Here come the Los Angeles Clippers, not even a year removed from the catastrophe inside the bubble in Disney World, wading in the same muck, feeling around for a new way out of the room. Fans of the Phoenix Suns, Utah Jazz and Denver Nuggets — who alongside the Clippers are clamoring to see what the view is really like from the top — will recognize this juncture. It’s familiar emotional territory for anyone who has ever hoped for anything: the exciting, terrifying, almost noxious feeling of promise.
The Clippers, despite missing Paul George, Serge Ibaka and Patrick Beverley, dispatched the Milwaukee Bucks, 129-105 on Monday, the team's sixth straight victory.