Are Clippers' preseason statistics a red flag or 'fool's gold'?: Don’t be surprised if the LA Clippers take the court with a mop and bucket instead of a basketball sometime in the next week. “We just want to clean everything up,” Clippers guard Chris Paul said. Everything, in this sense, doesn’t mean the floor and the windows. It means offense. It means defense. It means shooting. It means passing. It means everything. While the Clippers split their six-game preseason schedule, the numbers, if you look deeper, aren’t as forgiving. -- The Orange County Register

Why the Clippers have dropped french fries and made other assorted sacrifices: You could almost see J.J. Redick going through the memories, flipping through the thoughts in his brain like someone searching for a single document in an overstuffed file cabinet. Is he looking for truffle fries? Nah. Poutine? Nope, that’s not it either. As Redick tried to figure out where his favorite french fries get served, a lightning bolt struck, tying his brain, his taste buds and his words into a single statement. “Oh my God. Hopdoddy. Their fries,” Redick said. “Wow.” -- The Orange County Register

Clippers need 'everything' to improve before season opener: During the next seven days, the Clippers will be in their laboratory at the team’s practice facility cleaning up some things that weren’t quite right when they played their six exhibition games. Before the media was kicked out of practice Thursday, Chris Paul pointed toward the second unit on one of the courts while they ran drills as a five-man unit, saying the Clippers must make improvements on “offense and the defense.” -- Los Angeles Times