CLIPPERS CAN'T BUY FOUL IN LOSS : CLEVELAND 94, CLIPPERS 93.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. All the Clippers had to do was commit a foul. Slap an arm. Grab a jersey. Give a bear hug Bear Hug An offer made by a company to buy the shares of another company that is too high for the board of the target firm to refuse. Notes: If the target company says the merger is okay but they want a higher price, it is called a "teddy bear hug. . Anything. The Clippers tried it all, but they just couldn't foul anybody in the last eight seconds of their 94-93 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers The Cleveland Cavaliers (also known as the Cavs) are a professional basketball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They began playing in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a 1970 expansion team and won their first Eastern Conference Championship in 2007. on Sunday. The Clippers nearly came all the way back from a seven-point deficit in the final 30 seconds but missed four chances to foul in the final 8.1 seconds. Whatever the Clippers did, it wasn't enough to generate a whistle. Derek Anderson caught the inbounds in·bounds adj. 1. Basketball Involving putting the ball into play by passing it from out of bounds to a teammate on the court. 2. Sports Within the designated boundaries. , passed to Cedric Henderson, who threw it all the way down the court to Wesley Person. By the time the Clippers caught up to Person, he'd passed to Zydrunas Ilgauskas, who cradled the ball as the horn sounded. |
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