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Elton Brand wants these Clippers to stay together

By Marc Stein
ESPN.com

Thursday, May 18, 2006

It's a team and a season that has diluted any lingering notions of a Kobe Hangover. Elton Brand can say so now, even on the brink of elimination, after a Game 3 that was heartbreaking and a Game 5 even rougher. "I don't know if I ever really believed he was coming," Brand said of Kobe Bryant's near-defection to the Los Angeles Clippers in the free-agent summer of 2004. "He might have been just flirting with the neighbor a little bit." But … "This team we have now," Brand continued ...

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