Clippers president Andy Roeser doesn't believe that the team is cursed.

"There is no curse," Roeser told the Los Angeles Daily News. "We don't sit around and talk about it that way at all. I'm sure it's great for selling papers, but it has nothing to do with reality.

"The reality is this is a player who banged his knee on accident and then aggravated it on Friday. But we feel we're good enough to sustain it.

"We're going to be the most improved team in the league. Go to Vegas and bet it. I'm actually more optimistic about this team than I have been about any team in a long time. ... And no, I'm not superstitious."

Blake Griffin, the first overall pick in June's NBA Draft, will miss roughly six weeks with a non-displaced stress fracture in his left kneecap.