The LA Clippers have come full circle so far as expectations are involved.
This isn’t 2019, when the Clippers have been merging star personnel with an present tradition. This isn’t 2020, with skepticism from the bubble complementing a brand new voice at head coach. This isn’t 2021, with harm forcing everybody to take a gap-year strategy to the Clippers. It’s like senior 12 months, or a redshirt junior 12 months, since guys like Kawhi Leonard didn’t play final season, and the one rotation participant in a contract 12 months is level guard Reggie Jackson.
“Now it’s our fourth year,” Leonard mentioned this month. “I feel like that me missing last year and that COVID year kind of made time go by quick. But I felt like over the years with us first being here, you’ve seen a gradual improvement of the team, so hopefully we can take another step. That’s all I can hope for really. This is our fourth year, so hopefully, like I said, we can have a shot at the semifinals or the finals and try to make something happen.”
Like Stringer Bell in Season 1 — the Clippers are again up, at the very least in accordance with The Athletic’s NBA writing, editorial and podcast group.
