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After the Los Angeles Clippers successfully traded for Chris Paul it seemed fair that they, along with their die-hard fans, would celebrate such a huge transaction. It was a big deal for a team that has toiled in anonymity to many parts of the world for such a long time, seeing how there is another NBA team that is in Los Angeles that usually garners all the media attention. But to two people the trade was somewhat of a disaster, those two people are Eric Gordon and Chris Kaman. Gordon and Kaman are excited to have a fresh start in New Orleans but have recently said that they are really ticked at their former team, the Los Angeles Clippers. Gordon talked about the Clippers front office in an interview and had this to say, “All you do is take the man’s word and take that he said that no one is going to go anywhere, …To completely lie like that is something unprofessional.” Similar to the situation with the Los Angeles Lakers, when their trade for Chris Paul was vetoed by NBA commissi...
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