The Los Angeles Clippers are surging into the new year. The Clippers enter the week riding the NBA’s longest winning streak at four games after demolishing the Eastern Conference-leading Detroit Pistons on Sunday night behind a virtuoso performance from Kawhi Leonard. There’s only one problem: LA was so bad before this little winning streak that it still remains near the bottom of the league, sitting with the fifth-worst record in the NBA despite owing their unprotected first-round draft pick to the reigning champion Thunder from the doomed Paul George trade.
The Clippers were supposed to be pretty good this year if not exactly a championship contender. I had Los Angeles
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