Down Kawhi Leonard.
Down Paul George.
Now down Norman Powell.
The team has lost yet another key player to an injury: Powell will sit out with a fractured bone in his foot.
But don’t count them out.
The Clippers, someway somehow, have secured a position in the play-in tournament without a single game played with a fully healthy lineup. And they have continued to make noise in the league with multiple miraculous comeback wins — just last month, they came back from a 35-point deficit against the Washington Wizards.
That speaks volumes about the type of coach Tyronn Lue is and the team’s depth — it was a two-way player, Amir Coffey, that has been the team’s scoring motor for a dozen games, for instance.