LOS ANGELES – This, as head coach Doc Rivers put it, is the “silly season.”
It’s the time of year within the much longer NBA season – this handful of games before the All-Star break – when teams can look unlike themselves if they don’t watch out.
And it’s something Rivers said the Clippers need to protect against, which they failed to do in their final home game before the break with an uncharacteristic loss to the Timberwolves.
“We have to be careful with that,” Rivers said. “The game was just so disjointed to me.