Although the Clippers had one of those games, I thought Kenyon Martin’s debut went reasonably well. He finished with 6 points, 4 rebounds, a steal, and a couple of blocks in 20 minutes of play, and he just generally looked pretty good for not having played NBA basketball since last spring, or any professional basketball at all since December 21st, when he scored 13 points for the Xinjiang Flying Tigers of the CBA.
You may recall that Martin’s stint in China culminated in such disappointment that he was released… and although I felt that his failure to produce in a league where Randolph Morris is dominant was more due to a lack of effort than it was an absence of ability, it did present reasonable cause to wonder whether or not the Clippers would be getting the same ol’ K-Mart. You may have noticed that I wasn’t hyping the Martin signing despite being a longtime fan of what he brings to the table–strength, toughness, defense, a certain degree of ...
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