Twenty-six games remain in the Clippers' regular season and coach Doc Rivers has already calculated how many he thinks his team needs to win in order to make the playoffs in the Western Conference.
He was joking while also driving home a point. The West is so highly competitive that the Clippers can't afford to drop too many games if they want to reach their eighth consecutive postseason.
The Clippers won five of their last six games before the break and are just a half-game behind the New Orleans Pelicans for the eighth and final playoff spot in the West.