The Los Angeles Clippers went through a very public saga a year and a half ago when their former owner Donald Sterling was forced to sell the team after making racist comments. Steve Ballmer was the man that bought the team and things seemed to be going smoothly until Tuesday afternoon. The Clippers were fined $250 thousand for violating league rules while trying to re-sign DeAndre Jordan, according to ESPN, and that prompted former ESPN employee to fire off a few tweets proclaiming that the Clippers organization is as dysfunctional as ever.
Simmons is well known for voicing his opinion on things and not having a filter and that seems to be the case here too. You can read all of Simmons' tweets on this topic here, but the gist of it is that the Clippers organization hasn't gotten any better since Ballmer took over for Sterling.
Simmons prefaced his comments by saying that Ballmer seems like a nice guy and that Sterling was one of the worst people to own a sports franchise but that Ballmer hasn't proven he knows how to run a team. Simmons went on to rank the Clippers among the top three most dysfunctional organizations in basketball along with the Sacramento Kings and the Charlotte Hornets.
According to Simmons there is a "laundry list" of things going on with the Clippers that suggests things aren't getting better particularly off the court. The former ESPN employee wrote that he is anxious to see who will be the first writer to air these things out because it is definitely coming. He also mentioned that whichever writer does decide to air out what's going on with the organization will likely lose access and connections within the Clippers.
The Clippers have a great team on the court and should compete for an NBA Championship in the 2015-16 season but according to Simmons the organization hasn't improved one bit. This news is a bit surprising considering everything you hear out of Los Angeles is that the Clippers seem to be running smoothly but as Simmons said it has been "the best kept secret in the NBA for 15-16 months."
