There are couple certainties in life: Death, taxes and the Los Angeles Clippers will have the NBA’s worst bench.
Head coach Vinny Del Negro is in for a long, Excedrin-filled season because his Clippers are 0-2 after a 109-91 loss to the Golden State Warriors Friday, not because of his starters played bad, but because everyone else did.
And it's not his fault. The Clippers drafted and started the free-agency signing period without him.
Del Negro must have been happy to coach veteran point guard Baron Davis, USA national team member Eric Gordon, rookie sensation Blake Griffin and All-Star Chris Kaman, but the horrendously awful bench is another story.
Besides Rasual Butler, who I believe should be starting instead of Ryan Gomes, no Clippers player scored higher than eight points this season. In fact, I'll bet Del Negro put Butler on the bench because because he is the only player that can score 10-plus points per game besides the starters.
If you switched Butler and Gomes in the lineup and then add up all the new bench points total (40), it shows the Clippers' starters scored nearly 80 percent of the total points ...
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Los Angeles Clippers Season Going Down the Toilet Because of Awful Bench
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