<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"> It's quiet in Clipperdom too. It's not like the uneasy silence that prevails among the Lakers, which feels like the calm before the storm. Nor is it like the Clippers' old days, when their players waited for reporters to leave the dressing room so they could go over their escape plans. This is more like the morning after, when the party's over and you wake up and find all your furniture in the swimming pool. Last season's free agents have fled, en masse, with eight trying to get out of here and all but Elton Brand and Corey Maggette making it. Local fans are fleeing by the thousands, and more thousands than are reflected in the attendance, listed at 15,303 a game, which is why the newspapers are back to noting it's an "announced" 15,303. The euphoria that built for two seasons and crescendoed in the nightly highlight reel that sold out the last half of the 2001-02 season is over, replaced by</div> Full Article You must be signed up at LATimes.com to read the article Real interesting article about where the Clippers stand right now as a team, and their future, sign up and read it!
