The Latest Breaking News from John Wall

OKLAHOMA CITY — Before they left their subdued locker room Thursday night inside Paycom Center, the shine from their preseason championship aspirations temporarily smudged by a 2-3 start, the Los Angeles Clippers were steadfast that one week into the season is not enough time to begin panicking.

Clippers guard Terance Mann sat in a chair, his head in his palms, in the corner of the visitor's locker room. To his left, point guard Reggie Jackson looked ahead with a thousand-yard stare, still in his blue uniform a half-hour after the final buzzer had ended a night in…

By tipoff Thursday night, the Clippers were the last NBA team to start their season. They hope to be the last team standing at the end, too.

The early season can be a mirror, a chance for a new team to look at itself and see an honest reflection — strengths and weaknesses, what you are and what you aren't.

The early October evening and a new NBA season approached when Steve Ballmer returned to the topic that has consumed his eight years of owning the Clippers.

LOS ANGELES — The Clippers' starting point guard for Thursday's season opener against the Lakers?

Which team will be holding the Larry O’Brien trophy when it is all said and done?

As a longtime former NBA point guard, Tyronn Lue knows how to evaluate the position he once played. And he has not yet decided, he said, whether incumbent Reggie Jackson or John Wall will be the starting point guard when the Clippers' season begins Thursday.

LOS ANGELES — Before shootarounds, practice days and games, John Wall likes to enter gyms wearing dark sunglasses.