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Of course injuries are unavoidable in the NBA — in sports, for that matter — but the toll they took on the Clippers was undeniable.
They had 11 players miss a combined 264 games because of injuries, the fifth most in the NBA. They essentially had eight starting players get hurt. They had 37 different starting lineups in the process, an NBA-high.
"As soon as the season ended, we just burned some incense around this building," Lawrence Frank, the Clippers' president of basketball operations, joked about the team's practice facility in Playa Vista.