LOS ANGELES – The thought occurred to him as he got up from his postgame news conference.
“We didn’t get any techs today, did we?” DeAndre Jordan asked.
No, for once the Clippers weren’t the ones losing their composure.
An elbow caught J.J. Redick in the head and Goran Dragic flew to the ground after getting poked in the eye. As emotions flared, in the early days of Doc Rivers plea for his team to cut down on their technicals, the Clippers managed to stay above it.
That’s an accomplishment for a team whose center, Jordan, is tied for the second most “Ts” in the league with nine, and whose coach has been ejected from three games this season.