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NBA Season Preview 2018-19: The Clippers are mad confusing

By Hunter Kuffel

LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 3: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander #2 of the LA Clippers handles the ball against the Minnesota Timberwolves during a pre-season game on October 3, 2018 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2018 NBAE (Photo by Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 3: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander #2 of the LA Clippers handles the ball against the Minnesota Timberwolves during a pre-season game on October 3, 2018 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2018 NBAE (Photo by Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty Images) /
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The Los Angeles Clippers, for the second season in a row, are one of the most difficult teams in the NBA to understand. Let’s go position by to position to try to wrap our heads around what this team might look like in the 2018-19 season.

After a season in the deep outskirts of Lob City, the Los Angeles Clippers have finally left the city limits behind, driving towards an unknown future. The roster is a hodge podge of crafty vets, solid contributors and one Serbian demigod, but the one thing that unites them all? They haven’t been there long.

The longest tenured Clippers for several seasons in a row was DeAndre Jordan, having been drafted to the team in 2008. Now that he’s shipped down to Dallas (for real this time), though, that title belongs to Wesley Johnson, who switched locker rooms from the Lakers to the Clippers in just 2015. Many of this season’s key rotation players arrived just a few short months ago as part of the blockbuster trade of #LifetimeClipper Blake Griffin.

With the established pecking order and even the team’s long-term trajectory in flux, the Clippers have one of the hardest to understand rotations in the league. This is all without considering the possibility that a few of these guys could get shipped to Minnesota for Jimmy Butler before all is said and done.

For now, however, there are an awful lot of interesting NBA players on this roster, so let’s do our best to try to sort through a few of them, starting with the lead guards.