Steve Clifford still hasn’t changed, not even with the end in sight.
Being so close to the finish line of a disappointing season, and hours from calling it a coaching career following two decades in the NBA, could easily aid in a final-day-of-school vibe around the Charlotte Hornets. But Clifford won’t swallow his whistle and put away his clipboard just yet, insisting he’s in it until the very end.
And the curtain doesn’t officially fall until Sunday afternoon in Cleveland.
“The one thing that we’ve tried really hard to do — we just played eight in a row at home against really good teams, and I thought our guys were good,” Clifford said.