Clippers and Utah Jazz are ready for West showdown: To suggest LA Clippers Coach Doc Rivers is clairvoyant would be folly. But when Rivers had the foresight to tell his players back on Oct. 30 after they defeated Utah in the second game of the season at Staples Center that the Clippers and Jazz would be playoff foes is telling. The two teams are indeed on a collision course to be first-round combatants in the Western Conference playoffs. -- Los Angeles Times
Clippers look to gain ground on Jazz in likely playoff preview: With the regular season wrapping up, it doesn’t take much expertise to know the Clippers are on course to face the Utah Jazz in the playoffs.