The Clippers are the most disappointing team in the #NBA.
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For the past 10 years, the Clippers have had some of the best players in the NBA. And for the past 10 years, they have been a part of some of the biggest disappointments in NBA history, but it was all preventable because they keep making the same mistake over and over again. The Clippers are the most disappointing team, *but how did we get here?* I’m going to talk about how they can save their season and entire franchise.

When you think of the NBA’s most EXCITING teams of the 2010s… which teams do you think of?

In 2015, the Clippers were awarded with 32 national TV games… the MOST in the NBA. Not LeBron's team; not KD's team; not Steph's team… but the CLIPPERS were the most exciting the league had to offer at this point!

And that’s piece one: the Clippers had BIG expectations… but even BIGGER letdowns.

They also had the BEST offensive rating in the NBA and even the NINTH best defense… putting them among only four teams to have a top-10 ranking on both sides of the ball! **The hype was real**… there were INSANE highlights every week…

The Clippers for three years in a ROW after that, smack-dab in the middle of a crowded 2010s era, were top-five in preseason championship odds. Chris Paul averaged double-digits in assists three years in a row, Blake Griffin was the NBA’s most FEARED high-flier next to LeBron James… as BOTH guys finished in the top TEN in MVP voting in 2015.

They even beat the NBA champion Spurs in 7 games of the first round that year.

Griffin sprains his ankle in the 2013 playoffs, Donald Sterling, their owner, said to not bring black people to the games in 2014, Chris Paul hurts his hamstring in 2015, broke his finger in 2016, Griffin breaks his toe in 2017.

The Clippers curse was in full effect. But the reasons for Lob City failing to reach their huge potential ran deeper than just injuries.

When they were at their best from 2014 to 2016, the Clippers FAILED to even make it to the Conference Finals… including two first-round exits… and that absolutely forgetful series in 2015 when the Clippers stopped Harden and Dwight Howard… but couldn’t stop Corey Brewer and Josh Smith, and blew a 3-1 lead with Chris Paul and Blake Griffin…the Clippers that’s gonna come back to bite.

The Clippers’ team chemistry got WORSE as the disappointing playoff exits piled up. That quote I mentioned earlier about cooperation was actually from head coach Doc Rivers! The quote on their pettiness was from sharpshooter JJ Redick…

When the Clippers gave up that massive haul to bring in Paul George and pair him with top free agent signing Kawhi Leonard… they didn’t think they’d STILL be without a title nearly FIVE years later…

Especially considering that they gave up SGA, Danillo Gallinari, and FIVE first round picks!

Their first season together felt like their best shot… until 3-1 happened again. They were up in every single close out game against the Nuggets and lost every single one, losing 4-3, and you get pandemic P.

2021 looked even more promising… until Kawhi’s ACL went! But again, five years and only ONE Conference Finals appearance is a major disappointment…Actually, in their first 4 years together they’ve played 142 games together, less than half of the total possible games and part of that was intentional.

Though Kawhi and PG13 are still trying to do what Lob City couldn’t… They exposed one of the glaring downfalls of the Clippers organization… Piece #2, giving players too much power.

Even though their highly questionable relationship was well documented in the media… and even though it often boiled to the surface, the Clippers never tried solving the issues between their two superstars as they should have.

And if there’s ONE thing from this entire piece that I can take to summarize the story of Clippers that season… It's this quote from an anonymous Clippers staff member, who said “I thought from the beginning, ‘We’re doomed. Kawhi wants too much special treatment.”

Not only that, but players on the team took issue with Kawhi purposely arriving late for team flights; Paul George also was involved in canceling team practices; and the BIGGEST of ‘em all… Teammates felt that Kawhi and PG were able to pick and choose when they played, which rubbed guys the wrong way.

Which leaves them where they are today: either they’ll go and win it all with all this elite-but-aging talent…

Or they’ll be left with NO other option but to completely blow it up. They traded everything they had left to get Harden and have no one left under contract next year, this is the all or nothing play.

**They’re going to need to come to a solution for the long run**… and that’s by implementing a culture that unites the players and management, and developing their own talent through the draft.