If The Clippers Lose DeAndre Jordan, It’ll Get Real Ugly In LA

It’s reported from several sources that DeAndre Jordan is in talks with several other teams — including the Lakers — as he carefully considers whether or not to stick with the Clippers.

It’s not like 2015 was disappointing enough for LA’s other basketball team.

With a long time spent in the shadows, the Clippers seriously emerged as one of the conference favorites after toppling the defending champion Spurs in an insane seven-game series that came down to a Game 7 buzzer beater by a dude working with one leg.

But after that, things all fell apart. Badly.

Damn.

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Despite DeAndre Jordan doing everything he possibly can to keep his team in it, putting up 13 points per game and throwing it on average one block, LA couldn’t figure it out.

And part of the problem was they didn’t know what to do with themselves up 3-1 against Houston.

Because of the fact that they never had to worry about “pulling away”, per say, against a great team like San Antonio that put up a battle on every occasion, when the Clippers finally started realizing their potential and pushing themselves to their limits their plane ultimately crashed.

And if you’re a Lakers fan, it was really fun to watch.

Much like Anaheim Ducks fans when talking to LA Kings fans, the talk of “my team is better than yours” stretches into the playoffs until you have to eat your words and have the same reaction on your face as you would drinking four month-old milk.

That was left in direct sunlight for half that time.

Anyway, enough about milk, this is sports.

Wait, maybe not.

What the Clippers need to do is get some mental milk, not muscle milk, and keep their head in the game when they do good.

It’s like they’re that one friend that looks good, has a solid job, a car, girl, the whole nine yards and still thinks life is miserable.

What do you want to do with that friend? Exactly.

It seems as though heading into 2016 the Lakers and Clippers are more than ever on different paths.

With the Lakers picking up a huge blessing from the heavens in D’Angelo Russell, if the Lakers can add DeAndre Jordan to a roster that’ll include Kobe Bryant, Jordan Clarkson, and a fully healthy Julius Randle, the Pacific better watch out.

The pitch from the Lakers to Jordan is pretty simple — and simple is always nice…and it usually wins.

The Lakers can ensure him a similar complimentary game to that of Blake Griffin with Randle posting up down low. They can promise him star point guard play because both Russell and Clarkson are going to be the hottest ticket in town.

And then there’s Kobe.

Kobe Bryant, if you missed the memo, really likes championships.

Jordan hasn’t gotten to taste one yet, and I’m sure he’d like it if he actually got a shot as raising the Larry O’Brien Trophy before an asteroid hits us or something crazy like that.

Bottom Line: Jordan would be welcome to the Lakers with open arms

May be a little too much of a stretch, but the point is that if the Clippers can’t hang with DeAndre Jordan, they surely won’t be able to hang with anyone in the Western Conference.

And it might get as bad as being worse than Minnesota.