The Arguments For and Against Taking the Los Angeles Clippers Seriously

The Los Angeles Clippers have been somewhat confusing this year.

They're good. Then, they're not good. Then, they're good again. Then, they struggle. Now, they're playing some dominant basketball, mowing over Eastern Conference teams on the way to a seven-game winning streak that brings them to a better-than-expected place in the Western Conference playoff race. 

The bench is impotent at times, but the starters are dominant. The depth in the pool is absent, but when the water in the shallow end is replaced with gallons of '82 Bordeaux, who cares? And that's what makes this team so tough to figure out.

Still, even at 49-25, do the Clippers look like contenders or pretenders? A reasonable person could m...

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