Up next for the Clippers: Wednesday vs. Milwaukee

CLIPPERS TONIGHT
VS. MILWAUKEE
Where:
Staples Center.
When:
7:30 p.m.
On the air:
TV: Prime Ticket; Radio: 980.
Records:
Clippers 25-43, Bucks 36-29.
Record vs. Bucks (2008-09):
1-1.
Update:
Finally, the Bucks. They are the only team in the NBA that the Clippers, who have lost eight in a row, haven’t played this season. Nice timing. Milwaukee is surging, having won its last six games, dropping just one of its last 13. “They’re a lot tougher team than they were last year, and strange as it seems, losing Michael Redd made them a better team,” said Clippers interim Coach Kim Hughes. “They’re clearly much better defensively.” Hughes said that the Clippers have long been interested in John Salmons, whom the Bucks picked up from Chicago at the trade deadline. Was it ever close to happening? “I wish it was. I don’t think it got close enough,” Hughes said.
—Lisa Dillman