Clippers vs. Magic Preview and Game Thread: Let the restart begin

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty ImagesThe Clippers will finally play NBA basketball today more than four months after the league was suspended due to Rudy Gobert’s positive coronavirus test. The league continues to deal with the virus, but no one in the bubble has it right now, so basketball can resume — at least some form of it.

L.A. and Orlando will face off in a scrimmage, but one that will lack many of the trappings of a normal NBA game. First of all, the quarters are 10 minutes long instead of the usual 12. Secondly, the coaches talked ahead of time about what they were hoping to achieve during the exhibition, so this isn’t so much a competition as a cooperative exercise to get players up…