Blake Griffin is elevating the Clippers to new heights
Coming into this season, the Los Angeles Clippers figured to slide a bit after Chris Paul was traded to the Houston Rockets for a first-round draft pick, some cash, and a bevy of role players . And yet, here we are, four games into the season and the Clippers have been the best team in the NBA. In the season opener, Patrick Beverley tormented rookie Lonzo Ball and kept the now 2-2 Lakers under 100 points, the only team to do so thus far . The following game, the Clippers blew the roof off of Staples Center by hammering the Phoenix Suns, 130-88. The 42-point margin of defeat wasn’t even Phoenix’s worst loss of the young season, as the Portland Trail Blazers manhandled them 124-76 in the season opener (keep that tidbit in mind). Game three featured a strong second-half showing after a slow start, with the Clippers eventually making posters out of the Utah Jazz. And last night, in the team’s first true road game of the season, the Clippers pulled out...