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5 Reasons The Los Angeles Clippers Can Win It All

By Gerald Bourguet

May 10, 2015; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Los Angeles Clippers center DeAndre Jordan (6) reacts after a dunk against Houston Rockets center Dwight Howard (12) in game three of the second round of the NBA Playoffs at Staples Center. The Clippers defeated the Rockets 128-95 to take a 3-1 lead. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports
May 10, 2015; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Los Angeles Clippers center DeAndre Jordan (6) reacts after a dunk against Houston Rockets center Dwight Howard (12) in game three of the second round of the NBA Playoffs at Staples Center. The Clippers defeated the Rockets 128-95 to take a 3-1 lead. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports /
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May 9, 2015; Memphis, TN, USA; Memphis Grizzlies guard Mike Conley (11) and Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (30) during game three of the second round of the NBA Playoffs at FedExForum. Memphis Grizzlies beat Golden State Warriors 99-88. Mandatory Credit: Justin Ford-USA TODAY Sports /

1. The Lay Of The Land

I hope everyone is enjoying this second round, because it very well could be building up to a very anticlimactic set of conference finals and NBA Finals.

Just take a look at the lay of the land. Should the Clippers finish this series off, their competition will either be a gritty but very beatable Memphis Grizzlies team or a Golden State Warriors squad that truthfully hasn’t played great basketball over the last few weeks.

The Grizz have a 2-1 series lead and have proven to be formidable playoff rivals for the Clippers over the last few years, but would anyone really pick them over the L.A.C. in a seven-game series right now?

As for the Dubs, they’d be an opponent to be feared as the NBA’s best regular season team (by a mile). But what if the Splash Brothers continue to misfire from three-point land? And isn’t it useful that Clips-Dubs would be a major rivalry series, narrowing the gap between the two teams? Anything can happen in a rivalry series, after all.

Looking to the East, the league might as well just give whoever comes out of the West the trophy. The Atlanta Hawks are in full meltdown mode, the Washington Wizards don’t have John Wall, the Cleveland Cavaliers lost Kevin Love for the rest of the playoffs and are pretty dinged up and the Chicago Bulls are both inconsistent and missing Pau Gasol at the moment.

If Los Angeles can get a little bit of luck by facing Memphis in the conference finals, they very well could bring the first championship to the Clippers franchise.

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