Over the past six seasons, the Clippers came to be viewed as the most whining, complaining and grumbling team in the NBA.
But on one night, one in which they probably had every reason to loudly express righteous indignation over a slight, the Clippers took a different tact, and showed growth as a team.
They followed the lead of first-year teammate Patrick Beverley, who wasn’t going to let a controversial overturned call deter the Clippers at a critical juncture of the game at Portland. He didn’t let them lose their focus when the game against the Trail Blazers still hung in the balance Thursday night.