There are currently 16 players that the Clippers either have under contract or that they could potentially re-sign before the 2009-2010 NBA season gets underway.
Those players are, in alphabetical order, Alex Acker, Marcus Camby, Mardy Collins, Baron Davis, Ricky Davis, Eric Gordon, Blake Griffin, Fred Jones, DeAndre Jordan, Chris Kaman, Mark Madsen, Steve Novak, Craig Smith, Mike Taylor, Sebastian Telfair and Al Thornton.
The NBA allows 12 players to be listed as active, with three listed as inactive, and it's expected that the 12 guys the Clippers will have ready to go on Opening Day of the 2009-2010 season, based upon contractual obligations and past contributions to the team and/or as another player on a different team, will be Camby, Baron Davis, Ricky Davis, Gordon, Griffin, Jordan, Kaman, Novak, Smith, Taylor, Telfair and Thornton.
And the remaining three inactive spots, if based on previous service to the Clipper franchise, would go to Acker, Collins and Jones, which would leave Madsen as the odd man out, unless he was released, traded or sent to L.A.'s NBDL affiliate, the Bakersfield Jam, just in case he was needed in an emergency later in the season.
Madsen would presumably be joined by not only the current members of the Jam, but summer-league hopefuls who still need to work on their games in order to be worthy of a spot on the Clips, such as Sean Banks, Dionte Christmas, Marcelus Kemp, Kyle McAlarney, Nik Caner-Medley and Kevinn Pinckney.
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