Jay Inslee presided over a meeting of Clippers and Portland Trail Blazers captains at midcourt before tipoff Monday evening as Lenny Wilkens, the coach of Seattle’s lone NBA championship team in 1979, found his courtside seat. Seattle has long been a basketball city, but for the first time in four years, since the last exhibition between NBA teams was played …
After the drumline and dancers filed off a scaled-down basketball court, but before Kawhi Leonard and Paul George closed the groundbreaking ceremony of the Clippers’ long-planned Inglewood arena by dipping chrome-tipped shovels into dirt, Clippers owner Steve Ballmer told his audience about his favorite elements of the billion-dollar Intuit Dome. “We don’t play in anybody’s shadow.” Clippers owner Steve Ballmer …
