Heisler: Kind words for the Clippers, while there’s still time

I’ve always appreciated the Clippers, not only for Donald Sterling’s pratfalls but the amazing turns of fortune like their turnaround with Blake Griffin, Chris Paul, DeAndre Jordan and Doc Rivers who arrived with the Donald still in charge.
Not that they ever got much credit for things when things went improbably right but that’s an idiosyncrasy of our market.
It’s not the Clippers’ fault that the Lakers hung the moon, setting the local standard … which the L