On the night when they signed Kawhi Leonard and traded for Paul George, there was no mistaking the intentions of the Los Angeles Clippers. A team that had been haunted by decades of ineptitude and overshadowed by another franchise in their own building now had the league’s richest owner, superstar talent and one audacious goal. They wanted to win the NBA championship. It was a plan that would collapse slowly, shockingly and then spectacularly over three nights in the past week.

Source: Wall Street Journal September 16, 2020 11:37 UTC