The "Formidable" Clippers

Camby. Baron.

Knocking on the door of Donald Sterling’s penthouse suite.

Within a few months, he’ll be traveling with the rest of them through Holiday Inns as the notoriously thrifty and unimaginative Sterling scrutinizes at his cut.

“We will be a formidable team,” said Mike Dunleavy.

Oh, so they’re believing already.

A rugged, free-wheeling point guard and an aging shot blocker who logged a career high 34 minutes a game last year must be formidable.

Throw in Chris Kaman, Tim Thomas, and Cuttino Mobley. And what do you have? A discombobulated group of players, guided by a coach who is as egocentric as the eccentric and individualistic trio listed above.

Check his demise in Portland. New talent replacing familiar faces. (Bonzi Wells replacing Scottie Pippen, enter Rasheed).

Dunleavy has trouble maintaining an equilibrium, especially with fresh players.

Check young, talented Clippers that never developed. (Darius Miles, Quentin Richardson, Michael Olowakandi).

But they still do believe in this guy. Apparently Sterling does.

The clash of egos, and Dunleavy’s inability to control them will lead another Clipper team to the same junkyard once again, and like a tried piece of scrap metal, it will be recycled over and over again.

He’s no Don Nelson, and certainly no Mike D’Antoni.

He’s certainly not formidable.

But maybe as formidable as his son, a vagrant wandering the streets of Indianapolis.