{"id":274530,"date":"2026-04-18T18:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T18:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/274530\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T18:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T18:49:09","slug":"letters-to-sports-clippers-were-oh-so-close-yet-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/274530\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to Sports: Clippers were oh so close, yet so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix&#8221;&gt; <\/p>\n<p>The Clippers\u2019 season <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/clippers\/story\/2026-04-15\/los-angeles-clippers-golden-state-warriors-play-in-game-recap\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has come to an end<\/a> but better than anyone expected. No consolation but a great job by head coach Tyronn Lue for guiding the Clippers from a disastrous 6-21 start and finishing with more than 40 wins.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Lue led the team, overcoming major obstacles throughout the season with a player investigation, injuries, internal strife and major roster changes at the trade deadline. As usual for Clipper fans, wait till next year.<\/p>\n<p>Wayne Muramatsu<br \/>Cerritos<\/p>\n<p>The Clippers are the NBA\u2019s version of Stealers Wheel\u2019s \u201cStuck in the Middle With You.\u201d Yes, they have had 15 straight seasons of playing .500 or better, and owner Steve Ballmer has brought them respectability, but for their entire 56-year existence \u2014 which has contained many clowns and jokers \u2014 they still have never [attained] their goal of winning (or even reaching) the NBA Finals.<\/p>\n<p>Ken Feldman<br \/>Tarzana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix&#8221;&gt; The Clippers\u2019 season has come to an end but better than anyone expected. No consolation but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[15998,6665,118908,423,118907,48,52,51,1838,47,50,49,63,129,9442,7035,278,7496,427,8843,72],"class_list":{"0":"post-274530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-clipper","9":"tag-clippers","10":"tag-doug-vikser-manhattan-beach","11":"tag-game","12":"tag-head-coach-tyronn-lue","13":"tag-la","14":"tag-la-headlines","15":"tag-la-news","16":"tag-letter","17":"tag-los-angeles","18":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","19":"tag-los-angeles-news","20":"tag-los-angeles-times","21":"tag-nba","22":"tag-player","23":"tag-profit","24":"tag-season","25":"tag-sport","26":"tag-team","27":"tag-way","28":"tag-year"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}