PLAYA VISTA – No one wanted to stop and talk for too long.
Executives, players, janitors, employees – everyone really – flew around the Clippers’ practice facility this week, putting the final touches on things before the season begins Friday with Media Day.
Upstairs in a spacious office, Doc Rivers sits, one of the few people not scrambling around the team’s basketball headquarters.
The Clippers’ coach is ready to dive into his work, managing a team with more talent than it’s had the previous two seasons (and maybe more baggage, too). For Rivers, the executive, there was a brief moment to look back at an improbable summer that saw the team bolster its maligned bench.