SAN ANTONIO —
Everyone came to Crypto.com Arena to get a look at Victor Wembanyama.
The Clippers, meanwhile, needed to get a look at themselves.
Forget, no matter how impossible it seemed Sunday, the spectacle of Wembanyama, the San Antonio Spurs rookie who hit the NBA carrying the highest expectations since LeBron James 20 years earlier. Because the Clippers had spent three weeks of preseason practices describing the great expectations they have for themselves — of playing with pace and physicality, with rejuvenated energy and tighter focus, all to give themselves a chance to play up to their unfulfilled championship ambitions.