In the 80s, 90s and early 00s the Clippers were just bad. Then mid 00s until now they started becoming this random assortment of high profile free agents who often looked good on paper but never delivered. They’re about the only franchise that I never think of as having any sort of identity in any era. Even most bad franchises have a brief fun moment where I remember liking their style of play, not really the clippers, at least my thoughts.
The Suns with Nash, while they didn’t play much defense, did in my opinion have a championship stolen from them by incredibly bizarre overly rigid interpretation of rules that had stemmed from recent “malice in the Palace”. The Spurs were the dirty team and instigators in the entire controversy that should have been punished yet the discipline handed down rewarded them and hurt the Suns. If it was actually having to be that strict Tim Duncan should have even been suspended…league played favorites with the most stupid suspension rulings ever. The suspended Suns didn’t do anything different than what Duncan did and somehow it was fine for Duncan. Horry was the only player who should have been suspended because he was entirely responsible and did the whole thing on purpose.