BDL’s 2014-15 NBA Season Previews: Los Angeles Clippers (Ball Don’t Lie)

So, now it's on the players. Currently, Clipper fans don't have to hate themselves, as they probably did at times, for paying to see a team owned by Donald Sterling. NBA fans, as we often did, don't have to hate ourselves anymore while enjoying those late night, must-watch Clipper broadcasts on League Pass. The players don't have to cringe anymore when Sterling goes meandering around the locker room. Doc Rivers won't have to question his own ethics anymore. It's over. (Shelly Sterling needs to go, to be sure, but it's over.) What we have left, finally, is ball. Ball run by the league's best point guard, one of its best coaches, and one of the NBA's best players. Plays run by a supporting cast that is to be envied. Work run in the toughest conference in NBA history, one the Los Angeles Clippers have as good a chance as any at getting out of this spring, possibly representing the Western Conference in the 2015 NBA Finals. Such an idea was an uneasy prospect for the NBA and its fans for decades, because even though presenting a Conference championship trophy is a relatively new phenomenon, it would still include one Donald T. Sterling at the other end of the handoff. At the next...