Sunday, June 30th, 2019. 3:01pm PDT. In less than two hours, the makeup of the entire NBA will change — and the LA Clippers will do and say absolutely nothing throughout that entire time.
Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving jump to the Brooklyn Nets, taking pipe dream targets off the board. All was tense, but calm, in ClipperNation. This is fine. KD is a generational talent — you take a shot, but maybe it was never meant to be. That’s fine.
Cue This Is Fine dog.
Decades of incompetence taught us that the silence probably means that the Clippers are going to do something like sign Harrison Barnes for four years and $85 million (Sacramento), or just not get anyone at all and have already burned the cap space for the next few years (Houston).