they had to do,” Anthony said. “They slowed the game down. They got us to foul them a lot. In the second half, once we figured it out, really settled down on the defensive end, our defense really took off.”Paul agreed, saying, “We got off to a slow start, got a little bit too anxious, got a lot of fouls early to say the least. Like we’ve been saying all along, our defense is what makes us so good. As long as we go out and do that every night, we’ll give ourselves a chance to win.”TURIAF CONTRIBUTES FOR FRANCEClippers big man Ronny Turiaf, who signed a one-year deal with the team Friday, scored seven points and grabbed a team-high nine rebounds as the starting center for France.He notched five of his points in the first quarter, including two dunks off feeds from Parker on a pick and roll and another from Mickael Gelabale.Turiaf switched defensively onto Paul on a pick and roll in the third quarter and after a series of dribbles, Turiaf’s new Clipper teammate missed a jumper from the right elbow.Later in the quarter, Turiaf showed the kind of energy and effort that appealed to the Clippers when they brought him in. He caught a pass inside, missed a shot at the rim, grabbed his own rebound, and flipped the ball to Nicolas Batum for a layup. It was one of his two assists on the afternoon. 

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PAUL SCORES FIVE POINTS AS USA DEFEATS FRANCE

One of the newest member of the Clippers, Ryan Hollins, is set to host a basketball skills camp at John Muir High School in his hometown of Pasadena from July 30th – August 1st.

“It’s important to provide the youth with an opportunity to experience training and insight from those who have traveled the same road they are on,” Hollins said. “Dedication and hard work are essential tools to have, not just in basketball, but in all aspects of life.”

The camp is open to all children ages 8-18 years old, and all enrolled campers will have the opportunity to interact with professional athletes and community leaders while participating in basketball drill stations, games contests, lectures and an awards ceremony.

“Giving back to the community is a core value of mine, and I am happy to follow in the footsteps of Michael Cooper, Stacey Augmon and Tracy Murray who in the past hosted camps in Pasadena.”

For more information about the Ryan Hollins Basketball Skills Camp, click here: https://ryan-hollins.com/

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HOLLINS TO HOST BASKETBALL SKILLS CAMP

The Los Angeles Clippers today announced that they have hired long-time NBA coach Bob Ociepka to serve as an assistant coach on Vinny Del Negro’s staff for the 2012-13 season.Ociepka, 63, has worked in the NBA for 22 years and brings over 30 years of coaching experience to the Clippers sideline. The Chicago native returns to Los Angeles for his second stint with the Clippers after serving as an assistant coach from 1993-96 under Bob Weiss and Bill Fitch. Ociepka was an assistant coach for Del Negro with the Chicago Bulls from 2008-10.For the past two seasons, Ociepka was an assistant coach on the staff of Nate McMillan and Kaleb Canales in Portland. In his 22 year NBA coaching career, Ociepka has worked for a total of nine teams, also spending time with the Minnesota Timberwolves (2006-08), Milwaukee Bucks (2003-04 – 2005-06), Detroit Pistons (1998-99, 2001-03), Cleveland Cavaliers (1999-2001), Philadelphia 76ers (1996-97) and Indiana Pacers (1989-90 – 1992-93).Ociepka began his NBA career working as a part-time volunteer scout for the Detroit Pistons in the 1980’s and also worked as an advance scout for the Orlando Magic during the 1997-98 season.One of the most decorated prep coaches in Chicago history, Ociepka was inducted into the Chicago Catholic League Hall of Fame on May 4, 2000 for his success at Gordon Tech and York High Schools. He played basketball in college at Quincy College in Illinois and is the author of two books on the game of basketball, “Basketball Playbook: Plays from the Pros,” published in 1995 and “Basketball Playbook 2: More Plays from the Pros,” published in 2001.

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CLIPPERS NAME OCIEPKA ASSISTANT COACH

After a week of training in Las Vegas, two exhibition games stateside, and three more in England and Spain, Chris Paul and the U.S. Men’s National Team begin their quest for a second-straight Olympic gold medal Sunday.Following an undefeated run during its five-game warm-up schedule, Team USA opens the 2012 Summer Games in a pool-play matchup with France in London’s Olympic Park Basketball Arena.Paul, who won gold with 2008’s “Redeem Team” in Beijing, is expected to start alongside Kobe Bryant in the United States’ backcourt. Lebron James, Kevin Durant, and Tyson Chandler will likely round out a starting unit that Paul says he’s enjoyed playing with so far.“It’s a lot of fun to have so many options,” the Clippers’ All-NBA point guard said. “When you push the ball up the court and you see KD [Durant] spotted up, along with Melo [Carmelo Anthony], with somebody like Tyson running the court, there’s no better feeling being a point guard.”In five exhibition contests, officially dubbed the USA Men’s National Team Tour, Paul averaged 4.6 points and a team-high tying 4.0 assists in 18.0 minutes. He started four of five games, giving way to Brooklyn’s Deron Williams against Great Britain a week ago.The U.S. won, 118-78, in front of 16,979 fans at Manchester Arena. Afterward Paul downplayed any perceived controversy regarding the starting lineup. “No. No, we’ve done this before,” he told reporters. “We’ve played together for too long. We understand that at the end of the day it’s all about winning a gold medal. We love playing with one another.”So far, it’s appeared the entire team loves their time together, on and off the court. They’ve visited historical monuments in Washington, D.C., dined together in Barcelona, and even resurrected the “Got ‘Em” game that Paul and Clippers teammates DeAndre Jordan and Reggie Evans made famous during the NBA season. Paul has snapped photos of Russell Westbrook and James Harden, among others, snoozing on the team plane and bus and posted them on his official Twitter account (@cp3) along with the hashtag #GotEm.While Paul shot sparingly through the week-long tour, he still made 50% of his 3-pointers (3-of-6), including a key deep ball in the final quarter against Argentina in Barcelona.

“That was only my second shot of the game,” Paul said following his team’s 86-80 victory. “I felt for most of the game, I was letting them [Argentina] off the hook. They were going under the ball screens and [my man] went under and I saw that I was open so I felt like I’d try to knock it down.”In a way it was reminiscent of what Paul did on so many occasions last season with the Clippers, coming on late to help re-route the course of a game.“With this team that we have, a lot of times I’ll have a good shot but you can always get one of your teammates a better shot,” Paul said. “I’m standing open sometimes but I bring a defender to me and I can kick it to Kevin Durant so I like his chances also. At this stage and with this much competition, you got to stay confident.”With Friday's opening ceremonies on the horizon, Team USA head coach Mike Krzyzewski was asked how he’d evaluate the team so far.

 “I think we’ve gotten better,” Krzyzewski said. “I think we need to use pool play first of all to qualify for medal play but also I think to get five more international games under our belt.”