Doc Rivers and the Los Angeles Clippers like where they’re at right now (Ball Don’t Lie)

Let's not pretend that Doc Rivers' genius needed until May to be discovered. [ Follow Dunks Don't Lie on Tumblr: The best slams from all of basketball ] The guy was a standout player, an obvious coach-in-waiting from the time he retired to the time right before he became the NBA's Coach of the Year in his first season in Orlando. He expertly managed both a tedious rebuilding process and a championship run while in Boston. Let's also not pretend that he didn't completely drop the rock in his lackluster 22-month history as the lead personnel executive of the Los Angeles Clippers. The Clips were far over the cap when he got there, to be sure, but Rivers whiffed on the usual sort of piecemeal contracts that turn very good teams into great teams. His Clippers were neutered several times during what was a "very good" regular season by the squad's lack of depth. Here comes May, though, and the Clippers are running things. Yes, the top-seeded Golden State Warriors won big on Monday and, yes, it took Los Angeles seven games to get past the first round, but no group has played better in this postseason than the Los Angeles Clippers, and that's even with team MVP Chris Paul limping through a...