After landing Jeff Green moments before the NBA trade deadline last week, the Los Angeles Clippers finally have a new small forward. In an ideal world, where consistency has never been a problem for him, he uses his length and athleticism to defend at an elite level, and he always displays a killer instinct, he’s the missing piece. Yet, after the years have gone by, that clearly isn’t the case.
While he has a chance to succeed and replace Lance Stephenson who never fit into Doc Rivers’ plan anyway, a 2019 protected first-round pick was still too much to sacrifice.