Not even a week ago, I wrote a piece for this very site in which I argued that the Los Angeles Clippers are the greatest unknown and most frightening team entering these playoffs. About 12 hours after it was published, Patrick Beverley was mean mugging his way onto the scorer’s table as he and his Minnesota Timberwolves sent his former team to a sudden death matchup with an actual unknown.
What was it Ferris Bueller said again? Life moves pretty fast?
On Wednesday, the Clippers learned the identity of their foe in waiting: the Pelicans of New Orleans, who defeated the San Antonio Spurs in a game not nearly as close as its 113-103 final score might indicate.