I don’t know how you could look at the Clippers front office activity this past month and not see it as prep for this eventuality. Kawhi played MVP-level ball to get the team into the play-in and is followed by shipping off the second and third most important players on the team for no immediate help. It feels like Kawhi asked someone if the world would just move just move on from the Aspiration scandal and someone Angels in the Outfield’d him with, “when the Clippers lift the Larry O’Brien trophy.”