Praise for Clippers?

Everyone ostracizes team owners for paying millions to players and thus being responsible for the out-of-control spiraling rise in player salaries.

But when someone like the Clippers or the Montreal Expos refuses to pay guaranteed millions, everyone comes down on them because they are not “committed” to win.

Rob Hamers

Irvine

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While second-guessing the Clippers’ management and owner Donald T. Sterling has become so popular on these pages, there is apparently good reason for the team to remain under the salary cap. I don’t recall any departed players who went on to prove the team wrong, and that includes Ron Harper, Danny Manning and the forward who demanded $68 million for a long-term contract and whose name I cannot recall (Maurice Taylor?).

Michael Olowokandi has had a couple of good months, but can anyone look Mr. Sterling in the eye and say this man has earned his past salary, let alone is deserving of a long-term deal making him mega-rich?

Kevin Park

North Hollywood