Steve Ballmer with an awesome pre-game speech before the game between the Clippers and the Blazers He gives a shoutout to the city of Seattle their fans the Portland Trail Blazers their owner and Billups for becoming HOF Ends up with a passionate Make some noise

Grabbing a guy to stop the fastbreak. Why does the NBA want these fouls Why didn't they try out a rule change in the summer league Make this foul 2 FT (and maybe the ball back). Makes the game faster, doesn't reward bad defense.

Clippers announcer Brian Sieman with a mid-game send off for Andrew Greif who was laid off by the LA times earlier this week

Flashbacks to Steve Ballmer's Microsoft Presentation as he talks about possibly hosting Olympics events in the Clippers stadium

Dirk's mentor, Holger Geschwinder, in tears after Dirk passes 30K