Things are coming together for the Clippers.
The team has won three games in a row to get back to .500, shots are starting to fall, and veterans such as Eric Bledsoe and Ivica Zubac look far more competent in recent games than they did to start the year. Now, the Clippers also get to welcome back one of their key players: Serge Ibaka, who was left off the injury report for the first time in 2021-22.
Ibaka has played only 54 minutes over the course of four games (regular season and playoffs) since he went down with his back injury on March 14, but the Clippers projected positivity throughout his rehab and were confident that he would be back sooner than later to rejoin the team.