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Author Message   Saarang Kurra Bewarse Username: Saarang Post Number: 1813 Registered: 04-2015 Posted From: 206.29.176.52 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 Posted on Saturday, July 06, 2019 - 1:20 pm:    Their age gives the Clippers a little more insurance against injury, and the doomsday Brooklyn Nets-style downside of coughing up multiple high picks to the Thunder. But that downside still exists. We cannot highlight the risk the Lakers took on in forking over a half-decade's worth of draft equity to the Pelicans in the Anthony Davis deal without acknowledging that the Clippers did the same here. The Clippers' star duo is younger on average than Anthony Davis and LeBron James. The Clippers' recent history of relative front-office competence gives you faith they would be more nimble handling unfavorable twists. And those twists will happen. Nothing goes according to plan in the NBA anymore. The move in 2011 to reduce the length of player contracts has revolutionized the league. Stars are always close enough to free agency to flex their power. The extra year incumbent teams can offer means less and less. No one is immune to injury. Projecting five years ahead is folly.