--With training camp approaching, the Clippers have 15 players signed. However, they expect to sign at least three more players to fill out the roster.
--Although there remain several finishing touches needed on their multimillion-dollar private practice facility in Playa Vista, the gym is being used by Clipper players in preparation for the season. The project has been a long time coming, but it fulfills a promise that owner Donald Sterling made to Mike Dunleavy when the latter was hired to be the head coach in the summer of 2003.
The media relations staff and other front office personnel are expected to move into their new offices before the end of the month. Training camp begins Sept. 30 and will be conducted at the Playa Vista facility.
--The Clippers' new point guard, Baron Davis, has spent part of this month in New York, filming a commercial for ESPN.
Davis, like a growing number of professional athletes, has taken great interest in this year's presidential election. Davis endorses Democratic nominee Barack Obama, whom Davis first met two years ago. Davis was the emcee for an Obama fund-raising event last summer and has contributed to his campaign.
Sports Illustrated polled NBA players from each team to see which candidate they supported. For the Clippers, it was overwhelmingly in favor of Obama?
QUOTE TO NOTE: "I added some new twists. It's a new team and new players. So I don't want to give advance scouting heads up. But I've been working on some new things, for sure." -- Former Clippers star Elton Brand, who shocked the organization this summer by spurning its contract extension offer to sign a five-year, $82 million deal with the Philadelphia 76ers.
