Clippers answer post-trade challenge to keep chasing playoff berth

LOS ANGELES — When the Clippers traded leading scorer Tobias Harris (and Boban Marjanovic and Mike Scott) to the Philadelphia 76ers on Feb. 6, the working theory outside the organization was that the team would go on to miss the playoffs and thereby retain the lottery-protected first-round draft pick that otherwise is due to be sent to the Boston Celtics.
Coach Doc Rivers, like the members of the team’s front office, denied that, contending that it was still very much their inte