PLAYA VISTA, Calif. — Through all their years together, and all the twists and turns therein, the Los Angeles Clippers have, like Liam Neeson in Taken, acquired a particular set of skills, for better or worse.
Running pick-and-roll sets for lob after lob? Check.
Crumbling during the playoffs? Check.
Surviving without Blake Griffin? Check, check and check again.
"We don't want to get used to [playing without Griffin], I can tell you that," head coach Doc Rivers said.
That comment came a week before Griffin went back under the knife, this time to have "loose bodies" removed from his right knee. The latest procedure is expected to shelve him three to six weeks. In scheduling terms, that leaves the Clippers absent an All-Star for as few as 12 games but as many as 20.
For most teams, losing a player of Griffin's caliber for any period of time might be a crushing blow. But this Clippers group isn't most teams, to say the least.
"Unfortunately, we've done this before," Chris Paul said. "It's not like, 'Oh man, what do we do?'"
During 2015-16, the Clipp ...
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