NBA Playoffs 2020: 5 reasons the Los Angeles Clippers can win it all

1. Why in a crazy, horrible no good year wouldn’t the Clippers win it all?

Well-documented is the fragile nature of Kawhi Leonard and Paul George. I am surprised given the fact they play in the vicinity of Disney Land that no one nicknamed this year’s team the Los Angeles Slippers, but I guess headed into Orlando and Disney World there’s still time.

2020 has felt like a year of constant midnights or, worse yet, a year in which the status quo did not cloak itself in ballgowns and illusions. Then again, from a political standpoint maybe that’s not so bad. Maybe that’s what leads to change. Only a few years ago the Clippers were a team owned by a racist slumlord with a long track record of being beyond horrible. Then they were a team on the rise. Then they were a mysterious ecosystem whose limited success still managed to be outside the sporting world’s imagination. Such is the way with teams that have no stars and still manage to win. But the Clippers have always been cursed. They are the team where Bill Walton withered and Danny Manning fell apart, and there are other names and travesties to count. Yet Kawhi Leonard and Paul George chose this franchise over all the others. Maybe it had something to do with how the light sifts through southern California and settles wherever it may in warm reservoirs. Maybe it was because it was home. Maybe it was because the Clippers are actually tenants while playing their home games and there’s something so very relatable in all that. Who knows?

But maybe, just maybe, the sabbatical will give the Clippers just enough time to keep dreaming; after all, thinking about anything else in all this time must have felt like living a nightmare so very far away from happily ever after.