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LOS ANGELES -- Chris Paul and Blake Griffin are healthy again and eager to make a run to the Los Angeles Clippers first NBA championship in their sixth season together.DeAndre Jordan, fresh off helping the U.S. win gold at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, J.J. Redick and Jamal Crawford also are back, with the team opting to keep its core group together.Theyll be surrounded by several veterans who joined the Clippers in the offseason, including 12-year pro Dorell Wright, 11-year pros Brandon Bass and Raymond Felton, eight-year pro Marreese Speights, who left Golden State, and seven-year pro Alan Anderson.This feels like the perfect storm with guys who want to win, said Crawford, who won the NBAs Sixth Man of the Year award for the third time last season. Its not about anything individual. Its all about winning.Rookies Brice Johnson of North Carolina and Diamond Stone of Maryland will try to fight their way off the bench under Doc Rivers, not known for playing newcomers much.We got a lot of new guys, Redick said. Our first meeting I only recognized like six guys in there. Its about getting everyone acclimated to how we play. Were going to be one of the best teams in the league.Paul Pierce said Monday he is returning for this 19th and final NBA season. Wesley Johnson, Luc Mbah a Moute and Austin Rivers are back, too.Were one of the better teams and now we have to back that up on the floor, the elder Rivers said at the teams media day.The Clippers went 53-29 in the regular season and then lost to Portland in the first round of the playoffs, when Paul broke his right hand and Griffin reinjured his left quadriceps tendon, forcing both to miss the last two games of the series.The franchise has yet to advance past the second round of the playoffs.Every year after you lose in the playoffs it adds fuel to the fire, Griffin said. Weve tried to learn from the past.Griffin broke his right hand in a fight in January with the teams former assistant equipment manager. He played just 39 regular-season games.He wrote a letter to Clippers fans that was posted online last week apologizing for last season.It was a chance to be honest and tell exactly how you feel, Griffin said. Thats what I felt in my heart. 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Jamie Murray has been awarded an OBE for services to his sport and charity.Murray, 30, older brother of Wimbledon champion Andy Murray, 29, has during the past 12 months won the US and Australian Open mens doubles titles and helped Great Britain clinch the Davis Cup.After receiving the OBE from the Queen during a Buckingham Palace investiture ceremony, he said: I never expected this, and its not something you think about.Its amazing to be honoured like this for some of the achievements Ive been able to do in my tennis career.A four-year-old Murray, born in the Scottish town of Dunblane, began playing tennis alongside his younger sibling and turned professional at 18.The brothers were set on the road to tennis stardom by their mother Judy Murray, a tennis coach and former captain of Great Britains Fed Cup team, who joined him at the palace along with his Colombia-born wife Alejandra Gutierrez and father William Murray.Jamie Murray came to wider attention when at the age of 21 he won the Wimbledon mixed doubles title in 2007 with Serbian Jelena Jankovic, becoming the first Briton to win a senior title at SW19 for 20 years.A highlight of his career was being part of the team which won the Davis Cup last year, an historic victory as Great Britain lifted the famous trophy for the first time since 1936.Murray arrived in London on Monday ahead of the investiture ceremony and was flying to Vienna later on Tuesday for a tennis tournament, but stressed he wanted to appreciate what was happpening.dddddddddddde said: Its important to enjoy the moments, because what Ive learned from tennis is that because you dont stop, its so constant through the year, you might win an event and do really well in a tournament, and then youre off to play the next one on a Monday and you kind of miss the moment to really savour it.The doubles player said topping the rankings earlier this year was a highlight of the past 12 months.To get to No. 1 in the world -- that was a huge achievement, he said.I think every sportsman wants to be the best that they can be I guess, so few people get to achieve that and I think it showed the consistency I had to get to that point.And obviously to win the Davis Cup as well was an amazing achievement for the whole team. It had been so long since the country had been able to do that, and I had so many memorable experiences playing for the country.Last year I had my best year and got to two grand slam finals, then I change partner [to Bruno Soares] and it was only our third tournament we played together and we won the Australian Open.For me it was an amazing feeling to do it, especially having lost finals and you never know when youre going to get back to one of them because theyre the toughest tournaments we play in.And to do it again at the US Open was an incredible couple of weeks for us -- we were really excited about it. ' ' '