The tightly bunched Western Conference might seem wide open, but the teams at the top have a clear advantage over the Lakers, Clippers and other potential playoff participants: Continuity.
, Denver, Memphis and, yes, even Sacramento have proved reliable, high-functioning units.
Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray and Michael Porter Jr. have been teammates in West-leading Denver for four years, all under Coach Michael Malone. They’ve known the script. For second-place Memphis, Ja Morant, Jaren Jackson Jr. and Dillon Brooks have shared the court since 2019-20, directed the whole time by Coach Taylor Jenkins, with Desmond Bane joining the chorus the next season. So even with Morant’s recent off-court issues, they stayed in key, on the same page of the same hymn book.NBA-low total of 43 gamesMeanwhile the veteran Clippers, at 40-36, are toggling between fourth and fifth-ish.
The Clippers also brought in four new players at or around the trade deadline, including former Laker Russell Westbrook at point guard. And Coach Tyronn Lue has indicated just this week that, with justregular-season games left, including two in a row at Memphis, he’d do the thing fans had, for months, been clamoring for
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