PLAYA VISTA, Calif. — On a breezy Southern California Monday, the only thing Los Angeles coach Doc Rivers had to worry about was stopping the Jazz’s Joe Johnson from another terrific game. But all was calm at the Clippers’ sun-splashed practice facility.
As he negotiated his way around the TV tripods for interviews, Rivers boyishly laughed, “I’m not the same thin Rivers that I was 20 years ago.”
Twenty-five years ago, to be exact, the storyline was far different from the one that will play out in Tuesday’s Jazz-Clippers playoff game. In 1992, many flights at LAX were shut down for a day, due to gunfire in the area.