The LA Clippers have been eliminated from the NBA Playoffs following a 104-89 loss to the Denver Nuggets.
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00:00 The LA Clippers season ended in quite possibly the most Clippers way possible.
00:06 After choking a 3-1 lead for the second time in five years under the same head coach, the
00:13 Clippers have been eliminated by the Denver Nuggets.
00:15 It was quite honestly the worst game seven you could have possibly played if you were
00:20 the Clippers.
00:21 They were up seven points in the third quarter and somehow managed to be down 20 in the fourth.
00:27 Kawhi Leonard was 1-11 in the second half, Paul George was hitting the side of the backboard.
00:32 The Clippers as a team couldn't score a single field goal in the final seven minutes of the
00:37 game.
00:38 They missed wide open layups, they missed wide open dunks, and what's crazy is that
00:42 the Nuggets didn't really score anything in the final seven minutes, or sorry, let me
00:46 rephrase it, in the first seven minutes of the fourth quarter.
00:50 The Nuggets let the Clippers hang around in there.
00:53 It was a 10-point game and somehow the Clippers just couldn't make a single shot.
00:58 It was like bit by bit the life of every Clipper fan was getting squeezed out with every single
01:04 missed wide open shot.
01:07 Now it's obviously a beyond disappointing season for the Clippers, arguably a top two
01:12 biggest collapse in NBA history.
01:15 The only thing could possibly be worse is the 3-1 lead by the Golden State Warriors.
01:20 So now at this point, the only thing Clipper fans can do and the only thing the Clippers
01:24 can do is take a moment to breathe.
01:26 And now we're all going to see what plays out in the bubble.
01:29 We've seen some crazy things already.
01:31 We saw the Bucks get eliminated in five games.
01:33 So we don't really know what's going to happen.
01:36 For all we know, the Miami Heat are going to win the NBA championship.
01:39 But for now, the 2020 LA Clippers will always be known as one of the biggest what-ifs and
01:46 one of the most underperforming teams in NBA history.
01:50 Where the coaches, the players, they made excuses like fatigue.
01:54 They made excuses like continuity, made excuses like chemistry.
01:58 But at the end of the day, none of that matters when you're up 19 points in the third quarter
02:04 in game six in a closeout situation.
02:06 None of that matters.
02:08 It's just a joke.
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