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Blake Griffin âs injury Monday night serves as the end of an era for the Clippers â one that was good  but not as good as it couldâve been. (Jae C. Hong/AP)
As  Blake Griffin  limped off the court at Staples Center on Monday night  the best era in Los Angeles Clippers history left with  him .
Some of the faces remain â at least for now. Doc Rivers is still the coach  and DeAndre Jordan is the starting center.  Griffin   meanwhile  is in the first year of a five-year max contract  and the MCL sprain  he  suffered Monday night when Austin Rivers fell into  his  leg will only keep  him  out of the lineup for a couple of months  as opposed to the rest of the season.
The writing on the wall for this run ended when Paul left for Houston this summer  as Redick followed him out the door to Philadelphia shortly thereafter. Even though the Clippers did well in getting a nice haul for Paul â Patrick Beverley  Sam Dekker  Montrezl Harrell and a 2018 first-round pick â while keeping  Griffin  and signing Danilo Gallinari and Milos Teodosic in free agency  it felt like a roster that didnât fit together. It was also heavily reliant on several players with significant injury questions in  Griffin   Beverley  Gallinari and Teodosic.
Now all four of them are on the shelf â Beverley for the season following knee surgery  Griffin for the next two months  Teodosic for at least another month and Gallinari for at least another week. Whatâs also on the shelf is any hope of these Clippers making the playoffs  as it seems impossible theyâll be able to remain within striking distance of a playoff spot until  Griffin  comes back.
Rivers has been rumored in NBA circles to be on the verge of losing his job for weeks as the Clippers have floundered to start the season (and after he was demoted from running the basketball operations department this summer)  and those rumors will only intensify if the Clippers fall even further with  Griffin  sidelined. Meanwhile  Jordanâs name is coming up in trade conversations  though it could be difficult to find a landing spot that returns any kind of real value â at least without taking on bad deals for more years than Jordanâs expiring contract. Lou Williams  a talented scorer on an expiring deal  also feels like a piece that could be moved to a contender to bring some kind of assets back  and while moving on from Gallinari would be wise  his price tag (two more years at more than $20 million per) and injury history will make doing so difficult.
The Clippers have transformed from a laughingstock to a contender over the past several years  a once unthinkable change for a franchise that was defined for so long by dysfunction and embarrassment. Monday  though  that run officially came to an end when Blake Griffin trudged off the floor at Staples Center and into the locker room  leaving a trail of what-ifs about the past and uncertainties about the future.
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Clippers at a crossroads after Blake Griffin injury


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And in Rancho Tehama Reserve  Calif.   Kevin Neal  who used an assault-style rifle in a spree that left five dead   was prohibited by a court from owning or possessing a gun because of legal troubles.
[Calif. gunman killed  his  wife before rampaging through community  trying to storm elementary school]
 Neal  was charged with assault with a deadly weapon against a neighbor in January. Court documents show  he  was subject to a protective order that prohibited  him  from having firearms.  He  was charged with six felonies  including assault with a deadly weapon and possession of an assault weapon.
 His  sister  Sheridan Orr  said  Neal  ânever should have had guns and he shouldâve been able to get mental health care.â
 Neal  was barred from having guns because of a court order issued this year. After  Neal  was arrested in January and charged with assaulting a neighbor with a deadly weapon  a judge issued a protective order prohibiting  him  from having  buying or attempting to purchase any firearms  court records show.
According to court documents  the neighbor  Neal  assaulted sought the protective order and said  he  âattacked me and my mother-in-law stabbing me with a knife and beating her.â In the request  she described  Neal  as unpredictable and angry  writing that  he  physically and verbally attacked multiple members of her household.
 Authorities investigating Nealâs rampage  recovered two semiautomatic rifles that were âmanufactured illegally  we believe by  him  at  his  home â Phil Johnston  an assistant sheriff in Tehama County  Calif.  said at a briefing Wednesday. âSo  they  were obtained in an illegal manner  not through a legal process.â
Johnston did not elaborate on how  Neal  manufactured the guns  but he said: âHe can get parts through a number  a variety of sources  and  they  come together and  they  can build  them  in  their  shop  or  they  can build  them  in  their  garage.â
 Neal  also had a pair of handguns that were not registered to  him   Johnston said.
Police in Tehama County said neighbors had alerted them to sounds of gunfire coming from  Neal âs home in the past but that  he  did not open the door for officers and police did not specify whether those calls came before or after the protective order restricting Nealâs gun access.
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After mass shootings in Texas and California both sides of gun debate wonder how to keep guns from those who shouldnât have them


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Democratic Comptroller Susana Mendoza blasted Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner for calling her a "puppet" of House Speaker Michael Madigan  saying the governor wonât accept responsibility for problems heâs created for Illinois.
âTo always say  first of all  that a strong  independent  outspoken woman who holds him accountable is a puppet of someone else  which is exactly what he did call me ... is just a condescending acknowledgment  frankly  that he cannot take criticism from anybody â much less than from a 5-foot-3 woman from Chicago â  Mendoza  said on WGN 720-AM.
 Mendoza  defeated Raunerâs hand-picked appointee for the comptroller's office in a special election last year that was a proxy war for Rauner and Madigan. She is seeking a full four-year term next year and is being challenged by Republican Darlene Senger  a top aide in the governor's administration.
On Sunday   Mendoza  likened herself to holding a lifeline keeping Illinoisâ finances from plummeting over a cliff while Rauner âis sitting there  kicking me  while Iâm trying to hold on to the rope.â
âWhen you screw up the state of Illinois to the extent that you have  take ownership of it. Act like a grown man and a grown adult. Donât blame everybody else but yourself for your colossal failures â  Mendoza  said. â This governor  has a gene in  his  DNA code that does not allow  him  to take accountability or responsibility for any of the failures that  he  has imposed upon this state.â (Rick Pearson)
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Morning Spin: Mendoza says Rauner can't take criticism 'from a 5