After years of being the NBA’s laughingstock and a half-decade of being a playoff team, the Los Angeles Clippers finally put together a team that could rival the Los Angeles Lakers for a championship.
Of course, none of this would’ve happened had they not traded Blake Griffin to the Detroit Pistons just months after signing him to a five-year deal, traded Chris Paul to the Houston Rockets, and let DeAndre Jordan walk in free agency.
Griffin was the No. 1 pick in the 2009 NBA Draft by the Clippers where he put up huge numbers year in and year out for them.