<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The Next Big Thing is sitting courtside Thursday morning, baggy red sweatpants, tight braids, huge smile, two weeks until Clippers opening night, Christmas coming. "I can't wait," Shaun Livingston says. "I want to show everyone I've grown leaps and bounds." On the Staples Center floor, Eric Smith, an associate of Sam Cassell, has just swished a baseline jumper from behind the basket. "You see that?" I ask. "I can do that," Livingston says. "Oh yeah?" Smith says, pulling out a $100 bill. "I'll give you three tries." The Benjamin is laid on the court. Livingston's steps behind it and cocks his wrist. Miss. Miss. Miss. There is hooting and hollering and high-fiving, but, while nobody is looking, Livingston takes one more shot. Swish. After two years of regulation inconsistency, The Next Big Thing has learned it's all about the overtime.</div> Source
