Celebrating division titles is no longer good enough for Clippers
LOS ANGELES - The disappearance was not noticed all at once.
Upon the Clippers' return to Los Angeles from training camp in Hawaii this month, a few coaches and players caught wind immediately that something had changed while they were away. It took others more than a week.
Gradually, a realization swept through the team's Playa Vista practice facility: A pair of banners commemorating the franchise's 2013 and 2014 Pacific Division championships, which had hung over a practice court, were gone, and in their place a new, all-white banner had been raised.
Coach Doc Rivers never brought up the changes with his players and coaches in the days that followed.
