Let me take you back to 2006. The Los Angeles Lakers were coming off of quite a collapse of their own. Sure, they were the heavy underdog to the top-seeded Phoenix Suns, but coming so close to a crazy upset the year Steve Nash stole the MVP trophy from Kobe Bryant was too tantalizing NOT to picture what might have been afterward.
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What Los Angeles Clippers fans went through the past couple weeks was infinitely worse. Riding the tidal wave after “upsetting” the San Antonio Spurs and jumping out to a 3-1 lead with the Golden State Warriors plain in their sights only to watch it slip away like water through their ringless fingers is the type of thing that keeps fans up the following weeks.