I started my original Clippers blog, clippernation.blogspot.com, in May of 2006. Sam Cassell was the Clippers' point guard. I got so tired of typing Mike Dunleavy Sr. (if I only typed Mike Dunleavy then the software would autolink to the player) that I coined MDsr for short. And apparently, based on that profile picture, I was younger at the time.
I joined the fledgling SBNation network of blogs a few months later, and in September 2006 ClipsNation was born. For the first five or six seasons, I wrote almost every word on the blog.