Clipper Blog · May 26, 2016
Playoff Purgatory: The 1990s Phoenix Suns
The Los Angeles Clippers have made the playoffs five years in a row. Each year, they fell short of the Conference Finals.
They are in postseason purgatory.
Over the next few weeks, ClipperBlog will feature the other 17 teams to make at least five consecutive postseason appearances without reaching the Conference Finals during the streak. Eight of those 17 teams broke through and eventually made the Conference Finals before the end of the postseason streak, and two made it all the way to the NBA Finals.
But none of the previous 17 teams to make at least five consecutive postseason appearances without reaching the Conference Finals won a title before missing the playoffs first.