Los Angeles Clippers: 2018-19 NBA season preview
By Luke Swiatek
The Los Angeles Clippers are in limbo for this season — not good enough to be title contenders, too good to tank. Can they be better than the sum of their parts?
With DeAndre Jordan finally gone, the Lob City Los Angeles Clippers are officially dead. It seems like this iteration of the Clippers, though, is the polar opposite of the previous one.
The Lob City Clippers always had a few stars and one or two other decent players, but no depth to speak of at all. Chris Paul, Blake Griffin, Jordan and even J.J. Redick were all very talented players, to be sure.
But when your starting small forward is a version of Paul Pierce that perhaps actually needed the wheelchair and your best backup is the coach’s son, you’ve got some issues.
This team is an inverted version of that one: no one on the roster is an All-Star, but up to eleven players could start on other teams in the league. They may not be the flashiest of names, but everyone on the team is at least solid.
The roster isn’t the only thing that’s changed this offseason though. As the Los Angeles Clippers fully move into a new era, there are storylines to watch for, best-case and worst-case scenarios for this season, and we’ve even got a prediction for their record this year at the end.