He has not returned our support in an honorable way. "We hold all of our fans in the highest esteem and we have been patient and generous with Mr. His response was an offer to stop representing himself commercially in that way and his offer was accepted in principle.The next thing we heard was the baseless claims he has made today and the ensuing media rush to judgment. "In a conversation with an authoritative and tenured Clippers' executive last week, he was asked again to either consult with the team on all public appearances and/or commercial ventures, or stop undertaking those opportunities representing himself inappropriately. In all cases and over a long period of time, he has consistently rejected our efforts to operate in consultation. We have spoken to him repeatedly about his desire to make public appearances in ways which improperly suggest that he is officially affiliated with our organization. "We have had multiple conversations with him concerning his inappropriate use of the Clippers' team name and trademark for his own unmonitored commercial gain. When he has been in need, the organization has regularly provided him a seat for games. He has never been an employee or representative of the Clippers organization, and therefore cannot be terminated," the team said. "The Clippers have done absolutely nothing wrong or inappropriate as it concerns Darrell Bailey.
The Clippers issued a harshly-worded statement in response to Bailey's claims on Wednesday. They don't want me to do anything anymore."īailey refused to go into further details. They don't want me to cheer anymore at the games. "They asked me not to be Clipper Darrell anymore. "I'm not feeling too good right now," Bailey told by phone Wednesday. "I am devastated!"Īfter Bailey announced the news on Twitter, Clippers players quickly came to his support.Ĭlippers guard Chris Paul wrote, "WE GOT YOU!!!" Clippers forward Blake Griffin tweeted, "Bring back #ClipperDarrell," and Clippers center DeAndre Jordan added, "I love you Clipper Darrell…#ClipperDarrell." "I have been told by Clipper management they no longer want me to be Clipper Darrell, a name that was given to me by the media because of my unwavering support and team spirit," he wrote. It looks like Simmons won't be seeing him anytime soon.ĭarrell Bailey, an 11-year season ticket holder who is better known as "Clipper Darrell," announced on his website Wednesday that the team has asked him to refrain from using the name "Clipper Darrell." Sensing the demise of what could have been an insightful interview, Fukuzaki quickly thanked Bailey for his appearance on the program and threw to a much-needed commercial break.LOS ANGELES - When the Los Angeles Clippers signed forward Bobby Simmons on Monday, the nine-year veteran who last played for the Clippers in 2005, smiled and said, "I can't wait to see Clipper Darrell." Darrell Bailey says the Clippers asked him to stop using his longtime "Clipper Darrell" nickname. I'm sorry, Darrell."įukuzaki then attempted to comfort the fallen super-fan, referencing players Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan's public support of Clipper Darrell-which were subsequently and suspiciously deleted from Griffin and Jordan's Twitter accounts-and telling Bailey, "The Clippers say they want you to come back to the games, they say they love you and the energy you bring to the games." The Clippers responded by calling Bailey's allegation "absurd," stating that the team had done nothing wrong and were only concerned with "inappropriate use of the Clipper team name and trademark for his own unmonitored commercial gain."Īpparently, this all reached a boiling point (at least for Bailey) today during the four o'clock sports news show.Īfter reading the Clippers' response, Fukuzaki referenced another Clippers statement before observing Bailey tearing up and succumbing to the pressure of being at odds with his favorite sports team: "'They never asked you to stop using the name,' and said that. 29, Bailey accused the Clippers organization of playing the role of the buzz-killington: "I have been told by Clipper management they no longer want me to be Clipper Darrell."īailey went on to describe the event as, "The hardest day of my life, I felt powerless as a fan, as I was stripped of my identity." In what has become a tremendous he-said-he-said debate, on Feb.
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