One of the beautiful things about the NBA is that even the worst teams in the league have enough talent to upset legitimate title contenders on any given night. Unfortunately for the Spurs, that was not how their late tipoff in Los Angeles panned out, as the Clippers eviscerated their shorthanded roster from end to end. Entering this tilt without Josh Richardson, Jeremy Sochan, and Romeo Langford forced San Antonio to scrape the bottom of their depth chart to field a proper ten-man rotation. But their pacific coast counterpart had too much firepower at their disposal.
The good guys put themselves behind the eight ball with another ice-cold start that witnessed them relinquish 41 points in the opening frame before heading into halftime with a formidable 21-point deficit.