The arrival of Chris Paul in 2011 immediately turned the Clippers into a perennial playoff team, and the beauty of being a perennial playoff team is that it creates the opportunity to have perennial playoff foes. L.A.’s first such enemy was Memphis.
The story of the Lob City Clippers isn’t complete without the Grit and Grind Grizzlies. The two teams were diametrically opposed to each other in style, and their back-to-back playoff battles cemented a highly-entertaining feud.
Beef History did a tremendous job of detailing the clash between Blake Griffin and Zach Randolph, the primary actors in this rivalry, and that’s a good place to start.