A Tale of Two Scrubbs

Photo by Bart Young/NBAE via Getty ImagesIn his lone go as a starter last season, Jay Scrubb kinda did it all. He scored 17 points, second-most on the team behind — you guessed it — Luke Kennard. He played 39 minutes and 46 seconds, also second to Kennard. The six rebounds he corralled were second only to Serge Ibaka, who pulled down seven. He led the team in one statistic: steals, of which he had three.

For one second, try to forget the fact that it all came against the lowly Houston Rockets, plus the fact that the Clippers lost, 122-117. Try to forget that this performance hardly materialized into anything groundbreaking beyond this one game in the middle of May. And try to forget that his…