Keidel: Great Athletes Don’t Always Make Great Champions

By Jason Keidel
As we reach the NBA’s All-Star weekend, with the festival hosted at Staples Center, it’s a good chance to thumb through one of the home teams.
There’s been ample uproar from fans over the Los Angeles Clippers trading Blake Griffin to the Detroit Pistons this month. Naturally, it makes the latter better and the former less relevant.
But how much so? Does it signal another dark age for the Clippers, or do we attach special sentiment to athletically brilliant playe